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Christie describes entirely different working methods for every book in her autobiography thus contradicts this claim, more likely from theatre, screen film and TV adaptations that vary perpetrators to keep viewers coming back.
The Terminator Cameron Phillips seen in the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is of a previously unseen model, and is once again referred to on screen ( including once by another Terminator ) as a cyborg.
The show took its name from the message ( frequently seen on the TV screen in those days ) which was displayed when there was a problem with transmission.
In September 1966, Weissmuller joined former screen Tarzans James Pierce and Jock Mahoney to appear with Ron Ely as part of the publicity for the upcoming premiere of the Tarzan TV series.
From 1961 – 1966, the American TV network NBC carried a karaoke-like series, Sing Along with Mitch, featuring host Mitch Miller and a chorus, which superimposed the lyrics to their songs near the bottom of the TV screen for home audience participation.
Many 1980s 8-bit home computers feature gutterboxing display mode, because the TV screens normally used as monitors at that time tended to distort the image near the border of the screen, to such an extent that text displayed in that area became illegible.
In practical terms that means for an older standard definition TV set the ideal viewing distance was about 8 times the height ( not diagonal ) of the screen away.
Mobile is often called the 7th Mass Medium and either the fourth screen ( if counting cinema, TV and PC screens ) or the third screen ( counting only TV and PC ).
Although the aspect ratio was the height of a television screen, these formats might be twice as wide as a TV screen when televised.
But when the DVD is " anamorphically enhanced for widescreen ", or the film is telecast on a high-definition channel seen on a widescreen TV, the black spaces are smaller, and the effect is still much like watching a film on a theatrical wide screen.
A touchscreen is a device embedded into the screen of the TV monitor, or system LCD monitor screens of laptop computers.
The BBC series Coupling made extensive use of split screen as one of several techniques that are unconventional for TV series, often to a humorous effect.
Gellar stated that she was screen tested eleven times ( originally auditioning for the role of Cordelia ), before she landed the lead in the 1997 TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes, mostly vampires.
The satellite feed of one station, WPIX, froze on the last image received from the WTC mast ; the image ( a remote-camera shot of the burning towers ), viewable across North America ( as WPIX is available on cable TV in many areas ), remained on the screen for much of the day until WPIX was able to set up alternate transmission facilities.
* The Game Gear TV Tuner plugged into the system's cartridge slot, and allowed one to watch TV on the Game Gear's screen.
His friend Johnny Depp, a teen idol at the end of the 1980s due primarily to his work on the hit TV series 21 Jump Street, was cast in the title role of Edward, who was the creation of an eccentric and old-fashioned inventor ( played by Vincent Price in one of his last screen appearances ).
As a newborn, he is primarily seen reflected in mirrors, and as a young child, he is seen reflected in a blank TV screen.
It has also been employed as a " hardware " counter in some designs ; a famous example of this is the ZX81, which lets it keep track of character positions on the TV screen by triggering an interrupt at wrap around ( by connecting INT to A6 ).
With the commercial skipping feature, many television channels place advertisements on the bottom on the TV screen.

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One of the roughest was the TV quiz shows, which gave him inferiority complexes.
It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.
In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.
The Denver-area TV audience was privileged to see Mays' four home runs, thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to be blacked out when his Bears are playing at home.
American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.
Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.
* Donald Malarkey, World War II U. S. Army soldier of the 101st Airborne Division was portrayed in the TV series Band of Brothers.
The day's next task was to deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ( ALSEP ); while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning without explanation.
On the good side, the TV income was increased from € 75, 150, 744 to € 78, 041, 642 as well as gate income increased, from € 23, 821, 218 to € 31, 017, 179.
The 5200 also featured the innovation of the first automatic TV switchbox, allowing it to automatically switch from regular TV viewing to the game system signal when the system was activated.
Blue Lightning, a game with After Burner-like graphics, was especially notable and featured in TV advertising for the console.
The turmoil that Americans were watching on their TV sets was happening live — right in his own neighborhood.
Along with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter, Druyan was one of the three writers of the TV series COSMOS and a producer for the motion picture CONTACT.
A ' live ' version for American TV was transmitted in 1959 which was directed by George Schaefer.
Traci Lords was among the actresses auditioning for the film, saying in 2001, " I didn't get the part but I clicked with Bruce ," with whom she would later work as a guest star in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
In 1997, the episode " Hedda Hopper's Hollywood " was ranked # 62 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
Later it was revealed by both prosecutors and the defendant as well, that Settle did not have cable TV and did not watch the show.
The third license was obtained by BVI Cable TV, a local cable television service.
The license in favour of BVI Cable was controversial, as the Regulator had announced in advance that only three licenses in total would be issued, and BVI Cable TV had crumbling cable television infrastructure, and was in no position to office cellular telephone services ( and to date, has not offered any cellular telephone services, or anything other than simple cable television ).

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However in September 2011, SkiSat Cable was purchased by Time Warner Cable of Plymouth, _New_Hampshire and apparently dropped most of the Boston channels execept for WBZ and WHDH on January 1, 2012 and replaced them with Burlington, _Vermont TV stations which include WCAX-TV, WVNY, Vermont Public Television, WFFF-TV, and WNNE.
Air Farce remained popular through its radio run and initially as a TV series, but over the years interest in the show dropped, ratings fell, and criticism grew louder.
In 1957, after its parent company Columbia dropped UPA, Screen Gems entered a distribution deal with Hanna-Barbera Productions, which produced classic TV cartoon shows such as The Flintstones, Ruff and Reddy, The Huckleberry Hound Show, Yogi Bear, Jonny Quest, The Jetsons and others.
Premium TV dropped its plans after realising it could not compete with other sports broadcasters, such as ITV and BSkyB.
Even the venerable Jeep CJ-5 was dropped after a 60 Minutes TV news magazine exposé of rollover tendencies under extreme conditions.
In September 1988, angered after being dropped from the national team, Cantona referred to Michel as a " bag of shit " in a post-match TV interview and was indefinitely banned from all international matches.
Later they stopped, due to Dennis and Gnasher being revamped for their new TV series ( 2009 ); Rasher was dropped outright in this series and seemingly replaced with a new pig called Harley, belonging to Dennis ' Granny.
Ironically the past-deadline encryption system in the DMAC silicon chip technology was one primary reason for BSB having to merge with Sky and hence the Far Eastern TV manufacturers had largely unfettered access to the market when MAC was dropped in favour of PAL.
The Mad Bomber storyline, in August – September 1975, came in the wake of news from periodical TV Week that the ratings for Number 96 had dropped to just half what they had been at the beginning of 1974.
In the TV series Grimm, the Big Bad Wolf, known as Blutbad, was the first villain in the series, with main character Monroe being a ' reformed ' Blutbad who relies on a strict regime to resist his urge to attack humans, serving as the main character's guide to the supernatural world he is abruptly dropped into.
The film was eventually dropped from national broadcast by PBS, but still aired on Public-access television cable TV stations in several major cities including Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.
An episode of The Waltons and several TV movies followed, including a portrayal of an anorexic teenager in The Best Little Girl in the World, for which Leigh dropped to under medical supervision.
* May 2008: Sun TV Toronto, Citytv Winnipeg, Global Maritimes, and CBC Saskatchewan dropped from the lineup.
* July 2009: TV Land Canada, Court TV Canada & BBC Kids dropped from the lineup.
An opinion poll by Public Issue on behalf of Skai TV and Kathimerini in October 2011 showed that Papandreou's popularity has dropped considerably.
X-Play began on the ZDTV network in 1998 as GameSpot TV, where Sessler co-hosted with Fielder for the show's first year, then co-hosted with Botello up through 2002 ( the producers of ZDTV originally had plans to air a video-game program when the channel launched called Extended Play that would be hosted by Simon Rex ; however, when an agreement was reached with the makers of the newly-created GameSpot website, plans for the original show's format were scrapped in favor of a GameSpot-branded program, and Rex was dropped as host ).
The end of NCAA control over television rights resulted in a major increase in televised games, and TV rights fees dropped sharply amid the resulting glut, something not anticipated by the Cherry Bowl organizers.
In 2010, TV Guide Network listed the hairstyle change at No. 19 on their list of " 25 Biggest TV Blunders " with several commentators arguing that it was the reason that the ratings of the show dropped.
Bell Satellite TV dropped CKXT the morning of Tuesday, May 3, due to a dispute with Quebecor on whether or not carriage fees should be levied, as Sun News was broadcast via CKXT, leading to Bell treating Sun News as a terrestrial channel ( i. e. available without carriage fees ), while Quebecor argued that it should charge Bell TV for the rights, as it was a licensed cable specialty channel.
" Weird " was dropped from the title with issue 25 ( signaling the end of the tie-in with the TV show ) and the series was canceled with issue 34 after 10 issues of doing straight mystery stories with no supernatural or science-fiction components.
Since February 13, 2012, TV Azteca networks ( Azteca 7, Azteca 13, and Proyecto 40 ) are being dropped by Mexican cable-TV carriers representing more than 4 million subscribers in a dispute over terms.

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