TV series trivia | 100 did you know facts about famous shows (Part 12)

TV is becoming a medium that rivals cinema. Each year we see more and more tv series and most of them are almost perfect.

So let’s find out some things about TV series that left their mark.

House is an American medical drama television series
It is also called House, M.D.
It originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004, to May 21, 2012
The series’s main character is Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), an unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who, despite his dependence on pain medication, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey
The series’s premise originated with Paul Attanasio
David Shore, who is credited as creator, was primarily responsible for the conception of the title character
The series’s executive producers included Shore, Attanassio, Attanassio’s business partner Katie Jacobs, and film director Bryan Singer
It was filmed largely in a neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles County’s Westside called Century City
The show received high critical acclaim
It was consistently one of the highest rated series in the United States
House often clashes with his fellow physicians, including his own diagnostic team, because many of his hypotheses about patients’ illnesses are based on subtle or controversial insights
His flouting of hospital rules and procedures frequently leads him into conflict with his boss, hospital administrator and Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein)
House’s only true friend is Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), head of the Department of Oncology
During the first three seasons, House’s diagnostic team consists of Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) and Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps)
At the end of the third season, this team disbands
Rejoined by Foreman, House gradually selects three new team members: Dr. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley (Olivia Wilde), Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson) and Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn)
Chase and Cameron continue to appear occasionally in different roles at the hospital
Kutner dies late in season five
Early in season six, Cameron departs the hospital, and Chase returns to the diagnostic team
Thirteen takes a leave of absence for most of season seven, and her position is filled by medical student Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn)
Cuddy and Masters depart before season eight
Foreman becomes the new Dean of Medicine, while Dr. Jessica Adams (Odette Annable) and Dr. Chi Park (Charlyne Yi) join House’s team
House was among the top ten series in the United States from its second season through the fourth season
It was distributed to 66 countries
House was the most-watched television program in the world in 2008
The show received numerous awards, including five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Peabody Award, and nine People’s Choice Awards
On February 8, 2012, Fox announced that the eighth season, then in progress, would be its last
The series finale aired on May 21, 2012, following an hour-long retrospective
How to Get Away with Murder is an American legal thriller television series
It premiered on ABC on September 25, 2014
It concluded on May 14, 2020
The series was created by Peter Nowalk
It was produced by Shonda Rhimes and ABC Studios
The series aired on ABC as part of a night of programming, all under Rhimes’s Shondaland production company
Viola Davis stars as Annalise Keating, a law professor at a prestigious Philadelphia university who, with five of her students, becomes entwined in a murder plot
The series featured an ensemble cast with Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee, Aja Naomi King, Matt McGorry, and Karla Souza as Keating’s students, Charlie Weber and Liza Weil as her employees, and Billy Brown as a detective with the Philadelphia Police Department who is Annalise’s lover
From the third season onward, Conrad Ricamora was promoted to the main cast after recurring heavily in the first two seasons
For her performance, Davis has received critical acclaim
She became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
She also won two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, and the Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
Davis has also received nominations from the Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series, the Critics’ Choice Awards for Best Actress in a Drama Series, and the Television Critics Association at the TCA Awards for Individual Achievement in Drama
Other cast members have also received recognition for their performances
Enoch and King receiving nominations from the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 2014 NAACP Image Awards ceremony
The series also received a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Drama Series
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American sitcom
It is often referred to as Always Sunny or simply Sunny
It had its premiere on FX on August 4, 2005
It moved to FXX beginning with the ninth season in 2013
It was created by Rob McElhenney
He developed it with Glenn Howerton
It is executive produced and primarily written by McElhenney, Howerton, and Charlie Day
All of whom star alongside Kaitlin Olson and Danny DeVito
The series follows the exploits of “The Gang,” a group of narcissistic friends who run the Irish bar Paddy’s Pub in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The series’ fourteenth season concluded in November 2019
The series was renewed for a fifteenth season in May 2020
This season will make it the longest-running live-action comedy series in American television history
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series
It was created by Dick Wolf
It is the show ta launched the Law & Order franchise
Airing its entire run on NBC
Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990
It completed its twentieth and final season on May 24, 2010
Set and filmed in New York City, the series follows a two-part approach
The first half-hour is the investigation of a crime (usually murder) and apprehension of a suspect by New York City Police Department detectives
The second half is the prosecution of the defendant by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
Plots are often based on real cases that recently made headlines, although the motivation for the crime and the perpetrator may be different
The show has had a revolving cast over the years
Among the longest-running main cast members were Steven Hill as District Attorney Adam Schiff (seasons 1–10), Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe (seasons 3–14), S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren (seasons 4–20), Sam Waterston as Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy (seasons 5–20; later District Attorney) and Jesse L. Martin as Detective Ed Green (seasons 10–18)
Law & Order’s twenty seasons are second only to its spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–present) for the longest-running live-action scripted American primetime series
The success of the series has led to the creation of additional shows
Making Law & Order a franchise, with also a television film, several video games, and international adaptations of the series
It has won and has been nominated for numerous awards over the years, including a number of Emmy Awards
On May 14, 2010, NBC announced that it had canceled Law & Order and would air its final episode on May 24, 2010
Immediately following the show’s cancellation, Wolf attempted to find a new home for the series
Those attempts failed, and in July 2010, Wolf declared that the series had now “moved to the history books”
Law & Order: Criminal Intent is a 2002 reality television, nontraditional court show
It is a spin-off of the Law & Order franchis
It premiered on NBC on June 16, 2002
It ran through the summers of 2002, 2003, and 2004
The show was produced by Bill Guttentag, who won an Academy Award for his documentary You Don’t Have to Die
Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural drama television series
It is set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced
It was created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer
The series premiered on September 30, 2001
It is the third series in Wolf’s successful Law & Order franchise
Criminal Intent focuses on the investigations of the Major Case Squad in a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department set in New York City’s One Police Plaza
In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often “ripped from the headlines” or loosely based on a real crime that received media attention
The series aired on NBC for the first six seasons
It was moved to the NBCUniversal-owned USA Network starting with the seventh season to share costs and due to declining ratings
During its NBC run, each episode aired on USA the week after its original NBC airing
The 10th and final season premiered on Sunday, May 1, 2011, at 9 p.m. EDT
The series ended on June 26, 2011, after 10 seasons comprising 195 episodes
Law & Order: LA is an American police procedural and legal drama television series set in Los Angeles, where it was produced
It was originally titled Law & Order: Los Angeles
Created and produced by Dick Wolf and developed by Blake Masters
It premiered on NBC on September 29, 2010
It is the fifth series in Wolf’s Law & Order franchise
Law & Order: LA debuted after the original Law & Order ended its 20-year run the previous spring. The show received a full-season pickup on October 18, 2010
On January 18, 2011, however, NBC announced that it was putting the series on hold indefinitely
Law & Order: LA was canceled by NBC on May 13, 2011, after one season