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 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 (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

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.

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 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 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. 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

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? 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 (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

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.