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Zilveren Nipkowschijf
Zilveren Nipkowschijf (; "Silver Nipkow Disk", named for German television pioneer Paul Gottlieb Nipkow) is a Dutch television award that has been given out since 1961 by a selection of Dutch critics. The three founding critics were Henk Schaafsma of NRC Handelsblad, Hans Keller of Volkskrant, and Han G. Hoekstra of Het Parool. In 1975, Stichting Nipcow was founded and became the official foundation to award the Zilveren Nipkow. Tom Smeets of De Gelderlander has been the chairman of the foundation since the start. In 1996, the foundation started awarding the Zilveren Reissmicrofoon to the best Dutch radio show. In 2003, the foundation introduced a new award for best multimedia presentation, which was named the Zilveren Prichettprijs (named after Harry Prichett). Awards The awards were won by: * 1961: Pierre Janssen en Leen Timp * 1962: Wim Meuldijk, Lou de Jong and Mies Bouwman * 1963: Hans Gomperts en Rudi Carrell * 1964: Kees van Langeraad (NCRV) and "Brandpunt" (KRO) * 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German technician and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation of television, since his disk was a fundamental component in the first televisions. Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s. Nipkow has been called the "father of television", together with other early figures of television history like Karl Ferdinand Braun. The first public television station in the world, Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, was named in his honour. Beginnings Nipkow was born in Lauenburg (now Lębork) in the Prussian province of Pomerania, now part of Poland. While at school in neighbouring Neustadt (now Wejherowo), in the province of West Prussia, Nipkow experimented in telephony and the transmission of moving pictures. After graduation, he went to Berlin in order to study science. He st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriaan Van Dis
Adriaan van Dis (Bergen aan Zee, 16 December 1946) is a Dutch author. He debuted in 1983 with the novella ''Nathan Sid''. In 1995 his book ''Indische Duinen'' (''My Father's War''), which in its narrative is a follow up to his debut novella, was also awarded several prestigious literary awards. He is also known as the host of his own award-winning television talkshow named ''Hier is... Adriaan van Dis'', that lasted from 1983 to 1992 and several successful award-winning television documentaries. With the publication of his Indies inspired compilation book ''De Indie boeken'' (''The Indies books'') in 2012, van Dis establishes himself as one of the most significant second generation authors of Dutch Indies literature. Life Youth His father was born in the Dutch East Indies to Dutch parents and his mother a farmer's daughter from Breda who had met each other in the Dutch East Indies after the War. By then his mother already had three daughters from her first marriage to a Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Awards
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival storag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Awards
Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People Ethnic groups * Germanic peoples, the original meaning of the term ''Dutch'' in English ** Pennsylvania Dutch, a group of early Germanic immigrants to Pennsylvania *Dutch people, the Germanic group native to the Netherlands Specific people * Dutch (nickname), a list of people * Johnny Dutch (born 1989), American hurdler * Dutch Schultz (1902–1935), American mobster born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer * Dutch Mantel, ring name of American retired professional wrestler Wayne Maurice Keown (born 1949) * Dutch Savage, ring name of professional wrestler and promoter Frank Stewart (1935–2013) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Dutch (''Black Lagoon''), an African-American character from the Japanese manga and anime ''Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Luizenmoeder
''De Luizenmoeder'' (literally: "The Lice Mother") is a Dutch comedy series broadcast by AVROTROS on NPO 3. The series is about an elementary school, called "De Klimop", its teachers, its principal, and the parents of its first grade (group 3) students. The first season, which consisted of nine episodes, aired weekly on Sundays between 14 January and 11 March 2018. The season was followed by a special, that included bloopers and deleted scenes. The series became an unexpected success, reaching record-breaking ratings and receiving awards. A second season began on 10 February 2019. Belgian production company Lecter Media bought the rights to make a Belgian version directed by Maarten Moerkerke, which was broadcast on VTM starting in January 2019. The series was created by Jan Albert de Weerd and Ilse Warringa, who also is one of the actors. Filming began on 5 October 2017 at a former elementary school in Mijdrecht, called "Twistvliedschool". It was produced by Ingmar Menning and De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redmond O'Hanlon
Redmond O'Hanlon, FRGS, FRSL (born 5 June 1947) is an English writer and scholar. Life O'Hanlon was born in 1947 in Dorset, England. He was educated at Marlborough College and then Oxford University. After taking his M.Phil. in nineteenth-century English studies in 1971 he was elected senior scholar, and in 1974 Alistair Horne Research Fellow, at St Antony's College, Oxford. He completed his doctoral thesis, ''Changing scientific concepts of nature in the English novel, 1850–1920'', in 1977. Though very religious when he was young, O'Hanlon became an atheist upon his discovery of the works of Charles Darwin. From 1970–74, O'Hanlon was a member of the literature panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He was elected a member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History in 1982, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1984 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993. For fifteen years he was the natural history editor of the ''Times Literar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Wereld Draait Door
''De Wereld Draait Door'' (; English: "The world keeps on turning") also known by the acronym DWDD was an early-evening talk show on Dutch television, broadcast every weekday at 7:00 p.m. on NPO 1. It is the Netherlands' longest-running, regularly scheduled TV entertainment show and is also the program with the second-highest viewing figures on Dutch television, beaten only by the main evening news at 8.00 p.m. The show, created by Dieuwke Wynia and produced by BNNVARA, was discontinued after the last episode on 27 March 2020. Content The chat, conducted at a large table, was hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk and a rotating guest co-host. Guests were politicians, celebrities, artists, or simply people involved in projects or organizations that were topics of interest. The show contained a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment. Frequent guests and panelists included Jan Mulder, Yvon Jaspers, Halina Reijn, Giel Beelen, Mathijs Bouman, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koefnoen
''Koefnoen'' (say: ''koof noon'') was a popular Dutch television show, aired by the AVRO between 2004 and 2016. The first episode aired on 17 September 2004. The sketches on this show were taking a look at the past week. Most characters in ''Koefnoen'' were done by Dutch comedians Owen Schumacher and Paul Groot. A few other comedians supported them in the show. A lot of these comedians previously worked for ''Kopspijkers'', another Dutch television show. 'Koefnoen' is a Dutch-Yiddish word and means "for free". The word comes from 'kuf' and 'nun', the names of two Hebrew letters, equal to 'K' and 'N' which are the first letters of the words "Kost Niks", Dutch for "costs nothing". External links * {{in lang, nl} Koefnoenon the AVRO AVRO, short for Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep ("General Association of Radio Broadcasting"), was a Dutch public broadcasting association operating within the framework of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep system. It was the first public broad . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegenlicht
''Backlight'' ( nl, Tegenlicht) is a documentary television program by Dutch public broadcasting organisation VPRO.Tegenlicht (in Dutch), . Retrieved 28 October 2015. The first episode of ''Backlight'' was broadcast on 8 September 2002. The program "aims to grasp the quintessence of prominent trends and developments" in the practice of critical journalism, and tries to improve understanding of the intricate inner workings of our modern society. The program won the Zilveren Nipkowschijf in 2005. The episode " Lockerbie Revisited" won the |
Kopspijkers
Kopspijkers was a talk show that ran on the Dutch public television from 1995 to 2005 (first named Spijkers). A recipient, in 2003, of the annual ''Zilveren Nipkow'' best-show award from Dutch television critics, the programme was produced by the left-of-centre public broadcaster Omroepvereniging VARA, VARA. It was hosted by , hence the title. Humorous in style, the show was particularly noted for its satirical sketches. Until 2001 it was 'normal' cabaret, but in September 2001 (which happened to be the week of the 9/11 terrorist attacks) the show started with imitations of famous people. These were much like those featured in the British TV programme ''Spitting Image'', but used real actors. Political leaders like Jan Peter Balkenende, Wouter Bos and Gerrit Zalm were frequently impersonated. At first only Dutch people were impersonated, later also foreign celebrities (including Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela, John Kerry and Viktor Yushchenko) were impersonated. In recent episodes even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arjan Ederveen
Arjan Ederveen Janssen (born 9 September 1956) is a Dutch actor, comedian, TV scriptwriter and TV director. He participated in the TV series '' Theo en Thea'', '' Kreatief met Kurk'' and '' 30 minuten'' and played in the musicals ''Hairspray'' and ''Lang en Gelukkig''. He wrote the play ''Moord in de Kerststal''. Ederveen owns a TV production company, called ''De Toko''. His manager is Evelien Jansen. Career Ederveen studied at the Academie voor Kleinkunst and graduated in 1981. Between 1981 and 1984 he starred as half of the comedic duo ''De Duos'', which he formed together with Kees Prins. He played a bellboy in the Cheech and Chong film '' Still Smokin''' (1983). In 1984 he played the role of ''Theo'' in the children's TV series '' Theo en Thea'' (1985-1989), alongside Tosca Niterink. He reprised this role in the film '' Theo en Thea en de Ontmaskering van het Tenenkaasimperium'' (1989). In the 1990s Ederveen made the mockumentary TV series '' Kreatief met Kurk'' (1993-199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30 Minuten
''30 minuten'' (''30 minutes'') was a 1995 Dutch satirical mockumentary TV series, written by Arjan Ederveen and directed by Pieter Kramer. Ederveen also starred in every episode. Two series of seven episodes were produced and broadcast by the Dutch TV station VPRO between 1995 and 1997. ''30 minuten'' was praised by many TV critics and received several awards. It was also a major influence on the Flemish mockumentary series ''In de gloria''. Concept ''30 minuten'' is a stylistic satire of documentaries and reality television. The title refers to its half-hour length and was inspired by the BBC documentary series ''Sixty Minutes''. The series is filmed in a mockumentary style with tragicomic undertones. Each episode features a standalone "documentary" about every day people followed by a camera crew. Ederveen tried to present the characters not as caricatures, but as actual people. In an interview he claimed: "What I'm doing now are no longer comic characters, but people of fles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
