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The Alphabet Game
The Alphabet Game is a comedy panel game show that aired on BBC1 from 5 August 1996 to 27 March 1997 and is hosted by Andrew O'Connor. The programme was created by O'Connor, Rebecca Thornhill, Mark Maxwell-Smith and produced by Objective Productions. It was remade in Spain as ''Pasapalabra'', for which ITV Studios sued Telecinco for €17,000,000; ITV would later remake the show as ''Alphabetical''. Format Two members of the public team up with two celebrities each, while a fifth acts as judge. The five celebrities are there all week, while the contestants rotate. Round 1 sees the teams trying to buzz in for control of a question such as 'things I would do if I won the lottery'; the teams must then go through the alphabet to provide answers. The other team can challenge an answer if they feel it is incorrect, in which case the judge decides which team is correct. If the judge decides the challenging team is correct or a team member can't think of an answer, play passes to the ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Genome Project
The BBC Genome Project is an online searchable database of programme listings initially based upon the contents of the ''Radio Times'' from the first issue in 1923 to 2009. Television listings from post-2009 can be accessed via the BBC Programmes site. History Prior BBC Genome is not the first online searchable database. In April 2006, they gave the public access to Infax – their only electronic programme database at the time. It contained around 900,000 entries but not every programme ever broadcast, and it ceased operation in December 2007. The front page of the website is still available to see via the Internet Archive. After Infax ceased, a message on the website said that it would be incorporating in the information into individual programme pages. In 2012, Infax was replaced by the database Fabric but this is only for internal use within the BBC. ''Radio Times'' In December 2012, the BBC completed a digitisation exercise, scanning the listings from ''Radio Times'' of al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Courbet
Julien Courbet (born 7 February 1965) is a French journalist, television presenter and producer. Early life and education Julien Courbet was born Frédéric René Courbet in Eysines, a town located in the suburb of Bordeaux, department of Gironde. He studied and graduated at the IUT Techniques de commercialisation in University Bordeaux IV. Radio career Julien Courbet began his career as a radio presenter on various radios in Bordeaux (Radio Angora, NRJ, Fun Radio, Wit FM). From 1986 to 1991, he became a presenter on France 3 Aquitaine. He officiated on Wit FM hosting the program ''Que fait la police ?'' in the morning, on Sud Radio where he met Hervé Pouchol, who will later become his mediator for ''La guerre des voisins'', and then on NRJ from 1992 to 1994 with the program ''N'importe quoi''. Television career Career on TF1 He met Gérard Louvin in 1993 who engaged him on TF1. After being a columnist on the program ''Sacrée Soirée'', Julien Courbet started pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France 2
France 2 () is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4 and France 5. France Télévisions also participates in Arte and Euronews. Since 3:20 CET on 7 April 2008, all France 2 programming has been broadcast in 16:9 widescreen format over the French analogue and digital terrestrial television. An HD simulcast feed of France 2 has been broadcasting on satellite provider CanalSat since 1 July 2008 and on digital terrestrial television since 30 October 2008. History Originally under the ownership of the RTF, the channel went on the air for the first time on 18 April 1964 as '' RTF Télévision 2''. Within a year, ORTF rebranded that channel as ''La deuxième chaîne'' (The Second Channel). Originally, the network was broadcast on 625-line transmitters only in preparation for the discontinuation of 819-line black & white transmissions and the introduction of colour. The switch to colour oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jéssica De La Peña
Jéssica Annais de la Peña Camargo (born November 13, 1977) is a Colombian television presenter and journalist. Biography Jéssica Annais de La Peña Camargo was born in New York, and at the age of five she migrated to Barranquilla with her parents Ricardo de la Peña and Cecilia Camargo, and her sister. She completed her academic studies at the ''Colegio El Buen Consejo'' in Barranquilla, and graduated in Social Communication and Journalism from the ''Universidad del Norte'', in the same city. Her most notable passions include dancing and singing. Her first casting for presenter she did in second half. At age 20, while in the second semester of her university career, she auditioned to enter a program at her university, but thanks to her excellent record in cameras, she entered the regional channel ''Telecaribe'', where she first presented a variety program called ''La Noche'' and the ''Televista'' newscast. A year later, she was hired by ''Noticias RCN'' as presenter of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCN Televisión
RCN Televisión, branded as Canal RCN (''Radio Cadena Nacional'') is a Colombian free-to-air television network. It is a Colombian open television channel, belonging to the Ardila Lülle Organization. It was founded as a television content production company on March 23, 1967, and found its broadcasts as an independent channel on July 10, 1998. Its main shareholder is Carlos Ardila Lülle. It produced ''Yo soy Betty, la fea'', one of the most successful Colombian telenovelas. History RCN Television was created as a television arm of the RCN Radio network. In 1967 RCN Radio took part in the bidding for spaces in the official television network, getting one hour a day which was split into two series: one made in Colombia named ''El Hogar'' (The Home) and the American television series ''Bewitched''. In 1973 RCN Radio and its subsidiary RCN Television were purchased by Carlos Ardila Lülle, who three years later relaunched RCN as a television production company (or ''programadora' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilevisión
Chilevisión (often abbreviated as CHV) is a Chilean free-to-air television channel. It is the third oldest Chilean television network, owned by Paramount Networks Americas, being founded by the University of Chile on November 4, 1960. History Origins When the Institute for Electrical Research and Testing of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile informed the rector Juan Gómez Millas, in 1959, that the experiments were already sufficiently advanced to attempt the permanent operation of a canal, this instructs the Secretary-General, Álvaro Bunster, to establish the corresponding contact with the engineers and to provide the necessary elements for its start-up. Thus, from the very beginning, Channel 9 is assumed as an institutional project of the rectory. Within the University Council, diverse positions were expressed. The deans of the more traditional faculties viewed the initiative with reluctance. They rejected the idea that "the unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rede Bandeirantes
Rede Bandeirantes (, ''Bandeirantes Network''), or simply known as Band (), is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It began broadcasting on May 13, 1967 on VHF channel 13 in São Paulo. Its founder was businessman João Saad with the help of his father-in-law and former São Paulo governor Adhemar de Barros. In terms of audience and revenue, it is currently the fourth largest Brazilian television network. It broadcasts throughout Brazil through its owned-and-operated stations and affiliates. It also has a series of pay TV channels and it broadcasts internationally via Band Internacional. It was the first station to have all of its programming in color in 1972, and it was also the first to broadcast via satellite, being the pioneer network in the use of exclusive satellite channels for its simulcasts throughout Brazil in 1982. In 1990, when it was called Bandeirantes, the station changed the name to simply "Ban". However, due to the fact that the public was not plea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván De Pineda
Iván de Pineda (born 11 July 1977) is an Argentine-Spanish international fashion model, film actor and TV host. He has modelled in New York City, London and Milan. de Pineda was born in Madrid to a Spanish father and an Argentine mother. He and his mother moved to Argentina after his father's death when he was a child. De Pineda began to model at age 17, and would later represent labels such as YSL, Chanel, Diesel, DKNY, Kenzo, Moschino, and Versace. He made his television debut in the 2000 series ''Calientes'' playing the character of Nacho, and in 2005 debuted on Argentine cinema; his 2007 film ''Cuando ella saltó'' garnered him a Best New Actor award at the 2008 Silver Condor awards. Nowadays, he is in a TV programme called "Pasapalabra" in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telefe
Telefe (acronym for Televisión Federal) is a television station located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The station is owned and operated by Paramount Global through Televisión Federal S.A. Telefe is also one of Argentina's six national television networks. Its studios are located on Martínez, Buenos Aires, adjacent to the corporate headquarters; its transmitter is located at the Alas Building. In areas of Argentina where a Telefe station isn't receivable over-the-air, it is available on satellite and select cable systems. Telefe also has regional stations across the country and an international network (Telefe Internacional) which is available in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. History First years (1957–73) The history of Telefe stretches back to 1957, when a group of alumni and lawyers from the Colegio El Salvador led by Fr. Héctor Grandetti, founded the company ''Difusión Contemporánea S.A.'' (Contemporary Broadcasting S.A.). This company, known as ''DiCon'' f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
