Fifty-nine years ago today was the first time a television audience got to watch an atomic blast broadcast l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/01/tv-shows-atomic-blast-live/The Late Night Wars have given us plenty to read about, but this sort of thing has been going on for decades. You probably don't know the story of the biggest network talk show bomb ever, The Jerry Lewis Show. It only la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/23/talk-show-troubles-1963/(YouTube link) Apple Daily in Hong Kong produce... ...n the Jay Leno/Conan O'Brien situation to Chinese television viewers. Portraying them as comic book heroes is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/20/explaining-the-late-night-wars-by-animation/The people of Sweden really love Donald Duck, or K... ...to watch the 1958 Walt Disney Presents Christmas television special, "From All of Us to All of You." The s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/23/a-very-disney-christmas-in-sweden/If you watched the original British version of The Office, you know how everything ties up at the conclusion of the “documentary.” What do you remember about the Christmas special that wrapped up the series? Yes, it'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/the-office-christmas-special-quiz/Cinematical has a list of ideas for making movies based on classic 20th century TV shows. A couple of these I'd never seen, but I definitely remember tuning in to see Martin Landau and company fight to survive each wee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/7-sci-fi-series-ripe-for-movie-reboots/31 years ago today, on Nov 17, 1978, CBS broadcast what has become one of the most maligned TV programs of all time, The Star Wars Holiday Special. It was so bad Lucas disowned it and famously said he'd want to smash ev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/17/the-star-wars-holiday-special-boring-fans-for-31-years/Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the debut of... ...episode of Rod Serling's classic horror/suspense television show aired on October 2, 1959. William Kates wro... ...P about the origin of the series: In a time on television when suburbia was idealized in popular shows such... ...t. Serling had al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/02/the-twilight-zone-turns-50/After 26 years of teaching children (literally... ...im of a “shift in the philosophy of educational television programming,” that started under Bush. I don...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/reading-rainbow-cancelled/This Simpsons mosaic table is made of leftover tiles and places from a Target clearance sale and leftovers at the local home improvement store by craftster user redflag. She completely freehanded the pictures, which...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/simpsons-mosaic-table/