Lists of television programs

In Yer Ear What does it take to get discovered in the world of entertainment? Over the past few years a popular program has swept across the globe which first debuted in the US. In the summer of 2006 America’s Got Talent hit the airwaves as the stage for anyone who thought they had what it took to compete for a million-dollar prize and stardom. Now there are programs in the United Kingdom, Asia and several European countries which celebrate their cultures and masses of talented individuals.…

Maz Jobrani is an Iranian-American, also known as the Persian Pink Panther. Last week his latest stand-up movie was added to Netflix's comedy lineup. Stand-up comedy is an art that is now much more appreciated than what it was in the times of Eddie Murphy and Steve Harvey. Today's comedian's, like Kevin Hart, have brought comedy into a new realm and have introduced laughter to a larger audience. Netflix advocates stand-up and adds stand-up comedy to its lineup every few months or so. Getting…

Obviously, they didn’t have all of the technology we have today, but they did have television, radios, and newspapers like we do now. For example, if you were in the 60’s you could have heard that the popular movie Bonnie and Clyde has recently been released by reading the newspaper at breakfast. Or maybe you see a commercial for the newly…

The purpose of this article is to persuade the general public that reality television contributes no practical benefits to our lives and has in fact, created a degenerate and immoral society. 2. This article does have a bias. Jonah Goldberg believes that the only reason why society is in such a degraded state of condition relative to the past is due to the influence of reality television. 3. In the article, Reality Television Debases Society, Goldberg focuses on how “reality-show culture has…

developed as one attempt to explain the influence of television on its viewers (p. 109, Bryant, Thompson, and Finklea, 2013). Also, cultivation proposes that over time, heavy viewers of television develop or cultivate views of the world similar to what they see on television, generally a "mean" world filled with violence and crime (p. 109, Bryant, et al, 2013). My definition of cultivation theory is a theory used to measure the effects television (mostly violence and crime) has one the viewers…

Network is a fictional satire film about the uses and abuses of network television. The film Network was an ironic ways this film portrays the characters reactions to Howard Beale, a network news anchor who announces his intended suicide on live TV after learning he has been given a two-week notice of losing his job. Help on live television is turned into an outrageous attempt to increase ratings through exploitation of the ravings of a man who is in obvious need of mental health treatment.…

with such easy access to multiple media platforms, it's understandable that parents are afraid of what their children have access to without them knowing. Especially television since there's almost no restrictions on what type of content can be showed, in movies or in tv shows, and there's also no way to stop or monitor the programs one's family can have access to, except with parental block, but is parental block a appropriate solution to the problem, or is to controlling and a lazy form of…

The Invention That Changed My Life Do you ever try to watch a video and it starts buffering because you have no wifi, well here's a brief story about wifi. A long time ago a beautiful actress, who had been very smart, invented wifi. Her name was Hedy Lamar. Around world war 2 she came up with a brilliant idea. She thought of frequency hopping to use for our soldiers as a code. After everyone said her idea was terrible, it eventually turned into wifi, and now it's used everyday. In my…

mainstream films such as The Brady Bunch Movie and television series such as Sabrina the Teenage Witch. In 2009, Charles was approached by LGBT-geared cable channel LOGO to produce his own competition reality series specifically for drag queens. Thus, RuPaul’s Drag Race was born. One part American Idol, one part Project Runway, and one part America’s Next Top Model, RuPaul’s Drag Race’s main conceit involves…

by how individuals appear to be. In high school, we tend to recall the narcissistic cheerleaders, jocks that are jerks, band geeks, and the likes. Why do we categorize them the way we do? One of the biggest influences is the media. In movies and television, we are shown all the smart kids being teased and called “nerd” and the beautiful girls getting the handsome jocks. Cliques are a not the only forms of stereotype we perceive throughout life. There is power fueled by money and greed, competing…