Television began competing seriously with films projected in theatres, but surprisingly it promoted more filmgoing rather than curtailing it.

The director also helmed two films for Turner Network Television in 1996 and 1997, Andersonville and George Wallace, that were highly praised.

But from 2006 – 2009, the library was distributed by CBS Television Distribution, the television distribution arm of CBS Paramount Television ( now CBS Television Studios ) – the films are now distributed by Trifecta Entertainment & Media on television.

Yet a few other films became adapted by Revue Studios ( now Universal Television ) as television series.

* Also excluded were several films in the Zane Grey western series, including To the Last Man ( 1932 ), that were licensed to a theatrical reissue distributor at the time of the MCA deal, as well as all the Hopalong Cassidy films purchased by star William Boyd, and are currently under the control of U. S. Television Office, founded by Boyd.

Some of Bob Hope's films originally released by Paramount ( including The Seven Little Foys and The Lemon Drop Kid ) were owned by Hope himself ; the copyrights were later transferred to Columbia Pictures Television.

The CBS-produced / owned films, unlike other films in Paramount's library, are still distributed by CBS Television Distribution on TV, and not by Trifecta Entertainment & Media, because CBS ( or a subdivision ) is the copyright holder for these films.

In February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of the studio's pre-1950 films to Associated Artists Productions ( which merged with United Artists Television in 1958 ).

Warner Bros. Television provided the ABC with a weekly show, Warner Bros. Presents ; the show featured a rotating series of shows based on three of the studio's film successes, Kings Row, Casablanca and Cheyenne, followed by a promotion for one of Warner's big screen films.

Although EMKA, Ltd. ( now part of Universal Television ) had acquired Paramount's older films in 1959, Animal Crackers evidently was regarded as a mess best left untouched.

Television series and films have filmed exterior shots at Portmeirion, often depicting the village as an exotic European location.

However, like most of Wiseman's films, High School has been aired on PBS Television.

Paramount still owns video rights to some of these films today, while TV distribution is now with Trifecta Entertainment & Media, while the Disney owned Miramax films are distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television.

The channel carried a format of reruns of Walt Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel-produced animated programming, along with some third-party programming, animated films and original programming.

Television talk shows often feature celebrity guests who talk about their work and personal lives as well as the their latest films, TV shows, music recordings or other projects they'd like to promote to the public.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in many television films including a memorable Duchess of York in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Richard II ( 1978 ), the irascible Edwardian Oxford academic in Miss Morrison's Ghosts ( 1981 ) and the BBC dramatizations of Julian Gloag's Only Yesterday ( 1986 ) and the Vita Sackville-West novel All Passion Spent ( 1986 ), in which she was the quietly defiant Lady Slane.

Jack Warner's tumultuous relationship with his brother, Harry, worsened in February 1956, when Harry learned of Jack's decision to sell the Warner Bros .' s pre-1950 sound films to Associated Artists Productions ( soon to merge with United Artists Television ) for the modest sum of $ 21 million.

He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of The Second City and its related Second City Television series, and through his appearances in comedy films such as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle Buck.

* Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television: June 16, 2007-September 30, 2007 Featured costumes from Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and many more of the most popular films and television shows of all time.

On June 5, she recorded the single " Hey Joe "/" Piss Factory ", featuring Television guitarist Tom Verlaine ; released on her own Mer Records label, it heralded the scene's do it yourself ( DIY ) ethic and has often been cited as the first punk rock record.

Television episodes and novels featuring Q often have titles that play on the letter " Q ".

Television news is often presented as a series of video clips of newsworthy events, with voice-over by the reporters describing the significance of the scenes being presented ; these are interspersed with straight video of the news anchors describing stories for which video is not shown.

Since the creation of Fox, the number of American television networks has grown, but the amount of programming they provide is often much less: for example, The CW Television Network only broadcasts for ten hours each week, leaving its affiliates free to broadcast a large amount of syndicated programming.

Until 1989, areas outside of these main cities had access to only a single commercial station, and these rural stations often formed small networks such as Prime Television.

In 1972, Gelbart was one of the main forces behind the creation of the television series M * A * S * H, writing the pilot ( for which he received a " Developed for Television by ..." credit ) and then producing, often writing and occasionally directing the series for its first four seasons ( 1972 – 1976 ).

Leonard Goldenson often credited ABC Radio for helping fund the development of ABC Television in those early years.

In addition, the PBS stations and statewide networks that aired the show often complained of the Children's Television Workshop " soaking up so much money in public television ," said veteran television producer Samuel Gibbon, who worked on the show.

On the hour-long TV anthology drama shows of the Golden Age of Television, such as The United States Steel Hour, The Philco Television Playhouse and Studio One, productions often were telecast live from studios with limited scenery and other constraints similar to theatrical presentations.

Television and radio programs are distributed through radio broadcasting or cable, often both simultaneously.

Re-runs of the show are often seen in Australia on Foxtel, in Canada on TVtropolis, in Norway on TV3, in Denmark on TV2 Zulu, in the UK on Sony Entertainment Television, in France on TMC, in Greece on Macedonia TV, in Romania on Digi Film, in India on Zee Café, in Indonesia on TPI and Global TV, in Italy on Italia 1, in Spain on LaOtra, in Lithuania on TV3, in Latin America on Liv, and in the Middle East on MBC4 and on the Orbit-Showtime Network ( OSN ).

Wales ( West and North ) Television, known on screen as Teledu Cymru and often abbreviated to WWN, was the Welsh " Independent Television " ( commercial television ) contractor awarded the franchise area serving ' North and West Wales ', from 1962-68 ( franchise awarded 6 June 1961 ).

It should be noted, however, that as national continuity is often used on Channel Television, ITV1 national branding had been seen on the station for several years previously.

Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles.

Associated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00: 34 on 1 January 1982.

Television broadcasting aside, when radio was the leading mass medium, actors who played in radio dramas were not without their fans ; for example, actors in the Nagoya Radio Drama troupe who played the lead love interest roles often received many fan letters.

It is often contended that the other point of the trident was intended to be Anglia Television, but that in the event Anglia was prevented from joining by the Independent Broadcasting Authority.

TVS attempted to get the " Big Five " turned into the " Big Six ", as during the mid 1980s its revenues were greater than those of Yorkshire Television, and often equal to those of LWT.

Multichannel television sound, better known as MTS ( often still as BTSC, for the Broadcast Television Systems Committee that created it ), is the method of encoding three additional channels of audio into an NTSC-format audio carrier.

Newsnight is a BBC Television current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.

Television and radio programs are distributed through radio broadcasting or cable, often both simultaneously.

Rediffusion did not use the play ; instead, it was made as one of the first productions of the new ITV company Yorkshire Television, and broadcast posthumously on 26 August 1968.

Television broadcasts ( in analog video formats ) use this method if the video is transmitted in AM, due to the large bandwidth used.

Television networks such as The History Channel and the Discovery Channel make extensive use of voice-overs.

* Denny Jaeger and Michel Rubini, the first to use the Synclavier to score a major motion picture ( The Hunger, with David Bowie, released through MGM in April, 1983 ) and to score the first network TV series ( The Powers of Matthew Starr, from Paramount Television, released September, 1982 ).

Film and Television companies use this rate in 50 Hz regions for direct compatibility with television field and frame rates.

He amazed the cast and crew by doing many of his own stunts, although Thames Television said his increasingly ill health did force the use of a stunt double for some scenes.

After the ABC Television Network cancelled producer Leslie Stevens ' science fiction series The Outer Limits in 1965, Stevens wrote a horror script to make use of the talents of the Outer Limits team he had brought together – including cinematographer Conrad L. Hall and composer Dominic Frontiere – with an eye to marketing it to art houses.

Berton raised eyebrows in October 2004 by discussing his forty years of recreational use of marijuana on two CBC Television programs, Play and Rick Mercer Report.

In New Zealand, the four main Free-to-Air TV stations still use the VHF Television bands ( Band I and Band III ) to transmit to New Zealand households.

In the Granada Television series Jeeves and Wooster, Bertie is depicted as being a very capable pianist and singer, making use of actor / musician Hugh Laurie's musical talents.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

The outcry prompted the Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ( AMPTP ) to contractually authorize the AHA to monitor the use of all animals in all filmed media.

* Television series that use this word in their titles:

Westford Community Access Television, Inc. ( Westford CAT ) is a non-profit corporation charged with the mission to promote and encourage the use of local Public-access television cable TV to enhance a free and diverse exchange of ideas and interests that foster community participation and educational opportunities.

* Allen B. DuMont ( 1901 – 65 ), scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers, manufacture of the first commercially-successful electronic televisions and founder of the first licensed TV network, DuMont Television Network.

Restless with graduate studies, he went looking for a job where he could use his college degree and obtained an entry-level job at the DuMont Television Network.

There are three main analog broadcast television systems in use around the world, PAL ( Phase Alternating Line ), NTSC ( National Television System Committee ) and SECAM ( Séquentiel Couleur à Mémoire — Sequential Color with Memory ).

The series was also unique in that it was among the few situation comedies in the late 1960s that did not use a laugh track ; however, 20th Century-Fox Television added them when the series was reissued for syndication and cable rebroadcasts in the late 1980s.

In 1949, the BBC bought Lime Grove Studios as a " temporary measure " – as they were to build Television Centre at nearby White City – and began converting them from film to television use, reopening them on 21 May 1950.

Similar TV commercials, planned for use during Nitschke's Canadian lecture tour of 2010, were likewise banned by the Television Bureau of Canada, after lobbying by anti-euthanasia pressure groups.

Upon the merger with Rediffusion this site became the main production base for the new company Thames Television and is still in use as an independent facility, Teddington Studios.

On August 7 and 21, 2011, more than 2, 000 protesters from the Japanese Culture Channel Sakura and other rightist groups rallied in front of Fuji Television and Fuji Media Holdings ' headquarters in Odaiba, Tokyo to demonstrate against the network's increased use of Korean content.

In the Thames Television documentary " The Thief Who Never Gave Up ", broadcast in the late 1980s, Williams credits animator Bob Godfrey with giving him his start in the business, " Bob Godfrey helped me ... I worked in the basement and would do work in kind, and he would let me use the camera ... was a barter system ".

The franchises that use the ITV1 brand are Anglia Television, Border Television, Carlton Television, Central Independent Television, Channel Television, Granada Television, ITV Wales & West, London Weekend Television, Meridian Broadcasting, Tyne Tees Television, Westcountry Television and Yorkshire Television.