Special guest referees may be used from time to time ; by virtue of their celebrity status, they are often scripted to dispense with the appearance of neutrality and use their influence to unfairly influence the outcome of the match for added dramatic impact.

This trend was especially noticeable toward the series ' finale, by which time the show was scripted — intentionally — very much as a serial.

Though much of the dialogue in Curb Your Enthusiasm is improvised, the plot was scripted, and the Seinfeld special that aired within the show was scripted and directed by Seinfeld regular Andy Ackerman, making this the first time since Seinfeld went off the air that the central cast appeared together in a scripted show.

The Hills is one notable example ; the show has long faced allegations that its plots are scripted ahead of time.

This type of computer programming is an important part of the Dynamic HTML ( DHTML ) concept, enabling web pages to be scripted ; that is, to have different and changing content depending on user input, environmental conditions ( such as the time of day ), or other variables.

Laurie was not nominated for the 2006 Emmys, apparently to the outrage of Fox executives, but he still appeared in a scripted, pre-taped intro, where he parodied his House character by rapidly diagnosing host Conan O ' Brien and then proceeded to grope him as the latter asked him for help to get to the Emmys on time.

The show was unusual for the time as it was improvised rather than scripted.

* The Long Long Trail ( writer )-a musical about the First World War featuring popular songs of the time interspersed with scripted material.

* The cliff was used in the opening sequence to the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights, in which Bond ( portrayed for the first time by Timothy Dalton ) parachuted from a jeep which overshot the top of the cliff in a scene which was scripted as being in Gibraltar.

The climactic scene at a train station was not scripted at the time of shooting, and Aimée did not know that director Lelouch had decided on the two main characters reuniting at the end.

After the scripted severe injuries sustained by Vince on the June 23 3-hour edition of Raw, Shane appeared requesting for the Raw Superstars to stand together during what was a ' turbulent time '.

Siegel wrote as well during this time for Archie Comics, where he created campy versions of existing superheroes in Archie's Mighty Comics line ; Charlton Comics, where he created a few superheroes ; and even England's Lion, where he scripted The Spider.

Despite knowing about the narrator and interacting with same, at no time does the Hooded Claw / Sneekly acknowledge that he and all the people of his world are merely characters in a scripted film.

In the version of the scene that was originally scripted ( and previewed for the Los Angeles test audience ), Veronica Quaife is seen in bed with Stathis Borans ( having married him ) some time after Seth Brundle's death.

Subscribers can choose to play on one of three different game servers, including the " Prime " server ( intended for normal gameplay ), the " Platinum " server ( intended for mandatory roleplay acting ) and " The Fallen " ( intended for unrestricted player killing, idle time and use of scripted commands ).

In 2005, it made a second brief return, scripted by Mike Chinn and this time drawn by Nigel Dobbyn, who has also subsequently drawn several Billy and Katie stories for Beano Annuals, from the 2007 annual onwards.

During the 2000s, the major development in U. S. television was the growth of reality television, which proved to be an inexpensive and entertaining alternative to scripted prime time programming.

The accompanying spoken blessing, " Live long and prosper " ( Dif-tor heh smusma in Vulcan language as spoken in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ) also appeared for the first time in " Amok Time ", scripted by Theodore Sturgeon.

This time, the writers scripted it as rape instead of a seduction.

The format was similar to America's Funniest Home Videos, with the main difference that while America's Funniest Home Videos spent the majority of its time with accidental follies captured on tape, America's Funniest People focused on people intentionally trying to be funny, doing things such as telling jokes, doing impressions, singing, dancing, performing scripted material, attempting wacky stunts, pulling pranks, etc.

He examines many primary sources from the 16th and 17th century and demonstrates that bodily practices of self-inflicted violence, including self-immolation, was ritually performed not only by Buddhists but also by Daoists and literati officials who either exposed their naked body to the sun in a prolonged period of time as a form of self-sacrifice or burned themselves as a method of procuring rain In other words, self-immolation was a sanctioned part of Chinese culture that was public, scripted, and intelligible both to the person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of their various religion affiliations.

The novelization of the film by Michael Avallone retained the original scripted ending.

According to Tarantino's audio commentary on the DVD release, he was happy with the way it turned out as, apart from changing the nonlinear narrative he wrote to a more conventional linear structure, it was largely faithful to his original screenplay and, although he initially opposed director Tony Scott's decision to change the ending ( which Scott maintained was of his own volition, not the studio's, saying " I just fell in love with these two characters and didn ’ t want to see them die ") he realized when seeing the completed film that Scott's happy ending was more appropriate to the film as he had directed it, whereas the originally scripted ending would have been more suited to Tarantino's directorial style.

Authors sometimes added epilogues to their novelisations which were at odds with other material: The Curse of Fenric by Ian Briggs suggested a fate for Ace that differed from later original novels, and Philip Martin's adaptation of the Mindwarp segment of The Trial of a Time Lord included an ending that completely contradicted the scripted ending of the televised serial.

Although Kennedy Martin had many creative differences with director Martin Campbell and star Bob Peck ( who is reported to have vetoed the scripted ending with the remark " I'm not turning into a fucking tree!

Being a professional wrestling championship, it was not won legitimately ; it was instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.

He and Jakoby also scripted Lifeforce ( 1985 ), a tale directed by Tobe Hooper that veers from alien visitation to vampirism and an apocalyptic ending.

) The only episodes of the series not credited to pseudonyms ending in "- stein " are " The Midas Touch ," scripted by Trevor Lansdowne and Tony Barwick, the latter billed under his real name for the only time on the series, and the two-part opener " Expect The Unexpected ," written by Gerry Anderson.

Director Fritz Lang substituted the film's dream ending in place of the originally scripted suicide ending, to conform with the moralistic Production Code of the time.

Being a professional wrestling championship, it was not won legitimately ; it was instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.

Art by Dan Jurgens and Kevin Nowlan Jurgens scripted and provided layout art for the Superman vs. Aliens miniseries.

He scripted several Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane stories for the Superman Family title ; the final issue of Starfire ( Oct .- Nov. 1977 ); and a Cain story in House of Mystery # 258 ( May-June 1978 ).

Several episodes of Star Trek: Phase II were scripted:

After recovery, he took over the Florida Phase of the US Army's Ranger School, transforming it from a scripted exercise based upon the Army's World War II experience, into a Vietnam-oriented training regimen.

He also produced and scripted the 1961 smash hit World War II blockbuster The Guns of Navarone, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn ; it remains one of his most popular pictures.

In 2001 he scripted and produced Varian's War, the story of Varian Fry, an American who helped numerous intellectuals and artists escape from Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

He was eventually hired as editor and scripted and drew most of the contents while continuing to sell occasional work to other magazines.

This actually was not his first work in comics, as earlier the same year Barks along with Hannah and fellow storyman Nick George scripted Pluto Saves the Ship, which was among the first original Disney comic book stories published in the United States.

Its cast included Eve Arden, Lionel Stander, and Big Band leader Harry James, and it was scripted by radio notable Goodman Ace and respected playwright-director Abe Burrows.

It was followed by an autobiographical film, De unge år: Erik Nietzsche sagaen del 1 ( 2007 ), scripted by von Trier but directed by Jacob Thuesen, which tells the story of von Trier's years as a student at the National Film School of Denmark.

For the famous I coulda ' been a contender scene, he convinced Kazan that the scripted scene was unrealistic, and, with Rod Steiger, improvised the final product.

The jock would still introduce each selection, but the jock would have available a scripted introduction to use if he was not personally familiar with a particular piece of music and its artist.

In truth, the scene was entirely scripted and the Nanook knew what a gramophone was.

Compounding the financial pressure on scripted programming was an advertising recession resulting from the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, causing shows to reduce their budgets, sometimes resulting in cast reductions.

In 1989, the Padres took the scripted Padres logo that was used from 1985 to 1988 and put it in a tan ring that read " San Diego Baseball Club " with a striped center.

' The significance for Link being a mute in the entire game series was so that the game-player or audience was able to have their own thoughts as to how their Link would answer the characters instead of him having scripted responses.

Although the episodes were scripted, most of the music used over the two series was written in translation by Postgate in the form of " musical sketches " or graphs that he drew for Elliott, who would then convert the drawings into a musical score.

JoBeth Williams ' character was originally scripted with a death scene, asking whether the living envy the dead in a nuclear war's aftermath.

Mayall was the star of The New Statesman ( 1987 – 92 ), a series created by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, whose biggest success, Birds of a Feather ( 1989 – 98 ), also deviated from British practice in being scripted by a team of writers.

Riker was originally scripted as a much more serious, by-the-book officer — by the middle episodes of the first season, however, it was felt that he was too " official ", and his character was toned down and became more of a ladies ' man.