Beugró (pronounced [ˈbɛuɡroː], English: Stand-In) is a Hungarian short-form improvisational comedy television program.
The Hungarian public service television (Magyar Televízió) and Comedy Central Hungary took Beugró over after its cancellation, but one year later (in 2009) they passed it to Cool TV.
The games came from exercises played at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest and from traditional Hungarian improvisational theatre.
[2] In the meantime the pilot episode, which was never aired, was uploaded on Videa (a Hungarian video sharing website) between March 13 and April 26 and was later included on the 2008 fall season DVD set.
Though the show managed to rank #1 in 18-49 in its time slot, TV2 announced that it won't renew Beugró for a second season on May 6.
[5] It turned out that both Magyar Televízió (Hungarian public service television) and Comedy Central Hungary (which hadn't started broadcasting by that time) were interested in the project.
On New Year's Eve the actors performed in Millenáris, where Dorottya Udvaros stood in for Lia Pokorny during the first act.
[9] Comedy Central held two Beugró weekends when in the afternoon they broadcast five-hour-long reruns of the show on January 24–25 and March 21–22, 2009.
[15] The Beugró crew planned a national tour for September 2009,[16] but it was cancelled because of financial reasons; and season 4 was aired on Cool TV between October 16 and December 18 at 9:15 pm with ten episodes.
[18] In November 2009 the radio version of the show was started on the newly founded Neo FM titled Beugró+ which ended in December 2010.
[19] On December 27, the first Beugró Live Party with Péter Kálloy Molnár and Győző Szabó was organised on Corvintető.
[29] The channel gave the name Beugró plusz (Stand-In Plus) to the new season (so that the audience can easily distinguish old episodes from the new ones).
[32][33] Since the set design of the previous season received negative response, it was recoloured (again based on Facebook votes).
[35] On January 26, Viasat 3 announced that it would not order any further Beugró plusz episodes,[36] but producer Iván Kapitány claimed that the series would continue in some other form.
[37] As of spring 2012, Centrál Színház still held Beugró theatre events but these were not recorded for television broadcast.
[38] An unaired pilot episode was recorded on May 7, 2007 in Játékszín, Budapest, though all of seasons 1 through 8 were taped on the small stage of Centrál Színház (Central Theatre).
They are held fortnightly on Mondays and Thuesdays, and the production teem has three or four weeks till airing the finished episode.
The first official board game for the show was published in autumn 2009 by Alter Játék and Keller & Mayer.
It featured six of the Beugró games, and the developers could use the "screenplays" of the show (so it contains many situations played at the shootings but never making it to air).