TV series trivia | 100 did you know facts about famous shows (Part 3)

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