The situation is complex, however, because the relatively free Russian media is allowed to transmit television programming, sell newspapers and conduct journalistic activities in Belarus ( though some Russian journalists have been expelled by the Belarusian government ) thus giving some members of the public, typically those in large cities with many Russian residents, access to an alternative point of view in the Russian language ( nearly all Belarusians understand and most of them speak Russian ).

Primarily due to its length of over, and the lack of space due to its situation on the sides of the mountains, the ' Ring was unable to meet the safety requirements, and was also unsuitable for the burgeoning television market.

Reality television is a television programming that presents purportedly unscripted melodramatic or " humorous " situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded.

A British sitcom is a situation comedy programme produced for British television and tends, as it does in most other countries, to be based on a family, workplace or other institution, where the same group of contrasting characters is brought together in each episode.

Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jockey, with a stereotypical " dumb blonde " personality.

It was the perfect preparation for rehearsing situation comedy on television at the rate of one episode a week.

The game will play a major part in the upcoming American television situation comedy The Goodwin Games, in which the main characters are given a customized version that was created by their late father as part of a inheritance they stand to receive if they get the questions right.

They wrote situation comedies such as The Army Game and Bootsie and Snudge for British television, and the BBC radio show Round the Horne, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams.

The early script notes that he was the son of Commodore Matt Decker, who had been featured in " The Doomsday Machine " ( an episode of the original television series ), and would " command some landing parties ", anticipating the TNG situation where the first officer usually took down away teams.

For the 2001 – 2002 television season, ABC began airing newer scripted programming in High Definition ; in addition, the network also converted all of its existing situation comedies and drama programming to HD, making it the first such American television network to produce its entire slate of scripted programming in that format.

In 2009, ABC Family adapted the play for a new television situation comedy entitled 10 Things I Hate About You, stretching out and modernising the plot of the 1999 film.

DuMont also aired the first television situation comedy, Mary Kay and Johnny, as well as the first network-televised soap opera, Faraway Hill.

Curtis made her television debut in an episode of Columbo, but her first starring TV role was opposite Richard Lewis in the situation comedy Anything But Love, which ran for four seasons from 1989 through 1992.

She also co-starred in the short-lived television series a. k. a. Pablo in 1984, a situation comedy series for ABC, with Paul Rodriguez.

After the announcement of the fall 1962 network television schedule Time magazine characterized The Jetsons as one of several new situation comedies ( along with The Beverly Hillbillies, I'm Dickens ...

NewsRadio was an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1995 to 1999.

* Melmac — The home planet of the alien Gordon Shumway in the television situation comedy ALF.

* Ork — The home planet of the humanoid alien Mork in the television situation comedy Mork & Mindy.

Historical ' firsts ' from this era, the world's earliest television crime drama Telecrime ( 1938 – 39 and 1946 ) or Pinwright's Progress ( 1946 – 47, the world's first regular situation comedy ), only remain visually as a handful of still photographs.

In the 1960s as situation comedies and dramas on television using child actors became more popular, actors Paul Peterson and Shelley Fabares from The Donna Reed Show, Sally Field of Gidget, Jon Provost of Lassie, Jay North from Dennis the Menace, Sajid Khan of Maya, and Keith and Kevin Schultz known as the " Schultz Twins " on The Monroes all became younger preteen idols and grew into being teen idols.

Cameron was best known for his role as Mike Seaver on the television situation comedy Growing Pains from 1985 to 1992.

In On connaît la chanson ( Same Old Song ) ( 1997 ), his tribute to television works of Dennis Potter, the characters express their key emotions or private thoughts by bursting into snatches of well-known ( recorded ) popular songs without interrupting the dramatic situation.

The television situation comedy Desmond's was made by Channel 4 and was filmed and set in Peckham.

More recently, " Twilight Zone " by 2 Unlimited was sung a cappella to the instrumentation on the comedy television series Tompkins Square.

( Howerd went on to star in Up Pompeii !, a 1969 British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii, as the slave Lurcio, whose character was based on Pseudolus.

Passing through: The theme song to the 1960s U. S. television comedy series Car 54, Where Are You?

Category: American comedy television series

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including Dad's Army and On the Buses.

* The television comedy Second City Television ( SCTV ) uses the concept of the crane shot as comedic material.

Though glamor and wealth certainly plays a role for only famous celebrities, most people in the sports and entertainments sphere, be it music, film, television, radio, modelling, comedy, literature etc.

Many aspiring comedians who dream of becoming the next Russell Peters and Jerry Seinfeld never see the inside of a movie or television studio, but rather spend most of their careers doing stand-up in comedy clubs and other small venues, hoping to be discovered.

* Prominent media journalists, pundits on major nationally syndicated television shows, commentators on prominently scheduled television shows, nationally acclaimed media columnists and syndicated columnists, critically acclaimed and best-selling authors and writers, major national newscasters and news analysts, national television reporters and television anchors, national television game show hosts on prominently scheduled game shows, radio personalities on prominently scheduled radio shows, comedians on major headlining comedy shows, reality television personalities on most prominently scheduled reality television shows, daytime television show hosts, and late night television show hosts have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

Charles acquired cult status in 1988, in his television acting debut, as the Liverpudlian slob Dave Lister, in BBC2's new science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf.

Clive Anderson ( born 10 December 1952 ) is a British former barrister, best known for being a comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom.

He made his name as host of the improvised television comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway ?, which ran for 10 series.

Among the many inspirations for the film include The Three Stooges and other slapstick comedy films ; Ash's fights with his disembodied hand come from a film made by Spiegel as a teenager, entitled Attack of the Helping Hand, which was itself inspired by television commercials advertising Hamburger Helper.

Frontline is an Australian comedy television series which satirised Australian television current affairs programs and reporting.

Category: Irish comedy television programmes

It was one of the most successful spin-off series in television history, as well as one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series.

A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

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

The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.

Bodyline, a fictionalised television miniseries based on the " Bodyline " Ashes series of 1932 – 33, screened in Australia in 1984, to significant public interest and critical acclaim.

The first generation of television chefs such as Robert Carrier and Julia Child tended to concentrate on cooking based primarily on European, especially French and Italian, cuisines.

* In the anime television series Beyblade, the character Enrique possesses the bit beast Amphilyon, which is based on this creature in design.

The City of New York has an official television station run by the NYC Media Group and broadcasting from Bronx Community College, and Cablevision operates News 12 The Bronx, both of which feature programming based in the Bronx.

Category: Comics based on television series

In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

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

Generally, BBC Red Button offers text and video based services, as well as enhanced television programmes which offer extra information, video or quizzes.

As a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, Selig founded the organization Teams, Inc, in an attempt to prevent the majority owners ( based out of Chicago ) from moving the club to a larger television market.

A Taiwanese television series based on the original novel was produced.

Actors, musicians, models, directors, producers, comedians, television hosts and other entertainment-industry professionals are some of the highest-earning in America given that the entertainment industry based professional achieves a certain degree of success as a prerequisite.

There are over 50 Afghan television channels worldwide, many of which are based inside Afghanistan while others are broadcasted from North America and Europe.

Cheerleader Nation is a 60 minute television series based on the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School cheerleading team's ups and downs on the way to nationals, of which they are the three time champions.

Coronation Street is a British television soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford.

In 2004, he played serial killer Ted Bundy in the A & E Network television film The Riverman, which was based on the book The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer written by Robert D. Keppel.

He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

Smallvilles Kent has also appeared in various literature ( including comics and over a dozen young adult novels ) based on the television series.

* ABC aired a short-lived television series in 1964, Destry, based on the first two films, starring John Gavin as the son of the movie's title character.

Notable disco hits based on movie and television themes included a medley from Star Wars, " Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band " ( 1977 ) by Meco, and " Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone " ( 1979 ) by The Manhattan Transfer.

*** Dennis the Menace ( 1996 TV series ), an animated television series based on the Beano comic strip, known internationally as Dennis and Gnasher.

For example, during the 1980s, character ' Ron Headrest ' served as a doppelgänger for Ronald Reagan and was depicted as a computer-generated artificial-intelligence, an image based on the television character Max Headroom.