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Monty Python's Life of Brian
A BBC history series What the Romans Did for Us , written and presented by Adam Hart - Davis and first broadcast in 2000 , takes its title from John Cleese 's rhetorical question `` What have the Romans ever done for us ? '' in one of the film 's scenes . ( Cleese himself parodied this line in a 1986 BBC advert defending the Television Licence Fee : `` What has the BBC ever given us ? '' )
Theses on the Philosophy of History
One can envision a corresponding object to ( The Turk ) in philosophy . The puppet called `` historical materialism '' is always supposed to win . It can do this with no further ado against any opponent , so long as it employs the services of theology , which as everyone knows is small and ugly and must be kept out of sight .
Liz Parker
`` The episodes that I have really found have worked in that way are the pilot episode , which works really well because that 's really , to me , Romeo and Juliet . It 's really about two people meeting and falling in love , but not being able to be together , and I think it grabs you in that way . '' --
Color television
NBC was at the forefront of color programming because its parent company RCA manufactured the most successful line of color sets in the 1950s , and by 1959 RCA was the only remaining major manufacturer of color sets . CBS and ABC , which were not affiliated with set manufacturers and were not eager to promote their competitor 's product , dragged their feet into color . CBS broadcast color specials and sometimes aired its big weekly variety shows in color , but it offered no regularly scheduled color programming until the fall of 1965 . At least one CBS show , The Lucy Show , was filmed in color beginning in 1963 but continued to be telecast in black and white through the end of the 1964 -- 65 season . ABC delayed its first color programs until 1962 , but these were initially only broadcasts of the cartoon shows The Flintstones , The Jetsons and Beany and Cecil . The DuMont network , although it did have a television - manufacturing parent company , was in financial decline by 1954 and was dissolved two years later .
Tower Bridge
Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the bridge as one of his four choices for the 2002 BBC television documentary series Britain 's Best Buildings .
Love It or List It
In 2012 , New York Times ' columnist Gail Collins noted that it was US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 's favorite TV show . According to Collins , Clinton finds the show `` very calming '' after being interviewed about her departure from politics .
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Peter Cushing portrayed Sherlock Holmes in the 1968 BBC series , and `` The Blue Carbuncle '' is one of only six surviving episodes . This version begins with Holmes refusing the Countess ' request to take up the case of the robbery and ends with him personally returning the stone to the Countess , accompanied by Peterson ( and refusing her request to find her missing maidservant ) .
Scooby-Doo
By the 2000s , Scooby - Doo had received recognition for its popularity by placing in a number of top cartoon or top cartoon character polls . The August 3 , 2002 , issue of TV Guide featured its list of the 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time , in which Scooby - Doo placed twenty - second Scooby also ranked thirteenth in Animal Planet 's list of the 50 Greatest TV Animals . For one year from 2004 to 2005 , Scooby - Doo held the Guinness World Record for having the most episodes of any animated television series ever produced , a record previously held by and later returned to The Simpsons . Scooby - Doo was published as holding this record in the 2006 edition of the Guinness Book of Records .
Monday Night Football
ESPN Monday Night Football ( also known as ESPN Monday Night Football on ABC for rare live special broadcast ) is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League ( NFL ) games on ESPN in the United States . From 1970 to 2005 , it aired on sister broadcast network ABC . Monday Night Football was , along with Hallmark Hall of Fame and the Walt Disney anthology television series , one of the longest - running prime time programs ever on commercial network television , and one of the highest - rated , particularly among male viewers . MNF is preceded on air by Monday Night Countdown served by Applebees .
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss . It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire , George R.R. Martin 's series of fantasy novels , the first of which is A Game of Thrones . It is filmed in Belfast and elsewhere in the United Kingdom , Canada , Croatia , Iceland , Malta , Morocco , Spain , and the United States . The series premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17 , 2011 , and its seventh season ended on August 27 , 2017 . The series will conclude with its eighth season premiering either in 2018 or 2019 .
Reba (TV series)
Reba set a new all - time viewership record for any program on the WB 's Friday night ( best - ever Friday in women 18 -- 49 ) . During its five seasons on the Friday night lineup , it often ranked 4th in its timeslot ( ahead of both UPN and Fox ) , with a few episodes bringing in over 5 million viewers .
Doctor Who in Canada and the United States
Doctor Who in Canada and the United States refers to the broadcast history of the long - running British science fiction television series Doctor Who in those countries .
The White Queen (TV series)
The series is set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses and presents the story of the women involved in the long conflict for the throne of England . It starts in 1464 ; the nation has been at war for nine years fighting over who is the rightful King as two sides of the same family , the House of York and the House of Lancaster contest the throne . The story follows three women , Elizabeth Woodville , Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville , manipulate events behind the scenes of history to gain power . Elizabeth Woodville is the protagonist in the novel The White Queen and Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville are the focus of the novels The Red Queen and The Kingmaker 's Daughter ; the three characters appear in the three novels that make up the television series .
Modern history
At the University of Oxford ' Modern History ' has a somewhat different meaning . The contrast is not with the Middle Ages but with Antiquity . The earliest period that can be studied in the Final Honour School of Modern History begins in 285 .
Medici: Masters of Florence
Medici : Masters of Florence was originated in 4k video and broadcast in this format on the free Italian satellite service Tivu whilst on the Italian Digital Terrestrial service DVB - T2 it was broadcast in Full - HD 1920x1080 .
Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
The show is one of the most often awarded shows of Indian Television and is India 's longest running television series by episode count. Hina Khan participated in the ' Power of 49 ' campaign in which soap opera actors used their influence to urge women to vote .
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard is an American action - comedy television series that aired on CBS from January 26 , 1979 , to February 8 , 1985 . The show aired for a total of 147 episodes spanning seven seasons . The series was inspired by the 1975 film Moonrunners , which was also created by Gy Waldron and had many identical or similar character names and concepts .
Color television
The first regular color broadcasts in Europe were by the United Kingdom 's BBC2 beginning on July 1 , 1967 ( PAL ) . West Germany 's first broadcast occurred in August ( PAL ) , followed by the Netherlands in September ( PAL ) , and by France in October ( SECAM ) . Norway , Sweden , Finland , Austria , East Germany , Czechoslovakia , and Hungary all started regular color broadcasts before the end of 1969 . Ireland 's national TV station RTÉ began using color in 1968 for recorded programmes ; the first outside broadcast made in color for RTÉ Television was when Ireland hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1971 . The PAL system spread through most of Western Europe .
Game of Thrones
Holland further proposes that other historical antecedents of series elements include Hadrian 's Wall ( which becomes Martin 's Wall ) , the legend of Atlantis ( ancient Valyria ) , Byzantine Greek fire ( `` wildfire '' ) , Icelandic sagas of the Viking Age ( the Ironborn ) , the Mongol hordes ( the Dothraki ) , the Hundred Years ' War ( 1337 -- 1453 ) and the Italian Renaissance ( c. 1400 -- 1500 ) . The series ' popularity has been attributed , in part , to Martin 's skill at fusing these elements into a seamless , credible version of alternate history . Martin acknowledges , `` I take ( history ) and I file off the serial numbers and I turn it up to 11 . ''
Burning of Washington
In 2013 , an episode of the Weather Channel documentary series `` Weather That Changed History '' , entitled `` The Thunderstorm That Saved D.C. '' , was devoted to these events .
1963
January 1 Osamu Tezuka 's Tetsuwan Atomu ( Astro Boy ) , Japan 's first serialized animated series based on the popular manga , debuts on Japanese television station Fuji Television . Bogle -- Chandler case : Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead ( presumed poisoned ) , in bushland near the Lane Cove River , Sydney , Australia . January
Wonders of the Solar System
Wonders of the Solar System is a 2010 television series co-produced by the BBC and Science Channel , and hosted by physicist Brian Cox . Wonders of the Solar System was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 7 March 2010 . The series comprises five episodes , each of which focuses on an aspect of the Solar System and features a ' wonder ' relevant to the theme . The series was described as one of the most successful to appear on BBC Two in recent years . An accompanying book with the same name was also published .
And Then There Were None (miniseries)
Reviewing the first episode , UK daily newspaper The Guardian 's Sam Wollaston noted , `` ( ... ) it also manages to be loyal , not just in plot but in spirit as well . I think the queen of crime would approve . I certainly do . Mass murder rarely gets as fun as this . '' Reviewing the final episode for The Daily Telegraph , Tim Martin gave it 4 out of 5 stars , calling it a `` class act '' , and praising the adaptation for highlighting the darkness of Christie 's novel , which he claimed no previous adaptation had attempted .
Jeopardy!
With over 7,000 episodes aired , the daily syndicated version of Jeopardy ! has won a record 33 Daytime Emmy Awards and is the only post-1960 game show to be honored with the Peabody Award . In 2013 , the program was ranked No. 45 on TV Guide 's list of the 60 greatest shows in American television history . Jeopardy ! has also gained a worldwide following with regional adaptations in many other countries . The daily syndicated series ' 34th season premiered on September 11 , 2017 .
Cold War
The Cold War endures as a popular topic reflected extensively in entertainment media , and continuing to the present with numerous post-1991 Cold War - themed feature films , novels , television , and other media . In 2013 , a KGB - sleeper - agents - living - next - door action drama series , The Americans , set in the early 1980s , was ranked # 6 on the Metacritic annual Best New TV Shows list and is in its second season . At the same time , movies like Crimson Tide ( 1995 ) are shown in their entirety to educate college students about the Cold War .
Doctor Who in Canada and the United States
Meanwhile , Iowa Public Television ( IPTV ) , the statewide PBS network for the state of Iowa , saw increased interest in Doctor Who , which was aired on a Friday late - night science fiction marathon alongside Red Dwarf and other British science fiction pieces . IPTV holds the distinction of being the only television network ( or station , or channel ) in the world to have aired Doctor Who virtually continuously from its introduction in 1974 until the present . This totals 35 out of 40 years as of 2014 , due to one break of about five years between 1979 and 1984 , with other breaks of only a few months or weeks .
To Tell the Truth
Most episodes of the original nighttime run of the series were preserved on black and white kinescope , along with a few color videotape episodes . Only a handful of shows remain from the CBS daytime series ' first three years because of a then - common practice of wiping videotapes and reusing them due to tight storage space and even tighter budgets . Many daytime episodes ( including some in color ) from 1966 to 1968 exist , including the color finale .
United Kingdom
The BBC , founded in 1922 , is the UK 's publicly funded radio , television and Internet broadcasting corporation , and is the oldest and largest broadcaster in the world . It operates numerous television and radio stations in the UK and abroad and its domestic services are funded by the television licence . Other major players in the UK media include ITV plc , which operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network , and News Corporation , which owns a number of national newspapers through News International such as the most popular tabloid The Sun and the longest - established daily `` broadsheet '' The Times , as well as holding a large stake in satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting . London dominates the media sector in the UK : national newspapers and television and radio are largely based there , although Manchester is also a significant national media centre . Edinburgh and Glasgow , and Cardiff , are important centres of newspaper and broadcasting production in Scotland and Wales respectively . The UK publishing sector , including books , directories and databases , journals , magazines and business media , newspapers and news agencies , has a combined turnover of around £ 20 billion and employs around 167,000 people .
National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)
The ' 90s : The Last Great Decade , a documentary series narrated by Rob Lowe , pulled in 1.10 million viewers , and was the second highest - rated July telecast in the National Geographic Channel rating history . The 2000s : A New Reality , also narrated by Lowe , premiered on July 12 , 2015 .
Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Angel was voted by thousands of Hello ! readers as the sexiest on - screen vampire in 2009 . He gathered 34 percent of the vote and finished ahead of other popular vampires like Edward Cullen , Eric Northman , Lestat de Lioncourt and Spike . Forbes named Angel The Series as the Hollywood 's second most powerful vampire show . Rankings were based on television ratings , inflation - adjusted box office performance , as well as presence in popular culture through blog and press mentions since 1979 .
Color television
A number of such systems were being used experimentally in the 1920s . The best - known was John Logie Baird 's , which was actually used for regular public broadcasting in Britain for several years . Indeed , Baird 's system was demonstrated to members of the Royal Society in London in 1926 in what is generally recognized as the first demonstration of a true , working television system . In spite of these early successes , all mechanical television systems shared a number of serious problems . Being mechanically driven , perfect synchronization of the sending and receiving discs was not easy to ensure , and irregularities could result in major image distortion . Another problem was that the image was scanned within a small , roughly rectangular area of the disk 's surface , so that larger , higher - resolution displays required increasingly unwieldy disks and smaller holes that produced increasingly dim images . Rotating drums bearing small mirrors set at progressively greater angles proved more practical than Nipkow discs for high - resolution mechanical scanning , allowing images of 240 lines and more to be produced , but such delicate , high - precision optical components were not commercially practical for home receivers .
Wonders of the Solar System
Wonders of the Solar System Genre Documentary series Presented by Professor Brian Cox Music by Sheridan Tongue Country of origin United Kingdom Original language ( s ) English No. of series No. of episodes 5 Production Running time 60 minutes Release Original network BBC Two Science Channel Picture format SD : 576i 16 : 9 HD : 1080i Audio format SD : Stereo HD : DTS - HD 5.1 First shown in BBC Two BBC HD Original release 7 March ( 2010 - 03 - 07 ) -- 4 April 2010 ( 2010 - 04 - 04 ) Chronology Followed by Wonders of the Universe ( 2011 ) External links Website www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w5mnn
Doctor Who in Canada and the United States
The BBC series was originally sold to television stations in the United States in 1972 , with Time - Life Television syndicating selected episodes of Jon Pertwee 's time as the Doctor . The series did not do well , despite an interesting write - up some years earlier in TV Guide . Apparently , program directors of the commercial television stations that picked up the Jon Pertwee series did not know that the program was an episodic serial , and so it was constantly being shuffled about in the programming schedules .
History of Germany (1945–90)
In January 1979 , the American mini-series Holocaust aired in West Germany . The series , which was watched by 20 million people or 50 % of West Germans , first brought the matter of the genocide in World War II to widespread public attention in a way that it had never been before . After each part of Holocaust was aired , there was a companion show where a panel of historians could answer questions from people phoning in . The historians ' panels were literally overwhelmed with thousands of phone calls from shocked and outraged Germans , a great many of whom stated that they were born after 1945 and that was the first time that they learned that their country had practiced genocide in World War II . By the late 1970s , an initially small number of young people had started to demand that the Länder governments stop neglecting the sites of the concentration camps , and start turning them into proper museums and sites of remembrance , turning them into `` locations of learning '' meant to jar visitors into thinking critically about the Nazi period .
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
Cortés 's conquest has been depicted in numerous television documentaries . These include in an episode of Engineering an Empire as well as in the BBC series Heroes and Villains , with Cortés being portrayed by Brian McCardie .
Stargate
The Stargate Atlantis series follows the adventures of the `` Atlantis expedition '' , a combination of military forces and civilian scientists that travel to the Pegasus galaxy in search of the Lost City of Atlantis , left behind by the most powerful race known to ever have lived , referred to as the Ancients , also known as Lanteans and Alterans . The finding of the city had been a plot arc for most of SG - 1 's Season 7 , and the Ancients themselves had been a long - running facet of the SG - 1 setting . Arriving at the City , the expedition discover that the Pegasus galaxy is dominated by a terrible enemy known as the `` Wraith '' , against whom they must defend themselves , despite being vastly outnumbered .
Game of Thrones
The series is generally praised for what is perceived as a sort of medieval realism . George R.R. Martin set out to make the story feel more like historical fiction than contemporary fantasy , with less emphasis on magic and sorcery and more on battles , political intrigue , and the characters , believing that magic should be used moderately in the epic fantasy genre . Martin has stated that `` the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords , but from ourselves . ''
Modern history
The Second World War was a global military conflict that took place in 1939 -- 1945 . It was the largest and deadliest war in history , culminating in the Holocaust and ending with the dropping of the atom bomb .
Color television
Although all - electronic color was introduced in the U.S. in 1953 , high prices and the scarcity of color programming greatly slowed its acceptance in the marketplace . The first national color broadcast ( the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade ) occurred on January 1 , 1954 , but over the next dozen years most network broadcasts , and nearly all local programming , continued to be in black - and - white . In 1956 NBC 's The Perry Como Show became the first live network television series to present a majority of episodes in color . CBS 's The Big Record , starring pop vocalist Patti Page , was the first television show broadcast in color for the entire 1957 - 1958 season ; its production costs were greater than most movies were at the time not only because of all the stars featured on the hour - long extravaganza but the extremely high - intensity lighting and electronics required for the new RCA TK - 41 cameras . It was not until the mid-1960s that color sets started selling in large numbers , due in part to the color transition of 1965 in which it was announced that over half of all network prime - time programming would be broadcast in color that autumn . The first all - color prime - time season came just one year later .
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
On May 9 , 2018 , NBC renewed the series for a twentieth season , which will allow it to tie the flagship Law & Order and Gunsmoke for the longest - running scripted drama in U.S. television history . The season is set to premiere on September 27 , 2018 .
Lost in Space (2018 TV series)
Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series based on a re-imagining of the 1965 series of the same name ( itself a re-imagining of the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson ) , following the adventures of a family of pioneering space colonists whose ship veers off - course . It is written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless and consists of ten episodes produced by Legendary Television , Synthesis Entertainment , Clickety - Clack Productions , and Applebox Entertainment , with Zack Estrin serving as showrunner . Netflix released the series on April 13 , 2018 . In May 2018 , the series was renewed for a second season .
American Idol
Seasonal rankings ( based on average total viewers per episode ) of American Idol . It holds the distinction of having the longest winning streak in the Nielsen annual television ratings ; it became the highest - rated of all television programs in the United States overall for an unprecedented seven consecutive years , or eight consecutive ( and total ) years when either its performance or result show was ranked number one overall .
Monty Python's Life of Brian
The BFI declared Life of Brian to be the 28th best British film of all time , in their equivalent of the original AFI 's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list . It was the seventh highest ranking comedy on this list ( four of the better placed efforts were classic Ealing Films ) . Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder 's Some Like It Hot , which was ranked 5th ) .
Game of Thrones
Each season 's individual Blu - ray and DVD set contains several short animated sequences narrated by the show 's cast as their characters as they detail various different events in the history of Westeros . For the seventh season release , it will include the animated prequel series Game of Thrones : Conquest & Rebellion , which is illustrated in a different animation style than previous videos . The series focuses on Aegon Targaryen 's conquest of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros .