The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.

" While writing, he says, the show's creators imagined Ted and Dougal as " just two people who happen to be ".

This included the nation's and the writers ' favourite episodes plus a documentary of the cast and creators that revisited the show's locations.

Frasier hosts The Dr. Frasier Crane Show on talk radio station KACL ( named for the initials of the show's creators, Angell, Casey and Lee ).

The show's creators, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, have said that the Coleman character is a personification of one of Avenue Qs central themes: that as children we are told we are " special ", but upon entering adulthood we discover that life is not nearly as easy as we have been led to believe.

She has been stated by the show's creators to be Cantonese, and as such, she is bilingual, speaking both English and Cantonese.

The second and most famous theme was composed by William Loose: " Bob & Merrill's Theme ", named for Bob Quigley and Merrill Heatter, the show's creators and original co-executive producers.

MTV Networks president Van Toffler was reported as saying a revival of the series was being considered, and that the show's creators had been approached about the possibility.

Megavolt was the show's creators ' favorite villain and therefore the most recurring.

Arlene Klasky, one of the show's creators initially did not like Angelica Pickles.

Bender was the most difficult character to cast, as the show's creators had not decided what a robot should sound like.

The season one main opening was a simple eight-second sequence which showed the window of a subway train with moving through and quickly stopping at the original show logo, which then peeled off to reveal the names of the show's creators.

* Full press release documents regarding the show's characters, background, and creators hosted at The Unofficial ReBoot Home Page.

ABC has vehemently denied that thesis, but fans were not convinced, and were particularly irritated by the fact that the creators and writers of the show were fired from ABC following the show's cancellation.

Despite claims by the show's creators that SpongeBob is " somewhat asexual ", several annuals state that SpongeBob holds romantic feelings for Sandy, which could be shown in examples where SpongeBob brings Sandy flowers on occasion.

The focus on the new show was on children from disadvantaged backgrounds, but Cooney and the show's creators recognized that in order to achieve the kind of success they wanted, it had to be equally accessible to children of all socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds.

The show's creators have also stated he was lying.

Despite the show's relative failure, fans of the former UK Play spoof interviews show Rock Profile, often recall the creators and future stars of Little Britain, Matt Lucas and David Walliams's, appearance on the show as Danny and Noel from Hear ' Say, in which they constantly sang " Monday, Monday " after Theakston asked them a question.

That same year, he appeared in " Pilots and Pens Lost ", a 1998 episode of The Larry Sanders Shows sixth season, in which he and the executives of the show's nameless television network satirized the treatment to which scriptwriters and show creators were subjected, as well as the executives ' knee-jerk tendencies toward racial stereotypes.

When casting for Futurama, Bender's voice was the most difficult to cast, in part because the show's creators had not yet decided what a robot should sound like.

* In the early stages of planning Deep Space Nine, the show's creators wanted to bring in a Bajoran character named Ensign Ro Laren, who was a recurring character in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

For example: several skits from the cult 1960s TV show At Last the 1948 Show were resuscitated by John Cleese ( one of that show's creators ) and performed by him with various Amnesty show cast members, including fellow Pythons ( Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman ) and other peers ( John Bird, John Fortune and Tim Brooke-Taylor ( the last also an At Last the 1948 Show writer / star ), younger performers ( Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones ), and Cleese's then wife, actress / writer Connie Booth.

The show's creators Lewis Rudd and Sue Turner named the programme Magpie as a reference to the magpie's habit of collecting small items, and because of " mag " being evocative of " magazine ", and " pie " being evocative of a collection of ingredients.

Vieira interviews cast members and the show's creators in California.

The episode " The Creek " saw the introduction of the first new police character " Officer Randy Goode " ( 1988 – 1993 ) played by Randall Franks cast following the show's move to Georgia introducing the second prominent Georgia performer to claim a regular role on the series.

The plot line of the show's pilot deals with the struggles of the firm's creative director, Don Draper ( Jon Hamm ), to come up with a new advertising campaign for the cigarettes, because new regulations mean the brand can no longer claim to be healthier than any other cigarette, which has been the cornerstone of their advertising strategy.

As a nod to Soul Trains longevity, the show's opening sequence ( during later seasons ) contained a claim that it was the " longest-running, first-run, nationally syndicated program in television history ," with over 1, 100 episodes produced from the show's debut through the 2005-06 season.

A few online sources claim, unverified, that the 1953 film audiences know is also a film within the show's universe, and was produced for the same purpose on a wider scale.

In the March 2, 2009 edition of People, Shonda Rhimes, the show's creator, head writer and executive producer stated that the claim was false.

The show's producers continue to claim that the show becomes much more light-hearted towards the end of its six episodes when they show " some eyes and hearts opening up, opinions changing, and a community transforming ".

The bit featured Kurt Loder as the show's host, half-reluctantly and half-resigned, trying to teach the two characters the meaning of Thanksgiving as they report live from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, where they take more interest in people's butts and porn-shops than anything else.

The show's offices are located nearby at the corner of JFK Street and Brattle Street in Harvard Square, marked as " Dewey, Cheatem & Howe ", the imaginary law firm to which they refer on-air.

Like Brooke, he is uncritical of the show's journalistic tactics ( although in the episode Judge and Jury, he has reservations about their persecution of a priest accused of rape, mainly because he is a lapsed Catholic ); in fact he is usually the confidante of the executive producers, and the one they can trust to do what is needed to get a good story, or to persuade Mike to present a story.

* 2003 – Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show's tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.

Ancient members of the show's cast, like the Devil and Punch's mistress " Pretty Polly ," ceased to be included when they came to be seen as inappropriate for young audiences.

While the CGI shots have already been mastered in a 16: 9 aspect ratio for future applications, they are currently broadcast in the U. S. and Canada – along with the live-action footage – in the original 4: 3 aspect ratio television format to respect the show's original composition.

Throughout the series, they are generally depicted as antagonists, who are always at war or in an uneasy truce with the United Federation of Planets, the show's galactic organization of which Earth is a member.

Most of the show's 26 episodes from series 1-3 that were videotaped in black and white and broadcast 1965-68 no longer exist ; they were wiped by the BBC during the late 1960s and early ' 70s.

A comedy veteran, Shatner suggested making the show's characters as comfortable working in space as they would at sea, and having Kirk be a humorous " good-pal-the-captain, who in time of need would snap to and become the warrior ".

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.

To draw Lisa's head and hair, most of the show's animators use what they call the " three-three-two arrangement ".

In the third season DVD commentary, the writers revealed they had been planning to have Jimmy adopt Beth as his daughter, but never felt the time was right to begin the story in the midst of the show's normal plotlines.

Much of the show's humour thus derives from the antagonism between Cabinet ministers ( who believe they are in charge ) and the members of the British Civil Service who really run the country.

During the show's first 58 episodes, Cartman and the other main child characters are in the third grade, after which they move on to the fourth grade.

In the show's final season, NBC doubled the number of episodes ordered, despite the fact that they would have to re-sign the entire cast to new contracts in order to film them.

LuPone had asked the show's Musical Director to change her keys because they were too low for her, but was told she could not.

The show's production company TriStar Television refused, while Mirkin responded: " The thing about these parodies is they don't hurt a show.

" Escape Route " was directed by the show's star, Roger Moore, who later recalled that Sutherland " asked me if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important part ... they came to view a rough cut at the studio and he got The Dirty Dozen ".

In 1943, American Decca ushered in the age of the original cast album in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma !, performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on Broadway, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal arrangements.

It chronicles the daily life of Larry ; the show's producer, Arthur " Artie " ( Rip Torn ); Larry's sidekick, Hank Kingsley ( Jeffrey Tambor ); and the production staff, as they attempt to produce a successful talk show each night while dealing with celebrities, the network and everything in between.

Many times, her braces form a central part of the show's plots, as they are magnets, which leads Sharon to unintentionally attract different objects and get into embarrassing situations, although they do help her occasionally.

As one of the show's writers, Pegg noted that Tim and Daisy were always going to end up together from the beginning, and described a moment he envisioned for the show where they both realize they love each other.