In June 2003 Lee sought an injunction against Spike TV to prevent them from using his nickname.

In 2007, digital studio Worldwide Biggies, founded by Nickelodeon and Spike TV executive Albie Hecht, acquired film rights to Tom Swift.

It features Weaver's appearances on 1951-52 Spike Jones TV specials.

In 1999, Spike won a TV Guide Award for " Scariest Villain ".

Moreover, Keitel has worked for other acclaimed directors such as: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Dario Argento, Luc Besson, Fernando Colomo, Brian De Palma, Stanley Donen, Philip Kaufman, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, Jack Nicholson, Robert Rodriguez, George A. Romero, Paul Schrader, Ettore Scola, Luis Sepúlveda and Bertrand Tavernier ; and for TV productions with Stephen Frears, Clint Eastwood, and Joel Schumacher.

A stage actress and model who had appeared as an extra in The Persuaders !, a secretary in The Saint, and other TV shows and films, she started to appear as an extra in BBC comedy productions, including The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise and Spike Milligan.

Barnegat's annual Pirate Festival was featured in the Spike TV show 1000 Ways to Die, which shows fictional clips of unusual deaths.

Not until they approached Spike TV, with an offer to pay the $ 10 million production costs themselves, did they find an outlet.

In January 2005, Spike TV launched TUF in the timeslot following WWE Raw.

Spike TV plans to air Bellator in 2013, after the rights to the UFC ( Ultimate Fighting Championship ) library ends in 2012.

* Television networks: Comedy Central, Logo, BET, Spike, TV Land, Nick @ Nite, Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nicktoons., Nick Jr., MTV, VH1, MTV2, Tr3 ́ s, CMT, Palladia

Programming on an American service may also be blocked if it has significant bearing on a Canadian legal matter ( one episode of Law & Order, inspired by the trials of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, was blocked in Canada ) or if it interferes with a Canadian channel's broadcast rights ( such as James Bond movies airing on Spike TV ; the Canadian broadcast rights are held by Bell Media.

Stripperella debuted on Spike TV in the spring of 2003 and lasted one season with 13 episodes.

Anderson described it as not being a raunchy show, despite obvious double entendres and topless nudity ( which was blurred out when shown on Spike TV ).

Spike TV aired the episodes out of order.

* Toribia no Izumi ( Spike TV produced an American version of " Hey!

Takeshi's Castle, a game show hosted in the 1980s by Kitano featuring slapstick-style physical contests, has gained cult popularity in the United States ( where portions are broadcast on Spike TV as MXC, formerly Most Extreme Elimination Challenge ) and in the United Kingdom where it was given a voiceover by Craig Charles, though these feature very little of Takeshi Kitano as they are heavily edited.

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The name is mainly associated with Morton who has been credited as an influence by Spike Milligan amongst others.

Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

The image has been mentioned on some television shows such as a sketch on Talkshow with Spike Feresten, and dialogue on Archer, The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show and 30 Rock.

Spike Jones, Jr., whose father's orchestral recordings had a deep and indelible effect on me as a child, said once in an interview, ' One of the things that people don't realize about Dad's kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.

* Spike — A punk vampire who has killed two previous Slayers, Spike took his nickname from one of his former killings which involved a railroad spike.

Buffy suffers emotional turmoil throughout this season, including the realization Dawn is not actually her sister, the deterioration of her relationship with Riley, the discovery that Spike has become obsessed with her, and her mother's death from a brain aneurysm.

She unexpectedly becomes emotionally close with Spike, who has sought out his soul in an effort to prove himself to her.

Spike Lee has remarked that he himself has only ever been asked by white viewers whether Mookie did the right thing ; black viewers do not ask the question.

Spike also notes that Dracula's fame has done more damage to vampires than any Slayer.

* " Fool for Love " 2nd flashback: Months after being sired, William, now called Spike, has through acts of public mayhem forced Angelus ' vampire group ( himself, Spike, Drusilla, and Angelus ' sire / paramour Darla ) to flee London ; Spike first learns of the existence of the Vampire Slayer.

He reunites with Angel and seems genuinely pleased to see him, but is disgusted to find that Angel has a soul ( whether or not Spike in fact knew that Angel's acquisition of a soul is why he left the group nearly a century before has never been made clear ) and is in love with the current Slayer, Buffy Summers.

In Season Five, after some erotic dreams, Spike becomes aware to his horror that he has fallen in love with Buffy.

Spike then has Warren Mears make a robot in Buffy's likeness, programmed to love and obey him.

Believing he still has a chance with Buffy after seeing her reactions of jealousy and hurt when he has a drunk sexual encounter with Anya, Spike corners her and makes aggressive sexual advances.

In Angel: After the Fall, Spike has adjusted to Los Angeles ' new status as a literal hell on Earth ; he and Illyria both serve together as the Demon Lords of Beverly Hills, living in the Playboy Mansion after the death of Hugh Hefner and served by a harem of human and demon females known collectively as the " Spikettes.

Lynch introduces a new nemesis for Spike, John, a human whose soul was taken when Spike earned his ; when John removes Spike's soul, Spike realises his redemption had begun long before his soul, and charitably has Willow return it to Drusilla instead, however shortly after Drusilla kills John prompting Spike to realize that she can't handle having a soul and so agrees to take it back from her.

Sykes was the subject of Thames Television's This Is Your Life, broadcast on 25 December 1979 with guests including Sean Connery, Spike Milligan, Douglas Bader and Hattie Jacques.

Spike also signed on to broadcast live UFC Fight Night, a series of fight events debuting in August 2005, and Countdown specials to promote upcoming UFC pay-per-view cards.

It was broadcast first as specials in 1987, then as a regular series on NBC ( 1988 – 1997 ), CBS ( 1997 – 1999 ), Lifetime ( 2001 – 2002 ), Spike ( 2008 – 2010 ) and back to Lifetime ( 2010-2012 ).

This was a sitcom written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand, which was cancelled by the BBC after just one episode had been broadcast.

* One scene did manage to be restored for the 1996 TBS television broadcast and currently for Spike TV broadcasts ( as of June 2007 ).

Rivers ' most recent radio program, The Bob Rivers Show with Bob, Spike and Joe, is broadcast on Seattle oldies station KJR-FM after a previous iteration was aired on another local Seattle radio station KZOK-FM, ending in 2010.

Following WWE Raw moved from Spike TV back to the USA Network in 2005, Velocity and its Raw brand counterpart, Heat, were discontinued from television broadcast in the United States and Canada and became webcasts streamed on WWE. com.

Spike Milligan wrote a parody of Nineteen Eighty-Four for The Goon Show entitled 1985, broadcast on 4 January 1955.

In 1999, the USATF established the Golden Spike Tour – now the Visa Championship Series ( VCS ) – to showcase track and field in America and to facilitate the broadcast of key events on national television networks.

They also featured on a broadcast pilot for C4 with Spike Milligan ' The Last Laugh before TVAM '.

Written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens, it was broadcast on March 20, 1956 and remade later and broadcast on February 17, 1958.

From November 2004 to May 2005, " Trivia " had a limited run in the United States, in which a slightly edited and dubbed version broadcast on the cable network Spike TV.

In 1975, Carson took the part of Paddy O ' Brien, described as " an Irish Republican landlord and coalman ", in The Melting Pot, a sitcom written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand, which was cancelled by the BBC after just one episode had been broadcast.

Beginning with the 2005 ceremony, WWE broadcast the final few inductions into the Hall of Fame on Spike TV ( 2005 ) and on the USA Network ( 2006 – present ); these were aired on tape delay.

In August 2011, Fox Sports announced it had reached a 7 year broadcast agreement with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, ending the promotion's previous relationship with Spike.

Vizard studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne ; he practiced as a lawyer and was a partner in a City Law firm ; he has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award winning television show-from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace ; he has hosted his own 5 night a week national Tonight Show, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard for which he was three times nominated for and won a Gold Logie in 1991 ; he has interviewed over two thousand major names, from Audrey Hepburn, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Patrick Swayze, Bob Hope, Sir Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Parkinson, Spike Milligan, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, Sir Harry Secombe, and Prime Ministers and politicians ; he founded one of Australia ’ s largest independent Production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to Granada ; he has been the President of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, securing events such as the World Cycling Champioships and the World Gymnastics Championships ; he has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone ; he was an elected representative to the 1999 Constitutional Convention ; he was Father of the Year in 2001 ; he was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, involving the theft of moneys by his former accountant from the Vizard Companies, and Vizard's civil penalty in 2005 for breaching directors duties ; he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie Radio Networks and in 2011 was nominated for best Talkback Presenter in Australia ; he was Chairman of the World Swimming Championships ; and he has written several books ranging on topics ranging from humour to Australia's population policy.

Gary the Rat is an American television program adult-oriented animated series animated by Spike Animation Studios, produced by Grammnet Productions and distributed by Cheyenne Enterprises that was originally broadcast on Spike in 2003.

The majority of available applications broadcast mainly Asian TV stations, with the exception of TVUPlayer, which carries a number of North American stations including CBS, Spike TV, and Fox News.