The producers of Diff ' rent Strokes did not feel that a pregnancy would fit the show's wholesome image, so Plato was let go.

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.

This new serial was created by the producers of Vera Sto Deksi, and it has eclipsed that show's success.

Another 20 actresses were auditioned before the show's casting director suggested that producers Brian Clemens and Albert Fennell check out a televised drama featuring the relatively unknown Rigg.

Although the show's writers and producers received a minimal negative reaction from Willow choosing Tara over Oz, the response from viewers and critics alike was overwhelming towards Whedon for killing Tara, accusing him of homophobia.

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 ).

Both the show's producers and CBS denied responsibility.

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.

Shortly after creating Sesame Street, its producers developed what came to be called " the CTW model " ( named for the show's production company, The Children's Television Workshop ), a system of television show planning, production, and evaluation based on collaborations between producers, writers, educators, and researchers.

When Sesame Street premiered, most researchers believed that young children did not have long attention spans, therefore the new show's producers were concerned that an hour-long show would not hold their audience's attention.

This structure allowed the producers to use a mixture of styles and characters, and to vary the show's pace.

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.

Sesame Streets format remained intact until the show's later decades, when the changing audience required that producers move to a more narrative format.

Shortly after creating Sesame Street, its producers began to develop what came to be called " the CTW model ", a system of planning, production, and evaluation that did not fully emerge until the end of the show's first season.

Cooney credited the show's high standard in research procedures to Harvard professors Gerald S. Lesser, whom the CTW hired to design the show's educational objectives, and Edward L. Palmer, who was responsible for conducting the show's formative research and for bridging the gap between the show's producers and researchers.

With Goldberg, Moffitt, and Lee gone, Henry Winkler and Michael Levitt became the show's executive producers and remained in those positions until the end of the series, with Winkler occasionally serving as a panelist.

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.

According to screenwriter David Gerrold, the show's producers noticed similarities in the two stories and asked Heinlein for permission to use the idea.

In many ways, Smithers represents the stereotype of the closeted gay man, and numerous overt allusions and double entendres concerning his homosexuality are made, though some of the show's producers instead refer to him as a " Burns-sexual ".

The footage was created for Paramount's UPN show, Paranormal Borderland, ostensibly by the show's producers.

The tipping point comes when, due to Dorothy's popularity, the show's producers want to extend her contract for another year.

The show's winner, Bobby Banhart, claimed that he never saw Ms. Tequila again after the show finished taping, and that he was not given her telephone number.

Many NBC tour guides have claimed that Lynde was afraid of earthquakes and the center square proved to be the safest square of the show's set.

Rigby's acrimonious relationship with fellow producer Cyma Rubin led to Rubin terminating Rigby's contract and removing his credit as co-producer, but insiders claimed he deserved full credit for the show's success.

Although he performed for the industry opening night, Warlow was struck down by a bout of influenza that had also claimed many of the other cast and crew and he missed the first two and a half weeks of the show's Melbourne season.

During the show's last year a strange woman, Tess, turned up on his doorstep with a son she claimed was Ben and Maria's.

Immediately prior to the show's opening in Plymouth, it was reported that members of the far-right British National Party were part in a local campaign against the performances, although Christian Voice claimed to disapprove of their involvement.

Organisers cited issues ranging from weather, to audience disinterest, and to the actions of the Launceston City Council, however some critics claimed the show's lineup was at the root of the Festival's demise.

On the May 28, 2006 episode of WindTunnel with Dave Despain, the show's producer and host Rich Christensen claimed that some losing racers tried to buy back the vehicle after the race, which Rich tried to eliminate in later seasons.

In spite of changes made by Hollingworth to rectify the soap opera's early problems ( ratings improved over the course of the show's run, as did the quality of the storylines ), it was claimed that this was not enough to justify its continued production, and incoming Controller of BBC1 Alan Yentob cancelled the programme, which had been commissioned by his predecessor Jonathan Powell.

Annoyed at the fact that only a few people followed him on Twitter, Benn planned to make himself the " King of Twitter " by getting the show's 1. 5 million listeners to follow his account and therefore have more followers than Stephen Fry, who he claimed was the current king.

She was chosen because her competitors were " too loud and obnoxious ", claimed one of the show's set designers.

* Liz Miles: fabricator left the company, as claimed by the company's statement, after the show's producer set Liz up to work on Jo ’ s Hot Rod.

Another show, Brainiac: Science Abuse, claimed to have performed an experiment using 22. 275 Hz ( according to the show's producers used by Japan's police and tested by the French military ).

However, due to a moment during the apology in which Gleason hinted that the coffee cup he was sipping from wasn't really filled with " coffee " ( he called it " Chock Full O ' Booze "), the show's original sponsor, Kellogg's, pulled out of the series a week later and publicly claimed, " This isn't the show we bought ".

On 29 June 2008, it was announced that Wynter would leave EastEnders later in the year, after the show's producers claimed to have " run out of storyline ideas " for her character.

The show's title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food, which originally claimed that " 8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas ".

" In 2007, Vanity Fair named it the sixth best episode in the show's history, describing it as " a classic satire of network influence, obsessed TV fans, and programs that survive long after the shark has been jumped, the episode is a meta-celebration, a tongue-in-cheek rebuttal to everyone who claimed that the quality of The Simpsons had declined over the years.

The musical style of the show's score was primarily Doo-Wop as the plot revolved around Doo-Wop group singers of the 1960s.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

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.

The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

In 2010, his character was involved in the show's dramatic 50th anniversary tram crash storyline, which was recorded live.

Claire was the main focus of the show's first story arc, featuring the popular catchphrase, " Save the cheerleader, save the world ".

The show's production team was tested when many core cast members left the programme in the early 1970s.

In 1983, antihero Len Fairclough ( Peter Adamson ), one of the show's central male characters since 1961, was killed off, and in 1984, Stan Ogden ( Bernard Youens ) died.

Kershaw was also a script writer for the programme and the show's producer between 1962 and 1971.

Bill Podmore was the show's longest serving producer.

The show's theme music, a cornet piece, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, reminiscent of northern band music, was written by Eric Spear.

Throughout the first seven seasons of the series he has a complicated relationship with Lana Lang, as well as his self-perceived guilt over the fact that the meteor shower that killed Lana's parents and created most of the superhumans he fought in the show's first few years was caused by his rocket coming to Earth and dragging pieces of Krypton with it.

Anderson moved to the BBC in 1996 and the show's name changed to Clive Anderson All Talk and was aired on BBC One.

She had maintained throughout the show's run that she was never diagnosed with either anorexia or bulimia, nor was she a user of illegal drugs.

The act that appeared most frequently through the show's run was the Canadian comedy duo of Wayne & Shuster, making 67 appearances between 1958 and 1969.

ELO had become successful in the United States at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, as well as regularly appearing on The Midnight Special ( 1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977 ) more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances.

She was a special guest at the 70th Academy Awards, where the show's host, Billy Crystal, introduced her as the " Beauty who charmed the Beast ".

During the initial episodes, Gumby's voice was provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston.

Upon the show's American debut in 1999, it was an instant hit and became a regular part of ABC's prime time lineup until 2002.

The show's name was coined by show business talent manager and producer Bernie Brillstein and derives from a common English onomatopoeia used to describe the braying sound that a donkey makes.

During the summer of 1992, a decision was made to end first-run production, and instead air highlights of the show's earlier years in a revamped program called Hee Haw Silver ( as part of celebrating the show's 25th year ).