Questions tagged [television]
A telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome (black-and-white) or colored, with or without accompanying sound.
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Have Chinese regulators ordered TV stations not to broadcast crime or time travel shows?
In April a bunch of news services claimed that the Chinese government had banned shows displaying time travel.
In May came this announcement on BBC:
China has ordered TV stations across
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Did Cops have an episode in which a woman's baby was taken from her for "lying to the police"?
Mara “Get Rid of the Nazis” Wilson via Twitter (19k likes; 2k retweets), and posted on Reddit's r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut (20.1k likes)
I couldn't immediately verify this claim; I didn't find a link in the ...
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Did a billion people watch "Rumble in the Jungle"?
The fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman is claimed to have a billion viewership.
For example Jet (Sep 1995):
the first one-billion viewer fight
Revisiting 'The Rumble in the Jungle' 40 ...
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Did two billion people watch the wedding of Catherine Middleton and Prince William?
The Sunday Times just now tweeted:
Kate astonished everyone in royal circles with how she handled their wedding in April 2011, watched by an estimated global audience of two billion.
New York Times ...
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Is the TV show "Storage Wars" staged?
I've read a few places online where people say that the TV show Storage Wars is staged and that the producers place items in the lockers. Does anyone know if that is true?
