Lists of television programs

Norman Lear played an important role in the development of scripted television in the 1970’s. Lear created the hit show All In The Family, which was a sitcom that featured an African American family. The show was watched all throughout the country, giving Lear a platform to discuss controversial issues. The series began by making jokes while addressing various racial themes, but later evolved into talking about other topics such as menopause, impotency, homosexuality, and the ongoing Vietnam War…

Ariana Grande is a 22 year old singer who is my inspiration. She models, sings, and acts. In my opinion she is the best female singer as of today. She has been compared to so many other artist like Mariah Carey. Before Ariana was a singer she was an actress in a TV show called Victorious from Nickelodeon. I loved that show and just hearing her sing was just so amazing. Me and my friends used to think that someday we would want to act and be on TV like her. Later, when the show ended, I was sad…

INTRODUCTION: Within the last fifteen years of American society, there has been a huge proliferation of reality TV programs beginning to air and attracting audiences. Reality TV can stretch over many formats and can include talk shows, competition based shows, documentary based shows and one of the most popular, makeover based reality TV. Makeover based reality TV, works on the premise of a “transformation” from start to finish, be it, gardening, clothing, weight loss or cosmetic surgery.…

The Greatness of Television There are many options for television shows on the air today, whether good or bad so it is good to know what is worth watching. Television shows need to be evaluated because as a viewer you don’t want to be wasting your time watching something that isn’t good. “Timeless” is a new television show on NBC that airs Monday nights. Timeless centers around a three-team group trying to stop Garcia Flynn, a criminal with the intent to change American history, each of the…

Celebrities live in an entirely different world and they summon people’s yearnings to love, admire, copy, and gossip. The public sense a feeling of friendship by the familiar faces we see. The more a person sees certain faces, the more a person’s brain enjoys it. Furthermore, it does not matter if the face is attractive or not, it is known as “the exposure effect.” Individuals have a fixation with status. There are definite human traits that are universally recognized as beautiful such as…

presumed that people are simply satisfied with the quality of the TV shows they would watch, but with the years culture is getting more cognitively demanding, and expect more of a show than they did decades ago. He believes that video games, violent television shows, and juvenile’s sitcoms are good after all because the juveniles mental development is altered by these games. His argument here is that…

Showtime’s Weeds is a television series that premiered in 2005. It tells the story about a suburban mother, named Nancy Botwin, of two boys, Silas and Shane, whose husband dies and, in order to maintain her standard of living, sells marijuana. The entire show is filled with ups and downs, plot twists, and a wide variety of sociological concepts. The four main sociological concepts present in the show are sex and gender, deviance, race and ethnicity, and socialization and social interaction.…

1960s Television Imagine yourself sitting in the living room with your family. It’s the mid 1960s, and you’re flipping through channels until you reach CNN, where John F. Kennedy is standing at his post, giving a speech, with Nixon right behind him. You are watching the very first televised presidential debate. You decide to watch something else, so you click the remote, and Fred Flintstone appears on the screen, living life in the town of Bedrock. On comes an ad about toothbrushes, then…

A few years ago my parents introduced me to one of the most watched television shows in the United States, "Grey's Anatomy." Though the show was mainly advertised to showcase the drama aspect of it, I was only drawn to its medical component and the extraordinary ways the producer of "Grey's Anatomy" presented the characters. The ways the doctors did everything they could to save their patients, especially when they were in unusual situations that required them to make use of techniques they have…

desired prior to their being in the know.46 Netflix, akin to other networks, desired a series of hits. The challenge for it was never to have access to viewers’ homes — its streaming service could be accessed on any gadget that could be connected to television. The challenge was to create content that viewers…