Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

* Bloody Mary ( TV movie ), a 2002 horror television film

By the 1950s, the television industry had become a serious competition for the movie industry.

Several comic forms that had previously been a staple of movie theaters transitioned to the television.

Both the short subject and the cartoon now appeared on the television rather than in the theater, and the " B " movie also found its outlet on the television.

For example, the Canadian province of Quebec, which is French-speaking, has its own system of French-speaking television, movie and music celebrities.

Many aspiring comedians who dream of becoming the next Russell Peters and Jerry Seinfeld never see the inside of a movie or television studio, but rather spend most of their careers doing stand-up in comedy clubs and other small venues, hoping to be discovered.

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

On television, the made-for-TV movie The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders ( which aired January 14, 1979 ) starring Jane Seymour was a highly-rated success, spawning the 1980 sequel The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II.

Two years later, Flockhart appeared in the television movie Darrow.

These companies offer both English-and Spanish-language television, plus a range of channels in other languages, high definition channels, pay-per-view movies and events, sports packages and premium movie channels such as HBO, Playboy TV, Cinecanal, etc.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

Notable disco hits based on movie and television themes included a medley from Star Wars, " Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band " ( 1977 ) by Meco, and " Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone " ( 1979 ) by The Manhattan Transfer.

At the time of his death, Janssen had just begun filming a television movie playing the part of Father Damien, the priest who dedicated himself to the leper colony on the island of Molokai.

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

Dirk Benedict ( born March 1, 1945 ) is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton " Faceman " Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.

Benedict's career break came in 1978 when he appeared as Lieutenant Starbuck in the movie and television series Battlestar Galactica.

He has produced numerous movies, television shows, and specials through his production company, Apostle ; these include Comedy Central's Shorties Watchin ' Shorties, the stand-up special Denis Leary's Merry F #$% in ' Christmas, and the movie Blow.

The audience may have a passive role, as in the case of persons watching a play or opera, a television show or a movie, or active, as in the case of a video game.

It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato ; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers.

With the retelling of Arrivederci Yamato as the open-ended Yamato II television series ( ending in late 2201 ), Arrivederci Yamato was redesignated as a discardable, alternate timeline.

Space Battleship Yamato was a 1985 Japanese exclusive Laserdisc video game designed by Taito which was based on the television series of the same name.

* USS Yamato ( NCC-71807 ), a Galaxy class starship and the sister ship of the USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-D ) in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

* Space Battleship Yamato ( disambiguation ), a Japanese science fiction anime television, film and game series and the name of its eponymous space craft ; called Star Blazers in the West

* Kira Yamato, the protagonist of the anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and an important character in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

In the 1990s, Syd supplied designs for two Japanese toy icons, “ The New Yamato ” and all eight robot characters in the new Turn-A Gundam Mobile Suit series, which were also seen as characters in television shows.

* 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N. Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.

* 1927 – First distance public television broadcast ( from Washington, D. C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).

The City of New York has an official television station run by the NYC Media Group and broadcasting from Bronx Community College, and Cablevision operates News 12 The Bronx, both of which feature programming based in the Bronx.

Co-op City was the first area in the Bronx, and the first in New York beyond Manhattan, to have its own cable television provider.

Selig rejected the television deal that Frank McCourt negotiated that intended to bring the franchise out of bankruptcy, claiming McCourt violated the Baseball Agreements although no action taken against New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon despite being in a similar position.

In 1968, Sarandon moved to New York, where he landed his first television role as Dr. Tom Halverson on The Guiding Light ( 1969 – 1973 ).

At that time, most television programs were broadcast live, and as the largest markets were in New York, the rest of the country received only kinescope images.

She used her Miss America scholarship money to study acting at HB Studios in New York City before moving to Hollywood to pursue a film and television career.

Despite the foundation of the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film ( Young German Film Committee ) in 1965, set up under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to support new German films financially, the directors of this New German Cinema, who rejected co-operation with the existing film industry, were consequently often dependent on money from television.

As a result of the funds provided by the Film-Fernseh-Abkommen, German films, particularly those of the New German Cinema, gained a much greater opportunity to enjoy box-office success before they played on television ( Blaney 1992: 204 ).

* The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath !, a comedy-drama so beloved in Russia that it is broadcasted on television every New Year Eve, similarly to the American movie It ’ s a Wonderful Life being broadcast every Christmas.

Over time, Godzilla 1985, though not a hit, was partially profitable for New World only with the addition of home video and television syndication ( the film debuted on television on May 16, 1986 ).

In 1925, Hugo founded radio station WRNY which broadcast from the 18th floor of The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City and was involved in the first television broadcasts.

Between 1957 and 1968 a New Year's Eve television programme, called " The White Heather Club ", was presented to herald in the Hogmanay celebrations.

For many years, a staple of New Year's Eve television programming in Scotland was the comedy sketch show Scotch and Wry featuring the comedian Rikki Fulton, which invariably included a hilarious monologue from him as the preternaturally-gloomy Reverend I. M.

In 1995, Marrow had a recurring role as vengeful drug dealer Danny Cort on the television series New York Undercover, co-created by Dick Wolf.

* 1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7. 30 pm from Auckland.

Frankenheimer returned to television during the late 1950s, moving to film permanently in 1961 with The Young Savages, in which he worked for the first time with Burt Lancaster in a story of a young boy murdered by a New York gang.

" Within a year, Sloane was being performed in New York, Spain, Israel and Australia, as well as being made into a film and a television play.

He briefly worked on the television soap operas Search for Tomorrow ( 1979 ) and The Guiding Light ( 1980 – 81 ) in New York.

He refused an offer of a television series based on Animal House to be filmed in California in order to remain close to the New York stage.

While undergoing stadium renovations, including the addition of a high-definition television | High definition scoreboard, the Royals introduced the " New.

Her parents were the film producer Wilbur Stark ( 1912 – 1995 ) and New York television host Kathi Norris ( 1919 – 2005 ).

Khandi currently stars in the award-winning HBO television series by David Simon, Treme, where she plays a bar owner in an affected neighborhood of post-Katrina New Orleans.