Portal:Television

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Flat-screen television receivers on display for sale at a consumer electronics store in 2008

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set, rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers.

Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries.

In 2013, 79% of the world's households owned a television set. The replacement of earlier cathode-ray tube (CRT) screen displays with compact, energy-efficient, flat-panel alternative technologies such as LCDs (both fluorescent-backlit and LED), OLED displays, and plasma displays was a hardware revolution that began with computer monitors in the late 1990s. Most television sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs. Major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, Digital Light Processing (DLP), plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. LEDs are being gradually replaced by OLEDs. Also, major manufacturers have started increasingly producing smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s. (Full article...)

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The Simpsons is an animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a soft-satirical parody of the "Middle American" lifestyle epitomized by its titular family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield, and lampoons many aspects of the human condition, as well as American culture, society as a whole, and television itself. Since its debut on December 17, 1989, the show has aired 408 episodes over 19 seasons. It is presently airing its nineteenth season. The Simpsons has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 23 Emmy Awards, 24 Annie Awards and a Peabody Award. Time magazine's December 31, 1999 issue named it the 20th century's best television series. The Simpsons is the longest-running American sitcom. Homer's annoyed grunt "D'oh!" has been adopted into the English lexicon, while The Simpsons has been cited as an influence on many adult-oriented animated sitcoms.

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Close caption realtime translation of the speeches of speakers and panel members for hearing impaired employees during the U. S. Department of Agriculture National Disability Employment Awareness Month event in Washington, DC, Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. Both are typically used as a transcription of the audio portion of a program as it occurs (either verbatim or in edited form), sometimes including descriptions of non-speech elements. Other uses have been to provide a textual alternative language translation of a presentation's primary audio language that is usually burned-in (or "open") to the video and not selectable (or "closed"). HTML5 defines subtitles as a "transcription or translation of the dialogue ... when sound is available but not understood" by the viewer (for example, dialogue in a foreign language) and captions as a "transcription or translation of the dialogue, sound effects, relevant musical cues, and other relevant audio information ... when sound is unavailable or not clearly audible" (for example, when audio is muted or the viewer is deaf or hard of hearing").

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• ... that Colorado public television station KTSC operates from two studios named for the same benefactor?
• ... that the European version of the video game Tomba! uses the theme song of the television series No Sweat as its opening theme?
• ... that New Jersey politics expert Nick Acocella hosted Pasta & Politics, a television show where he would make pasta with various politicians including Thomas Kean, Cory Booker, and Chris Christie?
• ... that New Zealand singer Fanny Howie composed the song "Hine E Hine", which aired on New Zealand television every night from 1981 to 1994?
• ... that Svalbard Minute by Minute, a 221-hour-long television broadcast, is credited with increasing tourism in Svalbard by 25 percent?
• ... that after his movement's victory in the Cuban Revolution, television broadcasts showed Camilo Cienfuegos freeing parrots from birdcages, declaring that the birds had "a right to liberty"?

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More did you know

• ...that Richard Hanley's book South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating analyzes issues of applied ethics as presented in South Park?

• ...that The O.C.'s music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas worked in the music department of over fifty Roger Corman B-movies before her television debut?

• ...that the participants of the Channel 4 programme Dumped were not told that they would be living on a landfill site for three weeks?

• ...that the television drama Hill Street Blues imitated the visual style of The Police Tapes, a low-budget documentary about a police precinct in the South Bronx?

• ...that the Zambian district of Chiengi has no television or telephone service?

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Gyllenhaal in 2019

Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/ JIL-ən-hawl, Swedish: [ˈjʏ̂lːɛnˌhɑːl]; born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko (2001).

Gyllenhaal starred in the 2004 science fiction disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. He played Jack Twist in Ang Lee's 2005 romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which Gyllenhaal won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. His career progressed with starring roles in the thriller Zodiac (2007), the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the science fiction film Source Code (2011). Further acclaim came with his roles in Denis Villeneuve's thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Enemy (2013), and he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler (2014) and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals (2016). His highest-grossing release came with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), in which he portrayed Quentin Beck / Mysterio. He has since starred in Wildlife (2018), Velvet Buzzsaw (2019), The Guilty (2021), and Ambulance (2022). (Full article...)

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The following are images from various television-related articles on Wikipedia.

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  Ad for the beginning of experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939 (from History of television)
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  The Nipkow disk. This schematic shows the circular paths traced by the holes, which may also be square for greater precision. The area of the disk outlined in black shows the region scanned. (from History of television)
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  RCA 630-TS, the first mass-produced television set, which sold in 1946–1947 (from History of television)
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  Hovannes Adamian c. 1900s (from Color television)
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  Samsung's discontinued Orsay platform (from Smart TV)
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  The Philco Predicta, 1958. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from History of television)
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  Manfred von Ardenne in 1933 (from History of television)
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  Baird in 1925 with his televisor equipment and dummies "James" and "Stooky Bill" (right) (from History of television)
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  Comparison of image quality between ISDB-T (1080i broadcast, top) and NTSC (480i transmission, bottom) (from Digital television)
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  Smart TVs on display (from Smart TV)
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  A map depicting digital terrestrial television standards (from Digital television)
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  An early Smart TV from 2012 running the discontinued Orsay platform (from History of television)
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  RCA CT-100 at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention playing Superman. The RCA CT-100 was the first mass-produced color TV set. (from Color television)
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  The first mass-produced Czechoslovak TV-set Tesla 4001A (1953–57) (from History of television)
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  This live image of actress Paddy Naismith was used to demonstrate Telechrome, John Logie Baird's first all-electronic color television system, which used two projection CRTs. The two-color image would be similar to the basic Telechrome system. (from Color television)
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  First television test broadcast transmitted by the NHK Broadcasting Technology Research Institute in May 1939 (from History of television)
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  Philo Farnsworth in 1924 (from History of television)
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  LG Smart TV using the Web browser (from Smart TV)
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  Ferdinand Braun (from History of television)
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  Color bars used in a test pattern, sometimes used when no program material is available (from History of television)
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  A color television test at the Mount Kaukau transmitter site, New Zealand in 1970.
  A test pattern with color bars is used to calibrate the signal. (from Color television)
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  Public television in France uses 819 line b&w high definition, from 1959 until 1983 (TF1). (from History of television)
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  DBS satellite dishes (from History of television)
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  Family watching TV, 1958 (from History of television)
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  LG Electronics smart TV from 2011 (from Smart TV)

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  Matt Groening, shown here in 2010, created The Simpsons, which premiered on December 17, 1989.

  
  The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satirical depiction of a dysfunctional middle-class American lifestyle starring the eponymous family: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Set in the town of Springfield, the show lampoons both American culture and the human condition. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a pitch for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks. Groening named each character (other than Bart) after members of his own family. The shorts became part of the Fox series The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime-time hit show.
  
  From the series debut on December 17, 1989, to May 17, 2009, The Simpsons had broadcast its first 441 episodes, to the end of the twentieth season. The show holds several American television longevity records. It is the longest-running prime-time animated series and longest-running sitcom in the United States. On April 28, 1994, The Simpsons reached its 100th episode in the fifth season. With its twentieth season (2008–09), the series tied Gunsmoke in seasons as the longest-running American prime-time scripted television series, and surpassed Gunsmoke in this record with the twenty-first season premiere on September 27, 2009. (Full article...)
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  Season	Episodes		Originally aired
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  1	8		April 8, 1990 (1990-04-08)	May 23, 1990 (1990-05-23)	ABC
  2	22		September 30, 1990 (1990-09-30)	June 10, 1991 (1991-06-10)
  Fire Walk with Me			August 28, 1992 (1992-08-28)		N/A
  3	18		May 21, 2017 (2017-05-21)	September 3, 2017 (2017-09-03)	Showtime

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  The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series is an award presented annually by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It is given to honor an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the daytime drama industry.
  
  The 1st Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held in 1974, with Elizabeth Hubbard receiving the award for her role as Althea Davis on The Doctors. The award has undergone several name changes, originally honoring actresses in leading and supporting roles. Following the introduction of a new category in 1979, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, the award's name was altered to Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series, before changing once again, to its current title, years later. The awards ceremony was not aired on television in 1983 and 1984, having been criticized for voting integrity. In 1985, another category was introduced: Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series; one criterion for this category was altered, requiring all actresses to be aged 26 or above. (Full article...)
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  1101"Reopening of the Substitute Business! The Terrifying Transfer Student"
  Transliteration: "Daikōgyō Saikai! Kyōfu no Tenkōsei" (Japanese: 代行業再開！恐怖の転校生)Jun'ya KoshibaHiroaki NishimuraGenki YoshimuraJanuary 10, 2007 (2007-01-10)April 18, 2009
  1112"Shock! The True Identities of the Fathers"
  Transliteration: "Kyōgaku! Oyajitachi no Shōtai" (Japanese: 驚愕！親父達の正体)Motosuke TakahashiEitarō AnoMichiko YokoteJanuary 17, 2007 (2007-01-17)April 18, 2009
  1123"The Commencement of War, Vizards and the Arrancars"
  Transliteration: "Tatakai no Hajimari, Vaizādo to Arankaru" (Japanese: 戦いの始まり、仮面の軍勢と破面)Motosuke TakahashiJun'ya KoshibaMasahiro ŌkuboJanuary 24, 2007 (2007-01-24)May 2, 2009
  1134"Prelude to the Apocalypse, The Arrancar's Offensive"
  Transliteration: "Sekai Hōkai e no Jokyoku, Arankaru Shūrai" (Japanese: 世界崩壊への序曲、アランカル襲来！)Masami ShimodaAkira ShimizuMasashi SogoJanuary 31, 2007 (2007-01-31)May 2, 2009
  1145"Reunion, Ichigo and Rukia and Shinigami"
  Transliteration: "Saikai, Ichigo to Rukia to Shinigami-tachi" (Japanese: 再会、一護とルキアと死神たち)Kazunori MizunoKazunori MizunoNatsuko TakahashiFebruary 7, 2007 (2007-02-07)May 9, 2009
  1156"Mission! The Shinigami Have Come"
  Transliteration: "Tokumei! Yatte Kita Shinigami-tachi" (Japanese: 特命！やってきた死神たち)Jun TakadaHodaka KuramotoMasashi SogoFebruary 14, 2007 (2007-02-14)May 9, 2009
  1167"The Evil Eye, Aizen Returns"
  Transliteration: "Ashiki Hitomi, Aizen Futatabi" (Japanese: 悪しき瞳、藍染再び)Natsuko SuzukiMitsutaka NoshitaniGenki YoshimuraFebruary 21, 2007 (2007-02-21)May 16, 2009
  1178"Rukia's Battle Commences! The Freezing White Blade"
  Transliteration: "Rukia Sentō Kaishi! Kōritsuku Shiroi Yaiba" (Japanese: ルキア戦闘開始！凍りつく白い刃)Tetsuhito SaitōHiroaki NishimuraMasahiro ŌkuboFebruary 28, 2007 (2007-02-28)May 16, 2009
  1189"Ikkaku's Bankai! The Power That Breaks Everything"
  Transliteration: "Ikkaku Bankai! Subete o Kudaku Chikara" (Japanese: 一角卍解！全てを砕く力)Jun'ya KoshibaYūji SekimotoRika NakaseMarch 7, 2007 (2007-03-07)May 23, 2009
  11910"Zaraki Division's Secret Story! The Lucky Men"
  Transliteration: "Zaraki Tai Hiwa! Tsuite iru Otokotachi" (Japanese: 更木隊秘話！ツイている男たち)Tetsuhito SaitōTakeshi ShiraiMichiko YokoteMarch 21, 2007 (2007-03-21)May 23, 2009
  12011"Hitsugaya Scatters! The Broken Hyōrinmaru"
  Transliteration: "Hitsugaya Chiru! Kudaketa Hyōrinmaru" (Japanese: 日番谷散る！砕けた氷輪丸)Jun TakadaYukio OkazakiGenki YoshimuraMarch 28, 2007 (2007-03-28)May 30, 2009
  12112"Clash! The Protector vs. The Bearer"
  Transliteration: "Gekitotsu! Mamoru Mono VS Kōmuru Mono" (Japanese: 激突！護る者VS被る者)Kazunori MizunoKazunori MizunoMasashi SogoApril 11, 2007 (2007-04-11)May 30, 2009
  12213"Vizard! The Power of the Awakened"
  Transliteration: "Vaizādo! Mezameshi Mono-tachi no Chikara" (Japanese: ヴァイザード！目覚めし者たちの力)Motosuke TakahashiJun'ya KoshibaNatsuko TakahashiApril 18, 2007 (2007-04-18)June 6, 2009
  12314"Ichigo, Complete Hollowification!?"
  Transliteration: "Ichigo, Kanzen Horō-ka!?" (Japanese: 一護、完全ホロウ化!?)Tetsuhito SaitōMitsutaka NoshitaniMichiko YokoteApril 25, 2007 (2007-04-25)June 6, 2009
  12415"Collision! Black Bankai and the White Bankai"
  Transliteration: "Gekitotsu! Kuroi Bankai to Shiroi Bankai" (Japanese: 激突！黒い卍解と白い卍解)Manabu FukazawaTakeshi ShiraiMasashi SogoMay 2, 2007 (2007-05-02)June 13, 2009
  12516"Urgent Report! Aizen's Terrifying Plan!"
  Transliteration: "Kinkyū Hōkoku! Aizen no Osorubeki Keikaku!" (Japanese: 緊急報告！藍染の恐るべき計画)Hiroki TakagiNoriyuki AbeMasahiro ŌkuboMay 9, 2007 (2007-05-09)June 13, 2009
  12617"Uryū vs. Ryūken! Clash of the Parent-Child Quincys"
  Transliteration: "Uryū VS Ryūken! Gekitotsu Kuinshī Oyako" (Japanese: 雨竜VS竜弦！激突クインシー親子)Hodaka Kuramoto

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  Takeshi ShiraiNatsuko TakahashiMay 16, 2007 (2007-05-16)June 20, 2009
  12718"Urahara's Decision, Orihime's Thoughts"
  Transliteration: "Urahara no Ketsudan, Orihime no Omoi" (Japanese: 浦原の決断、織姫の想い)Jun'ya KoshibaHiroaki NishimuraMasahiro ŌkuboMay 30, 2007 (2007-05-30)June 20, 2009
  12819"The Nightmare Arrancar! Team Hitsugaya Moves Out"
  Transliteration: "Akumu no Arankaru! Hitsugayatai Shutsugeki" (Japanese: 悪夢のアランカル！日番谷隊出撃)Jun'ya KoshibaHodaka KuramotoMasashi SogoJune 6, 2007 (2007-06-06)June 27, 2009
  12920"The Swooping Descent of the Dark Emissary! The Propagation of Malice"
  Transliteration: "Maiorita Yami no Shisha! Zōshoku suru Akui" (Japanese: 舞い降りた闇の使者！増殖する悪意)Motosuke TakahashiYukio OkazakiMasashi SogoJune 13, 2007 (2007-06-13)June 27, 2009
  13021"The Invisible Enemy! Hitsugaya's Merciless Decision"
  Transliteration: "Mienai Teki! Hitsugaya, Hijō na Ketsudan" (Japanese: 見えない敵！日番谷、非情な決断)Jun'ya KoshibaMitsutaka NoshitaniMasashi SogoJune 20, 2007 (2007-06-20)July 4, 2009
  13122"Rangiku's Tears, the Sorrowful Parting of Brother and Sister"
  Transliteration: "Rangiku no Namida, Kanashiki Kyōdai no Wakare" (Japanese: 乱菊の涙、哀しき兄妹の別れ)Makoto ItōMatsuo AsamiMasashi SogoJune 27, 2007 (2007-06-27)July 11, 2009 (Full article...)
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  Dexter is an American television drama that was broadcast on the premium cable channel Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013. A total of 96 episodes of Dexter were broadcast over eight seasons.
  
  The series is based on characters created by Jeff Lindsay for his "Dexter" series of novels, and follows the life of Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a Miami Metro Police Department blood pattern analyst with a double life. While investigating murders in the homicide division, Dexter hunts and kills murderers and criminals who have escaped the justice system. Although the first season is based on the events of Darkly Dreaming Dexter, the series's subsequent seasons do not follow the novels in the series. Departing from the narrative of Lindsay's second Dexter novel Dearly Devoted Dexter, the show's writer Daniel Cerone said that the writers "didn't see the opportunity in the second book" to adapt it. (Full article...)
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  The Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award is an annual award honoring the achievements of a male athlete from the world of action sports. It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 2004 after the non-gender-specific Best Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award was presented the previous two years (with American snowboarder Shaun White receiving the 2003 award). The Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award trophy, created by sculptor Lawrence Nowlan, is presented to the male adjudged to be the best action sports athlete in a given calendar year. Balloting for the award is undertaken by fans over the Internet from between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, which is composed of a panel of experts. It is conferred in July to reflect performance and achievement over the preceding twelve months.
  
  The inaugural winner of the Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award at the 2004 awards was freestyle BMX rider Ryan Nyquist. During 1997 and 2003, Nyquist won eleven out of eighteen available freestyle BMX medals at the X Games. He became the first freestyle BMX rider to be nominated for, and thus the first to win, an ESPY Award. The 2006 winner of the Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award was Shaun White. He was nominated a further five consecutive times between the 2008 and 2012 ceremonies, all of which he won, making him the athlete with the most victories with six. The two other athletes to have earned successive awards are street skateboarder Nyjah Huston and motocross rider Ryan Dungey. Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris became the first non-American to win the accolade in 2017 by earning three medals at that year's X Games in Minneapolis. Snowboarders are the most successful sportspeople with seven awards, followed by motocross riders, with four, and street skateboarders, with three. It was not awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent winner of the award was American Motocross and Supercross racer Eli Tomac in 2022. (Full article...)
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  The Devil May Cry anime series is directed by Shin Itagaki and produced by Madhouse. The English adaptation of the anime has been licensed by Funimation Entertainment. They are based on the Devil May Cry video game series produced by Capcom. The background of the storyline is primarily based on the first and third installments of the series, Devil May Cry and Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening respectively. The series follows the daily life of demon hunter Dante as he adopts a young girl named Patty Lowell and faces off against a demon seeking to attain godhood.
  
  The anime was originally announced at the Tokyo Game Show on September 22, 2006, with plans to release twelve episodes of the series. Unlike most anime, the episode titles were released in English instead of the customary Japanese. The first episode aired on June 14, 2007, with the twelfth shown on September 6, 2007. The episodes aired on WOWOW. On June 30, 2007, at Anime Expo 07, it was announced that ADV Films had licensed the show. However, in 2008, it became one of more than 30 titles that were transferred to Funimation. The series made its North American television debut on the Funimation Channel in September 2010 and it began airing on Chiller's Anime Wednesdays block on July 15, 2015. (Full article...)
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No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
60	1	"Kamp Krusty"	Mark Kirkland	David M. Stern	September 24, 1992 (1992-09-24)	8F24	21.8
61	2	"A Streetcar Named Marge"	Rich Moore	Jeff Martin	October 1, 1992 (1992-10-01)	8F18	18.3
62	3	"Homer the Heretic"	Jim Reardon	George Meyer	October 8, 1992 (1992-10-08)	9F01	19.3
63	4	"Lisa the Beauty Queen"	Mark Kirkland	Jeff Martin	October 15, 1992 (1992-10-15)	9F02	19.0
64	5	"Treehouse of Horror III"	Carlos Baeza	Al Jean & Mike Reiss	October 29, 1992 (1992-10-29)	9F04	25.1
				Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky
				Sam Simon & Jon Vitti
65	6	"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"	Rich Moore	John Swartzwelder	November 3, 1992 (1992-11-03)	9F03	20.1
66	7	"Marge Gets a Job"	Jeffrey Lynch	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	November 5, 1992 (1992-11-05)	9F05	22.9
67	8	"New Kid on the Block"	Wes Archer	Conan O'Brien	November 12, 1992 (1992-11-12)	9F06	23.1
68	9	"Mr. Plow"	Jim Reardon	Jon Vitti	November 19, 1992 (1992-11-19)	9F07	24.0
69	10	"Lisa's First Word"	Mark Kirkland	Jeff Martin	December 3, 1992 (1992-12-03)	9F08	28.6
70	11	"Homer's Triple Bypass"	David Silverman	Gary Apple & Michael Carrington	December 17, 1992 (1992-12-17)	9F09	23.6
71	12	"Marge vs. the Monorail"	Rich Moore	Conan O'Brien	January 14, 1993 (1993-01-14)	9F10	23.0
72	13	"Selma's Choice"	Carlos Baeza	David M. Stern	January 21, 1993 (1993-01-21)	9F11	24.5
73	14	"Brother from the Same Planet"	Jeffrey Lynch	Jon Vitti	February 4, 1993 (1993-02-04)	9F12	23.8
74	15	"I Love Lisa"	Wes Archer	Frank Mula	February 11, 1993 (1993-02-11)	9F13	25.2
75	16	"Duffless"	Jim Reardon	David M. Stern	February 18, 1993 (1993-02-18)	9F14	25.7
76	17	"Last Exit to Springfield"	Mark Kirkland	Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky	March 11, 1993 (1993-03-11)	9F15	22.4
77	18	"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"	Carlos Baeza	Jon Vitti	April 1, 1993 (1993-04-01)	9F17	25.5
78	19	"The Front"	Rich Moore	Adam I. Lapidus	April 15, 1993 (1993-04-15)	9F16	20.1
79	20	"Whacking Day"	Jeffrey Lynch	John Swartzwelder	April 29, 1993 (1993-04-29)	9F18	20.0
80	21	"Marge in Chains"	Jim Reardon	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	May 6, 1993 (1993-05-06)	9F20	17.3
81	22	"Krusty Gets Kancelled"	David Silverman	John Swartzwelder	May 13, 1993 (1993-05-13)	9F19	19.4

Series	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	52	26	1 October 2018 (2018-10-01)	26 October 2018 (2018-10-26)
		26	1 April 2019 (2019-04-01)	12 December 2019 (2019-12-12)
2	52	26	17 March 2020 (2020-03-17)	11 April 2020 (2020-04-11)
		26	25 October 2020 (2020-10-25)	4 April 2021 (2021-04-04)
3	50	26	5 September 2021 (2021-09-05)	16 December 2021 (2021-12-16)
		11	13 June 2022 (2022-06-13)	23 June 2022 (2022-06-23)
		10	9 April 2023 (2023-04-09)	11 June 2023 (2023-06-11)
		3	7 April 2024 (2024-04-07)	21 April 2024 (2024-04-21)

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The Good Place is an American fantasy comedy television series created by Michael Schur. The series aired for four seasons consisting of a total of fifty-three episodes on NBC from September 19, 2016, to January 30, 2020. It focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), who arrives in the afterlife and is welcomed by Michael (Ted Danson) to "the Good Place", a highly selective Heaven-like utopia he designed. However, she realizes that she was sent there by mistake and must hide her morally imperfect behavior while trying to become a better and more ethical person. William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, and Manny Jacinto co-star as fellow Good Place residents Chidi Anagonye, Tahani Al-Jamil, and Jason Mendoza, respectively, while D'Arcy Carden co-stars as Janet, an artificial being who assists the residents.

During its run, The Good Place received critical acclaim and earned many awards and nominations. The series was nominated for fourteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including two nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series and three nominations for Danson for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. It was also nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, including a nomination for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and a nomination for Bell for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. In addition, the show was nominated for six Hugo Awards, winning four times for "The Trolley Problem", "Janet(s)", "The Answer", and "Whenever You're Ready". It was nominated for three Nebula Awards, winning one for "Whenever You're Ready", and for three Saturn Awards. In 2017, The Good Place was named by the American Film Institute as one of its top 10 television programs of the year, and in 2019, the show was honored with a Peabody Award for its contributions to entertainment. (Full article...)

Laurence Olivier in a promotional still for Rebecca (1940).

Laurence Olivier (1907–1989) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. From 1935 he performed in radio broadcasts and, from 1956, had considerable success in television roles.

After attending drama school, Olivier began his professional career with small touring companies before being taken on in 1925 by Sybil Thorndike and her husband, Lewis Casson, as a bit-part player, understudy and assistant stage manager for their London company. In 1926 he joined the Birmingham Repertory Company, where he was given the chance to play a wide range of key roles. In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Coward's Private Lives, and in 1935 he played in a celebrated production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star. In the 1940s, together with Richardson and John Burrell, Olivier was the co-director of the Old Vic, building it into a highly respected company. There his most celebrated roles included Shakespeare's Richard III and Sophocles's Oedipus. In the 1950s Olivier was an independent actor-manager, but his stage career was in the doldrums until he joined the avant garde English Stage Company in 1957 to play the title role in The Entertainer. From 1963 to 1973 he was the founding director of Britain's National Theatre, running a resident company that fostered many future stars. His own parts there included the title role in Othello (1964) and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1970). (Full article...)

The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural drama television series that premiered on The CW on September 10, 2009, and concluded on March 10, 2017 after airing eight seasons. Screenwriters Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec adapted the show from L. J. Smith's novel series of the same name. The series takes place in Mystic Falls, Virginia, a fictional small town haunted by supernatural beings. It centers on the love triangle between the protagonist Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) and vampire-brothers Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley) and Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder). As the narrative develops in the course of the show, the focal point shifts on the mysterious past of the town involving Elena's malevolent doppelgänger Katherine Pierce (Dobrev) and the family of Original Vampires, all of whom have an evil agenda of their own.

The series has been nominated for many awards, including 67 Teen Choice Awards (30 wins), 27 People's Choice Awards (five wins), and eight Saturn Awards. The three lead protagonists—Dobrev, Wesley and Somerhalder—have received the most nominations. Lead actress Dobrev was nominated for 21 awards, winning five Teen Choice Awards, a People's Choice Award, and a Young Hollywood Award. Somerhalder earned widespread critical acclaim for his role of Damon Salvatore, and is the most nominated cast member with 30 nominations. (Full article...)

Holby City is a British medical drama television series that was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 12 January 1999 and 29 March 2022. The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the BBC medical drama Casualty, which is set in the emergency department of the fictional Holby City Hospital, based in the equally fictitious town of Holby. Young wanted to explore what happened to patients treated in Casualty once they were taken away to the hospital's surgical wards. He opined that Casualty limited itself to "accident of the week" storylines, while Holby City allowed the possibility of storylines about long-term care, rather than immediate life-and-death decisions.

Holby City has earned various awards and nominations, with the nominations in categories ranging from Best Drama to its writing and editing work to the cast's acting performance. It received nominations for eight awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs), winning the Best Continuing Drama in the 2008 British Academy Television Awards — an award for which it was unsuccessfully nominated in for three years prior to winning and five years after winning. Despite being the most shortlisted Holby City actress, Amanda Mealing (who portrayed Connie Beauchamp) did not win any awards for her role. Jimmy Akingbola was the most acclaimed actor from the series, winning two awards for his role as Antoine Malick. Rebecca Wojciechowski and Peter Mattessi are the only members of the show's production team to win an accolade; they have each won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award. The serial has also been nominated for 32 awards at the National Television Awards, although it never won. (Full article...)

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
Day 1	24		November 6, 2001 (2001-11-06)	May 21, 2002 (2002-05-21)
Day 2	24		October 29, 2002 (2002-10-29)	May 20, 2003 (2003-05-20)
Day 3	24		October 28, 2003 (2003-10-28)	May 25, 2004 (2004-05-25)
Day 4	24		January 9, 2005 (2005-01-09)	May 23, 2005 (2005-05-23)
Day 5	24		January 15, 2006 (2006-01-15)	May 22, 2006 (2006-05-22)
Day 6	24		January 14, 2007 (2007-01-14)	May 21, 2007 (2007-05-21)
Redemption	1		November 23, 2008 (2008-11-23)
Day 7	24		January 11, 2009 (2009-01-11)	May 18, 2009 (2009-05-18)
Day 8	24		January 17, 2010 (2010-01-17)	May 24, 2010 (2010-05-24)
Live Another Day	12		May 5, 2014 (2014-05-05)	July 14, 2014 (2014-07-14)

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Formby entertaining British troops during the Second World War

The English comic, singer and actor George Formby (1904–1961) performed in many mediums of light entertainment, including film, radio and theatre. His career spanned from 1915 until December 1960. During that time he became synonymous with playing "a shy, innocent, gauche, accident-prone Lancashire lad".

Formby began his working life as a jockey but always held an ambition to become a performer. In 1915, against the wishes of his father, Formby made his screen debut in the film By the Shortest of Heads. Upon his father's death in 1921, he began to build a full-time performing career, and worked predominantly on the variety circuit. In 1926 he began his music career, singing light, comical songs, and playing the ukulele or banjolele. From 1934 he increasingly worked in film, and had become a major star by the 1930s and '40s. He appeared on television for the first time in 1938 in the festive special Christmas Greetings. He became the UK's highest-paid entertainer during those decades. The film historian Brian McFarlane writes that Formby portrayed "essentially gormless incompetents, aspiring to various kinds of professional success ... and even more improbably to a middle-class girlfriend, usually in the clutches of some caddish type with a moustache. Invariably he scored on both counts". (Full article...)

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