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Undercover Boss (American TV series)

Undercover Boss is an American reality television series, based on the British series of the same name and produced by Studio Lambert in both countries. Each episode depicts a person who has an upper-management position at a major business, deciding to go undercover as an entry-level employee to discover the faults in the company. The first season consisted of nine episodes produced in 2009 and first aired on February 7, 2010, on CBS.[1] Companies that appear on the series are assured that the show will not damage their corporate brands.[2]

Undercover Boss
GenreReality
Created byStephen Lambert
Narrated byMark Keller
ComposersJeff Cardoni
David Vanacore
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons11
No. of episodes136 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Stephen Lambert
  • Jack Burgess
  • Mike Cotton
  • Rachel Bloomfield
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time42 minutes
Production companyStudio Lambert
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseFebruary 7, 2010 (2010-02-07) –
April 8, 2022 (2022-04-08)
Related
Undercover Boss

On April 26, 2018, CBS announced the first-ever Celebrity Edition to premiere on May 11, 2018.[3]

In May 2021, the series was renewed for an eleventh season[4] which premiered on January 7, 2022.[5]

Production edit

The first episode premiered on February 7, 2010, after Super Bowl XLIV, and featured Larry O'Donnell, President and chief operating officer of Waste Management, Inc.[6] The series was a ratings success for the network, with its premiere episode receiving 38.6 million viewers and a share of 32 percent.[7] The first season was the most popular new show in any genre in the 2009–10 television season with an average audience of 17.7 million viewers.[8] Originally, the show was created in response to corporate distrust, as echoed in the introduction of the first two seasons.

On March 9, 2010, CBS announced it had commissioned Undercover Boss for a second season.[9][10] On July 28, 2010, CBS announced four company executives had signed up for the second season, from NASCAR, DirecTV, Chiquita Brands International, and Great Wolf Lodge, Inc.[11] The second season opener featured the Choice Hotels CEO, Steve Joyce on September 26, 2010. The season two premiere drew 11.02 million, down 27.58 million from the previous season's premiere, and with a 9.55% share, the episode ranked number 2 against its major competition consisting of Sunday Night Football on NBC and Brothers & Sisters on ABC.[12] The second season averaged 12.158 million viewers[13] and the third season, which saw the show move from Sunday to the less popular Friday night, attracted an average of 9.347 million viewers.[14] CBS ordered a fourth season in March 2012[15] and a fifth season was confirmed in March 2013.[16] The show was renewed for a sixth season on March 13, 2014.[17] A seventh season renewal was announced on May 11, 2015.[18] The show was renewed for an eighth season on May 16, 2016.[19]

The series received Emmy Awards nominations for Outstanding Reality Program in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013, winning the category in 2012 and 2013.

Reruns of Undercover Boss have been picked up by TLC and the Oprah Winfrey Network. Broadcasts on TLC began on July 25, 2011, initially Mondays at 8 pm ET, later moving to Thursdays at 9 pm ET. OWN has also broadcast repeats of Undercover Boss since the fall of 2011.[20] As of 2020, CNBC also continues to broadcast repeats of the show, often on Saturdays.[21]

Format edit

Each episode features a high-positioned executive or the owner of a corporation going undercover as an entry-level employee in their own company. The executive changes appearance and assumes an alias and fictional back-story. The fictitious explanation for the accompanying camera crew has changed over the years. To begin with, the person was supposedly part of a competition, and a competitor was shown in clips early in the series but later dropped. In later episodes the idea is that the executive is being filmed as part of a documentary about entry-level workers in a particular industry, usually changing careers. They spend approximately one week undercover, working in various areas of the company's operations, with a different job and in most cases a different location each day. The boss is exposed to a series of predicaments with amusing results and invariably spends time getting to know selected company employees, learning about their professional and personal challenges.

At the end of the undercover week, the boss returns to his or her true identity and calls in the selected employees to the corporate headquarters. The boss rewards hardworking employees through campaign, promotion, material, or financial rewards.[22] Other employees are given training or better working conditions.[citation needed]

The show's producers determine what companies will be featured, what jobs the bosses will do, and which employees and which situations will be shown. The company has no control over what airs, although a promise is made the companies' reputations will not be hurt.[23] Neither the company nor its executive receive money from, or give money to, CBS or the show's producers.[24]

Episodes edit

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
19February 7, 2010 (2010-02-07)April 11, 2010 (2010-04-11)
222September 26, 2010 (2010-09-26)May 1, 2011 (2011-05-01)
313January 15, 2012 (2012-01-15)May 11, 2012 (2012-05-11)
417November 2, 2012 (2012-11-02)May 17, 2013 (2013-05-17)
515September 27, 2013 (2013-09-27)March 14, 2014 (2014-03-14)
613December 14, 2014 (2014-12-14)February 20, 2015 (2015-02-20)
712December 20, 2015 (2015-12-20)May 22, 2016 (2016-05-22)
810December 21, 2016 (2016-12-21)May 19, 2017 (2017-05-19)
97May 11, 2018 (2018-05-11)June 22, 2018 (2018-06-22)
109January 8, 2020 (2020-01-08)November 13, 2020 (2020-11-13)
119January 7, 2022 (2022-01-07)April 8, 2022 (2022-04-08)

Reception edit

CBS's premiere of Undercover Boss on February 7, 2010, immediately following the network's coverage of Super Bowl XLIV, delivered 38.6 million viewers—the largest audience ever for a new series following the Super Bowl since the advent of people meters in 1987, the largest audience ever to watch the premiere episode of a reality series, the most watched new series premiere overall on television since Dolly on September 27, 1987 (39.47 million), and the third largest post-Super Bowl audience behind Friends Special on January 28, 1996, and Survivor: The Australian Outback on January 28, 2001. As of November 2019, the premiere episode of Undercover Boss remains both as the highest rated and most watched single episode of the 2010s on U.S. television.[25]

Broadcast edit

The show is first broadcast on CBS, and reruns are also broadcast on TLC and The Oprah Winfrey Network on Thursdays.[26][27] In the United Kingdom, the US version aired on Channel 4 (usually on weekday mornings at 11.05 after its fellow US remake Kitchen Nightmares)[28] and in 2020 was found with the Canadian version on British feed of Pluto TV.[29] In the Philippines, the program is aired on CNN Philippines. As of July 3, 2020, the first seven seasons are available on Hulu.

Reviews edit

Undercover Boss received mixed reviews; most held good words for the opening episode, but some criticized elements of the show's format. The New York Daily News praised the concept as "simple and brilliant" and "an hour of feel-good television for underappreciated workers."[30] Reviewers with the Chicago Sun-Times[31] and the New York Times complimented the opening episode, although the latter described the ending as "embarrassingly feudal" and had reservations on Waste Management, Inc COO Lawrence O'Donnell III's plan to create a task force to address the problems he found: "Larry's plans to reform his company and humanize the workplace seem great, until he starts to order up committees to study what he has learned. So many good intentions have gone to die in task forces, off-site meetings and mentoring programs."[32] "The show is a welcome change from reality concepts based on humiliating people," concluded the Wall Street Journal.[33] "It is emotionally stirring, with catharsis and messages of virtue rewarded and lessons learned for the betterment of all," said the Baltimore Sun.[34]

The Washington Post, in a negative review, said that Undercover Boss "is a hollow catharsis for a nation already strung out on the futility of resenting those who occupy CEO suites."[35] Entertainment Weekly initially panned it, calling the first episode a "CBS-organized publicity stunt" and "a recruiting tool for a worker uprising,"[36] but in another review described the show as "irresistible."[37] The Los Angeles Times believed that it was deriving its idea from Fox's Secret Millionaire (also created by Stephen Lambert[38]) and that it was 'cooked' for TV, with the low-level workers being hand-picked, but conceded that the show is "undeniably touching".[39]

Arianna Huffington noted, "In the 19th century, one of the most effective ways to convey the quiet desperation of the working class to a wide audience was via a realistic novel. In 2010, it's through reality TV. And Undercover Boss has clearly touched a nerve with viewers. Last week [February 28 – March 6, 2010], only the Olympics and American Idol scored higher in the ratings."[40]

In a season-end review, the New York Times's chief television critic, Alessandra Stanley, examined the unexpected success of the show and concluded that "it's the humility of the workers, their genuine astonishment and thankfulness over small acts of benevolence, that is most striking. If nothing else, Undercover Boss is a reminder that in bad times, people are less eager to confront or provoke authority; mostly they wish for small favors and the big, serendipitous strokes of luck."[41]

On the tenth anniversary of the show, Alex McLevy of The A.V. Club was severely critical of the show: "Undercover Boss is some of the most blatant propaganda on American television. It's a shameless endorsement of capitalist inequality that may as well end each episode by reminding everyday Americans that they should shut up and be grateful their lives are controlled by such selfless exemplars of virtue. It's class warfare in everything but name."[42]

Parodies edit

In 2011, MAD made a parody of Undercover Boss for one of their Christmas episodes, called "Undercover Claus", which shows Santa Claus working undercover as an elf.[43]

In 2015, Key and Peele explored the idea of an employee that bullied the undercover boss, changing his tune after the reveal.[44][45]

In 2016 and 2020, Saturday Night Live aired sketches that parodied Undercover Boss which featured Adam Driver in character as Kylo Ren, the Supreme Leader of the First Order from the Star Wars sequel trilogy.[46][47]

References edit

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External links edit

  • Official website
  • Undercover Boss at IMDb  

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This article is about regular edition For the celebrity season see Celebrity Undercover Boss For other uses see Undercover Boss franchise Undercover Boss is an American reality television series based on the British series of the same name and produced by Studio Lambert in both countries Each episode depicts a person who has an upper management position at a major business deciding to go undercover as an entry level employee to discover the faults in the company The first season consisted of nine episodes produced in 2009 and first aired on February 7 2010 on CBS 1 Companies that appear on the series are assured that the show will not damage their corporate brands 2 Undercover BossGenreRealityCreated byStephen LambertNarrated byMark KellerComposersJeff CardoniDavid VanacoreCountry of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishNo of seasons11No of episodes136 list of episodes ProductionExecutive producersStephen Lambert Jack Burgess Mike Cotton Rachel BloomfieldCamera setupMulti cameraRunning time42 minutesProduction companyStudio LambertOriginal releaseNetworkCBSReleaseFebruary 7 2010 2010 02 07 April 8 2022 2022 04 08 RelatedUndercover Boss On April 26 2018 CBS announced the first ever Celebrity Edition to premiere on May 11 2018 3 In May 2021 the series was renewed for an eleventh season 4 which premiered on January 7 2022 5 Contents 1 Production 1 1 Format 2 Episodes 3 Reception 3 1 Broadcast 3 2 Reviews 3 3 Parodies 4 References 5 External linksProduction editThe first episode premiered on February 7 2010 after Super Bowl XLIV and featured Larry O Donnell President and chief operating officer of Waste Management Inc 6 The series was a ratings success for the network with its premiere episode receiving 38 6 million viewers and a share of 32 percent 7 The first season was the most popular new show in any genre in the 2009 10 television season with an average audience of 17 7 million viewers 8 Originally the show was created in response to corporate distrust as echoed in the introduction of the first two seasons On March 9 2010 CBS announced it had commissioned Undercover Boss for a second season 9 10 On July 28 2010 CBS announced four company executives had signed up for the second season from NASCAR DirecTV Chiquita Brands International and Great Wolf Lodge Inc 11 The second season opener featured the Choice Hotels CEO Steve Joyce on September 26 2010 The season two premiere drew 11 02 million down 27 58 million from the previous season s premiere and with a 9 55 share the episode ranked number 2 against its major competition consisting of Sunday Night Football on NBC and Brothers amp Sisters on ABC 12 The second season averaged 12 158 million viewers 13 and the third season which saw the show move from Sunday to the less popular Friday night attracted an average of 9 347 million viewers 14 CBS ordered a fourth season in March 2012 15 and a fifth season was confirmed in March 2013 16 The show was renewed for a sixth season on March 13 2014 17 A seventh season renewal was announced on May 11 2015 18 The show was renewed for an eighth season on May 16 2016 19 The series received Emmy Awards nominations for Outstanding Reality Program in 2010 2011 2012 and 2013 winning the category in 2012 and 2013 Reruns of Undercover Boss have been picked up by TLC and the Oprah Winfrey Network Broadcasts on TLC began on July 25 2011 initially Mondays at 8 pm ET later moving to Thursdays at 9 pm ET OWN has also broadcast repeats of Undercover Boss since the fall of 2011 20 As of 2020 CNBC also continues to broadcast repeats of the show often on Saturdays 21 Format edit Each episode features a high positioned executive or the owner of a corporation going undercover as an entry level employee in their own company The executive changes appearance and assumes an alias and fictional back story The fictitious explanation for the accompanying camera crew has changed over the years To begin with the person was supposedly part of a competition and a competitor was shown in clips early in the series but later dropped In later episodes the idea is that the executive is being filmed as part of a documentary about entry level workers in a particular industry usually changing careers They spend approximately one week undercover working in various areas of the company s operations with a different job and in most cases a different location each day The boss is exposed to a series of predicaments with amusing results and invariably spends time getting to know selected company employees learning about their professional and personal challenges At the end of the undercover week the boss returns to his or her true identity and calls in the selected employees to the corporate headquarters The boss rewards hardworking employees through campaign promotion material or financial rewards 22 Other employees are given training or better working conditions citation needed The show s producers determine what companies will be featured what jobs the bosses will do and which employees and which situations will be shown The company has no control over what airs although a promise is made the companies reputations will not be hurt 23 Neither the company nor its executive receive money from or give money to CBS or the show s producers 24 Episodes editMain article List of Undercover Boss American TV series episodes SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedFirst airedLast aired19February 7 2010 2010 02 07 April 11 2010 2010 04 11 222September 26 2010 2010 09 26 May 1 2011 2011 05 01 313January 15 2012 2012 01 15 May 11 2012 2012 05 11 417November 2 2012 2012 11 02 May 17 2013 2013 05 17 515September 27 2013 2013 09 27 March 14 2014 2014 03 14 613December 14 2014 2014 12 14 February 20 2015 2015 02 20 712December 20 2015 2015 12 20 May 22 2016 2016 05 22 810December 21 2016 2016 12 21 May 19 2017 2017 05 19 97May 11 2018 2018 05 11 June 22 2018 2018 06 22 109January 8 2020 2020 01 08 November 13 2020 2020 11 13 119January 7 2022 2022 01 07 April 8 2022 2022 04 08 Reception editCBS s premiere of Undercover Boss on February 7 2010 immediately following the network s coverage of Super Bowl XLIV delivered 38 6 million viewers the largest audience ever for a new series following the Super Bowl since the advent of people meters in 1987 the largest audience ever to watch the premiere episode of a reality series the most watched new series premiere overall on television since Dolly on September 27 1987 39 47 million and the third largest post Super Bowl audience behind Friends Special on January 28 1996 and Survivor The Australian Outback on January 28 2001 As of November 2019 the premiere episode of Undercover Boss remains both as the highest rated and most watched single episode of the 2010s on U S television 25 Broadcast edit The show is first broadcast on CBS and reruns are also broadcast on TLC and The Oprah Winfrey Network on Thursdays 26 27 In the United Kingdom the US version aired on Channel 4 usually on weekday mornings at 11 05 after its fellow US remake Kitchen Nightmares 28 and in 2020 was found with the Canadian version on British feed of Pluto TV 29 In the Philippines the program is aired on CNN Philippines As of July 3 2020 the first seven seasons are available on Hulu Reviews edit Undercover Boss received mixed reviews most held good words for the opening episode but some criticized elements of the show s format The New York Daily News praised the concept as simple and brilliant and an hour of feel good television for underappreciated workers 30 Reviewers with the Chicago Sun Times 31 and the New York Times complimented the opening episode although the latter described the ending as embarrassingly feudal and had reservations on Waste Management Inc COO Lawrence O Donnell III s plan to create a task force to address the problems he found Larry s plans to reform his company and humanize the workplace seem great until he starts to order up committees to study what he has learned So many good intentions have gone to die in task forces off site meetings and mentoring programs 32 The show is a welcome change from reality concepts based on humiliating people concluded the Wall Street Journal 33 It is emotionally stirring with catharsis and messages of virtue rewarded and lessons learned for the betterment of all said the Baltimore Sun 34 The Washington Post in a negative review said that Undercover Boss is a hollow catharsis for a nation already strung out on the futility of resenting those who occupy CEO suites 35 Entertainment Weekly initially panned it calling the first episode a CBS organized publicity stunt and a recruiting tool for a worker uprising 36 but in another review described the show as irresistible 37 The Los Angeles Times believed that it was deriving its idea from Fox s Secret Millionaire also created by Stephen Lambert 38 and that it was cooked for TV with the low level workers being hand picked but conceded that the show is undeniably touching 39 Arianna Huffington noted In the 19th century one of the most effective ways to convey the quiet desperation of the working class to a wide audience was via a realistic novel In 2010 it s through reality TV And Undercover Boss has clearly touched a nerve with viewers Last week February 28 March 6 2010 only the Olympics and American Idol scored higher in the ratings 40 In a season end review the New York Times s chief television critic Alessandra Stanley examined the unexpected success of the show and concluded that it s the humility of the workers their genuine astonishment and thankfulness over small acts of benevolence that is most striking If nothing else Undercover Boss is a reminder that in bad times people are less eager to confront or provoke authority mostly they wish for small favors and the big serendipitous strokes of luck 41 On the tenth anniversary of the show Alex McLevy of The A V Club was severely critical of the show Undercover Boss is some of the most blatant propaganda on American television It s a shameless endorsement of capitalist inequality that may as well end each episode by reminding everyday Americans that they should shut up and be grateful their lives are controlled by such selfless exemplars of virtue It s class warfare in everything but name 42 Parodies edit In 2011 MAD made a parody of Undercover Boss for one of their Christmas episodes called Undercover Claus which shows Santa Claus working undercover as an elf 43 In 2015 Key and Peele explored the idea of an employee that bullied the undercover boss changing his tune after the reveal 44 45 In 2016 and 2020 Saturday Night Live aired sketches that parodied Undercover Boss which featured Adam Driver in character as Kylo Ren the Supreme Leader of the First Order from the Star Wars sequel trilogy 46 47 References edit Draper Danny February 10 2010 Undercover Boss coming to Ten What s On The Tube com au Archived from the original on October 20 2010 Retrieved October 30 2014 Bryson Emily February 15 2010 7 Eleven Hooters Others Take Risk in Undercover Boss Adage com Retrieved April 20 2013 CBS Announces the First Season of Undercover Boss Celebrity Edition Premiering Friday May 11 Press release CBS April 26 2018 Retrieved April 26 2018 via The Futon Critic White Peter May 19 2021 Global Citizen Competition Series The Activist Ordered At CBS Undercover Boss Renewed For Season 11 Deadline Hollywood White Peter November 10 2021 Good Sam Scrubs In For CSI Vegas In CBS Midseason Schedule As The Amazing Race Returns Deadline Hollywood Seidman Robert December 20 2009 CBS picks Undercover Boss for post Super Bowl slot tvbythenumbers zap2it com Archived from the original on September 9 2011 Retrieved October 30 2014 Seidman Robert February 9 2010 TV Ratings Super Bowl XIV post game and Undercover Boss dominate weekly viewing tvbythenumbers zap2it com Archived from the original on November 18 2010 Retrieved October 30 2014 CBS July 28 2010 CBS ANNOUNCES FOUR COMPANIES PARTICIPATING IN THE SECOND SEASON OF THE EMMY AWARD NOMINATED SERIES UNDERCOVER BOSS The Futon Critic Retrieved September 12 2010 CBS renews Undercover Boss for second season The Live Feed March 9 2010 Archived from the original on April 16 2010 Retrieved May 21 2010 Fernandez Maria Elena March 22 2010 The rewards of hanging with the Undercover Boss Los Angeles Times Retrieved August 8 2010 Serjeant Jill July 28 2010 NASCAR DirecTV sign up for Undercover Boss TV show Reuters Retrieved August 8 2010 TV Ratings TV Ratings Sunday Night Football Wins Simpsons Cleveland Show Family Guy Makeover Housewives All Down vs Last Season s Premieres TV By The Numbers com September 27 2010 Retrieved September 29 2010 Andreeva Nellie May 27 2011 Full 2010 2011 TV Season Series Rankings Deadline com Retrieved April 20 2013 Andreeva Nellie May 25 2012 Full 2011 2012 TV Season Series Rankings Deadline com Retrieved April 20 2013 The Good Wife Blue Bloods Undercover Boss And More Get Early Pickups From CBS Huffingtonpost com March 14 2012 Retrieved April 20 2013 Levin Gary March 28 2013 CBS renews top shows Usatoday com Retrieved April 20 2013 Kondolojy Amanda March 13 2014 CBS Renews The Good Wife The Millers Two and a Half Men Hawaii Five 0 Mom Blue Bloods Elementary and 11 More TV by the Numbers Press release Archived from the original on March 13 2014 Retrieved March 13 2014 Bibel Sara May 11 2015 The Good Wife Hawaii Five O Person of Interest amp Many More Renewed by CBS TV by the Numbers Archived from the original on May 13 2015 Retrieved May 11 2015 Andreeva Nellie May 16 2016 Code Black Criminal Minds Beyond Borders The Odd Couple amp Undercover Boss Renewed By CBS Deadline Retrieved May 16 2016 Guthrie Marisa July 11 2011 OWN TLC Pick Up Reruns of Undercover Boss The Hollywood Reporter Guthrie Marisa July 11 2011 Upcoming Episode Guide of Undercover Boss Zap2it Clark Andrew April 17 2010 How Undercover Boss raised US unions ire The Observer The Guardian York Emily Bryson and Bush Michael What It Takes to Be an Undercover Boss Advertising Age February 15 2010 Vol 81 Issue 7 Owen Rob July 22 2011 TV Q amp A The Big C The Closer Verizon changes Pittsburgh Post Gazette Retrieved July 22 2011 Undercover Boss Marks Biggest New Series Premiere Since 1987 Undercover Boss Abroad Coming to OWN in March The Daily OWN February 6 2012 TLC amp OWN OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK GO UNDERCOVER AND OVERSEAS Discovery Press Web press discovery com Press release February 6 2012 Undercover Boss USA Undercover Boss USA Channel 4 Pluto TV Watch Free TV Hinckley David February 6 2010 CBS Undercover Boss is an hour of feel good television for underappreciated workers Daily News Retrieved February 19 2010 Wiser Paige February 5 2010 Quite a kickoff for Boss Chicago Sun Times Archived from the original on February 13 2010 Retrieved February 19 2010 Stanley Alessandra February 5 2010 He s Good at Pushing Paper but Can He Pick Up Trash The New York Times Archived from the original on February 10 2010 Retrieved April 10 2020 Chozick Amy February 5 2010 The CEO Wears Coveralls The Wall Street Journal Retrieved February 19 2010 Zurawik David February 7 2010 Undercover Boss makes a case for CEO as hero The Baltimore Sun Retrieved February 19 2010 Stuever Hank February 7 2010 TV preview of Undercover Boss on CBS The Washington Post Retrieved February 19 2010 Tucker Ken February 7 2010 Undercover Boss review Literally crappy reality TV Entertainment Weekly Retrieved February 21 2010 Tucker Ken February 14 2010 Undercover Boss Deep inside Hooters Entertainment Weekly Retrieved February 21 2010 Eureka The Secret Millionaire RDF for C4 In depth Broadcast McNamara Mary February 6 2010 The reality series puts CEOs incognito amid low level employees in their companies Los Angeles Times Retrieved February 21 2010 Arianna Huffington March 8 2010 Is Undercover Boss the Most Subversive Show on Television Huffington Post Retrieved August 8 2010 Stanley Alessandra April 9 2010 Reality TV That Puts the Boss in Meek s Clothing New York Times Archived from the original on April 13 2010 Retrieved April 10 2020 Alex McLevy February 5 2020 Happy 10th anniversary to Undercover Boss the most reprehensible propaganda on TV The A V Club December 12 2011 MAD Season 2 Episode 15 Bradley Laura Key amp Peele Reveals the Dark Side of Undercover Boss Slate Jung E Alex August 24 2015 Yeah We d Probably Be the Bad Employees in This Key amp Peele Parody of Undercover Boss Vulture Driver Adam January 16 2016 Saturday Night Live Season 41 Episode 10 Driver Adam January 25 2020 Saturday Night Live Season 45 Episode 11 External links editOfficial website Production Website Undercover Boss at IMDb nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Undercover Boss American TV series amp oldid 1214773389, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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