After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.

Another example is in the television show Gladiators, in which two series were based on contests between teams representing Australia and England.

It attracts competitors from all of the main show jumping nations and is carried live on Irish national television.

* 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

* Allied States of America, a fictional American nation in the television show Jericho

* Atmospheres ( TV show ), a former television series on The Weather Channel

* 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage " baby-boomers " by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

* Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator and former executive producer and writer on the television show Gilmore Girls

He was the co-host and co-creator of the television program The Man Show ( 1999 – 2004 ), and the co-creator and a regular performer on the television show Crank Yankers ( 2002 – 2007 ).

One of Lerner's cousins was the radio comedian / television game show panelist Henry Morgan.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

* Bluegrass & Backroads, a television show about people and places in the Bluegrass region

Either way, the show captured the imaginations of many young television viewers in the United States and abroad and is often considered a classic piece of 1990s youth culture and Generation X. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, cite the show as an influence and compared it to the blues, and met Mike Judge before the show aired.

She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.

The worldwide reality television show Big Brother is based on the novel's concept of people being under constant surveillance.

" Burt Ward, who portrayed Robin in the 1960s television show, has also remarked upon this interpretation in his autobiography Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights ; he writes that the relationship could be interpreted as a sexual one, with the show's double entendres and lavish camp also possibly offering ambiguous interpretation.

In 1996, he was a writer and co-creator of the show Space Cases, a Nickelodeon television show with themes similar to Lost in Space.

Wilfred Bailey Everett “ Bill ” Bixby III ( January 22, 1934 − November 21, 1993 ) was an American film and television actor, director, and frequent game show panelist.

In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.

On November 20, 1955, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a popular television variety show, where he infuriated the host.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

How can we old-fashioned parents, who still feel that adults are due some respect from children, battle the new type of advertising that appears on TV without denying the children the use of television entirely??

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Seasonal programming such as How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Christmas Carol or the Charlie Brown television specials are normally re-shown once ( or occasionally twice ) each year, in the appropriate timeframe.

She is known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and Michelle Flaherty in the four main original American Pie film series.

He also compiled, edited and published, How To Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization, a 600 page tome of never published work from Adler ’ s television series, The Great Ideas.

His best-known non-horror role is as the Grinch, as well as the narrator, in the animated television special of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

As HCE serves his customers, two narratives are broadcast via the bar's radio and television sets, namely " The Norwegian Captain and the Tailor's Daughter ", and " How Buckley Shot the Russian General ".

He had a cameo appearance in the season-two premiere of the CBS television sitcom How I Met Your Mother, on September 18, 2006.

The song " Weight of the World " is also featured during the credits of the 2003 film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and in the us television series Wildfire.

He began his long acting career as a child in How Green Was My Valley, My Friend Flicka and Lassie Come Home, and as an adult appeared most frequently as a character actor on stage and television.

On March 16, 2004 Burke performed " I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free " and " Home in Your Heart " with The Derek Trucks Band, at the 4th Annual Jammy Awards at Madison Square Garden, which was screened on US television on April 25, 2004.

* December 18 – CBS airs the television adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas for the first time.

During the early ' 80s, Day-Lewis worked in theatre and television including Frost in May ( where he played an impotent man-child ) and How Many Miles to Babylon?

Some are political – How to be a Minister ( 1980 ), is an irreverent look at the difficulties faced by ministers trying to control the civil service, in much the same vein as the television series Yes Minister.

Ely won the role of Tarzan in 1966 after playing various bit-parts, including an airplane navigator in the 1958 film South Pacific and a guest-starring role on Barbara Eden's first television series, the romantic comedy How to Marry a Millionaire.

Because a single television advertisement can be broadcast repeatedly over the course of weeks, months, and even years ( the Tootsie Roll company has been broadcasting a famous advertisement that asks " How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie center of a Tootsie Pop?

Jenkins ' run then draws to a close with two storylines, " Up the Down Staircase " and " How to Play With Fire ", which relate the First of the Fallen's new plan, to essentially let mankind ruin itself through television and consumerism, and Ellie's plot to leave Constantine friendless and alone.

In 1974, Fast and his family moved to California, where he wrote television scripts, including such television programs as How the West Was Won.

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News is a non-fiction book by Bernard Goldberg, a 28-year veteran CBS news reporter and producer, giving detailed examples of what he calls liberal bias in television news reporting.

In 1957, he appeared as Jack Connors in the third episode entitled " The Three Pretenders " of the syndicated television sitcom, How to Marry a Millionaire, with Barbara Eden and Merry Anders.

For his 2005 television show How To Start Your Own Country, presenter Danny Wallace claimed to be " Leader " of Eel Pie Island after invading the island via the footbridge.

After the war, he worked in TV, radio and variety, but it was during the mid-1950s that he developed his famous persona, first in his television series, How Do You View ?, and then in films.

* How the West Was Won ( TV series ), a 1970s television series loosely based on the film

The term " Mayberry " is mentioned many times in television shows such as Cheers, House, M. D., Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, and Scrubs.