The contestants are required to do housework, and are set tasks by the producers of the show, who communicate with the housemates via the omnipresent authority figure known to them only as " Big Brother ".

They were able to show that some of the pro-paranormal material is often misleading or inaccurate, but its producers continue to market it.

He believes that he is on the cutting edge of journalism, but is oblivious to most of Frontline's content, as the executive producers go to some length to keep him out of production meetings, and a running gag within the show sees Mike ignore most of the stories that Frontline airs despite his position as host.

Undaunted, the producers put together a syndication deal for the show, which continued in roughly the same format for 20 more years ( though Owens departed in 1986 ).

Because she had a run of the play contract she could not be replaced and so producers were forced to close the show.

In 2001 on the popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati's first season hosted by Amitabh Bachchan she won 50, 00, 000 that she donated for the welfare of Gujarat's earthquake victims. The show was aired on February 10 at 8 pm on Star Plus. Madhuri Dixit is also requested to the producers of KBC to send part of her winnings to an orphanage in Pune.

According to Moore, she asked CBS to pull the show, as she was unhappy with the direction of the program and the producers.

If the producers chose to reformat the entire show for the 16: 9 ratio, live-action footage would have to be recropped, widening the frame to the full width of the 35 mm negatives while reducing its height.

A lot of producers began to show their Trip-Hop influence with several albums that came out in the early 2000s.

After Duchovny's semi-departure following the seventh season of the show, the producers introduced Special Agent John Jay Doggett, played by actor Robert Patrick.

Early in the sixth season, the producers took advantage of the new location, setting the show in parts of the country they had not been able to write episodes in previously.

When it was a television program, an agreement was in place between television producers and music licensing organizations such as ASCAP and BMI wherein a standard licensing fee was paid for each song that was played on a television show.

Later, the producers of the British talent show Stars in Their Eyes forced a contestant to censor one of its lines, changing "... all it takes is one itchy trigger – One more widow, one less white nigger " to "... one less white figure ".

In competition-based programs such as Big Brother and Survivor, and other special living environment shows like The Real World, the producers design the format of the show and control the day-to-day activities and the environment, creating a completely fabricated world in which the competition plays out.

The producers of the show originally wanted Aniston to audition for the role of Monica Geller, but Courteney Cox was considered to be better suited to the role.

When the show first started, the producers would call upon friends in the entertainment business.

However, about half-way through the second season when Rudolf Nureyev appeared, his appearance gave the show so much positive publicity that other celebrities came to the producers instead of the other way around.

He quit journalism after working for People, and in 1983, he wrote a spec script for the show He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and the producers of He-Man bought it as well as other scripts and then hired Straczynski as a staff writer.

As well as its regular car chases, jumps and stunts, the show relied on character familiarity, with Deputy Cletus replacing Deputy Enos in the third and fourth season, and Coy and Vance Duke temporarily replacing Bo and Luke ( due to a salary dispute ) in the fifth season, being the only major cast changes through the show's run ( Ben Jones and James Best both left temporarily during the second season due to different disputes with producers, but both returned within a couple of episodes ).

Eastwood made his first attempt at directing when he filmed several trailers for the show, although he was unable to convince producers to let him direct an episode.

Ball remained involved throughout production ; he had signed a television show development deal, so had to get permission from his producers to take a year off to be close to American Beauty.

MADtv was produced to air only in 4: 3 until September 2008, likely due to a mix of stations airing the show at differing times than the mandated 11 pm timeslot and unable to offer it on the live air in 16: 9, and the show's producers not making the switch to the format.

A television show may credit many executive producers.

With the creation of Sesame Street, producers and writers of a children's television show used, for the first time, educational goals and a curriculum to shape its content.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner and fellow cast member Dan Castellaneta to voice Marge and Homer rather than hire more actors.

rated so highly in America and the UK that MGM and the producers decided to film extra footage ( often more adult to evoke Bond films ) for two of the first season episodes and release them to theaters after they had aired on TV.

The band decided to change producers in search of a more accessible sound.

Aware that the character of Xena had been very successful among the public, the producers of the series decided to create a spin-off series based on her adventures.

In 1964, the producers decided to expand " Once Upon a Savage Night ", one of his episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre, for theatrical release under the name, Nightmare in Chicago.

The film's producers decided to cut part of the film in which Lombard's character asks, ' What can happen on a plane?

Upon recommendations by child psychologists, the producers initially decided that the show's human actors and Muppets would not interact because they were concerned it would confuse young children.

After Sesame Streets initial success, its producers began to think about its survival beyond its development and first season and decided to explore other funding sources.

Although the producers decided against depending upon a single host for Sesame Street, instead casting a group of ethnically diverse actors, they realized that a children's television program needed to have, as Lesser put it, " a variety of distinctive and reliable personalities ", both human and Muppet.

In 2008, Lopes ' family decided to work with producers at Surefire Music Group to create a posthumous album in her honor, " Eye Legacy ".

However, the Bond producers ultimately decided to leave the character out of the film anyway, much to Llewellyn's annoyance.

Rather than having production of anime revolve around a single creator, as was the case for Mushi, which was headed by Osamu Tezuka, Sunrise decided that production should focus around the producers, a strategy that continues to this date.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Castellaneta to voice Homer.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Castellaneta and fellow cast member Julie Kavner to voice Homer and Marge Simpson rather than hire more actors.

While the roles of Homer and Marge were given to Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner because they were already a part of the Tracey Ullman Show cast, the producers decided to hold casting for the roles of Bart and Lisa.

When McLean Stevenson decided to leave the series, show's producers decided to hire Harry.

The following year, the producers decided to create a spinoff television series which followed the continuing adventures of Cher and her friends.

When the hit TV show Home Improvement was about to be sold into syndication, the producers decided to kick off the syndicated run with a brand new episode not shown on prime time.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner to voice Marge.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner and fellow cast member Dan Castellaneta to voice Marge and Homer rather than hire more actors.

However, producers decided against this as " the time to reset all the cars in their start position would take too long ".

It usually contains some if not all of the original verses of the song however, these verses may be arranged in a different order depending on how the producers decided to remix the song.

In 1951, the stars and producers of the Hollywood-based television series I Love Lucy, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, decided to shoot their show directly onto 35 mm film using the three-camera system, instead of broadcasting it live.