After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.

Another example is in the television show Gladiators, in which two series were based on contests between teams representing Australia and England.

It attracts competitors from all of the main show jumping nations and is carried live on Irish national television.

* 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

* Allied States of America, a fictional American nation in the television show Jericho

* Atmospheres ( TV show ), a former television series on The Weather Channel

* 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage " baby-boomers " by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

* Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator and former executive producer and writer on the television show Gilmore Girls

He was the co-host and co-creator of the television program The Man Show ( 1999 – 2004 ), and the co-creator and a regular performer on the television show Crank Yankers ( 2002 – 2007 ).

One of Lerner's cousins was the radio comedian / television game show panelist Henry Morgan.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

* Bluegrass & Backroads, a television show about people and places in the Bluegrass region

Either way, the show captured the imaginations of many young television viewers in the United States and abroad and is often considered a classic piece of 1990s youth culture and Generation X. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, cite the show as an influence and compared it to the blues, and met Mike Judge before the show aired.

She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.

The worldwide reality television show Big Brother is based on the novel's concept of people being under constant surveillance.

" Burt Ward, who portrayed Robin in the 1960s television show, has also remarked upon this interpretation in his autobiography Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights ; he writes that the relationship could be interpreted as a sexual one, with the show's double entendres and lavish camp also possibly offering ambiguous interpretation.

In 1996, he was a writer and co-creator of the show Space Cases, a Nickelodeon television show with themes similar to Lost in Space.

Wilfred Bailey Everett “ Bill ” Bixby III ( January 22, 1934 − November 21, 1993 ) was an American film and television actor, director, and frequent game show panelist.

In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.

On November 20, 1955, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a popular television variety show, where he infuriated the host.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

20th Century Fox, which usually holds rights to the more successful Buffy / Angel television franchise, will retain merchandising and some distribution rights.

In the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike refers to a scythe as the Holy Hand Grenade

A later example is Damien Valentine's series Consanguinity, made using BioWare's 2002 computer game Neverwinter Nights and based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In the 1990s, Wiccan beliefs and practices were used as a partial basis for a number of U. S. films and television series, such as The Craft, Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, leading to a dramatic upsurge in teenagers and young adults becoming interested and involved in the religion.

Gellar came into prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in the successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and played Buffy Summers on the WB / UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

During her growing film career Gellar continued work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ; however, she decided to leave the show after the seventh season.

( For a time, this was the most of any American-produced television series except for Star Trek and Dark Shadows with its 30 or so novels published between 1966 and 1971, though there have now been more original novels published based upon Alias and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The Scooby Gang, or " Scoobies ", are a group of characters in the cult television series and comic book Buffy the Vampire Slayer who battle the supernatural forces of evil.

Willow Danielle Rosenberg is a fictional character created for the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1997 – 2003 ).

Willow appears in every Buffy episode ( making her the only character besides Buffy herself to do so ), is featured in three episodes of the spinoff Angel, an animated series and video game — both of which use Hannigan's voice, and the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – 2011 ), which uses Hannigan's likeness and continues Willow's storyline following the television series.

He began to develop for television the concept of a fashion-conscious girl named Buffy, who is imbued with superhuman abilities and attends a high school situated on a portal to hell.

The Buffy television series first aired mid-season in March 1997, almost immediately earning positive critical reviews.

Unfettered by the bounds cast by a television budget for special effects, the comic series continuation for the Buffy canon explores more fantastic storylines, characters, and abilities for Willow.

She first appeared in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer before going on to appear in the television series and subsequent comic book of the same name.

Buffy was portrayed by Kristy Swanson in the film, and later by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the television series.

The television series shows Buffy carrying out her destiny in a small town built atop a portal to hell ( Hellmouth ), surrounded by a group of friends and family who support her in her mission.

Buffy returned in Joss Whedon's television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this time played by Sarah Michelle Gellar for all of the show's 144 episodes.

The novel Queen of the Slayers ( 2005 ) by Nancy Holder offers a potential follow-up to the television series ; set after season seven, it depicts Buffy living in Italy with the morally ambiguous Immortal.

These comics differ from previous Buffy literature in that they are the official continuation of the television series and are considered canon.

Adapting the concept of the movie into a television series, Whedon decided to reinvent the character of Buffy slightly.

Early in the television series, make-up supervisor Todd McIntosh was instructed to make Buffy " a soft and sort of earthy character.