on KING-TV's YouTube channel. In fall 2000, Keister created a new sketch comedy show for competing station KIRO-TV, titled The John Report with Bob, essentially a carry-over of the news report segment he had done on Almost Live! with Bob Nelson in tow. The new show was canceled after two seasons, again because it was not making a profit. KING aired a reunion show on September 12, 2005, featuring the cast of the final ten years. KING-TV also aired "Almost Live! Back At Ya", a series of "best of" shows, on Sundays starting September 10, 2006 at 9p.m. until that December. Sequel In July 2012, clips surfaced on YouTube that appeared to promote a sketch comedy series called The (206), referring to Seattle's area code. These clips featured John Keister and Pat Cashman and hinted strongly that the show would be a successor to Almost Live!. Subsequently, The Seattle Times published a blog article about the sequel which included behind-the-scenes glimpses at one of the sketches being filmed for the new show. Additionally, the new show has a presence on social networking Web sites such as Facebook. The show premiered on Sunday, January 6, 2013 on KING-TV after Saturday Night Live. The series would be revamped as Up Late NW (pronounced Up Late Northwest) in September 2015, and ran for one season, ending in 2016. Segments Some of the recurring segments featured on Almost Live! included: "Bill Nye the Science Guy". Ross Shafer is credited as the creator of the Bill Nye the Science Guy idea, encouraging then-Boeing aircraft engineer Bill Nye to demonstrate science experiments on the show. Nye later developed the segment into the Bill Nye the Science Guy TV series debuting on PBS in 1994 after airing weekly on local TV stations nationwide via first-run syndication, eventually becoming a Disney property. "Uncle Buzz": A parody of radio call-in shows, with Pat Cashman as the chain smoking, slick-haired Uncle Buzz doling out terrible advice. Win a Date with Bill Gates. The show convinced the local billionaire and later world's richest man to go on a blind date with a lucky contestant. A second version of the segment had it as Win a Date with Bill Nye before he was nationally famous. The Beat Goes On. An attempt by Ross Shafer to reunite Sonny & Cher with much campaigning and promotional items like buttons. This was considered Shafer's follow