Futurama. American animated sci-fi sitcom American TV series or program Following its initial cancellation by Fox, Futurama began airing reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, which lasted from 2003 to 2007. It was revived in 2007 as four direct-to-video films, the last of which was released in early 2009. Comedy Central entered into an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television to syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as 16 new, half-hour episodes, constituting a fifth season.[3][4] Futurama received critical acclaim throughout its run and was nominated for 17 Annie Awards, winning nine of them, and 12 Emmy Awards, winning six. It was nominated four times for a Writers Guild of America Award, winning for the episodes "Godfellas" and "The Prisoner of Benda".
Premise[edit] Characters[edit] Setting[edit] Futurama is set in New New York at the turn of the 31st century, in a time filled with technological wonders. Episodes[edit] Production[edit] Development[edit] Writing[edit] The PJs. The PJs is an American stop-motion animated television series, created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins. It portrayed life in an urban public housing project, modeled after the Cabrini–Green Housing Projects in Chicago.[1] The series starred Eddie Murphy, and was produced by Imagine Entertainment by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, The Murphy Company and Will Vinton Studios in association with Touchstone Television. The original run of the series debuted on Fox on Sunday, January 10, 1999 following the network's coverage of the NFC Divisional Playoffs. Two days later, the second episode aired in its regular Tuesday night time slot, following King of the Hill.[2] Summary[edit] Characters[edit] Main characters[edit] Other main characters[edit] Florence Normandy Avery (Mrs.
Portrait of most of the major characters Recurring characters[edit] Walter Burkett (Marc Wilmore) - the neighborhood parole officer with a past as a crooked cop. Locations[edit] Episodes[edit] DVD releases[edit] The O.C. King of the Hill. The series has a total of 259 episodes over the course of its thirteen seasons. The series finale aired on the Fox Network on September 13, 2009. Four episodes from the final season were to have aired on Fox, but later aired in syndication on local stations from May 3 to 6, 2010, and on Adult Swim from May 17 to 20, 2010.
King of the Hill was a joint production by 3 Arts Entertainment, Deedle-Dee Productions, Judgemental Films, and 20th Century Fox Television and syndicated by 20th Television. History[edit] Conception[edit] The design of King of the Hill was based on Texas suburbs from the 1950s like Richardson Initial success[edit] Format change[edit] Over time, series co-creator Mike Judge took a reduced role in the production of episodes. Facing cancellation[edit] The thirteenth season episode "Lucky See, Monkey Do" became the first episode of the series to be produced in widescreen high-definition when it aired on February 8, 2009.[11] Cancellation[edit] Television ratings[edit] Setting[edit] That '70s Show. That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that originally aired on Fox from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006. The series focused on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979.[1] The main teenage cast members were Topher Grace, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Laura Prepon, and Wilmer Valderrama.
The main adult cast members were Debra Jo Rupp, Kurtwood Smith, Don Stark and, during the first three seasons and a few episodes in the sixth and seventh seasons, Tanya Roberts. Production[edit] Opening[edit] Theme song[edit] Opening credits[edit] Opening credits for seasons 1–7 showed members of the cast driving in Eric's car singing the theme song together. Elements of the show[edit] The 1970s[edit] Beginning with the second season, the show focused less on the socio-political aspects of the story. Split screens[edit] Dream sequences[edit] The Circle[edit] The Water Tower[edit] Malcolm in the Middle. The series follows a family of six (later seven), and stars Frankie Muniz in the lead role of Malcolm, a more-or-less normal boy who tests at genius level.
He enjoys being smart, but he despises having to take classes for gifted children, who are mocked by the other students who call them "Krelboynes" — a reference to the nerdy Seymour Krelboyne of The Little Shop of Horrors. Jane Kaczmarek is Malcolm's overbearing, authoritarian mother, Lois, and Bryan Cranston plays his immature but loving father, Hal. Christopher Masterson plays eldest brother Francis, a former rebel who, in earlier episodes, was in military school, but eventually marries and settles into a steady job.
Justin Berfield is Malcolm's dimwitted older brother Reese, a schoolyard bully who tortures Malcolm at home even while he defends him at school. Younger brother Dewey, a musical genius, is portrayed by Erik Per Sullivan. Premise[edit] Characters[edit] Main[edit] Recurring[edit] The family[edit] Other characters[edit] The Bernie Mac Show. The Bernie Mac Show (often shortened to Bernie Mac in syndication) is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001 to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sister's three kids: Jordan, Vanessa, and Bryana. Premise[edit] The series was loosely based on Mac's stand-up comedy acts. In real life, Bernie "Mac" McCullough was married with one daughter; Mac's character on the show (a stand-up comedian) was married with no children of his own.
The pilot episode, aired on November 14, 2001, set up the basic premise for the series: the character Bernie Mac takes in his sister's children after she enters rehab (a premise taken from one of Mac's routines in the 2000 film, The Original Kings of Comedy). Much of the humor in the show was derived from Mac's continual adjustment to and his unique take on parenthood. Broadcast history by season[edit] American ratings[edit] Regular cast[edit] Recurring cast[edit] Mr. Married... with Children. The Simpsons. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with the producer James L. Brooks. Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987.
After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and was an early hit for Fox, becoming the network's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1989–1990). Production Development When producer James L. The Simpson family first appeared as shorts in The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. Executive producers and showrunners Matt Groening and James L. Writing Part of the writing staff of The Simpsons in 1992. At the end of 2007 the writers of The Simpsons went on strike together with the other members of the Writers Guild of America, East. Voice actors. Family Guy. The family was conceived by MacFarlane after developing two animated films, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve.
MacFarlane redesigned the films' protagonist, Larry, and his dog, Steve, and renamed them Peter and Brian, respectively. MacFarlane pitched a seven-minute pilot to Fox on May 15, 1998. The show was given the green light and started production. Shortly after the third season of Family Guy had aired in 2001, Fox cancelled the series, putting the series to a 2-year hiatus.
However, favorable DVD sales and high ratings for syndicated reruns on Adult Swim convinced the network to renew the show in 2004 for a 4th season, which began airing on May 1, 2005. Family Guy has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 11 Annie Awards, and has won three of each. In 2009, it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, the first time an animated series was nominated for the award since The Flintstones in 1961. Origins Production Executive producers Writing Lawsuits. Undeclared. Undeclared is an American sitcom that aired on Fox during the 2001–02 season. The show has developed a cult following. In 2012, Entertainment Weekly listed the show at #16 in the "25 Best Cult TV Shows from the Past 25 Years".[1] Premise[edit] The half-hour comedy was Judd Apatow's follow-up to an earlier television series he worked on, Freaks and Geeks, which also lasted for one season.
Undeclared centers on a group of college freshmen at the fictional University of Northeastern California. Unlike Freaks, it was set contemporaneously (early 2000s) rather than the 1980s. Cast and characters[edit] Main characters[edit] Recurring characters[edit] Guests and cameos[edit] Broadcast[edit] Episodes[edit] When first shown on network television, many episodes were aired out of order, much to Judd Apatow's dismay. Planned storylines[edit] The DVD contains the script to an unproduced episode, "Lloyd's Rampage" (written by Lewis Morton), which was written for the show's second season.
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