The Tudors

The Tudors is a historical fiction television series with elements that was devised by British screenwriter Michael Hirst and written. The series is loosely based on the reign of the English monarch Henry VIII.



The series is from Peace Arch Entertainment for Showtime in association with Reveille Eire (Ireland), Working Title Films (United Kingdom) and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canada) produced. The series was filmed in Ireland. The first two episodes were shown before the actual premiere on Showtime on DirecTV, Time Warner Cable OnDemand, Netflix, Verizon FiOS On Demand, Internet Movie Database and on the website of the series. On 11 April 2007 was the series premiere on Showtime. In April 2007 the show was renewed for the second season and in the same month the BBC announced that it has acquired the exclusive broadcasting rights for Britain. The squadron was from 5 October 2007 sent. On the CBC from Canada was the squadron from the 2nd October 2007 sent. The first season was repeated in April 2008 on the CBC digital channel Bold. Early in 2010, the fourth and final season, which is rotated at the time in Dublin, Ireland, broadcast in the U.S.

True Blood

True Blood is an American drama television series with elements of mystery Alan Ball based on the Sookie-Stackhouse book series by Charlaine Harris. The series is set in the fictional rural town of Bon Temps in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and describes the unusual coexistence of humans and vampires, the lead for two years in public life and strive for recognition in society. Previously, Japanese scientists developed a synthetic blood, which is sold under other brand as Tru Blood and distributed nationwide. The artificial blood substitute to satisfy the food needs of the Vampire.

Main character is the operative capabilities of telepathic 25-year old waitress Sookie Stackhouse who falls in love, regardless of social barriers in a vampire, William Thomas "Bill" Compton.

The vampire image is based on the usual literary sources. May not stop vampires in the sunlight, or even enter houses mortal only when prompted. They die when they rammed a wooden stake through the heart. You can influence the will of people. Among the properties that are different from the traditional stereotypes, is weakened by the injury or silver, which is more like werewolves imputed as properties. Also, the vampires of the series bear the sight of a Christian cross, left, the smell of garlic bothers them only as people to disturb them, and their reflection in the mirror is also available. Their blood taken effect, an almost immediate healing - and leads to a connection between the vampire and man, which allows the vampire to locate any people.


The fate of the vampires in the series is geared to the gay and lesbian movement in the U.S. and its terminology: In the opening credits the camera zooms past a church, are before the words 'God Hates Fangs' (God hates fangs struck). The Westboro Baptist Church is known for the slogan 'God Hates Fags'.

Dexter - season 4

The fourth season begins several months after Dexter's marriage to Rita and the birth of their son Harrison. Dexter and his family have since moved into a fashionable suburb. However, he has great difficulty balancing act between caring family man and his urge to kill found. In the resultant fatigue it causes a serious car accident. Angel Batista and Maria LaGuerta have begun a romantic relationship, and the rule accordingly urges Maria Angel to report their connection to their superiors. During an investigation into the murder of a young woman who was in a bathtub bleeding to death on a cross section found in the thigh, Dexter meets the now retired Special Agent Frank Lundy unexpectedly. Lundy has been working on the case of a mysterious serial killer, which he gave the name Trinity. He is therefore called the Trinity, because each murder series consists of three people killed, which expires after the same pattern: first a young woman is murdered in a bathtub, secondly, a mother forced to jump from a storage facility and the third is a family man with a subject to death. Lundy has found that these killings have taken place in various cities in the United States over a period of more than thirty years, which would make the Trinity-Killer one of the most successful serial killer in the history of crime. Lundy begins with Debra to working to track down Trinity, before he even begins the next series of murders. For Anton, with Debra now lives in a shared apartment, meets Debra's close work with Lundy on indignation but because he knows their former relationship. His concern turns out to be justified, since Debra finally sleeps with Lundy. On the way home by an unknown assassin shot at the two. Debra survived severe injuries, but Lundy is fatally wounded and died before Debra's eyes.

While Dexter studied the records that Lundy has gathered about the case, he concludes that Lundy has not only killed because he had come too close to Trinity, but also because Lundy had figured out when and where his third Trinity victims would choose. Dexter sneaks into the office building, in which Trinity has rented and is on a surveillance camera eye-witness, a man brutally kills as Trinity. He can no longer prevent the murder, but it creates Trinity on its way to follow to your home. Surprisingly, he finds that his Trinity is very similar: a seemingly normal family man who leads a double life as a serial killer. To protect the department decides Cpt. Matthews, that Angel is transferred from the homicide, but LaGuerta volunteered to transfer to his place. Together they tell Matthews that their relationship was over. Neither is mixed, but Matthews makes clear that he finished her career immediately, should he find out that they have lied.


Dexter attended the same church like Trinity and accepts this before and Kyle Butler. He and Trinity, whose real name is Arthur Mitchell is friends, per se. While Dexter tries to find out what are the real reasons behind Arthur's crimes, he learns to kill his family life like this and the urge has been in line with what Dexter wants to harness for his marriage to Rita. Debra comes to believe that Trinity might be behind the deadly attack on Lundy and takes on the investigation - much to Dexter's chagrin. This family learns the Trinity always know better and see the facade crumble. He realizes that Arthur Mitchell tyrannized his family and suppressed. Dexter accompanied him on a pretext for its next journey, but even though he wants to kill him there, he saves Trinity's life, when he tried to kill herself.

Meanwhile, Debra found out through old files, who is Dexter's mother and that Dexter is the brother of Kühllasterkillers. Back in the town of Dexter finds out that Trinity has more than three victims per series. The first victim is always a little boy who is cast in concrete to preserve "his innocence". Dexter can save him, but Trinity refuge and unmasked Dexter in that it recognizes that this works for the homicide. Dexter sends his family on a pretext of security and, acting on the track. Trinity is to leave the city, but Dexter still feel it on the run and kill him. Trinity's last words are that way or that everything was already over. As he sunk his body in the sea, he realizes he could to protect his family give up the killing. Happy to have taken a decision, he goes home to follow Rita to spend with her the weekend. But he finds them dead in the bathtub and his son Harrison in front, crying in a pool of blood (strong parallel to Dexter's childhood experience). Rita is the last victim Trinity. Dexter Harrison takes on the arm and leaves the bathroom.

Dexter - Season 3

At the beginning of this season Dexter tries a drug dealer and murderer named freebo to kill ". He leads her but in the middle of a fight against Oscar Prado freebo in which freebo refuge and Oscar Dexter attacks. Dexter kills him while in self-defense, which is a heavy burden for Dexter, he has never killed a man outside of Harry's Code. Moreover, it turns out that Oscar is the brother of the sheriff and district attorney Miguel Prado. Dexter freebo identifying and killed him, but could also detect Miguel Freebos hiding place and surprise Dexter with a bloody dagger in his hand, but did not see the corpse. Dexter Miguel convinced them that he had freebo killed in self-defense and he can just hold them to help him in disposing of the corpse. Dexter Miguel is grateful to hug him, with something dripping from Freebos blood on his shirt. However, more murders occur that are attributed initially freebo. Miguel wants to direct the police work on the actual date unknown murderer. Dexter Miguel lies to the fact that he had buried the body in a freshly dug grave, and he asks Miguel to exhume this not be because he did not know what evidence he had left on the corpse. Miguel shows understanding and gives Dexter a shirt as a sign of confidence, which allegedly has traces of blood freebo. This is the beginning of a deep friendship.

Meanwhile, Dexter learns that his girlfriend Rita is pregnant, he initially does not know what to process. Rita's demands on the part he dodges, and speak almost no rational reasons to keep the child. Rita confronted him but the fact that she was determined to get the baby because she had indeed made many mistakes, but to be a single mother, no one would have been. It leaves Dexter, what role he would play for the child, and he is poised to opt for wanting to be a father because he feared that his child will like him: a monster. Only his sister Debra Dexter can convince them to face the perils of fatherhood. When Dexter is in his safe, he makes Rita a subordinate clause in a marriage proposal, which she refuses blankly. Even further demand Rita Dexter rejects because it does not 'real' is and she and Paul got married because of pregnancy. It takes a whole drama Dexter, Rita finally convince by means of a stirring speech to marry him.


Debra is focused in the course of the season almost exclusively on their work, as they necessarily - would like to reach her father - a promotion to Detective. The case is their awkward freebo because of a statement that Oscar Prado was a drug addict deprived. It works to help with a new partner Quinn together in a series of gruesome murders that go into the account of the "skins". Debra is in their work overshadowed by the skins, which mimics their contacts, cruelly tortured and murdered. Debra also begins an affair with Quinn's informant Anton. The skins kidnapped Anton, tortures him and holds him prisoner in a remote cabin. However, the skins will be provisionally arrested, but since one has no proof, it must be again set free and he dives under. Debra and Quinn manages to free Anton. Since Anton is now an important witness in their case, Debra preliminarily concluded her affair with him, but eventually abandoned the case, we can finally be together with Anton. It will matter still promoted to Detective.

Meanwhile, Miguel discovers Dexter's dark secret. However, he does not turn from Dexter, but actively supports them, which ultimately culminates in a jointly committed murder. Dexter Miguel tries to suggest Harry's Code. When the attorney Wolf Ellen disappears without a trace, Dexter is soon fixed that Miguel has only used him. Miguel asked in the past Dexter about to murder her. He refused to do so with reference to its strict Code, to which Miguel responded very angry and abusive. Dexter suspects Miguel, and he makes her body then locate in a freshly dug grave. Dexter begins to doubt everything Miguel has ever said to him, and it shall include finds that the blood on Miguel's shirt, which was given him their confidence, not freebo is, but of animal origin. Then starts a cat and mouse game between Dexter and Miguel, where it initially Dexter comes to teach Miguel. He soon realizes that access is only played by Miguel, which is why he comes to the conclusion to kill him. He makes the murder of Miguel look like he had been committed by the skins. However, Miguel has already hired the skins to Dexter off. He kidnapped Dexter on the day before his wedding, but it can free itself Dexter, where he broke his right hand. In the ensuing fight breaks Dexter hides the neck and drops him to a police car drive up, making his death appear like suicide. Dexter flees from the scene and go to his wedding. He married Rita with the loyalty oath to be the best husband and father, he could be.

Dexter - season 2

In the second season of Dexter, the divers found discarded in the sea of body bags. The FBI sends Special Agent Lundy, one of its best investigators to initiate the investigations in the so-called "Bay Harbor Butcher" case. As is well known that the victims were themselves killers who were not prosecuted by the judiciary, the unknown serial killer is revered partly in public. Lundy, however ensures from the outset for detailed, systematic police work that is dangerous for Dexter quickly.

The story is further complicated by the fact that Sgt Doakes himself has set a goal to find out what is wrong with Dexter. He shadowed in every free minute, which significantly restricts freedom of movement Dexter. In addition, he is limited by his sister, who moves in with him. Debra is looking at him protection and security, as it has been happening in the first season of all only as the girlfriend of the Kühllasterkillers is considered.

Paul, Rita's violent husband, because Dexter is back in jail, asks Rita for evidence of his innocence to search, which refuses this - shortly after he dies in a jail brawl. Rita finds the evidence sought by Paul and realizes that Paul was breach of his parole - Paul with a drug syringe found in the arm - directed by Dexter was. She confronts him and wants to know is where he got the drugs. Dissatisfied with his answer, she thinks of now, Dexter is a drug addict, forcing him to go to a support group for addicts.

Dexter meets Lila know where that is after a short time his Suchtbetreuerin. She encouraged him to rely more on his instincts and his conscience, not knowing that Dexter has neither. (The assessment is based primarily on how Dexter sees himself. But it is clear that he does have feelings for other people, including his half-sister and his girlfriend Rita and their children. This is shown whenever these in distress and lead Dexter advised to impulsive, irrational behavior, such as the precipitation of Rita's ex-husband or the "refrigerated lorry-Killer", which his brother was.) Dexter does with this experiment, but is soon discovered that he makes mistakes to bring the Agent Lundy and Sgt Doakes on the right track.


While Dexter and Lila get closer, the relationship with Rita suffers under it, until its failure. When Dexter realizes how important he is Rita and their children, he tries to keep in contact with them. Lila becomes jealous and shows her true colors.

To run Lundy's investigation into the void, Dexter writes a manifesto, which sends it to the Miami Tribune, on behalf of the Bay Harbor Butcher. But the shot backfires: Lundy recognizes the purpose of the document and speculates that the serial killer himself works with the police.

As Sgt Doakes, who was suspended because of a attack on Dexter on duty, accidentally discovers that a butcher victim was acquitted due Blutspurenanlyse Dexter, he is convinced of his guilt. He searched his apartment and finds Dexter's murder trophies: slides with blood samples of all the victims. Doakes it assumes itself to be analyzed it. Then he in turn is suspected to have anything to do with the murders, he himself is wanted by Lundy people. Man finally finds his car and to the slide. Doakes is now the main suspect, and Dexter tries to use that phrase to pull your head out of the loop. Doakes confronts Dexter with the evidence in a remote hut drug trade. Although wounded, Dexter locks him in a cage and leaves him at first. Dexter begins to spread false evidence, indicate on Doakes as the killer. Only his former partner LaGuerta believes in his innocence and tried to find evidence. When she turns to Lundy, however, rejects this further investigation, as they previously held back evidence, although it's innocence Doakes' considering.

Dexter finds out that his foster father Harry an affair with his natural mother and had killed himself when he realized what the monster he had created with Dexter. Burned out by the events and revelations will, put his life as a serial killer Dexter to an end and take farewell preparations. At his last dinner with Debra, but he knows how important he is for his sister. He decides to showcase his original plan, Doakes as the Bay Harbour Butcher to pursue.

Lila is still looking for Dexter and Doakes finds so and another victim in the dealer hut. It breaks the cabin with propane gas and thus prevents that Dexter is exposed as a killer. Lila now expects that he loves her again, as it now knows his dark secret. It surprised him, however, in how he is preparing for her death and wants revenge, therefore, to Rita and the children. Dexter, however, this can prevent just yet. He follows Lila to Paris, where he kills them.

Dexter - season 1

Dexter is an American thriller or drama with elements of black humor. Michael C. Hall plays the serial killer Dexter Morgan, who works for the Miami-Metro Police Department as a forensic blood spatter in the analysis. The series is based on the books Darkly Dreaming Dexter (German title: Death's dark brother) and Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dark Demon) by Jeff Lindsay.

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Season 1
Dexter is traumatized from his childhood: He has to kill any emotions and the insatiable urge. This psychological disorder forces him to lead a double life.
In everyday life he is very anxious to appear normal and unremarkable. He works as a forensics at the Miami-Metro Police Department, where he is responsible for blood spatter analysis. His younger sister Debra also works with the police. It is the only person who feels for the Dexter something like affection. His girlfriend, Rita, who was beaten by her husband and lives separately from him is - as Dexter also beziehungsgestört -.
His dark side lives Dexter at night following the approach strictly to Harry's Code, the rules of his foster father Harry, Dexter's problem recognized early. In flashbacks, we are told how Harry teaches Dexter to fake emotions to lead a normal life. Also for the desire to kill Harry has a solution: Dexter to kill those who "deserve", that is killer, by the judiciary can not be sued. As a policeman, Harry knows in this matter from the best. Dexter learns from him to kill without leaving traces, but also countless rules designed to stop him, to kill indiscriminately or carelessly.
In the first season of Dexter hunts with his colleagues and his sister, a serial killer, the "refrigerated lorry-killers." This leaves its victims cut cleanly and completely drained of blood in their localities. Fascinated by the technology of the refrigerated lorry-Killers Dexter hopes to have found a kindred spirit, especially as the refrigerated lorry killer seems to know Dexter's hobby and made him the "game" in challenging him. In the course of the investigation is Dexter's sister Debra promoted and worked with Sgt Doakes in the investigation of the case. This proves to be difficult mutilated, until the night guard Tony Tucci found in a basement and the police will give you hints. While he is in the hospital to get dentures, it is maintained by Dr. Rudy Cooper. Debra learns to know him and falls in love with him. At the end of the season turns out that Rudy Cooper of refrigerated lorry killer and Dexter's brother. Dexter even kill him, after he tried to kill Debra. The police found no evidence that could lead to Dexter, because he made it look like a suicide.

Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek is an American youth series, describes the growing up of four friends in the fictional town of Capeside, near Boston. The series first aired from 1998 to 2003 in the United States at The WB and comprises 128 episodes. In six seasons, the relations of Dawson, Joey, Pacey and Jen asked time and again to the test, they alienate each other, suggest a different life paths and yet recognize that their years together they bind to each other. Shown are the last school year and the efforts to find their way into the adult world. The seasons 1-4 deal with the high school years, and season 5 and 6 deal with the college years. In the series finale takes place a time-warp again. The friends meet again after five years and one of the main storylines (Joey and Pacey and their choices between Dawson) is dissolved.

Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars: The Complete First Season
Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The pilot of the series ran on 22 September 2004 on UPN. Since spring 2006, ran the show in Germany on ZDF, in Austria and Switzerland on ATV SF two. Focal point of the series is the main character Veronica Mars (played by Kristen Bell). Veronica is in the first two seasons a student at a high school and in the third season in a college student who works with her father as a private detective. The series combines the typical elements of the crime, high school and drama genre.

Despite good reviews posted Veronica Mars weak ratings.On 17 May 2007, from The CW series after three seasons. The seasons 1 and 2, were next to each on the consequences of limited cases, each of a large criminal case dominates as a framework (Season 1: "Who killed Lilly Kane?", Season 2: "Who was responsible for the bus crash?"). From this scheme gave the series into the third season. There were two smaller overlapping cases ("Who is the Hearst rapist?", "Who killed the dean of Hearst College?") And five individual sequences. The transmitter thereby intended to bind and spectators with less staying power in the series. Originally, the last five episodes have their own story arc, but it was finally decided against it. The reason for this was given included the shortened season length.

Young Americans

Young Americans
Young Americans (alternate title: Young Americans - death games; Original title: The Young Americans) is a British crime film from 1993. Directed by Danny Cannon, who together with David Hilton also wrote the screenplay. The London police investigated a series of murders and suspects a connection with U.S. drug dealers who are led by Carl Frazer. Frazer recruited his accomplices among young people who are fascinated by American culture.

The British police are asking their American colleagues for help, whereupon the New York police officer John Harris will travel to London. Harris tries to make Frazer. This leads to further murders. The magazine Time Out London wrote that the "ambitious" film was skillfully done visually, but its pace is uneven. He was a "sleek, violent crime film design for style-conscious tweens". The lexicon of international film, wrote the film was a drug crime, the attempt to explain "the dope show business as a dirty industry". He was "photographed chic", but he came not out, despite his good leading actor of mediocrity. " The film was in London - including shot in the Jacob Street Studios -. His production was estimated at 3 million U.S. dollars.

My So-Called Life

My So-Called Life (Complete Series)
Welcome to life (My So-Called Life = My so called life ") is an American family series from 1994 with a total of 19 episodes. It was proposed by the U.S. television station ABC 25th August 1994 to 26 January 1995 delivered. From the series only 19 episodes were filmed. On 15 May 1995 series officially terminated. The 15-year-old student Angela Chase (Claire Danes) is on the way to adulthood. It changes radically. New ideas, new friends and many new experiences, they create until they find themselves. Claire Danes was in 1995 for her role as Angela Chase won a Golden Globe for best actress in a TV drama series and nominated for an Emmy.

-Claire Danes was actually too young for the role of Angela. Because of their outstanding talent, she was cast anyway. This meant that it was during the filming of the pilot, 13 years old, 15 in the last episode By comparison, Jared Leto was in the last episode 22nd
-Welcome to life was the template for the German series My Life and I on RTL.
-On 13 September 2007 was published the complete series after 12 years in a 5 DVD box of  video.
My So-Called Life - The Complete Series (w/ Book)
The show placed #33 on Entertainment Weekly's "New Classics TV" list, and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME."

Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210: The Ninth SeasonBeverly Hills 90210: Season Ten
Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American drama series that aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world. It is the first series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise. The show followed the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation. The show was created by Darren Star and produced by Paul Robinson. The "90210" in the title refers to the city's ZIP code.

The original premise of the show was based on the adjustment and culture shock that twins Brandon (played by Jason Priestley) and Brenda Walsh (played by Shannen Doherty) experienced when they and their parents, Jim (played by James Eckhouse) and Cindy (played by Carol Potter) moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Beverly Hills. In addition to chronicling the friendships and romantic relationships of a group of close-knit teenagers, the show also addressed numerous topical issues including date rape, alcoholism, domestic violence, gay rights, gay parenting, drug abuse, teenage suicide, AIDS, teenage pregnancy, bulimia and abortion.

The series gained popularity during the summer of 1991, when Fox aired a special "summer season" of the show while most other series were in reruns. The series became one of Fox's top shows when it began its next season that fall. Viewership increased dramatically and the cast members, particularly Jason Priestley and Luke Perry, became teen idols, while the series would make actresses Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling household names in the US. The show also had many cast changes, though Garth, Spelling, Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green were regulars during its entire run.

Smallville

Smallville - The Complete First Season
Smallville is an American television series based on Superman comics and is produced since 2001. The series provides the narrative conception of the early years of the hero who grows up as Clark Kent in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas and is apparent only in the course of the series of his skills, background and vocation. Furthermore, the lighting takes the relationship for future adversary Lex Luthor a space is a key. Furthermore, in addition to new figures also famous friends, enemies and other superheroes of the Superman universe are re-interpreted. The series will be filmed since the summer of 2001 in Vancouver, Canada. In the Vancouver area there are other places that are used for exterior shots. On probably the best known is southeast of Vancouver were located in Surrey Cloverdale, which, inter alia, the exterior shots of the "Talon".

The TV series was originally produced by The WB Television Network and broadcast. Once in 2006, The WB, with the competing until then UPN to The CW Network merged, the production is carried on by this. The premiere of the series in American television was held on 16 October 2001. The Original German began on 3 January 2003 on RTL. Since 16 January 2010 shows, RTL 2, the eighth season of Smallville. In Austria, the series runs on first ORF 2002 Clark-Kent-actor Tom Welling in the USA with the Teen Choice Award was awarded as the best young talent. Michael Rosenbaum, Lex Luthor embodies, got the 2001 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The O.C.

The O.C.: The Complete Series Collection
The O.C.: The Complete Series Collection
The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons. The series, created by Josh Schwartz, portrays the fictional lives of a group of teenagers and their families residing in Newport Beach in Orange County, California. The O.C. has been broadcast in more than 50 countries worldwide and was one of the most popular new dramas of 2003. The O.C. attracted a strong 9.7 million viewers for its first season, but ratings declined as the show went on. The low ratings led to cancellation in early 2007, after four seasons, and 92 episodes, even after an online petition which gained over 700,000 signatures. Re-runs of The O.C. are now shown in syndication on The WB, SOAPnet, and Channel 4.

The show centers on Ryan Atwood, a troubled teenager from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy and Kirsten Cohen. Ryan and his surrogate brother Seth, a socially awkward and, initially, friendless teen, deal with life as outsiders in the wild high-class world of Newport Beach, Orange County, California. This includes their often troubled and always dramatic relationships with Summer Roberts, Marissa Cooper, Alex Kelly, Lindsay Gardner, Taylor Townsend, and others. The show also features Marissa's mother, Julie Cooper, and for the first two seasons, her (ex)husbands Jimmy Cooper and Kirsten's overbearing father, Caleb Nichol. School water polo player Luke Ward, Marissa's boyfriend and early adversary to Ryan and Seth, causes problems in the first season. Drama also arises from Marissa's younger sister, Kaitlin Cooper. These main characters have problems and story arcs with numerous supporting characters from their past, workplace, and school.

America's Got Talent

Who's the Dummy Now?: Winner of America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent is a British-owned American reality television series on the NBC television network. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of US$1 million. The show debuted in June 2006 for the summer television season. Starting in the third season, the Talent top prize included US$1 million, payable in a financial annuity over forty years (or the present cash value of such annuity), and a show as the headliner on the Las Vegas Strip.

The show concept can be traced back to the American talent contest Major Bowes Amateur Hour, broadcast in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. Among its significant features were that it gave an opportunity to talented amateurs or unknown performers, with the results decided by an audience vote. The format is a popular one and has often been reworked for television in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The current incarnation was created by Simon Cowell, and was originally due to be a 2005 British series called Paul O'Grady's Got Talent but was postponed due to O'Grady's acrimonious split with broadcaster ITV. As such, the American version became the first full series of the Got Talent franchise.

Despite being heavily involved in the show's production, Simon Cowell does not appear as a judge. This is due to the conditions of his American Idol contract. However he does appear as a judge on Britain's Got Talent. America's Got Talent began airing season one in the United Kingdom on ITV1 on 22 June 2007, TV3 Ireland on July 2007 and in New Zealand on Prime Television on 9 July 2007. The third season of Talent premiered on ITV2 beginning 4 June 2009.

American Inventor

American Inventor is a reality television series based on a competition to be named America's best inventor. It was conceived by UK entrepreneur Peter Jones, who appears on the British version of the somewhat similar programme Dragons' Den, a format originated in Japan where it is owned by Sony. It was produced by Jones alongside Simon Cowell and the producers of American Idol. It premiered on ABC on March 16, 2006. It was organized as a competition between the various Inventors resulting in one overall winner.

Janusz Liberkowski, who invented a new type of child safety seat based on the human womb called the Anecia Safety Capsule, was declared the first season's winner in a live episode on May 18, 2006. The second season premiered on June 6, 2007. Firefighter Greg Chavez, who invented a fire suppression system for Christmas Trees called the Guardian Angel, was the winner of the second season, on August 1, 2007. On March 20, 2008, the show's official website was removed, and the series was not included on the 2008 fall schedule.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Quiz Book: Quiz Book (Imagination International Quiz Books)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers very large cash prizes for correctly answering a series of consecutive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The format is owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Television International. The maximum cash prize (in the original British version) is one million pounds. Most international versions offer a top prize of one million units of the local currency, though the actual value of the prize varies widely, depending on the currency's exchange rate. In the United States the top cash prizes have been changed to annuities.

The programme originated in the United Kingdom, where it is hosted by Chris Tarrant. It is based on a format devised by David Briggs, Steven Knight and Mike Whitehill, who also devised a number of the promotional games for Chris Tarrant's breakfast show on Capital FM radio. The original working title for the show was Cash Mountain. When it first aired in the UK on 4 September 1998, it was a surprising twist on the game show genre. Only one contestant plays at a time (similar to some radio quizzes) and the emphasis is on suspense rather than speed. In most versions there are no time limits to answer the questions and contestants are given the question before they must decide whether to attempt an answer.

In 2000, a board game based on the hit television series of the same name was released by Pressman Toy Corp. In March 2006, original producers Celador announced that it was seeking to sell the worldwide rights to the show, together with the UK programme library, as the first phase of a sell-off of the company's format and production divisions. Dutch company 2waytraffic acquired Millionaire and the rest of Celador's programme library. Two years later, Sony Pictures Entertainment purchased 2waytraffic for £137.5m. The Who Wants to Be a Millionaire franchise is the most internationally popular television franchise of all time, having aired in more than 100 countries worldwide.

America's Next Top Model

America's Next Top Model - Cycle 1
America's Next Top Model (often shortened to Top Model or abbreviated as ANTM) is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry.

The show was created and is hosted by talk-show host and model Tyra Banks, who also serves as the head judge and executive producer of the show. The first "cycle" premiered in May 2003 and was one of UPN's highest rated shows. The show's seventh cycle was the first of the shows among regular programming on UPN's successor network, The CW, and thus far is the network's highest rated series. The opening theme is performed by Tyra Banks and is produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. Banks co-produces the show with Ken Mok and Anthony Dominici for 10 by 10 Entertainment and Bankable Productions, syndicated internationally by KingWorld (and its successor CBS Television Distribution), and domestically as a "presentation" of VH1. For the 2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2008–2009, and 2009-2010 television seasons, ANTM was the #1 show in average viewers on The CW.

On February 16, 2010, The CW renewed the show for a 15th and 16th cycle.

America's Toughest Jobs


America's Toughest Jobs is a reality television show that lasted one season and aired on the American television network NBC. It pitted contestants against each other as they attempted a series of difficult and dangerous jobs. The prize was the sum of the salaries that would be earned by people doing these jobs in their first year.

The show's creator and executive producer was Thom Beers, notable for creating shows such as Deadliest Catch and Monster Garage. Some of the jobs he chose to be featured on America's Toughest Jobs were featured on shows he previously created. The host was Josh Temple, a character actor who had minor roles in shows such as Will & Grace and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In each episode, contestants took part in tasks associated with a job, and were supervised and evaluated by workers or employers in that business. After spending time on the job, the supervisors selected one or more top employees for praise, and selected the employees who had the worst performances (the bottom four in the first five episodes, and the bottom two thereafter). Those employees were required to compete head-to-head in an additional challenge to determine who would be eliminated. For example, in the gold digging episode, the bottom four contestants were required to spend additional time digging for gold with the contestant who found the least amount eliminated. Once there were four contestants remaining, timed challenges were held for three of the season's toughest jobs with the contestant who had the slowest time at each eliminated until a winner was determined. At the end of each episode, an information screen was shown that detailed what the eliminated contestant decided to do after the show.

Ben Coleman was named the winner of season one on October 25, 2008. The results were accidentally posted on NBC's website several hours before the show aired.

On March 13, 2009, it was confirmed that the series had been canceled and would not be returning for a second season.

American Idol

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American Idol is a reality television competition to find new solo singing talent. Part of the Idol franchise, it was created by Simon Fuller as a spin-off from the British show Pop Idol, of which two series were broadcast between 2001 and 2003. Debuting on June 11, 2002, as American Idol: The Search for a Superstar on the Fox network, the show has since become one of the most popular in the history of American television. It is currently the #1 program in the Nielsen ratings and is the only program to have been #1 for six consecutive seasons, surpassing All in the Family and The Cosby Show, which were both #1 for five consecutive seasons. 60 Minutes was also the #1 program for five seasons, but not in consecutive years.
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The program aims to discover the best singer in the country through a series of nationwide auditions in which viewer voting determines the winner. Through telephone and SMS text voting, viewers chose past winners Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Jordin Sparks, David Cook, Kris Allen, and Lee DeWyze (listed in chronological order). The eligible age-range for contestants is currently 16–28 years old. The upper age limit was 24 in the first three seasons. On June 21, 2010, Idol announced that the age limit would be lowered to 15 for future seasons.

The series employs a panel of judges who critique the contestants' performances: Grammy award-winning record producer and music manager Randy Jackson and award-winning music executive and music manager Simon Cowell have been judges for the entire series. Grammy award-winning pop singer and Emmy award-winning choreographer Paula Abdul was a judge for the show's first eight seasons. The format originally featured three judges, with Latin Grammy Award-nominated singer–songwriter and record producer Kara DioGuardi added as a fourth judge for the eighth season. On September 9, 2009, Emmy Award-winning talk show host Ellen DeGeneres was confirmed to be Abdul's replacement for the ninth season. The show has been renewed for three more seasons. On January 11, 2010 Simon Cowell announced that he was leaving the show to pursue introducing his show The X Factor to the USA for 2011.

Ryan Seacrest has hosted the show for its entire run. During the first season, he was joined by comedian Brian Dunkleman. The American Idol band is currently led by Rickey Minor. Dorian Holley of Los Angeles Music Academy is Music Director and vocal coach; he has been with the show since 2006.

The show usually airs on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the United States and Canada, Wednesday and Thursday nights in Australia, parts of Asia, and the United Kingdom, Friday nights in Ireland, Friday and Saturday nights in Israel, and Saturday and Sunday nights in Latin America.

Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "It's given us Kelly, Carrie, Daughtry, and J. Hud. Idol rules the reality roost because the winners of Fox's ratings juggernaut actually do go on to greatness. And Taylor Hicks? He's the exception that proves the rule." Season nine, the most recent season, was won by Lee DeWyze, a former paint salesman in Chicago. The runner-up was Crystal Bowersox, a single mother of one.