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

The first programme to air on the channel was the teatime game show Countdown, at 16: 45 produced by Yorkshire Television ; it is still running as of 2012.

Granada Television commissioned only 13 episodes and some inside the company doubted the show would last its planned production run.

The extent to which drug addiction was now affecting Bowie was made public when Russell Harty interviewed the singer for his London Weekend Television talk show in anticipation of the album's supporting tour.

Television critics gave the new show and its host poor reviews.

The show also aired on RTÉ Two in Ireland, and in Australia on Nine Network ( season 1 ) and ABC Television ( seasons 2 and 3 ).

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray.

Color Television was introduced to the game show genre in the late 1960s on all three networks.

* Intelligence ( TV series ), a Canadian television show running on CBC Television

Their show grew quickly until it was carried by close to a hundred stations, with average viewers numbering over twelve million, and the Bakkers had established their own network, The PTL Television Network ( also known as PTL-The Inspirational Network ).

Because of the controversial format and content of the show, distributor MCA Television had problems selling the show to a number of stations and advertisers.

Gould was also on the Board of Advisers to the influential Children's Television Workshop television show, 3-2-1 Contact, where he made frequent guest appearances.

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The show was created while Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein were working on Danger Man, an espionage show produced by Incorporated Television Company ( also called ITC Entertainment ).

Television shows such as Urban Legends, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and later Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed feature re-enactments of urban legends detailing the accounts of the tales and ( typically ) later in the show, these programs reveal any factual basis they may have.

The former show was produced by Paramount Television, while the latter two were produced by 20th Century Fox Television.

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.

Two dramas produced by Spelling Television, 7th Heaven and Charmed also helped bring The WB into the spotlight, with " Charmed " lasting eight seasons and being the longest running drama with female leads and " 7th Heaven " surviving eleven seasons and being the longest running family drama and longest running show for The WB.

* August 5 – American Bandstand, a local dance show produced by WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, joins the ABC Television Network.

is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television.

The popular British Television show Doctor Who featured the Transcontinental Railroad in a BBC audio book entitled The Runaway Train, read by Matt Smith and written for audio by Oli Smith.

This version of karuta was created by Kumamoto Kenmin Television, a local television station located in the Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan who are also the creators of Kumamoto dialect karuta.

Six Degrees creators and executive producers Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner are writing the script for the hourlong drama, again set up at Warner Brothers Television, while David Semel has come on board to direct.

Of this group, the creators chose some to audition again for Warner Bros. Television executives, who chose the final group of a few actors to audition for NBC executives ; as they decide whether to purchase a pilot, network executives generally have ultimate authority over casting.

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Other animation executives that worked at Television Animation over the years were Barbara Ferro, Sharon Morrill, Bill Gross ( former President of Jumbo Pictures, creators of Doug ), Maia Mattise, Lenora Hume.

Television presenter Anthea Turner was the public face of The Y Plan, appearing alongside the creators in numerous books, videos and magazine features.

It resulted in Laurie, Fry and Thompson being selected, along with Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane and Siobhan Redmond to write and appear in a new sketch comedy show for Granada Television, Alfresco, which ran for two series.

According to the book The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams, Serling wrote the teleplay in response to a request from CBS to write scripts utilizing as few actors as possible for budgetary purposes.

Additionally, Lord was commissioned by producer Patrick Gamble for Central Television to write the soundtrack for their 1984 TV series, Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, based on the book by Edith Holden, with an orchestra conducted by Alfred Ralston and with a distinctly gentle, pastoral series of themes composed by Lord.

The program, sponsored by London Weekend Television, required extensive preparations by Bugliosi and inspired him to later write a comprehensive book on the subject of the assassination.

Brought by Humphrey Barclay to London Weekend Television, originally to repeat his " nursery slopes comedy " Do Not Adjust Your Set with End of Part One, Marshall and Renwick went on to write a series of television satires, including Whoops Apocalypse, Hot Metal and If You See God, Tell Him — the latter originally for Channel 4, but postponed for several years when the channel refused to let them direct it, and finally ending up at the BBC later.

In 2007, they signed a deal with CBS Television to write, produce, direct, and act in a short-form comedy series entitled Clark and Michael.

Aron Coleite ( Crossing Jordan ) will write ; Gary A. Randall and Rockne O ’ Bannon ( The Triangle, Farscape ) will executive produce in association with Fox Television Studios.

* 1998-Commissioned by the Television Corporation of Singapore to write, produce and brand its channel with the theme ‘ Your World at Home on 5 ’;

From 1951 until 1966 it was presented every year on NBC ( which commissioned Menotti to write it ) on or around Christmas Eve, as an episode of an existing anthology series, such as The Alcoa Hour, NBC Television Opera, or the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

" Television critic Alesia Redding and editor Joe Vince of the South Bend Tribune write, " I was riveted by this show ...

ABC hired Lieber, based on his pitch with studio Spelling Television, to write a pilot for Lost.

In 2006 he was commissioned to write the music for the BAFTA Film and Television Awards and for the BBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics.

A 1985 graduate of UCLA's school of Theater, Film and Television, Holland got his career break when Steven Spielberg saw his UCLA thesis film CHICKEN THING — a 12 minute comedy horror short — and hired Holland to write and direct on the second season of AMAZING STORIES.

He wrote and directed his first play The Jackpot at the Finborough Theatre ; as a result he was invited to join the first BBC Television Writers training course and commissioned to write for the BBC TV series " Casualty ".

He left after several years to lecture and write books on international affairs and ran the Larry Henderson School of Television in Toronto.

In 1996 she guest starred on sci-fi show PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal as Marisa, and was asked to write an anecdote for the book " Science Fiction Television Series 1990-2004 " in 2007 about her role on the show.