Name That Tune is an American television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs. Premiering in the United States on NBC Radio in 1952, the show was created and produced by Harry Salter and his wife Roberta.
Name That Tune ran from 1953–1959 on NBC and CBS in prime time. The first hosts were Red Benson and later Bill Cullen, but George DeWitt became most identified with the show.
Richard Hayes also emceed a local edition from 1970–1971, which ran for 26 weeks in a small number of markets. However, the best-remembered syndicated Name That Tune aired once a week from 1974–1981 with host Tom Kennedy. The series was revived for daily syndication in 1984, and its lone season was hosted by Jim Lange. For the last two of these series, John Harlan served as announcer.
The centerpiece of each Name That Tune series was an orchestra, which would play the songs for the contestants to guess. The syndicated series' orchestras were conducted by Bob Alberti, Tommy
The Circuit is an Australian television drama series. The six part first season screened on SBS TV, premiering on 8 July 2007 at 9:30 pm, and concluding on 12 August 2007. Season 2 began airing on 1 December 2009.
The series stars Aaron Pedersen and Gary Sweet and centres on mixed-race solicitor Drew Ellis who joins the district to work at the Kimberley Circuit Court. Filmed mainly in Broome, Western Australia and surrounding areas, the show had a budget of more than $4 million, and 1,000 local Aboriginal extras have been employed for the production.
Two self-proclaimed players compete against each other to pick up women in a real bar. The two contestants go against each other in rounds to complete different objectives all related to seducing women. Hidden cameras record all the action, and four “expert” pick up artists judge to decide which of the two contestants did better picking up women during a round.
It's a Miracle is a television show that aired on PAX-TV between September 6, 1998 and September 1, 2004. Initially hosted by Billy Dean and Nia Peeples and then Richard Thomas, and later by Roma Downey, it explored case studies of people who experienced perceived miracles during their lifetime.
The show format could be altered to fit into half-hour or hour-long slots, varying the number of case studies shown in each episode as needed.
The show currently is shown in Europe, Africa and the Middle East on Zone Reality.
In "City Lights", Howie and Colin witness a gangland shooting and have to join the Witness Protection Scheme, leading to the forced relocation of their families to London.
The Force: Behind the Line is an Australian documentary television series about the Western Australia Police, hosted by Simon Reeve and aired nationally on the Seven Network from 22 August 2006. Similarly to Border Security: Australia's Front Line and the American Cops series, each episode intermixes three or four investigations per episode.
The Bronx Bunny Show is an Irish ten-part series originally broadcast in 2003 on E4 in the United Kingdom and later in Ireland. It was an adult puppet interview show which followed the premise of a semi-educational show for the good people of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. The show was produced from a run-down tenement building in the Bronx where Bronx Bunny and his sidekick, a cigarette-smoking panda named Teddy T, would interview celebrities who "done good". The Bronx Bunny Show won "Best Entertainment Show" IFTA Award in 2003.
The show was broadcast sporadically on E4 and eventually on Channel 4. The series gained a cult following as it featured interviews with guests such as Hugh Hefner, Jessica Alba, William Shatner, and Larry Flynt. The show was created by Double Z Enterprises, an Irish production company behind such characters as Zig and Zag and Podge and Rodge.
Monster House is a Discovery Channel television program that documented the themed remodeling of a residence in a five-day time frame. In 2004, the episode "Zen House" was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for its opening song by composer Dan Mackenzie.
In early 2006, Discovery Channel announced the show had been canceled and the final episode, titled "Farewell House", aired in February.
Monster House is now running in reruns in 2012 on Spike TV.
A group of loud, foul-mouthed, uncultured & unpleasant Ladettes, who like to drink & smoke & who are often sexually promiscuous, are given a five-week course in learning how to behave like a real lady. They are sent to Eggleston Hall, a finishing school for women. It was specially re-opened in order to try and change the ladettes' habits.
Being Eve is a television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001–2002, and rebroadcast on The N. Being Eve focuses on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily problems. Her parents are divorced but live next door to each other. Eve was in love with a boy named Adam. They broke up at the beginning of the second season, and she ends up with another boy named Sam Hooper, whom she had her first kiss with when they were kids.
How do investigators find missing persons? Watch dramatizations mixed with interviews of actual law officers to find out how some of the most complex cases have been pursued.
The Gavin Crawford Show was a Canadian sketch comedy series that ran from June 19, 2000 to July 1, 2003 on The Comedy Network.
The show starred comedian Gavin Crawford, along with an ensemble cast of supporting performers. It lasted for three seasons and 26 episodes altogether.
Following its run, Crawford and his character "Mark Jackson" moved on to This Hour Has 22 Minutes in 2003.
Totally Frank was a comedy drama series with a real life band as its stars on Channel 4. It followed a band, Frank, who were struggling to make it in the music industry.
Dream Job is an American reality television show from ESPN, which began on February 22, 2004. It was the network's second reality show, with two editions of Beg, Borrow & Deal having previously aired. However, this was the first reality show from a network to offer its winner an on-air place on one of its shows. The show was hosted by Stuart Scott.
Darnell aspires to be an astronaut, but his rough neighborhood presents unforeseen challenges. Confronting hardship, friendship, and survival, his destiny remains uncertain. Can he overcome his environment or will it consume him?
Bear Grylls takes some of today's biggest stars on a 48-hour journey through breathtaking and often unforgiving wilderness. From Norway’s glacial terrain to Wales’ Eryri mountains, each adventure pushes guests to their limits with glacier crossings, canyon descents, desert treks, and even a freefall from 11,000 feet. Along the way, thrilling action and revealing conversations uncover a side of these celebrities rarely seen.