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Television programs
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Famous TV presenters
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Popular dramas and soap operas
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Vocabulary list
Television programs
Scripted entertainment
GENRES
Unscripted entertainment
Informational
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Dramatic television series (including police
procedural, serial drama, science-fiction, or soap
operas) or Television comedy (typically situation
comedy or sketch comedy)
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Animated television series
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Miniseries and TV Movies
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Award show
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Talk shows
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Reality television
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Game shows
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News programs
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Documentary
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Television news magazine, dealing with current
affairs
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TV infomercials, which are advertising paid spots
Bob Barker
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Robert William "Bob"
Barker (born December 12,
1923) is a nineteen-time
Emmy Award-winning
former American television
game show host. He is best
known for hosting CBS's
The Price Is Right from 1972
to 2007, making it the
longest-running daytime
game show in North
American television history.
After holding the job for
nearly 35 years and having
been in television for 50
years, Barker retired in
June 2007.
Carol Burnett
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Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26,
1933) is an American Emmy Awardwinning actress, comedian, singer,
dancer, and writer. Burnett started her
career in New York. After becoming a hit
on Broadway, she debuted on television.
After successful appearances on The Garry
Moore Show, Carol moved to Los Angeles
and began an eleven-year run on the
highly acclaimed The Carol Burnett Show
which was aired on CBS television from
1967 to 1978.
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With roots in vaudeville, The Carol Burnett
Show was a variety show combining
comedy sketches, song, and dance. The
comedy sketches ranged from movie
parodies to character pieces which
featured the many talents of Burnett
herself who created and played several
well-known and distinctive characters.
Kelly Ripa
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Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970)
an American Daytime Emmy Awardwinning actress, television personality and
talk show host. Since February 2001,[1]
she has served as the co-host of Live with
Regis and Kelly. Earlier in her career, Ripa
played Hayley Vaughan Santos on All My
Children; she also played Faith Fairfield on
Hope & Faith. Both are television series on
ABC.
Television work:Live with Regis and Kelly
(2001-present)
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
(2002)
Hope & Faith (2003-2006)
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time (2003) (voice)
Kelly Ripa's E! True Hollywood Story (2006)
Denise van Outen
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Denise van Outen (born May 27,
1974, Basildon, Essex) is an
English television hostess and
stage actress of partially Dutch
descent. Her most notable roles
to date were as a presenter on
The Big Breakfast, and as Roxie
Hart in the musical Chicago on
both the West End and on
Broadway.
Nichola Theobald
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Nichola "Nikki" Theobald is an English actress,
voice-over, television presenter and fashion
model. Voice-over roles include radio
promotions for Sky Travel, Top Up TV and
narration for a series of audio books of
children's stories.
Nichola Theobald began her career in the
modeling industry and appeared in a
shopwindow worldwide campaign for French
Connection and then went on to appear in many
editorials in magazines including Esquire and
FHM.
Following a second successful advertising
campaign for French Connection her status as a
model grew and she was featured in a variety of
editorials in popular magazines such as Men's
Health, Mixmag, Front, Loaded and Zoo.
She appeared on the cover for the British
feature film Triggerman which starred Pete
Postlethwaite, Adrian Dunbar, Neil Morrissey,
Donnie Wahlberg and Michael Rapaport.
Simon Amstell
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Simon Marc Amstell (born 29
November, 1979) is a BAFTA nominated,
award-winning English comedian and
television presenter. In 2007, Amstell
was nominated for "The Times
Breakthrough South Bank Show Award".
His first professional television
appearance was in 1998, as a presenter
on the UK children's channel
Nickelodeon.
From 2000 to 2006 he presented
Popworld on Channel 4 with Miquita
Oliver. He voiced the characters "Timothy
the Popworld melon" and "Richard the
Popworld horse".
Amstell also performs as a stand up
comedian.
The Bold and the
Beautiful
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The Bold and the Beautiful (often
called B&B or less commonly, Bold) is
a popular American television soap
opera, first broadcast on CBS on
March 23, 1987. It was created by
William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell as a
sister show to their other soap opera
The Young and the Restless. B&B
centers around the Forrester family
and their Los Angeles fashion house
business Forrester Creations.
The show is the only American
daytime soap opera currently on the
air that runs for 30 minutes (the other
shows run for an hour), and the only
one to simulcast in a Spanish
language track for Hispanic viewers in
the United States (under the title
Belleza y poder).
B&B is also unique to other American
soaps in that it has a very strong
worldwide audience.
Format:
Soap
opera
Format:
Crime
drama
CSI
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CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation (commonly
referred to as CSI) is a
popular, Emmy Awardwinning CBS television series
that trails the investigations
of a team of Las Vegas
forensic scientists as they
unveil the circumstances
behind mysterious and
unusual deaths and other
crimes.
The show follows the cases of
the Crime Scene Investigation
division of the Las Vegas
Police Department, usually
referred to by officers as the
"Las Vegas Crime Lab".
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The producer chose to set the
series in Las Vegas because
that city's crime lab is the
second most active in the
United States, after the Federal
Bureau of Investigation lab in
Quantico, Virginia.
The division solves crimes
almost entirely through
forensics evidence, which may
or may not come to conclusion
of a murder or accidental
death. The bizarre conclusions
of these cases often force one
to question morals and beliefs
and possibly human nature in
general.
Desperate Housewives
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The setting of the show is the street of
Wisteria Lane in the fictional American
town of Fairview, Eagle State. It follows
the lives of a group of women, seen
through the eyes of their dead neighbor,
as they work through domestic struggles
and family life, while facing the secrets,
crimes and mysteries hidden behind the
doors of their – at the surface – beautiful
suburban neighborhood.
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Since its premiere on ABC on October 3,
2004, the show has been well received by
the critics as well as the audience. The
show is a multiple Emmy, Golden Globe
and Screen Actors Guild award winner,
and in April 2007 it was reported to be the
most popular show in its demographic
worldwide, with an audience of
approximately 115 to 119 million viewers.
Format:
Comedydrama
Melrose Place
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It is an American primetime soap opera that
ran between 1992 and 1999, created by
Darren Star for the FOX network and
executive produced by Aaron Spelling. A
spinoff from Beverly Hills 90210, though
not featuring any permanent cast members
crossing over, Melrose Place is set in a small
apartment courtyard complex in the West
Hollywood district of Los Angeles, where
several young individuals reside, each with
their own dreams and drives. The show's
popularity led to a rash of similar nighttime
serials about sexy, powerful women, such
as Models, Inc., Pacific Palisades, and
Central Park West, all of which were shortlived.
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Like its predecessor, the show struggled in
its first season with low ratings. However,
with the arrival of more interesting
characters and over-the-top storylines,
ratings increased. The show was cancelled
after its seventh season.
Format:
Soap
opera
Format:
Alf
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ALF is a 30-minute television
sitcom that originally ran on
NBC from 1986 to 1990. The
plot involves the title
character Gordon Shumway,
an alien nicknamed ALF (for
Alien Life Form) portrayed by
Paul Fusco and Michu
Meszaros, who crash lands in
the garage of the suburban
middle class Tanner family.
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The series stars Max Wright
as father Willie Tanner, Anne
Schedeen as mother Kate
Tanner, and Andrea Elson
and Benji Gregory as their two
children, Lynn and Brian
Tanner.
Sitcom
Format:
The Avengers
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The Avengers was a British
television series featuring secret
agents in 1960s Britain. The
programmes were made by TV
company Associated British
Corporation, and created by its Head
of Drama Sydney Newman. It was an
early example of the spy-fi genre,
combining secret agent storylines
with science fiction elements.
Running from 1961 to 1969, it is the
longest running espionage series
produced for English-language
television, though the American
series Mission: Impossible had more
episodes (171).
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During the course of its run, The
Avengers was marked by different
eras as different co-stars came and
went. The only constant was John
Steed, played by Patrick Macnee.
Spy - fi
Millennium
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Millennium is an American television series produced
by Chris Carter (creator of The X-Files), set during the
years leading up to the dawn of the new millennium. It
aired from 1996 to 1999 on the Fox Network.
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Genre actor Lance Henriksen starred in the series as
investigator Frank Black, a freelance forensic profiler
and former FBI special agent with a unique ability to
see the world through the eyes of serial killers and
murderers, though he was not psychic. Black
investigated the most horrific crimes and dealt with the
mysterious Millennium Group, whose power and
sinister intentions become more clear throughout the
series. Black's character may have been inspired by
the stories of real life FBI agents and criminal profilers
such as John E. Douglas, the one-time head of the
FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. While the series started
out as a crime investigation series, it became more and
more supernatural, like The X-Files, with which it later
had a crossover episode.
Format:
Drama,
horror
Vocabulary list
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TV programme - something that you watch on television or listen to on
the radio.
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TV presenter (TV hostess/host) - someone who introduces the
different parts of a television show; someone who gives a speech or gives
someone a prize at a ceremony.
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Game show - a television programme in which people play games or
answer questions to win prizes.
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Dramedy (Comedy-drama) - a style of television and movies in which
there is an equal, or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content.
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Infomercial - a long television advertisement that provides a lot of
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Vaudeville - a type of theatre entertainment, popular from the
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Variety show - a television or radio programme or a performance
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Voice-over - information or remarks that are spoken on a television
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Spin - off - a television programme involving characters that were
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Sitcom (a situation comedy) - a funny television programme in
information and seems like a normal programme.
1880s to the 1950s, in which there were many short performances
of different kinds, including singing, dancing, jokes etc.
that consists of many different shorter performances, especially
musical and humorous ones.
programme or film by someone who is not seen on the screen.
previously in another programme or film.
which the same characters appear in different situations each week.
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Spy-fi
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Police procedural - a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts
- a genre of spy fiction that includes elements of science fiction.
It often showcases wild plots for world domination, gadgets and fast
vehicles. Spy-fi does not present espionage as it is practiced in reality. It
is escapist fantasy that emphasizes glamour, adventure and derring-do.
to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate
crimes. Unlike typical detective novels, which concentrate on one crime,
police procedurals frequently show how police officers work to solve
multiple crimes simultaneously.
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Sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes,
called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches
are performed by a group of comedic actors, either on stage or through an audio
or/and visual medium such as broadcasting. Often sketches are first improvised
by the actors and written down based on the outcome of these improv sessions,
however improvisation is not necessarily involved in all sketch comedy.