Information: - Haim Saban (born October 15, 1944) is an Egyptian-born Israeli-American media proprietor, investor, philanthropist, musician, record, film & television producer. A businessman with interests in financial services, entertainment, and media, and an estimated net worth of $3 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 143rd richest person in America. Saban is the founder of Saban Entertainment, producer and distributor of children's television programs in the US such as "Power Rangers." He headed up consortiums which purchased the broadcasters ProSiebenSat.1 Media and Univision Communications. He is a major donor to the US Democratic Party and active in pro-Israel political efforts in the US. - A tribute act, tribute band or tribute group is a music group, singer, or musician who specifically plays the music of a well-known music act. Tribute acts include individual performers who mimic the songs and style of an artist, such as Elvis impersonators covering the works of Elvis Presley or groups like The Iron Maidens, an all-female band that pays tribute to Iron Maiden. - Julian Alistair Rhind-Tutt (born 20 July 1967) is an English actor. He is best known for his starring role as Dr "Mac" Macartney in the comedy television series "Green Wing", the second series of which finished on Channel 4 in May 2006. He has also appeared in various other television shows and films. - Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became a UK-wide TV channel for the first time. - Smack the Pony was an English sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003 on Channel 4 . The main performers on the show were Fiona Allen , Doon Mackichan , and Sally Phillips . There were also regular appearances from Sarah Alexander , Darren Boyd , and Cavan Clerkin . The show 's popular theme tune was Dusty Springfield 's song In the Middle of Nowhere , sung by Jackie Clune . As well as the three principal cast members , the show was written by a large number of writers , the core of which went on to write Green Wing and Campus . In Germany , the first transmission of the show aired on ProSieben , where the theme tune was changed to Texas ' 2001 version of I Do n't Want a Lover , and featured a different title sequence . Among the show 's regular themes were unsuccessful relationships , competition in the workplace and latent lesbianism , but sketches would also dip into the surreal ; such as two women jumping from their car as they neared a parking space , and brushing in front of the path of their car to help it move further forward , as in curling . Two regular strands involved a series of different women making dating agency videos about their general likes and dislikes , and a musical parody that would close the show . It has been claimed that some of the topics covered in the series are so sensitive that there would have been no chance for a group of men to make fun of them . - Green Wing is an award-winning British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show "Smack the Pony", led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt. - Jackie Clune (born 13 December 1965) is a British entertainer and writer. She became established through her Edinburgh Fringe cabaret shows and 1995 Karen Carpenter tribute act before graduating to mainstream acting. - Dusseldorf (Low Franconian, Ripuarian: "Dusseldorp" ) is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the seventh most populous city in Germany. Dusseldorf is an international business and financial centre, renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. The city is headquarters to one Fortune Global 500 and two DAX companies. Messe Dusseldorf organises nearly one fifth of premier trade shows. - The Worst Week of My Life is a British television sitcom, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004. A second series was aired between November and December 2005 and a three-part Christmas special, "The Worst Christmas of My Life" was shown during December 2006. It was written by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni. - Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig (born 12 July 1966) is an English actress. She played Fran Katzenjammer in "Black Books" and Dr. Caroline Todd in "Green Wing". She currently stars in as Beverly Lincoln in the transatlantic sitcom "Episodes", and as Jackie in the Channel 4 sitcom "Friday Night Dinner". Other roles include Alice Chenery in BBC One's comedy drama "Love Soup", Debbie Aldridge in BBC Radio 4's soap opera "The Archers", Miss Bates in the 2009 BBC version of Jane Austen's "Emma", and Beth Hardiment in the 2010 film version of "Tamara Drewe". Greig is also an acclaimed stage actress; she won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2007 for "Much Ado About Nothing", and was nominated again in 2011 and 2015 for her roles in "The Little Dog Laughed" and "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". - Darren John Boyd (born 30 January 1971 in Hastings, Sussex) is an English actor who starred in the Sky 1 series "Spy", for which he won a BAFTA award. His work in television and film spans comedy and drama. - Stuttgart ( Swabian: "Schduagert"), often nicknamed the ""Schwabenmetropole"" in reference to its location in the center of Swabia and the local dialect spoken by some natives, is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley locally known as the "Stuttgarter Kessel" an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Stuttgart's name comes from the Old High German word ""Stuogarten"," or "stud farm" a reference to the city's founding in 950 AD as a stud farm. Stuttgarts urban area has a population of 623,738, and a further making it the sixth largest city in Germany, 2.7million people live in the citys administrative region, and another 5.3million people in its metropolitan area, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. - Victoria Pile, also known as Vicky Pile, is a British comedy writer, director and producer, most noted as the creator of two Channel 4 comedy programmes, the sketch show "Smack the Pony" and the sitcom "Green Wing". She began her career writing for Not the Nine O'Clock News whilst still a student at University of Sussex. She has also written for Spitting Image and CBBC. - Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany as well as one of its constituent 16 states. With a population of approximately 3.5 million people, Berlin is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of rivers Spree and Havel, it is the centre of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has about 6 million residents from more than 180 nations. Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one-third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes. - EastEnders is a British soap opera; the first episode was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. "EastEnders" storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End of London. The series primarily centres on the residents of Albert Square, a Victorian square of terraced houses, and its neighbouring streets, namely Bridge Street, Turpin Road and George Street. The area encompasses a pub, street market, night club, community centre, funeral parlour, cafe, wine bar, various other small businesses, a park and allotments. - Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 February 4, 1983) was an American singer and drummer. She and her brother Richard Carpenter formed the 1970s duo The Carpenters. Her skills as a drummer earned admiration from drumming luminaries and peers, but she is best known for her vocal performances. She typically sang in a contralto vocal range. - Cavan Clerkin (born 28 November 1973) is a British television actor and writer. He has appeared in comedy shows including "Pulling", "The Inbetweeners", "Smack the Pony", "The IT Crowd", "Jonathan Creek" and "Look Around You". He also appeared in the films "Gangster No 1", "Spivs" and "Pierrepoint". He has written for "Smack the Pony", and co-created the comedy series "Los Dos Bros", in which he also starred. In 2009, he appeared in the soap opera "EastEnders" as Joel Reynolds. and in 2011 he appeared as Leonard Glickman in "The Shadow Line". He wrote, produced and starred in British Independent feature film ""Nice Guy""and in 2014 played DCI Gerring in ITV drama "Lucan" and Clarkey in Channel 4's police satire "Babylon". That year he also appeared in episode 4 of the BBC sitcom "Count Arthur Strong". In 2016 he is currently playing "Vinnie", a talent manager, in Morgana Robinsons, The Agency. - Sarah Alexander (nee Smith; born 3 January 1971) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in British series such as "Armstrong and Miller", "Smack the Pony", "Coupling", "The Worst Week of My Life", "Green Wing", "Marley's Ghosts" and "Jonathan Creek". - Munich (also in British English ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and the 12th biggest city of the European Union, with a population of above 1.5million. The Munich Metropolitan Region is home to 5.8million people. - Channel Four Television Corporation (informally Channel Four) is a publicly owned media company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its original and principal activity is the British national television network Channel 4. - ProSieben (IPA: /pozibn/, "sieben" is German for seven) is a commercial television station in Germany. It is largely distributed by cable and satellite and to a lesser extent DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial). It began operations on 1 January 1989. Since 2003 the station, part ProSiebenSat.1 Media, is owned by a group of investors led by Haim Saban. ProSieben is Germany's second largest privately owned television company. Although ProSieben produces some of its programming itself, it also airs many American imports. On 3 May 2012 ProSieben launched a payTV channel called ProSieben Fun. A third channel called ProSieben Maxx started broadcasting on 3 September 2013. - Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world. Germany's capital and largest metropolis is Berlin. Other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Dusseldorf. - Sussex (abbreviated Sx), from the Old English "Ssaxe" (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, north-east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and divided for local government into West Sussex and East Sussex and the city of Brighton and Hove. Brighton and Hove was created as a unitary authority in 1997, and granted City status in 2000. Until then, Chichester was Sussex's only city. - Jonathan Creek is a British mystery crime drama series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. It stars Alan Davies as the title character, who works as a creative consultant to a stage magician while also solving seemingly supernatural mysteries through his talent for logical deduction and his understanding of illusions. - The Inbetweeners is an English sitcom that originally aired on E4 from 2008 to 2010. Created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, the show followed the life of suburban teenager Will (Simon Bird) and his friends Simon (Joe Thomas), Neil (Blake Harrison), and Jay (James Buckley) at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive. The episodes involved situations of school bullying, broken family life, indifferent school staff, male bonding, and largely failed sexual encounters. - The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 and limited satellite television regulation cable television was the responsibility of the Cable Authority) and commercial and independent radio broadcasts. The IBA came into being when the Sound Broadcasting Act 1972 gave the Independent Television Authority responsibility for organising the new Independent Local Radio (ILR) stations. Independent Television Commission formally replaced the IBA on 1 January 1991 in regulatory terms, however the Authority itself was not officially dissolved until 2003. - The IT Crowd is a British sitcom by Channel 4, written by Graham Linehan (who also created and wrote Father Ted), produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry. - Frankfurt am Main is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2015 population of 731,095 within its administrative boundaries, and 2.3million in its urban area. The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, which has a population of 5.8million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after Rhine-Ruhr. Since the enlargement of the European Union in 2013, the geographic centre of the EU is about to the east of Frankfurt's CBD, the Bankenviertel. Frankfurt is culturally and ethnically diverse, with around half of the population, and a majority of young people, having a migration background. A quarter of the population are foreign nationals, including many expatriates. - Cologne is the largest city in the German federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-largest city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich). It is located within the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, one of the major European metropolitan regions and the largest in Germany, with more than ten million inhabitants. - Hamburg (local pronunciation ; Low German/Low Saxon: "Hamborg" ), officially "Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg" (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union. It is the second smallest German state by area. Its population is over 1.7 million people, and the wider Hamburg Metropolitan Region covers more than 5.1 million inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Elbe. - Look Around You is a British television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and narrated in the first series by Nigel Lambert. The first series of eight 10-minute shorts was shown in 2002, and the second series of six 30-minute episodes in 2005, both on BBC Two. The first series of "Look Around You" was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2003. - Stephen James Mangan (born 16 May 1968) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in "Green Wing", Dan Moody in "I'm Alan Partridge", Sean Lincoln in "Episodes" and Postman Pat in "". What is the relationship between 'smack the pony' and 'victoria pile'?
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