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Flat-screen television receivers on display for sale at a consumer electronics store in 2008

Television (TV) is atelecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium oftransmission. Television is amass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent toradio receivers.

Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencingpublic opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries.

In 2013, 79% of the world's households owned a television set. The replacement of earliercathode-ray tube (CRT) screen displays with compact, energy-efficient, flat-panel alternative technologies such asLCDs (bothfluorescent-backlit andLED),OLED displays, andplasma displays was a hardware revolution that began with computer monitors in the late 1990s. Most television sets sold in the 2000s were stillCRT, and it was only in early 2010s that flat-screen TVs decisively overtook CRT. Major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT,Digital Light Processing (DLP), plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. LEDs are being gradually replaced by OLEDs. Also, major manufacturers have started increasingly producing smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet andWeb 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s.^{[better source needed]} (Full article...)

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Chad Harris-Crane is a fictional character on the American soap operaPassions, which aired onNBC from 1999 to 2007 and onDirecTV in 2007–08. Developed by the soap's creator andhead writer James E. Reilly, Chad was portrayed by two actors over the course of the show:Donn Swaby (1999 to 2002) and Charles Divins (2002 to 2007). Swaby left the show to pursue roles outside daytime television and was replaced by Divins. The role was the first time that either actor had worked on a television series.

Chad is a member of theCrane family. The illegitimate son of the evil patriarchAlistair Crane, Chad is introduced as a music producer from Los Angeles who is searching for his biological family. Chad becomes involved in a love triangle with sistersWhitney andSimone Russell. His romance with Whitney is complicated by the possibility they may be engaging in an incestuous relationship as Chad is initially believed to be her half-brother, and later revealed to be her adoptive cousin. Chad's later storylines focus on his confusion over hissexual identity, and his sexual relationship with tabloid reporterVincent Clarkson. Chad attempts to reconcile with Whitney, after his affair with Vincent is revealed, before being killed by his father Alistair while trying to protect his best friend,Ethan Winthrop.

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The CN Tower and the Toronto Harbour viewed from the Toronto City Centre Airport

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TheCN Tower, Toronto, Canada, used for television transmission, among other uses

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... thatBill Maynard received letters thanking him for makingOh No It's Selwyn Froggitt "the cleanest show on television"?
... that an anime programming block that originally aired on the American television channelTechTV was the inspiration for the co-founder of a Japanese animation studio?
... that the Japanese live-action television drama adaptation ofAccomplishment of Fudanshi Bartender was first broadcast in Taiwan before being broadcast in its home country?
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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen or never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

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...that the bookSouth Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today analyzes the animated television comedy seriesSouth Park using philosophical concepts?

...that the air-date of "The Beginning of the End", thefourth season premiere of the television seriesLost, means that the season may be interrupted by the2007 Writers Guild of America strike even if a settlement is reached?

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...that thetelevision dramaHill Street Blues imitated the visual style ofThe Police Tapes, a low-budgetdocumentary about apolice precinct in theSouth Bronx?

...that aSpokane, Washington, television station devoted the first 11 minutes of its Saturday evening newscast to the February 2007 arrests ofGonzaga University basketball playerJosh Heytvelt and his teammate?

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Castellaneta in 1988

Daniel Louis Castellaneta (/ˌkæstələˈnɛtə/KAST-ə-lə-NET-ə; born October 29, 1957) is an American actor. He is best known for voicingHomer Simpson on the animated seriesThe Simpsons (as well as other characters on the show such asGrampa Simpson,Krusty the Clown,Groundskeeper Willie,Mayor Quimby,Sideshow Mel,Mr. Teeny,Kodos,Itchy, andBarney Gumble). Castellaneta is also known for voicing Grandpa in Nickelodeon'sHey Arnold!, and has had voice roles in several other programs, includingFuturama,Sibs,Darkwing Duck,The Adventures of Dynamo Duck,The Batman,Back to the Future: The Animated Series,Aladdin,Earthworm Jim, andTaz-Mania.

In 1999, Castellaneta appeared in the Christmas specialOlive, the Other Reindeer and won anAnnie Award for his portrayal of the Postman. Castellaneta released a comedy albumI Am Not Homer, and wrote and starred in aone-person show titledWhere Did Vincent van Gogh? (Full article...)

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Image 1Tihanyi' Radioskop patent (1926) was recognized as Document of Universal Significance by the UNESCO (fromHistory of television)
Image 2Smart TVs on display (fromSmart TV)
Image 3This live image of actressPaddy Naismith was used to demonstrateTelechrome,John Logie Baird's first all-electronic color television system, which used two projection CRTs. The two-color image would be similar to the basic Telechrome system. (fromColor television)
Image 4Hovannes Adamian c. 1900s (fromColor television)
Image 5First television test broadcast transmitted by the NHK Broadcasting Technology Research Institute in May 1939 (fromHistory of television)
Image 6Samsung's discontinued Orsay platform (fromSmart TV)
Image 7Ad for the beginning of experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939 (fromHistory of television)
Image 8RCACT-100 at theSPARK Museum of Electrical Invention playingSuperman. The RCA CT-100 was the first mass-produced color TV set. (fromColor television)
Image 9An RCA Victor Color TV ad featuring milliner Lilly Daché in 1959. (fromColor television)
Image 10TheNipkow disk. This schematic shows the circular paths traced by the holes, which may also be square for greater precision. The area of the disk outlined in black shows the region scanned. (fromHistory of television)
Image 11ThePhilco Predicta, 1958. In the collection ofThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis (fromHistory of television)
Image 12RCA 630-TS, the first mass-produced television set, which sold in 1946–1947 (fromHistory of television)
Image 13Manfred von Ardenne in 1933 (fromHistory of television)
Image 14An early Smart TV from 2012 running the discontinued Orsay platform (fromHistory of television)
Image 15John Logie Baird in 1925 with his televisor equipment and dummies "James" and "Stooky Bill"(right) (fromHistory of television)
Image 16Ferdinand Braun (fromHistory of television)
Image 17The earliest photograph of a television picture, showing the face ofOliver Hutchinson in June 1926. The television picture was projected using Baird's television camera. (fromHistory of television)
Image 18Family watching TV, 1958 (fromHistory of television)
Image 19A map depictingdigital terrestrial television standards (fromDigital television)
Image 20Comparison of image quality betweenISDB-T (1080i broadcast, top) andNTSC (480i transmission, bottom) (fromDigital television)
Image 21DBS satellite dishes (fromHistory of television)
Image 22Philo Farnsworth in 1924 (fromHistory of television)
Image 23LG smart TV using the Web browser (fromSmart TV)
Image 24The first mass-produced Czechoslovak TV-set Tesla 4001A (1953–57) (fromHistory of television)
Image 25LG Electronics smart TV from 2011 (fromSmart TV)
Image 26Color bars used in atest pattern, sometimes used when no program material is available (fromHistory of television)

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Weaver at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con

Sigourney Weaver is an American actress who began her career in the early 1970s by appearing in plays. Throughout her career, she has acted in nearly 40 stage productions. She made her film debut with a minor role inWoody Allen's comedy-dramaAnnie Hall (1977), but her breakthrough came when she portrayedEllen Ripley inRidley Scott's science fiction filmAlien (1979). She reprised the role inAliens (1986), this time helmed by directorJames Cameron. Her performance netted her a nomination for theAcademy Award for Best Actress. She returned to the role in two more sequels:Alien 3 (1992) andAlien Resurrection (1997), neither of which were as well received. Although originally written as a male role, Ripley is now regarded as one of the most significant female protagonists in cinema history, and consequently, Weaver is considered to be a pioneer of action heroines inscience fiction films.

Although best known for her role in theAlien franchise, Weaver has fostered a prolific filmography, appearing in more than 60 films. In 1981, she starred alongsideWilliam Hurt in theneo-noirEyewitness. Her next role was oppositeMel Gibson in thePeter Weir–directedThe Year of Living Dangerously (1982). She playedDana Barrett inGhostbusters (1984), later returning to the franchise inGhostbusters II (1989),Ghostbusters (2016), andGhostbusters: Afterlife (2021). In 1986, Weaver starred oppositeMichael Caine in the erotic thrillerHalf Moon Street. Her next role was primatologistDian Fossey inGorillas in the Mist (1988), for which she won aGolden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. That same year, she also won theGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her performance alongsideHarrison Ford inWorking Girl. Weaver was the first actor to have two acting wins at the Golden Globes in the same year. She also received an Academy Award nomination for both films. (Full article...)
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Thefourteenth season of the Americananimated sitcomThe Simpsons aired onFox between November 3, 2002 and May 18, 2003. It was produced byGracie Films and20th Century Fox Television. Theshow runner for the fourteenth production season wasAl Jean, who executive produced 21 of 22 episodes. The other episode, "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", was run byMike Scully. The fourteenth season has met with mostly positive reviews and won twoPrimetime Emmy Awards, includingOutstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour), fourAnnie Awards and aWriters Guild of America Award. This season contains the show's 300th episode, "Barting Over". (Full article...)
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Alan Alda (left),Wayne Rogers (right),McLean Stevenson (in back) andLoretta Swit (in front) from the first season ofM*A*S*H

M*A*S*H is an American television series developed byLarry Gelbart and adapted from the 1970 feature filmMASH (which was itself based on the 1968 novelMASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors byRichard Hooker). It follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the 4077th MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) inUijeongbu,South Korea, during theKorean War. The episodes were produced by20th Century Fox Television for theCBS network and aired from September 17, 1972, to February 28, 1983. The series, which covered a three-year military conflict, spanned 251 episodes, including the 2.5 hour finale over 11 seasons.

The regular cast originally consisted ofAlan Alda asCaptain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce andWayne Rogers asCaptain "Trapper" John McIntyre, two surgeons;McLean Stevenson asLieutenant Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon and the base commander;Loretta Swit asMajor Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan, the head nurse;Larry Linville asMajor Frank Burns, another surgeon; andGary Burghoff asCorporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, the company clerk. Recurring characters in the first season consisted ofJohn Orchard asCaptain "Capt. Ugly John Black" Black,Timothy Brown asCaptain "Spearchucker" Jones,William Christopher asFirst Lieutenant 'Father' John Patrick Mulcahy, the company chaplain (played by George Morgan in the pilot), andJamie Farr asCorporal Maxwell Klinger. (Full article...)
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Cooper at the Spain premiere ofSilver Linings Playbook in 2013

Bradley Cooper is an American actor and filmmaker. He began his career by appearing in an episode of the sitcomSex and the City (1999) and as the host of the tourism showGlobe Trekker the following year. He made his screen debut inWet Hot American Summer (2001) as a gay counselor—a role he later reprised in the web television seriesWet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015). In the action television seriesAlias (2001–2006), Cooper achieved some success for the supporting role ofWill Tippin, although he only played a major role in the series for the first few seasons.

Cooper's supporting part in the commercially successful comedyWedding Crashers (2005) improved his career prospects, but also led to him beingtypecast as the best friend to the main character in such comedies asFailure to Launch (2006),The Rocker (2008), andHe's Just Not That Into You (2009). During this period, Cooper also continued starring in television shows, such as the 2005 sitcomKitchen Confidential, and played adual role in a 2006 onstage production ofThree Days of Rain. However, the former was cancelled after four episodes due to lowratings. His breakthrough came with the role of a reckless teacher inTodd Phillips' comedyThe Hangover (2009), which became one of the highest grossingR-rated films of all time. Cooper continued to take on parts in several box office hits, includingThe A-Team (2010),Limitless, andThe Hangover Part II (both in 2011). (Full article...)
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TheDaytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series was an award presented annually by theNational Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) andAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It was given annually from 1985 to 2019 to honor a young actor below the age of 25, who had delivered an outstanding performance in a role while working within thedaytime drama industry.

At the12th Daytime Emmy Awards held in 1985,Brian Bloom was the first winner of this award for his portrayal ofDusty Donovan onAs the World Turns. The awards ceremony had not been aired on television for the prior two years, having been criticized for voting integrity. The award category was originally calledOutstanding Young Man orOutstanding Juvenile Male in a Drama Series, and began using its current title in 1991. Years before this category was introduced, networks declined to broadcast the show during a time of voting integrity rumors and waning interest. Confusion rose around the criteria of the new category due to the varying ages of the nominees. Within the first set of nominees, Bloom became the youngest actor nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award at the time at age 15, while the other actors nominated in the category were over 25. The criteria were later altered, requiring that the actor be aged 25 or below. (Full article...)
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Sacred Games is an Indian televisionthriller series based onVikram Chandra's 2006novel of the same name. Created byVikramaditya Motwane, the first season was directed by Motwane andAnurag Kashyap, who produced it under their bannerPhantom Films. The story follows a troubled police officer, Sartaj Singh (played bySaif Ali Khan), who receives a phone call from gangster Ganesh Gaitonde (played byNawazuddin Siddiqui); Gaitonde tells him to save the city within 25 days. The series chronicles the events that follow while tracing Gaitonde's past.

Other cast members includeRadhika Apte,Girish Kulkarni,Neeraj Kabi,Geetanjali Thapa,Jeetendra Joshi,Rajshri Deshpande,Karan Wahi,Aamir Bashir,Jatin Sarna,Elnaaz Norouzi Kubra Sait,Surveen Chawla,Pankaj Tripathi,Kalki Koechlin, andRanvir Shorey. The series was conceived after Erik Barmack, the vice-president ofNetflix, contacted Motwane in 2014 to create Indian content for the platform. They opted to adapt Chandra's English novel in the Hindi language, to which Motwane agreed.Varun Grover, Smita Singh, and Vasant Nath wrote the episodes of the first season; Grover, Dhruv Narang, Nihit Bhave, and Pooja Tolani wrote the second season. (Full article...)
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Swift at the2024 Golden Globes

The American singer-songwriterTaylor Swift has appeared in various visual media. She has starred in 61music videos, 13 of which she self-directed; released sixdocumentaries, including four feature-lengthconcert films; and acted in a number of fictional films, television shows, and commercial advertisements.

Trey Fanjoy directed several of Swift's award-winning music videos during her early career from 2006 to 2009. The music video for "Our Song" won Video of the Year at the2008 CMT Music Awards. Swift's second studio album,Fearless (2008), was supported by the music videos for "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me". In 2009, the former won Video of the Year at both the CMT Music Awards and theCountry Music Association Awards, and the latter wonBest Female Video at theMTV Video Music Awards. Swift's first self-directed music video was for her 2010 albumSpeak Now's lead single, "Mine", which she directed withRoman White. (Full article...)
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Roddenberry's star on theHollywood Walk of Fame

Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter and producer of several television series, best known for his work in creating theStar Trek franchise. He began a writing career while he was a Sergeant in theLos Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and his first work to be bought by a network wasThe Secret Defense of 117, although it took four years to be broadcast. During that time, he wrote four episodes of thepolice proceduralHighway Patrol under the pseudonym "Robert Wesley", as the LAPD required employees to seek formal permission to work a second job. After leaving the force, he wrote for several series, such asHave Gun – Will Travel but wanted to become a producer.

He wrote pilots for a series of his own, but these were turned down by the studios until he began work onThe Lieutenant. This ran for a single season onNBC on Saturday nights. While involved in that series, he began working on a science fiction premise that becameStar Trek. He oversaw the production of the series for the first two seasons, but following budget cuts and the move to an unfavorable timeslot for thethird season, he stepped back from working onStar Trek but remained credited as an executive producer. Following the cancellation of the series, he wrote and produced his first feature film,Pretty Maids All in a Row. He also produced several new science fiction pilots:Genesis II (also re-worked into a second pilot, calledPlanet Earth),The Questor Tapes andSpectre. Of these,Questor was approved to go to a full season, but following disagreements between Roddenberry and the studio over suggested changes, it was canceled. (Full article...)
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Gene Roddenberry in 1976

Gene Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter and producer of several television series, best known for his work in creating theStar Trek franchise. Before his television writing career, he was a pilot in the394th Bomb Squadron,5th Bombardment Group of theThirteenth Air Force duringWorld War II. During his time in the military, he flew theBoeing B-17 Flying Fortress, and was awarded both theAir Medal and theDistinguished Flying Cross. While working in theLos Angeles Police Department after the war, he began his television writing career, but resigned to concentrate on screenwriting. His first writing award was for an episode ofHave Gun – Will Travel entitled "Helen of Abajinan" which won theWriters Guild of America award for Best Teleplay in 1958. In 1964, he registered the idea with the Writers Guild which would define the rest of his career—Star Trek.

The majority of the awards and nominations received by Roddenberry throughout his career were related toStar Trek. He was credited forStar Trek: The Original Series (known at the time simply asStar Trek) during the nominations for twoEmmy Awards, and won twoHugo Awards. One Hugo was a special award for the series, while another was for "The Menagerie", the episode which used footage from the original unaired pilot forStar Trek, "The Cage". In addition, he was awarded the Brotherhood Award by theNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People for his work in the advancement ofAfrican American characters on television. (Full article...)
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Supernatural is an Americansupernatural drama television series, created byEric Kripke, that follows brothersSam (Jared Padalecki) andDean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) as they travel throughout the United States hunting supernatural creatures. The series borrows heavily fromfolklore andurban legends, and explores mythology andChristian theology, and their main adversaries throughout the series are demons.

The series premiered on September 13, 2005, onThe WB. The first season was broadcast on The WB, and following The WB's merger withUPN in September 2006,Supernatural continued to be aired on the new network,The CW. All fifteen seasons are available on DVD inRegions 1, 2, and 4 and are also available onBlu-ray. (Full article...)
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The73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement inAmerican prime time television programming from June 1, 2020, until May 31, 2021, as chosen by theAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented across three ceremonies on September 11 and 12, 2021, at the Event Deck atL.A. Live inDowntown Los Angeles,California, preceding the73rd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 19. A total of 99Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 92 categories. The ceremonies were produced by Bob Bain, directed by Rich Preuss, and broadcast in the United States byFXX on September 18.

The Queen's Gambit won nine awards, leading all programs;The Mandalorian andSaturday Night Live followed with seven wins each.The Mandalorian also received the most nominations with 19, followed byWandaVision with 15 andSaturday Night Live with 14. Program awards went toBoys State,Carpool Karaoke: The Series,Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square,For All Mankind: Time Capsule,Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal,Love, Death & Robots,Queer Eye,RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked,Secrets of the Whales,Space Explorers: The ISS Experience,Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, and76 Days.Netflix led all networks with 34 wins and 104 nominations. (Full article...)
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Book Three:Fire is the third and final season ofAvatar: The Last Airbender, an Americananimated television series created byMichael Dante DiMartino andBryan Konietzko. The series starsZach Tyler Eisen,Mae Whitman,Jack DeSena,Michaela Jill Murphy,Dante Basco,Dee Bradley Baker,Greg Baldwin (replacingMako Iwamatsu asIroh, who died in July 2006),Grey DeLisle, andMark Hamill as the main character voices.

The final season focuses once again on AvatarAang, now seeking to learn Firebending, and his friendsKatara,Sokka, andToph, who must defeat the tyrannicalFire Lord Ozai before the arrival of Sozin's Comet. Concurrently, it also followsPrince Zuko, who is finally welcomed back into the Fire Nation after betraying his uncleIroh and helping his sisterAzula conquer Ba Sing Se inBook Two. (Full article...)
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From left to right:ALMA Award-winning actorJorge Garcia,Daniel Dae Kim, andPrimetime Emmy Award-winning executive producersDamon Lindelof,Carlton Cuse andBryan Burk

Lost is an Americandrama series that aired onABC from September 22, 2004, until May 23, 2010. It was nominated for numerous awards, including 54Primetime Emmy Awards (11 wins), 54Saturn Awards (13 wins), 33Teen Choice Awards, 17TCA Awards (4 wins), 13Golden Reel Awards (5 wins), 8Satellite Awards (1 win), 7Golden Globe Awards (1 win), 7Writers Guild of America Awards (1 win), 6Directors Guild of America Awards, 6Producers Guild of America Awards (1 win), 4People's Choice Awards, 2BAFTA TV Awards, 2NAACP Image Awards (1 win), and 2Screen Actors Guild Awards (1 win). Amongst the wins for the series are thePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series (1 win),Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama (1 win),Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (1 win),Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series (5 wins),TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Drama (3 wins), andPeabody Award (1 win).

The series has anensemble cast and several differentLost actors have received acting award nominations.Michael Emerson andTerry O'Quinn are the only actors to win Primetime Emmy Awards.Matthew Fox has been nominated for 19 individual awards (winning three), the most of any cast member;Evangeline Lilly is second with 16 and Emerson is third with 13 (winning two). "Pilot" is the most nominated episode of the series, receiving nominations from fifteen different associations; the episode won eight awards, including four Primetime Emmy Awards. The third-season finale, "Through the Looking Glass", is the second most nominated episode with nine while "The End" received the most Primetime Emmy Award nominations with eight, winning one. (Full article...)
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Four of the six main cast members attend a ceremony in 2009, left to right;Nancy Cartwright (Bart),Yeardley Smith (Lisa),Dan Castellaneta (Homer) andJulie Kavner (Marge).

The Simpsons is an Americananimated sitcom that includes six main voice actors and numerous regular cast and recurring guest stars. The principal cast consists ofDan Castellaneta,Julie Kavner,Nancy Cartwright,Yeardley Smith,Hank Azaria andHarry Shearer.Tress MacNeille,Maggie Roswell,Chris Edgerly,Eric Lopez,Alex Désert,Kevin Michael Richardson,Jenny Yokobori,Kimberly D. Brooks,Dawnn Lewis, Tony Rodriguez, Melanie Minichino, Jonathan Lipow,Mo Collins, Kelly Macleod andGrey DeLisle have appeared as supporting cast members, along with former supporting cast membersPamela Hayden,Russi Taylor,Karl Wiedergott,Marcia Mitzman Gaven,Doris Grau,Susan Blu,Jo Ann Harris, andChristopher Collins. Repeat guest cast members includeMarcia Wallace,Phil Hartman,Jon Lovitz,Joe Mantegna,Frank Welker,Keegan-Michael Key,Nick Offerman,Megan Mullally,Pharrell Williams,
Kelsey Grammer,Kiefer Sutherland,John C. Reilly,Sarah Silverman,Tom Hanks andAlbert Brooks. With the exception of "Old Money", episode credits list only thevoice actors, and not the characters they voice.

BothFox and the production crew wanted to keep their identities secret during the early seasons and closed most of the recording sessions while refusing to publish photos of the recording artists. The network eventually revealed which roles each actor performed in the episode "Old Money", because the producers said the voice actors should receive credit for their work. Every main cast member has won an Emmy forOutstanding Voice-Over Performance. Shearer was the last cast member to win, receiving his award in 2014 for the episode "Four Regrettings and a Funeral." Castellaneta and Azaria have won four, while Kavner, Cartwright, Smith, Shearer, Wallace, Grammer, and guest starJackie Mason have each won one. (Full article...)
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Thethirteenth season of the Americananimated sitcomThe Simpsons aired onFox between November 6, 2001 and May 22, 2002. It consists of 22 episodes. The showrunner for the thirteenth production season wasAl Jean, who executive-produced 17 episodes.Mike Scully executive-produced the remaining five, which were all hold-overs that were produced for theprevious season.The Simpsons is an animated series about an Americanfamily, which consists ofHomer,Marge,Bart,Lisa, andMaggie. The show is set in the fictional city ofSpringfield, and lampoonsAmerican culture, society, television and many aspects of thehuman condition.

The season won anAnnie Award for Best Animated Television Production, and was nominated for several other awards, including twoPrimetime Emmy Awards, threeWriters Guild of America Awards, and anEnvironmental Media Award.The Simpsons ranked 30th in the season ratings with an average viewership of 12.4 million viewers. It was the second-highest-rated show onFox afterMalcolm in the Middle. Season 13 was released on DVD in Region 1 on August 24, 2010, Region 2 on September 20, 2010, and Region 4 on December 1, 2010. (Full article...)

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