About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

This is a popular event in France, broadcast on French TV, and is the oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe.

* Elisa Diana, a character from the American Broadcasting Company's popular TV drama, Lost

In late 1997 and in early 1998 the " space adventure " genre was a very popular TV theme in Japan.

A popular example of this is the TV program So You Think You Can Dance.

The spill-over into mainstream culture, occurred with catsuits being worn by strong female protagonists in popular 1960s TV programs like The Avengers, and in the comic super-heroines such as Catwoman, in which the catsuit represented the independent woman capable of " kick-ass " moves and antics, enabling complete freedom of movement.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

In the Czech republic, Digimon was aired after the success of Pokémon by the TV Nova but it never got that popular.

Devo remained popular in countries such as Australia, where the nationally broadcast 1970s – 1980s pop TV show Countdown was one of the first programs in the world to broadcast their video clips.

The dissection and tracking of common formulaic tropes-as well as their subversions and new permutations-has become reasonably popular in not only academic circles ( the Final Girl theory being one such example, as well as to some extent Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces ), but also amongst more casual amateur circles, with websites such as TV Tropes Wiki.

In popular culture, such as movies and TV shows, this rule is often violated, even by characters who should be trained in gun safety such as military personnel or law enforcement officers.

Established state-run and commercial TV networks broadcast nationally and compete actively against each other, and hundreds of thousands of viewers subscribe to satellite pay-TV services. Domestically-made variety programmes, comedies and game shows dominate the peak-time TV schedules and are highly popular and widely shown in Greece.

In an aside, he cited the single mother title character in the television program Murphy Brown as an example of how popular culture contributes to this " poverty of values ", saying, " It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another ' lifestyle choice.

Later that summer, as donations sharply declined in the wake of Bakker's resignation and the end of the Bakkers ' popular PTL Club TV show, Falwell raised $ 20 million to help keep the Heritage USA Theme Park solvent, including a well-publicized waterslide plunge there.

Kickboxing boomed and became popular in Japan as it began to be broadcast on TV.

He is best known in Europe for playing the pirate Sandokan in the highly popular TV mini series and for his role as the villainous Gobinda in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy.

Video TV tapes, mainly consisted of popular and contemporary songs rendered by Filipino artists, and with a mix of English and Tagalog songs were soon used.

Medienwissenschaften is currently one of the most popular courses of study at universities in Germany, with many applicants mistakenly assuming that studying it will automatically lead to a career in TV or other media.

The term " mind map " was first popularized by British popular psychology author and television personality Tony Buzan when BBC TV ran a series hosted by Buzan called Use Your Head.

Heavy interest in art, formal music, hobbies ( i. e., collecting ), or other non-mainstream, " obscure " interests is also perceived to fit the stereotype, as is obsession with a topic that would otherwise be mainstream ( such as a popular TV show, or sometimes even sports ).

The character Paris Geller in popular 2000's U. S. TV programme The Gilmore Girls referred to Kinnock's voice as something she swooned over in her younger days ; this may have been a tongue-in-cheek remark.

The show was not a popular success, owing in part to the publication of the ITV listings magazine, TV Times, being suspended because of a strike.

Astronomer Phil Plait takes a similar attitude in his " Bad Astronomy " website, a regular feature of which is reviews discussing the scientific mistakes in popular movies and TV shows.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

In the 1990s, given Australia's long dominance of the Ashes and the popular acceptance of the Darnley urn as ‘ The Ashes ’, the idea was mooted that the victorious team should be awarded the urn as a trophy and allowed to retain it until the next series.

The Asterix series is one of the most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world, with the series being translated into over 100 languages, and it is popular in most European countries.

* Alexandra Mack, aka Alex Mack, main character in the popular American Television series The Secret World of Alex Mack

* Alexandra Dunphy, aka Alex Dunphy, character in popular American Television series " Modern Family "

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

Their first step into the design world was a series of advertisements featuring work from currently popular designers.

The game became very popular and led to a long series of sequels and spin-offs.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

The series of fighting games are among the most popular in their genre, and have sold over 30 million units.

In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the " Ealing comedies ", from 1947 to 1957.

Spoofs remained popular as well, especially with the Scary Movie series and Not Another Teen Movie series.

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

Sagan is known for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote.

Comic storylines had been popular in the series in the 1960s but had become sparse during the early 1970s.