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.
- 21 Jump Street is an American police procedural television series
- It aired on the Fox network and in first run syndication from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991
- It has a total of 103 episodes
- The series focuses on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools, colleges, and other teenage venues
- It was originally going to be titled Jump Street Chapel, after the deconsecrated church building in which the unit has its headquarters
- The title was changed at Fox’s request so as not to mislead viewers into thinking it was a religious program
- The series was created by Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell
- It was produced by Patrick Hasburgh Productions and Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television
- Executive Producers included Hasburgh, Cannell, Steve Beers and Bill Nuss
- The show was an early hit for the fledgling Fox network
- It was created to attract a younger audience
- The final season aired in first-run syndication mainly on local Fox affiliates
- It was later rerun on the FX cable network from 1996 to 1998
- All 5 seasons are currently available for download on Amazon
- The series provided a spark to Johnny Depp’s nascent acting career, garnering him national recognition as a teen idol
- Depp found this status irritating, but he continued on the series under his contract and was paid $45,000 per episode
- Eventually he was released from his contract after the fourth season
- A spin-off series, Booker, was produced for the character of Dennis Booker (Richard Grieco)
- It ran for one season, from September 1989 to June 1990
- A film adaptation directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller was released on March 16, 2012
- The film is set in the same continuity as the series, with Johnny Depp, Holly Robinson and Peter DeLuise reprising their characters in cameo appearances
- Richard Grieco and Dustin Nguyen also have cameos in the 2014 film sequel 22 Jump Street
- 24 is an American action drama television series
- The series is created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran for Fox
- The series stars Kiefer Sutherland as counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer
- Each season, comprising 24 episodes
- Each season covers 24 hours in Bauer’s life using the real time method of narration
- It had its premiere on November 6, 2001
- The show spanned 192 episodes over eight seasons
- The series finale was broadcast on May 24, 2010
- In addition, a television film, 24: Redemption, was broadcast between seasons six and seven, on November 23, 2008
- 24 returned with a ninth season titled 24: Live Another Day
- It aired from May 5 to July 14, 2014
- 24: Legacy, a spin-off series featuring new characters, premiered on February 5, 2017
- After the cancellation of Legacy in June 2017, Fox announced its plan to develop a new incarnation of the franchise
- 24 is a joint production by Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox Television and syndicated by 20th Television
- The series begins with Bauer working for the Los Angeles–based Counter Terrorist Unit, in which he is a highly proficient agent with an “ends justify the means” approach, regardless of the perceived morality of some of his actions
- Throughout the series most of the main plot elements unfold like a political thriller
- A typical plot has Bauer racing against the clock as he attempts to thwart multiple terrorist plots
- Including presidential assassination attempts, weapons of mass destruction detonations, bioterrorism, cyber attacks
- As well as conspiracies that deal with government and corporate corruption
- 24 won numerous awards over its eight seasons
- Including Best Drama Series at the 2004 Golden Globe Awards and Outstanding Drama Series at the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards
- At the conclusion of its eighth season, 24 became the longest-running U.S. espionage or counterterrorism-themed television drama, surpassing both Mission: Impossible and The Avengers
- 30 Rock is an American satirical sitcom television series
- It was created by Tina Fey
- It originally aired on NBC from October 11, 2006 to January 31, 2013
- The series, based on Fey’s experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live, takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy show depicted as airing on NBC
- The series’s name refers to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, the address of the now Comcast Building, where the NBC Studios are located and where Saturday Night Live is written, produced, and performed
- The series was produced by Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video (which also produces Saturday Night Live) and Fey’s Little Stranger, Inc., in association with NBCUniversal
- 30 Rock episodes were produced in a single-camera setup
- With the exception of the two live episodes that were produced in the multiple-camera setup
- The series were filmed in New York
- The pilot episode premiered on October 11, 2006
- The series stars Fey with a supporting cast that includes Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit, Judah Friedlander, Katrina Bowden, Keith Powell, Lonny Ross, John Lutz, Kevin Brown, Grizz Chapman, and Maulik Pancholy
- Tonally, 30 Rock uses surreal humor to parody the complex corporate structure of NBC and its then parent company General Electric
- A critic for The A.V. Club once remarked that it “usually adopts the manic pacing of a live-action cartoon”
- The show was influential in its extensive use of cutaways: sudden, short cuts to unrelated scenes showing something the characters are briefly discussing
- 30 Rock also became known for its dedication to making sets extremely elaborate, once showing a set that took three days to build for only six seconds of video
- 30 Rock won several major awards
- Including Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2007, 2008, and 2009 and nominations for every other year it ran
- During its run it appeared on many critics’ year-end “best of” 2006–2013 lists
- On July 14, 2009, the series was nominated for 22 Primetime Emmy Awards
- These were the most in a single year for a comedy series
- Over the course of the series, it was nominated for 103 Primetime Emmy Awards and won 16, in addition to numerous other nominations and wins from other awards shows
- Despite the high praise, the series struggled in the ratings throughout its run
- In 2009, Comedy Central and WGN America bought the syndication rights to the show, which began airing on both networks on September 19, 2011
- The series also entered into local broadcast syndication on the same day
- Today, 30 Rock is regarded as a landmark series
- Its series finale in particular has been named as one of the greatest in television history by several publications
- In 2013, the Writers Guild of America West named 30 Rock the 21st best-written television series of all time
- The Addams Family is an American macabre/black comedy sitcom
- Th series is based on the characters from Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons
- The 30-minute television series was created by David Levy and Donald Saltzman
- It was shot in black-and-white
- It aired for two seasons on ABC from September 18, 1964, to April 8, 1966, for a total of 64 episodes
- The show is also notable for its opening theme, which was composed and sung by Vic Mizzy
- The show was originally produced by head writer Nat Perrin for Filmways, Inc., at General Service Studios in Hollywood, California
- Successor company MGM Television now owns the rights to the show
- The second series with the same name is an American animated sitcom adaptation of the Charles Addams cartoons
- It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1973
- Jackie Coogan and Ted Cassidy, who played Uncle Fester and Lurch respectively from the 1960s television series, returned in voice-over roles
- The cast also included an 11-year-old Jodie Foster, who performed the voice of Pugsley Addams
- The show’s theme music was completely different and had no lyrics and no finger snapping, although it retained a bit of the four-note score from the live-action show
- The third series is an American animated television series
- It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
- It was based on the eponymous comic strip characters by Charles Addams
- It is the second cartoon show to feature the characters (the first was the 1973 series, also produced by Hanna-Barbera)
- It ran from September 12, 1992 to November 6, 1993 on ABC
- The series’ development began in the wake of the successful 1991 Addams Family feature film
- Two seasons were produced
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series
- The series was created, hosted, and produced by Alfred Hitchcock
- It aired on CBS and NBC between 1955 and 1965
- It features dramas, thrillers, and mysteries
- Between 1962 and 1965 it was renamed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
- Hitchcock himself directed a relatively small number of episodes
- By the time the show premiered on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades
- Time magazine named Alfred Hitchcock Presents as one of “The 100 Best TV Shows of All Time”
- The Writers Guild of America ranked it #79 on their list of the 101 Best-Written TV Series, tying it with Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Upstairs, Downstairs
TV series trivia | 100 did you know facts about famous shows (Part 2)
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