In 1997, Brian Park took over as producer, with the idea of promoting young characters as opposed to the older cast.

* Domitia and Domitian ( 2000 ), a historical novel by David Corson based on the works of Brian Jones and Pat Southern, revolving around the titular characters.

This is also reinforced by the fact that several characters throughout the film claim crucifixion is not as bad as it seems, such as when Brian asks his cellmate in prison what will happen to him, he replies ; " Oh, you'll probably get away with crucifixion.

Muggeridge and the Bishop had arrived 15 minutes late to see a screening of the picture prior to the debate, missing the establishing scenes demonstrating that Brian and Jesus were two different characters, and hence contended that it was a send-up of Christ himself.

More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play ( generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken ) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( which he co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors ' performances ) and the jailer in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

" On their list of the top twenty-five peripheral Simpsons characters, IGN's Eric Goldman, Dan Iverson, and Brian Zoromski listed Frink at number fourteen, commenting that he fits nicely into the Simpsons universe " as the town's brilliant mad scientist.

Additional actors included Seán G. Griffin as the Sultan ; Don Darryl Rivera as Iago ; and, playing Omar, Babkak, and Kassim – a trio of characters originally conceived by the film's creators but not used – Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Brian Gonzales, and Brandon O ' Neill.

Other characters include Zebedee ( Zébulon ), a jack-in-the-box ; Brian ( Ambroise ), a snail ; Ermintrude ( Azalée ), a cow, and Dylan ( named after Bob Dylan ) ( Flappy ) a rabbit, who in the French version was Spanish.

In the foreword to the recent re-release of the books, Emma Thompson explains that her father had felt that he was most like Brian of all the characters and that Ermintrude was in some respects based upon his wife, Phyllida Law.

However, ancillary characters are also prominently featured, among them Jerry, the show's head writer for the first and second seasons ; Phil, the head writer beginning in season two ; Beverly, Larry's assistant ; Darlene, Hank's assistant until the fourth season ; Brian, Hank's assistant beginning in the fourth season ; Paula, the show's booker until the fifth season ; and Mary Lou, the assistant booker and then booker starting in the fifth season.

In the same instance, he outlined the futures considered for other characters: Brian has a long and happy life with Twist, and after his death, his works become incredibly popular and sell for millions.

Owen's character is a scruffy working class pensioner, often made use of by the characters played by Michael Bates, Brian Wilde, Michael Aldridge and Frank Thornton for dirty jobs, stunts and escapades, while his indomitably docile friend Peter Sallis follows and watches with a smirk.

The Author Patrick O ' Brian based one of his main characters Stephen Maturin on one of the cousin's of Lord Edward FitzGerald in his book The Far Side of the World.

Unlike other characters in the series, Brian is computer-animated, and not a clay model.

Brian Park, famous for his overhaul of ITV's Coronation Street, which included the controversial writing-out of several long standing characters including Derek Wilton, was appointed as Family Affairs new producer and was tasked with remodelling the series.

* In chapter six of the novel Master and Commander by Patrick O ' Brian a volunteer seaman who reveals his past as a sin eater is ostracized by the crew, prompting a brief discussion between the characters Dr. Maturin and Lieutenant Dillon of traditions of sin eating in England and Ireland.

Brian Jacques serves as the narrator for almost all of the audiobooks ( with Salamandastron being the sole exception ), sometimes reading select parts, and his son Marc Jacques appears as the characters Matthias, Martin and others.

* Domitia and Domitian ( 2000 ), a historical novel by David Corson based on historical works by Brian Jones and Pat Southern, revolving around the titular characters.

In addition to writing three episodes, " Death Has a Shadow ", " Family Guy Viewer Mail 1 " and " North by North Quahog ", MacFarlane voices Family Guys main characters – Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin and Glenn Quagmire as well as Tom Tucker, his son Jake and additional characters.

A live-action situation comedy series about life in a train station called Shining Time and featuring a cast of characters such as Stacy Jones the Manager ( Didi Conn ), Schemer the Arcade Owner ( Brian O ' Connor ), the Jukebox Band and the magical Mr. Conductor ( Ringo Starr, George Carlin ) who tells the stories about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends.

It is thought the tradition of the mummers came to Ireland through the arrival of the Normans although some scholars have argued that the ancient Irish had similar ceremonial activities to mumming that can be traced back as far as two millennia B. C .. Irish custom and tradition have permeated mumming ceremony in Ireland and there mumming often centres around famous characters from Irish history-Colmcille, Brian Boru, Art MacMorrough, Owen Roe O ' Neill, Sarsfield and Wolfe Tone.

The range of characters included Brian Potter, who would go on to become the primary character in Phoenix Nights, and who Kay said was a combination of all his bosses ' personalities along with the voice of a man he knows.

Ushant is mentioned repeatedly in the works of Patrick O ' Brian in reference to the maritime activities and position of various ships and characters in the series.

Waugh himself wrote, " The characters in my novels often wrongly identified with Harold Acton were to a great extent drawn from Brian Howard ".

The series received both acclaim and criticism for its subjects and characters, and spawned two feature films, Sex and the City ( 2008 ) and its sequel Sex and the City 2 ( 2010 ), and a planned spin-off by The CW, The Carrie Diaries.

Sister Carrie went against social norms of the time with its supposed immorality, as Dreiser presented his characters without judging them.

Wayne explained that the idea was to return to the original album and explore H. G. Wells ' characters in more detail, as well as develop the love story between the story's main character, George Herbert, and his fiancee Carrie.

The King of Queens was partly inspired by the classic television sitcom The Honeymooners, as the characters of Doug and Carrie are based on the Kramden couple, with similar mannerisms and deadpan expressions.

Other characters include his wife Carrie ( Caroline ), his son Lupin, his friends Mr. Cummings and Mr. Gowing, and Lupin's unsuitable fiancée, Daisy Mutlar.

The show's central characters are Charles Ingalls ( Michael Landon ), farmer and patriarch, with his wife, Caroline ( Karen Grassle ), and four daughters, Mary ( Melissa Sue Anderson ), Laura ( Melissa Gilbert ), Carrie ( Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush ) and Grace ( Wendi and Brenda Turnbaugh ), later adding adopted children Albert ( Matthew Laborteaux ), Cassandra ( Missy Francis ) and James ( Jason Bateman ).

Later series introduced Jo-Anne Stockham as DC Shirley Novello, Keeley Forsyth as DC Carrie Harris, Katy Cavanagh as DS Dawn Milligan and Jennifer James as DC Kim Spicer, the latter characters swiftly nicknamed " Ivor ", " Bomber ", " Spike " and " Posh " by Dalziel.

By the time of the Civil War, the mansions and shops had given way to low-brow concert halls, brothels, German beer gardens, pawn shops, and flophouses, like the one at No. 15 in which the composer Stephen Foster lived in 1864 Theodore Dreiser closed his tragedy Sister Carrie, set in the 1890s, with the suicide of one of the main characters in a Bowery flophouse.

This tape is notable in that it features completely different names for the five main characters ; Usagi was called " Victoria ," Ami " Blue ," Rei " Dana ," Makoto " Sarah ," and Minako " Carrie.

Female characters like Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw claim to be liberated and clearly enjoy their sexuality, but what they are constantly searching for is the one man who will make everything worthwhile.

Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, recently released her new book, Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel as part of her young adult series that follows the Sex and the City characters as teenagers.

" GameSpot's Carrie Gouskos stated that the game " revitalizes " the adventure game genre with its interesting story and characters " in addition to providing a unique way of interacting with them, case evidence, and the game's scenery.

In this play there were so many characters and so much detail.

In this play there were some thirty or more named characters and I don't know how many more unnamed.

They were a vagabond lot and considered to be shady and undesirable characters.

To include all these, and control characters compatible with the Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique ( CCITT ) International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 ( ITA2 ) standard, Fieldata, and early EBCDIC, more than 64 codes were required for ASCII.

The first two columns ( 32 positions ) were reserved for control characters.

Many of the non-alphanumeric characters were positioned to correspond to their shifted position on typewriters.

Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.

Most notably are the characters of Dr. Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia, Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile, and many minor characters in They Came to Baghdad were archaeologists.

Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

The characters and lands created by the children had newspapers, magazines and chronicles which were written in extremely tiny books, with writing so small it was difficult to read without a magnifying glass.

Because the characters were 8 x 12 pixels this meant that video resolutions of 512 x 192 pixels ( in 64x16 character mode ), or 640 x 300 pixels ( in 80x24 character mode ) were created, which was quite high for the time.

Prior to the year 1878, all apostolic letters and briefs requiring for their validity the leaden seal were engrossed upon rough parchment and in Gothic characters ( round letters, also called Gallicum and commonly Bollatico, but in Italy today Teutonic ) without lines, or diphthongs, or marks of punctuation.

Other Flexowriter characters that were found a use in Atlas Autocode were: in floating-point numbers, e. g. for modern ; to mean " the second half of an Atlas memory word "; for the mathematical pi number.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, the National Amputation Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans, among others.

Creodont characters were displayed in the skeleton.

Karagöz and Hacivat shadow play characters were historic personalities who lived and are buried in Bursa.

Morton introduced the recurring characters and continuing stories that were a major feature of the column during his 51-year run.

Rather than the more aristocratic themes and music of the Italian opera, the ballad operas were set to the music of popular folk songs and dealt with lower-class characters.

This approach also led quickly, as it did in T & T, to players playing a wide range of non-human characters and game worlds that were deeply pluralist.

* Many of the characters and musical themes of Bubble Bobble were used by Taito in a tile-matching video game Puzzle Bobble ( a. k. a. Bust-a-Move ) and its sequels.