Adriana Abenia, a Spanish actress and TV presenter, was accused of cheating on the game show after she was discovered trying to use an app to find out the answer to a question.
According to Metro newspaper, Abenia intended to use the phone app Shazam, which records songs and tells the user the song title and artist, to win. She was found out after the phone lit up between her legs and began vibrating during the taping. Abenia was caught before she was able to use the app to cheat her way to the answer.
“To be honest I think she deserves a special prize anyway because, in seven years of organizing this TV contest, nobody has ever done anything like this and certainly not quite as brazenly,” the show’s host, Christian Galvez.
Please Like Me is an Australian television comedy-drama series created by and starring Josh Thomas. Thomas also serves as a writer for most episodes. The series premiered on February 28, 2013 on ABC2 in Australia and is on occasion available on Netflix in certain regions. The show explores realistic issues with humorous tones; executive producer Todd Abbott had pitched the show as a drama rather than a sitcom. The show aired later on the United States network Pivot, which then helped to develop the show from its second season onwards. Four seasons of the show have been broadcast, and creator Thomas has stated that he has no plans to make any further episodes. The show has attracted praise from critics and has garnered numerous nominations, winning a number of awards.
Skam (translates to Shame) is a Norwegian teen drama streaming television series about the daily life of teenagers at the Hartvig Nissen School, a gymnasium in the wealthy borough of Frogner in West End Oslo and Norway’s oldest high school for girls. It was produced by NRK P3, which is part of the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK.
Despite no promotion ahead of its 2015 launch, Skam broke viewership records. Its premiere episode is among the most-watched episodes in NRK’s history, and by the middle of season two, it was responsible for half of NRK’s traffic. With season three, it broke all streaming records in Norway, along with viewership records in neighboring countries Denmark, Finland and Sweden, and attracted an active international fanbase on social media, where fans promoted translations.
The series ended after its fourth season in 2017, reportedly due to high production stress.
Anything that comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim do together is usually appealing to very specific people. You either love their work, or you absolutely hate it. Translation: you’re either completely and utterly insane or you’re a well-rounded member of society (if perhaps a bit on the boring side).
Their sketch comedy series Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! (February 11, 2007 to May 2, 2010) is an Adult Swim late-night masterpiece of weirdness that mixes satirical anti-humor and cringe comedy with surreal public-access television goodness. The supporting cast’s combination of famous celebrities (such as Jeff Goldblum, Zach Galifianakis, Fred Armisen, and Ben Stiller) and random Los Angeles Craigslist actors is a delightful thing to witness. The show also featured a bizarre mix of celebrity impersonators, adult film actors, and impressionists. The show also birthed Steve Brule, and we have Tim and Eric to thank for it.
Their sketch comedy series Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! (February 11, 2007 to May 2, 2010) is an Adult Swim late-night masterpiece of weirdness that mixes satirical anti-humor and cringe comedy with surreal public-access television goodness. The supporting cast’s combination of famous celebrities (such as Jeff Goldblum, Zach Galifianakis, Fred Armisen, and Ben Stiller) and random Los Angeles Craigslist actors is a delightful thing to witness. The show also featured a bizarre mix of celebrity impersonators, adult film actors, and impressionists. The show also birthed Steve Brule, and we have Tim and Eric to thank for it.
Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration is an animated Christmas television special originally broadcast on the American CBS TV network on December 21, 1987. The special featured stop motion clay animation and was produced and directed by Will Vinton. The special debuted alongside A Garfield Christmas and the two continued to be aired back to back in subsequent years.
The special is co-hosted by Rex (Johnny Counterfit), an erudite Tyrannosaurus rex, and Herb (Tim Conner), a dimwitted and bespectacled Styracosaurus with a gluttonous appetite. The two appeared in previous Will Vinton videos dating back to 1980 including Dinosaur, but this Christmas special is the first in which they have dialogue and contemporary personalities, vaguely parodying Siskel and Ebert respectively.
Situated in a facsimile of London’s Christmas Square, Rex and Herb introduce several stand-alone videos of Christmas carols and holiday standards and discuss the origins of each song relating to different holiday traditions around the world.
Rex is convinced that his own pronunciation is correct, but he is continually questioned by the others including Herb when he is not busy excessively partaking of the various Christmas treats offered by each group; consulting the dictionary provides no meaningful help. Finally, near the program’s end, a large truck loaded with cider-swilling Irish elves arrives in Christmas Square singing the correct version of the carol, validating Rex’s theory much to his delight. When asked, one of the townies explains the real meaning of wassailing: going around the neighborhood singing Christmas carols, and getting treats and cordials.
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? is a 1996 American television film starring Tori Spelling, Ivan Sergei, and Lisa Banes. The film premiered on September 30, 1996 on NBC. Tori Spelling plays Laurel a girl who is dating Kevin. Kevin is obsessed with Laurel and her mother disapproves of the relationship. Sounds like every other TV movie, right? She should have just listened to her mother all along.
Although originally planned to be released in theaters, the film failed to find a distributor and finally made its United States debut on NBC. It was later released in cinemas in both Sweden and Argentina in 1999 and 2000, and it was released direct to VHS in Japan in 1998. In January 2004, Tori Spelling began a campaign to get Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? released on DVD worldwide. Seven years later, on June 6, 2011, Sony Pictures Entertainment finally issued a DVD release.
Susie Q is a 1996 fantasy-comedy television film directed by John Blizek and starring Justin Whalin, Amy Jo Johnson and Shelley Long. It originally aired on Super RTL in Germany, followed by Disney Channel airing it in the United States on October 3, 1996, as a Disney Channel Premiere Film. The film tells the story of a teenager dying with her boyfriend (Bentley Mitchum) on her way to their Winter Formal back in the mid-1950s and coming back to her old house 40 years later in order to help her parents avoid being kicked out of their trailer park home. Later, Zach (Whalin) moves into Susie’s (Johnson) old house, but he is the only one who is able to see Susie.
The film was given a “TV-G” rating, and was already cut for some profanity, but not all, when it primarily aired on the Disney Channel.
ChalkZone is an American animated television series created by Bill Burnett and Larry Huber for Nickelodeon. The series follows Rudy Tabootie, an elementary school student who discovers a box of magic chalk that allows him to draw portals into the ChalkZone, an alternate dimension where everything ever drawn on a blackboard and erased turns to life. Rudy is joined in his adventures by Snap, a wisecracking superhero Rudy once drew with chalk, and Penny Sanchez, Rudy’s academically intellectual classmate and personal friend.
ChalkZone originally premiered as a pilot short on Fred Seibert’s Oh Yeah! Cartoons animated shorts showcase in 1998. The series ran on Nickelodeon from March 22, 2002, to August 23, 2008, with 40 episodes in total. It was produced by Frederator Studios and Nickelodeon Animation Studio.
Rudy Tabootie (voiced by E. G. Daily) is a 10-year-old, fifth-grade boy who loves to draw. Reggie Bullnerd (Candi Milo), the school bully, constantly teases him or gets him into trouble with Mr. Wilter (Robert Cait), Rudy’s grumpy school teacher who strongly dislikes cartoons, especially Rudy’s passion for art. One day while in detention, Rudy discovers a piece of “White Lightnin'” chalk, which allows access to the ChalkZone, a place where everything and everyone that has ever been drawn and erased by chalk takes form as living or is tangible. He soon makes friends with Snap (Candi Milo), a short, blue, humanoid drawing made by Rudy when he was only 8. Snap wears a superhero outfit and is very adventurous and funny. Rudy only lets one other person know about ChalkZone, his best friend Penny Sanchez (speaking voice, Hynden Walch; singing voice, Robbyn Kirmssè), who acts as the genius of the group.
While in ChalkZone, the three are introduced to Cyclops (Rodger Bumpass), the kilt-wearing guardian of the magic chalk mines where Rudy obtains his magic chalk (Rudy later draws a second eye for him and renames him “Biclops”); Queen Rapsheeba (Rosslynn Taylor), ChalkZone’s musical artist whom Snap has a crush on; and Blocky (Candi Milo; Robert Cait), a light green block friend of Snap’s and Rudy’s first-ever drawing. They also face villains such as Skrawl (Jim Cummings), a drawing who blames Rudy for being ugly and wants to destroy him, and the Craniacs (Rob Paulsen), a series of robot drawings obsessed with collecting futuristic devices.
The pilot for the series first aired on December 31, 1999, as part of Nickelodeon’s annual New Year’s Eve block, but due to being delayed by Nickelodeon for executive reasons, the series made its official premiere on March 22, 2002. The 2002 premiere became the highest-rated premiere in Nickelodeon’s history up to that point.
The show aired in reruns on “Nick on CBS” for more than a year from February 1, 2003, to September 11, 2004. In June 2005, following the announcement that the series had been cancelled, the fourth season of the series premiered. Of the season’s 11 episodes, only five would be aired that year before Nickelodeon abruptly halted the broadcast of new episodes. The remaining six episodes would not air until three years later in June and August 2008. The final episode aired on August 23, 2008.
The Oblongs is an American adult animated sitcom created by Angus Oblong and Jace Richdale. It was Mohawk Productions’ first venture into animation. The series premiered on April 1, 2001 on The WB, and cancelled due to public disapproval on May 20, leaving the last five episodes unaired. The remaining episodes were later aired on Cartoon Network’s late-night programming block Adult Swim in August 2002, and later aired on Teletoon’s “Unleashed/Detour (now “At Night”)” block. The series is loosely based on a series of characters introduced in a picture book entitled Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children.
Three networks had a bidding war to win the rights to turn Angus Oblong’s characters into a series: Fox, the WB, and ABC. Warner Bros. won the bidding to turn Oblong’s characters into a series; and thus, the series was submitted to the WB. The show was produced by Film Roman, Oblong Productions, Jobsite Productions and Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, and the theme song for the series was composed and performed by They Might Be Giants. This was the only animated series to date to have been produced by Bruce Helford under Mohawk.
A total of 13 episodes were produced. All thirteen episodes of The Oblongs were released on DVD on October 4, 2005.
As of February 2022, the series is available on Tubi.
The series focuses on the antics of a family who live in a poor valley community. As a result of pollution and radiation exposure, they are all either disabled or deformed. The pollution is the direct result of the lavish lifestyle of the rich community known as “The Hills,” whose residents exploit and harm the valley residents with absolutely no regard for their safety or well-being, Bob Oblong (voiced by Will Ferrell) was born with no arms or legs. Marie “Pickles” Oblong (voiced by Jean Smart) is a chain smoking alcoholic. Biff Oblong and Chip Oblong (voiced by Randy and Jason Sklar respectively) are 17-year-old conjoined twins who are attached at the waist and share a middle leg. Milo Oblong (voiced by Pamela Adlon) is the youngest son. Often referred to by other kids as a “psycho,” he is afflicted with numerous mental and social disorders and is on “everything from Ritalin to Rogaine.” Beth Oblong (voiced by Jeannie Elias) is the youngest child and only daughter, she has a warty, elongated growth growing out of her head. Grammy Oblong is Bob’s vegetative mother and the grandmother of Biff, Chip, Milo, and Beth who resides in a motorized wheelchair and is unable to speak. Instead, she communicates using a green light which means yes, a red light which means no, and a flashing red light which means she has soiled herself and that her adult diaper needs changing. Lucky is the one-lunged family cat who chain-smokes cigarettes. Scottie is Milo’s narcoleptic dog, a result of perfume used on him during his tenure as a test animal at Globocide.
The Backyardigans is a computer-animated musical children’s television series created by Janice Burgess. The series was written and recorded at Nickelodeon Animation Studio. It centers on five animal neighbors who imagine themselves on fantastic adventures in their backyard. Each episode is set to a different musical genre and features four songs, composed by Evan Lurie with lyrics by McPaul Smith. The Backyardigans‘ adventures span many different genres and settings. The show’s writers took inspiration from action-adventure movies, and many episodes are parodies of movies.
Nickelodeon called the show “a home-grown Nick Jr. property,” as “the whole creative team… [had] been part of the Nick Jr. family for years.” Creator Janice Burgess had worked as Nick Jr.’s production executive since the mid-1990s. The Backyardigans originated as a live-action pilot episode titled “Me and My Friends,” filmed at Nickelodeon Studios Florida in 1998. The characters were played by full-body puppets on an indoor stage. The pilot was rejected by Nickelodeon, and Burgess decided to rework the concept into an animated series. In 2002, a second pilot was animated at Nickelodeon Digital in New York. The second pilot was successful, and the series entered production.
The show ran for four seasons totaling 80 episodes. Most episodes aired on Nickelodeon on weekday mornings. In 2009, the show was planned to continue beyond the fourth season. However, in 2010, the series’ creator Janice Burgess decided to move onto a different series: Nickelodeon’s revival of Winx Club. Burgess worked as a creative director and writer for Winx Club before eventually retiring from Nickelodeon in 2014.
The Backyardigans was critically acclaimed. Many critics felt that The Backyardigans was superior to Nickelodeon’s other preschool shows because its writing was sophisticated and enjoyable for older viewers. The New York Times and Common Sense Media commended the show for including frequent nods to an older audience, such as references to action-adventure franchises. The quality of the show’s music was also praised by critics, and the show received eight Daytime Emmy Award nominations for its music.