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True Horror (en)
Docu-drama series depicting chilling tales of real life horror stories. Each filmic episode, realised by some of the UK’s most exciting writers and directors, tells a single, spine-tingling story, drawing on eyewitness testimonies, brought to life through straight-to-camera documentary interviews and visually-striking, elegantly realised and terrifying drama.
Homewrecker (en)
Homewrecker was an American reality show on MTV that was hosted by Jackass star Ryan Dunn. The show is a twist on home renovation reality shows such as Trading Spaces and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition; but instead of the room being renovated, it is wrecked.
Paris (en)
Paris is an American television series that appeared on the CBS television network from September 29, 1979 to January 15, 1980. A crime drama, the show is notable as the first-ever appearance of renowned actor James Earl Jones in a lead role on television and was created by Steven Bochco, who later achieved fame for Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, also served as executive producer. The program told the story of Los Angeles Police Captain Woody Paris, who supervised a team of young detectives. The rookie investigators were led by Sergeant Stacy Erickson and included officers Charlie Bogart, Ernesto Villas, and Willie Miller. Hank Garrett portrayed Deputy Chief Jerome Bench, Paris' superior, and, in an unusual turn for police dramas of that era, Paris' home and off-duty life was given considerable attention in the plots, with Lee Chamberlin playing his wife, Barbara. Paris was also shown moonlighting as a professor of criminology at a local university. Although Paris was critically acclaimed for its portrayal of the tension between the professional Paris character and his often impetuous underlings, CBS scheduled the show in one of the worst possible timeslots on a weekly schedule: Saturdays at 10 p.m./9 Central. All three networks debuted new shows for the 1979-80 season in that slot; only ABC's Hart to Hart survived its first 13 weeks. Toward the end of its run, CBS moved it to Tuesdays at 10/9, but to no avail. Edward DeBlasio produced the show for MTM Enterprises, which would unveil, during the next season, executive producer Bochco's landmark Hill Street Blues, on NBC.
Ada Twist, Scientist (en)
Pint-sized scientist Ada Twist and her two best friends are asking big questions — and working together to discover the truth about everything!
Be Yourself (zh)
A mysterious agency appeared on an ordinary social anxious girl Chi Xiaoyu's phone APP. It makes ordering a new persona as easy as a food takeaway! In order to complete her work task, Chi Xiaoyu used a persona takeaway, but accidentally starts pulling the bossy CEO, and manages to get him every time, which makes him obsessed with her! Just when Chi Xiaoyu was about to bid farewell to the single life, CEO Su Yang's life-winner persona collapsed!
Shadoevision (en)
Shadoevision was an episode of "The Cinemax Comedy Experiment" that first aired in 1986, and was repeated on Weird TV in 1995. It was hosted, created and produced by Shadoe Stevens.
With Yasser Azma (en)
Yasser al-Azma is a Syrian actor from a Damascene family, born in Damascus (May 16, 1942-). He studied at the Faculty of Law, Damascus University. He became famous through the series Maraya, which he wrote and prepared for more than twenty years, during which he represented many characters who often bear a critical and comedic character. Since the eighties, he has worked on his project, Mirrors, which is a satirical Syrian comedy series that he started in 1982. - He won three times golden awards at the Cairo Festival for his distinguished comic works.
Mal Al Donia (ar)
Chef Rashid invests all his money to open his own restaurant, but the project fails, and in a desperate attempt to save it, he reluctantly enters into a partnership with somebody, unaware that he may destroy all his dreams.
Rapido (en)
Rapido was a BBC2 television show which ran from 1988 to 1992, and was presented by Antoine de Caunes. It ran in over 14 countries worldwide. The show which would usually go out in an early evening slot, such as 7.30pm on a Wednesday night, featured reports from up and coming new bands linked together with footage of Antoine standing in front of a large Rapido sign on a white background. The show developed from shows de Caunes presented in France, and gave the name to the production company Rapido TV which is famed for creating the late night Channel 4 television show Eurotrash. Rapido was notable for de Caunes' idiosyncratic delivery. His English is completely fluent, but he spoke it with French intonations and speech rhythms on the programme producing an unusual effect.
Islands: Nature's Wild Laboratories (en)
Each episode reveals how the unique geology of these islands forces the animals that evolved there to interact in exceptional ways: they are mother nature's freewheeling laboratories. From pygmy elephants navigating environmental changes to addicted baby dingoes never before filmed, Islands offers a glimpse into rare, heartbreaking and inspiring stories of wonder, struggle and survival.
Rosie (en)
Rosie is a British situation-comedy television series, written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast between 1977 and 1981. It was filmed and set in Scarborough in North Yorkshire. The central character was PC Penrose, the titular "Rosie", a young and inexperienced police officer, played by Paul Greenwood. For the first series of seven episodes, broadcast in 1975, it was called The Growing Pains of PC Penrose, but it underwent a revamp with a new title, setting and signature tune.
Don't Eat the Pictures (en)
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a one-hour Sesame Street special that aired on PBS on November 16, 1983. The title comes from a song in the special "Don't Eat the Pictures," sung by Cookie Monster. It was released on VHS in 1987. The special has the regular cast of Sesame Street getting locked in the Metropolitan Museum of Art overnight as they search for Big Bird, who has gotten lost looking for Snuffy. The cast must stay in the museum until the morning while avoiding a security guard. The special features the regular human cast of Sesame Street along with several of the Muppet characters, including Cookie Monster, Telly, Ernie and Bert, The Count, Grover, and Oscar the Grouch. Snuffy also appears, however at this point in the show's history he is still the 'imaginary' friend of Big Bird, never seen by the other characters.