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.
- Dexter is an American crime drama mystery television series
- It aired on Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013
- The series is set in Miami
- The series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system
- The show’s first season was derived from the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004), the first in a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay
- It was adapted for television by James Manos Jr.
- James Manos Jr., also, wrote the first episode
- Subsequent seasons evolved independently of Lindsay’s works
- In February 2008, reruns (edited down to a TV-14 rating) began to air on CBS in the wake of the shortage of original programming ensuing from the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, thus the reruns on CBS ended after one run of the first season
- The series enjoyed mostly positive reviews throughout its run and popularity
- The first four seasons have received universal acclaim
- Although reception dropped drastically as the series progressed
- The show has also won many awards, including two Golden Globes won by Hall and John Lithgow for their roles as Dexter Morgan and Arthur Mitchell, respectively
- Season four aired its season finale on December 13, 2009, to a record-breaking audience of 2.6 million viewers
- Making it the most-watched original series episode ever on Showtime at that time
- In April 2013, Showtime announced that season eight would be the final season of Dexter
- The season-eight premiere was the most watched Dexter episode with more than 3 million viewers total for all airings that night
- The original broadcast of the series finale drew 2.8 million viewers, the largest overall audience in Showtime’s history
- In October 2020, it was announced that Dexter would return with a 10-episode limited series starring Michael C. Hall reprising his role with Clyde Phillips returning as showrunner
- Production is set to begin in winter 2020
- With a fall 2021 premiere date
- ER is an American medical drama television series
- It was created by novelist and medical doctor Michael Crichton
- The series aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009
- With a total of 331 episodes spanning 15 seasons
- It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. Television
- ER follows the inner life of the emergency room (ER) of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and various critical issues faced by the room’s physicians and staff
- The show is the second longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history behind Grey’s Anatomy
- It is the 5th longest medical drama across the globe (behind BBC’s Casualty and Holby City, and Poland’s Na dobre i na złe)
- It won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award
- It received 124 Emmy nominations
- ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award
- While the cast earned four Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Drama Series
- As of 2014, ER has grossed over $3 billion in television revenue
- Family Guy is an American animated sitcom
- It was created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company
- The series debuted on January 31, 1999
- The series is produced by Fuzzy Door Productions and 20th Television and syndicated by Disney-ABC Domestic Television
- The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children, Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog, Brian
- The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island
- It exhibits much of its surreal and dark humor in the form of metafictional cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture
- The family was conceived by MacFarlane after developing two animated films, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve
- MacFarlane redesigned the films’ protagonist, Larry, and his dog, Steve, and renamed them Peter and Brian, respectively
- MacFarlane pitched a seven-minute pilot to Fox in 1998
- The show was greenlit and began production
- Family Guy’s cancellation was announced shortly after the third season had aired in 2002
- One unaired episode eventually premiered on Adult Swim in 2003, finishing the series’ original run
- Favorable DVD sales and high ratings from syndicated reruns since then convinced Fox to revive the show in 2004
- A fourth season would begin airing the following year on May 1, 2005
- Since its premiere, Family Guy has been widely acclaimed
- The series has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 11 Annie Awards, and has won three of each
- In 2009, it was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series
- It was the first time an animated series was nominated for the award since The Flintstones in 1961
- In 2013, TV Guide ranked Family Guy the ninth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time
- The series has also attracted criticism and controversy for its offensive content, violence, and writing
- Many tie-in media have been released, including Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, a straight-to-DVD special released in 2005; Family Guy: Live in Vegas, a soundtrack-DVD combo released in 2005, featuring music from the show as well as original music created by MacFarlane and Walter Murphy; a video game and pinball machine, released in 2006 and 2007, respectively; since 2005, six books published by Harper Adult; and Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy (2010), a collection of three episodes parodying the original Star Wars trilogy
- A spin-off series, The Cleveland Show, featuring Cleveland Brown, aired from September 27, 2009, to May 19, 2013
- As of 2020, 352 episodes of Family Guy have been broadcast
- On May 11, 2020, Fox renewed the series for a nineteenth season
- On September 23, 2020, Fox announced that the show would continue through a twenty-first season
- The Cleveland Show is an American adult animated sitcom
- It was created by Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, and Mike Henry for the Fox Broadcasting Company
- Serving as a spin-off of Family Guy, the series centered on the Browns and Tubbs, two dysfunctional families consisting of parents Cleveland Brown and Donna Tubbs and their children Cleveland Brown Jr., Roberta Tubbs, and Rallo Tubbs
- Similar to Family Guy, it exhibited much of its humor in the form of cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture, though it uses significantly fewer than Family Guy
- The series was conceived by MacFarlane in 2007 after developing the two animated series Family Guy and American Dad! for the Fox network
- MacFarlane centered the show on Family Guy character Cleveland Brown, his new wife Donna Tubbs, his step-children Rallo and Roberta Tubbs, and his son Cleveland, Jr., who, in the show, is depicted as an obese, soft-spoken teen, as opposed to his depiction as a younger, hyperactive child with average body weight on Family Guy
- The series premiered on September 27, 2009
- It ended on May 19, 2013
- With a total of 88 episodes over the course of 4 seasons
- The Cleveland Show was nominated for one Annie Award, one Primetime Emmy Award, and two Teen Choice Awards, but received mixed reviews from media critics
- The series was canceled after its fourth season
- Cleveland has since returned to Family Guy, accompanied by the rest of the Brown-Tubbs family, as of the twelfth season episode “He’s Bla-ack!”
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American sitcom television series
- It was created by Andy and Susan Borowitz
- It originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996
- The series stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his wealthy uncle and aunt in their Bel Air mansion after getting into a fight in his hometown
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ran for 148 episodes over six seasons
- A reunion special is in development with the surviving cast set to reprise their roles
- A reunion special episode is set to release late 2020, around Thanksgiving, on HBO Max in partnership with Westbrook Media
- Friends is an American television sitcom
- It was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman
- It aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons
- With an ensemble cast starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer
- The show revolves around six friends in their 20s and 30s who live in Manhattan, New York City
- The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television
- The original executive producers were Kevin S. Bright, Kauffman, and Crane
- Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe between November and December 1993
- They presented the idea to Bright, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the show to NBC
- After several script rewrites and changes, including title changes to Six of One and Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends
- Filming took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California
- All ten seasons of Friends ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings
- It ultimately reached the number-one spot in its eighth season
- The series finale aired on May 6, 2004
- It was watched by around 52.5 million American viewers, making it the fifth most-watched series finale in television history
- It is the most-watched television episode of the 2000s
- Friends received acclaim throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular television shows of all time
- The series was nominated for 62 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning the Outstanding Comedy Series award in 2002 for its eighth season
- The show ranked no. 21 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and no. 7 on Empire magazine’s The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time
- In 1997, the episode “The One with the Prom Video” was ranked no. 100 on TV Guide’s 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time
- In 2013, Friends ranked no. 24 on the Writers Guild of America’s 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time and no. 28 on TV Guide’s 60 Best TV Series of All Time
TV series trivia | 100 did you know facts about famous shows (Part 10)
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