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.
- Arrested Development is an American television sitcom
- It is created by Mitchell Hurwitz
- It originally aired on Fox for three seasons from November 2, 2003, to February 10, 2006
- The show follows the Bluths, a formerly wealthy dysfunctional family. It is presented in a serialized format, incorporating handheld camera work, voice-over narration, archival photos, and historical footage
- The show maintains numerous running gags and catchphrases
- Ron Howard serves as both an executive producer and the omniscient narrator
- In later seasons, Ron Howard appears in the show portraying a fictionalized version of himself
- The series is set in Newport Beach, California
- Arrested Development was filmed primarily in Culver City and Marina del Rey
- The series received critical acclaim, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and one Golden Globe Award, and attracted a cult following
- It has been named one of the greatest TV shows by publications including Time, Entertainment Weekly and IGN
- It influenced later single-camera comedy series such as 30 Rock and Community
- Despite the positive response from critics, Arrested Development received low ratings and viewership on Fox
- Fox canceled the series in 2006
- In 2011, Netflix agreed to license new episodes and distribute them on its video streaming service
- These episodes were released in May 2013
- Netflix commissioned a fifth season of Arrested Development
- The first half of which premiered on May 29, 2018
- The second half premiered on March 15, 2019
- Arrow is an American superhero television series
- It was developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg
- Thes series was based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp
- The series is set in the Arrowverse with other related television series
- The series premiered in the United States on The CW on October 10, 2012
- It was primarily filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- In January 2019, The CW renewed the series for a ten-episode eighth season, announcing in March that it would be the final season
- The season premiered on October 15, 2019 and featured the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover event
- The series finale aired on January 28, 2020
- Arrow follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who claimed to have spent five years shipwrecked on Lian Yu, a mysterious island in the North China Sea, before returning home to Starling City (later renamed “Star City”) to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilante whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow
- Throughout the series, Oliver is joined by others, among them former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), I.T. expert and skilled hacker Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), former assassin Sara Lance (Caity Lotz), aspiring vigilante Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), Oliver’s sister Thea (Willa Holland), and attorney-turned-vigilante Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy)
- During the first five seasons of the show, characters from Oliver’s past appear in a separate story arc based on Oliver’s flashbacks
- Starting with season seven, a series of flash-forwards focus on Oliver’s children William and Mia, exploring how present events would affect their future and Green Arrow’s legacy
- The series takes a new look at the Green Arrow character, as well as other characters from the DC Comics universe
- Although Oliver Queen / Green Arrow had been featured in the television series Smallville from 2006 to 2011, on The CW, the producers decided to start clean and find a new actor to portray the character
- Arrow has received generally positive reviews from critics
- The series has received several awards and multiple nominations
- In October 2014, a spin-off TV series titled The Flash premiered
- This was the first extension of the shared “Arrowverse” universe
- The Flash was later followed in 2015 with Vixen and Supergirl, in 2016 with Legends of Tomorrow, in 2017 with Freedom Fighters: The Ray, and in 2019 with Batwoman, which are all part of the same shared universe
- Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television
- The series was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko
- Aaron Ehasz was the head writer
- The series is also referred to as Avatar or ATLA by fans
- It aired on Nickelodeon for three seasons, from February 2005 to July 2008
- Avatar is set in an Asiatic-like world in which some people can manipulate one of the four elements—earth, water, fire, or air—with telekinetic variants of the Chinese martial arts known as “bending”
- The only individual who can bend all four elements, the “Avatar”, is responsible for maintaining harmony between the world’s four nations, and serves as the bridge between the spirit world and the physical world
- The show is presented in a style that combines anime with American cartoons
- It relies on the imagery of mainly East Asian culture, with some South Asian, New World, and Inuit and Sireniki influences
- The series is centered around the journey of 12-year-old Aang, the current Avatar and last survivor of his nation, the Air Nomads, along with his friends Sokka, Katara, and later Toph, as they strive to end the Fire Nation’s war against the other nations of the world
- It also follows the story of Zuko, the exiled prince of the Fire Nation, seeking to restore his lost honor by capturing Aang, accompanied by his wise uncle Iroh and later, that of his ambitious sister Azula
- Avatar: The Last Airbender was commercially successful and acclaimed by audiences and critics, who praised its art direction, soundtrack, cultural references, humor, characters, and themes
- These include concepts rarely touched on in youth entertainment, such as war, genocide, imperialism, totalitarianism, and free choice
- It won five Annie Awards, a Genesis Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Kids’ Choice Award, and a Peabody Award
- A number of critics have referred to Avatar as one of the best (animated) television series of all time
- The extended Avatar franchise includes an ongoing comics series, a prequel novel series, an animated sequel series, and a live-action film, as well as an upcoming live-action remake of the show produced for Netflix
- The complete series was released on Blu-ray in June 2018 in honor of the 10th anniversary of its finale
- It was made available to stream on Netflix in the United States in May 2020
- And on CBS All Access in June 2020
- Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series
- It was created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski’s Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television
- After the successful airing of a test pilot movie on February 22, 1993, Babylon 5: The Gathering, Warner Bros. commissioned the series for production in May 1993 as part of its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN)
- The show premiered in the US on January 26, 1994
- It ran for five seasons
- Unusual for the time, Babylon 5 was conceived as a “novel for television”, with a defined beginning, middle, and end
- In essence, each episode would be a single “chapter” of this “novel”
- A coherent five-year story arc unfolds over five 22-episode seasons
- Tie-in novels, comic books, and short stories were also developed to play a significant canonical part in the overall story
- The series follows the human military staff and alien diplomats stationed on a space station, Babylon 5, built in the aftermath of several major inter-species wars as a neutral focal point for galactic diplomacy and trade
- Babylon 5 was an early example of a television series featuring story arcs which spanned episodes or whole seasons
- Whereas contemporary television shows tended to confine conflicts to individual episodes, maintaining the overall status quo, each season of Babylon 5 contains plot elements which permanently change the series universe
- Babylon 5 used multiple episode arcs to address the repercussions of some plot events or character decisions
- Episode plots would at times reference or be influenced by events from prior episodes or seasons
- Many races of sentient creatures are seen frequenting the station, with most episodes drawing from a core of around a dozen species
- Major plotlines included Babylon 5’s embroilment in a millennia-long cyclical conflict between ancient, powerful races, inter-race wars and their aftermaths, and intrigue or upheaval within particular races, including the human characters who fight to resist Earth’s descent into totalitarianism
- Many episodes focus on the effect of wider events on individual characters
- Episodes containing themes such as personal change, loss, subjugation, corruption, defiance, and redemption
- Batman: The Animated Series is an American superhero animated television series
- The series is based on the DC Comics superhero Batman
- It was developed by Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and Mitch Brian
- It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation
- It originally aired on Fox Kids from September 5, 1992, to September 15, 1995
- It has a total of 85 episodes
- For the final fifteen episodes, the series was given the on-screen title The Adventures of Batman & Robin
- This title was also used for reruns of earlier episodes
- The series became the first in the continuity of the shared DC animated universe
- Spawning further animated TV series, feature films, comic books and video games with most of the same creative talent
- The series was praised for its thematic complexity, film noir aesthetics, darker tone, artistic presentation, and modernization of its title character’s crime-fighting origins
- IGN.com listed Batman: The Animated Series as the best adaptation of Batman anywhere outside of comics, the best comic book television show of all time and the second-best animated series of all time (after The Simpsons)
- Wizard magazine also ranked it #2 of the greatest animated television shows of all time (again after The Simpsons)
- TV Guide ranked it the seventh-greatest cartoon of all time
- The widespread acclaim led the series to win four Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program
- The New Batman Adventures is an American superhero animated television series
- The series is based on the DC Comics superhero Batman
- It is a continuation of the 1990s Batman: The Animated Series
- It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation
- It aired on Kids’ WB from September 13, 1997 to January 16, 1999
- Stories in this series tend to give more focus to Batman’s supporting cast, which include fellow crimefighters Robin, Nightwing and Batgirl, among others
- The show also features guest stars such as Supergirl, Etrigan the Demon and The Creeper
- These characters who would later appear with Batman in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited
- The 2001 video game Batman: Vengeance and its follow-up Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu are based on this series
TV series trivia | 100 did you know facts about famous shows (Part 4)
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