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1. Which television show was created and starred Tina Fey and a whispering Alec Baldwin about the making of a television show for a fictional New York City channel?

From Quiz Television Shows About Television Shows

Answer: 30 Rock

"30 Rock" ran for seven seasons between October 2006 and January 2013. In all, 138 episodes were shown. The title of the show was a play on the address of the NBC studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, York City. At the centre of the action was production of a comedy sketch show "TGS with Tracy Jordan", with Tina Fey starring as the writer and director. "30 Rock" was a parody of relationships between the makers of television shows, their broadcasters and the commercial partners/advertisers of the network. Alec Baldwin starred as the executive she had to deal with daily. Baldwin's character was noted for whispering at key moments of conversation. The show won a number of Emmys and Golden Globes amid a host of nominations. But time was not on its side. By the end of the fifth season, Baldwin was ready to leave. He told "Rolling Stone" magazine he felt the show was in decline. Fey, too, was feeling the pressure the writing and performing were having on her family life.

From Quiz Glued to the Box

Answer: The Big Bang Theory

"The Big Bang Theory" was first televised by CBS in 2007 and since then it has glued audiences worldwide to the box! It's a sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady and focuses upon four geeks and a waitress living in Pasadena, California. The main character, Sheldon Cooper (played by Jim Parsons), is a senior theoretical physicist at Caltech who shares an apartment with Leonard Hofstadter (played by Johnny Galecki) who is also a Caltech physicist but has none of Sheldon's incredibly irritating personality quirks. The other geeks are aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz (played by Simon Helberg) and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali (played by Kunal Nayyar). Kaley Cuoco plays Penny the waitress who lives in the apartment across the hall. She's an aspiring actress from a small town in Nebraska, and is relied upon heavily by Sheldon for common sense instructions! That everyone knows someone like Sheldon creates a unique 'glue' for audiences worldwide. I've been watching Shelly for years!

From Quiz My Favorite TV Shows

Answer: Bewitched

The show aired from 1964 to 1972. It starred Elizabeth Montgomery as the witch Samantha and Dick York as her husband, Darrin, although York's part was later taken by Dick Sargent. The role of Endora, the chief antagonist and mother of Samantha was given to Agnes Moorehead.

From Quiz I am Your Meal Ticket, So Be Nice

Answer: Tony Soprano

For six seasons, we followed Tony Soprano and both of his families in wild adventures of the NJ/NY mob. Tony always explained and excused his behavior by saying it was to provide for his family. Although his wife and children paid high prices for his excesses, they also stayed loyal to Tony and each other in the long run.

From Quiz Left Hanging: TV's Greatest Cliffhangers

Answer: Dallas

A list of all-time greatest TV cliffhangers would be incomplete without mentioning "Dallas", starring Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing! The third season's final episode, "A House Divided", is thought to have started television's trend of leaving the audience hanging at the end of a season. Fans of "Dallas" waited eight months for the resolution to the infamous question, which wasn't revealed until the fourth episode of the following season. "Dallas" tells the story of a wealthy oil tycoon of questionable moral fibre and the feuding that goes on within his family. It ran for 14 seasons, starting in 1978 and with the series' final episode airing on May 3, 1991. "Big Rich Texas", "Walker, Texas Ranger" and "Lone Star" are other TV series set in Texas.

From Quiz Name that TV Show

Answer: Supernatural

"Supernatural" stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles as the two brothers Sam and Dean Winchester. Later, Misha Collins joins the cast with his character Castiel.

From Quiz Name the TV Show, Part 2

Answer: Ghost Hunters

T.A.P.S stands for The Atlantic Paranormal Society which is based out of Rhode Island. The show follows the team of paranormal investigators as they investigate the most haunted places in the world.

From Quiz Name the TV Show, Part 1

Answer: Supernatural

"Supernatural" debuted in September of 2005. The storyline revolves around brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester hunting and killing all supernatural beings including spirits, vampires, werewolves, and demons, among others.

From Quiz The Last I Heard...

Answer: Seinfeld

The season finale of "Seinfeld" aired in 1998. The show lasted nine seasons and starred Jerry Seinfeld (obviously), Jason Alexander (as George), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as Elaine) and Michael Richards (as Kramer). The show first aired in 1989.

From Quiz T.V. Addicts

Answer: Home and Away

"Neighbours" is also an Australian soap, "Days Of Our Lives" is American and "Eastenders" is British. "Home and Away" centers around the lives of the people of "Summer Bay" in Australia. "Neighbours" has turned out stars such as Kylie Minogue, Holly Valance and Delta Goodrem.

From Quiz TV Stories

Answer: "ER"

Here are some of the doctors and nurses who have been on "ER" through 2002. Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) who was killed off in 2002 season. Nurse Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) left to be with Dr. Doug Ross (George Clooney). The show debuted in 1994.

From Quiz Match the TV Plots - Over 20 Season-Long Shows

Answer: Doctor Who

With seven actors who played the main character, the plot device was added that when a Time Lord was about to die, he could regenerate (up to 12 times), looking and acting quite a bit different. (1963-1989) "Doctor Who" has been revived in a second series, begun in 2005. It has continued with the continuity of the original series, with the ninth, tenth, and eleventh Doctors, portrayed by Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, and Matt Smith. (The eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann, was only portrayed on-screen in the 1996 made-for-TV movie.)

From Quiz Match the TV Plots - One Season Shows

Answer: Quark

Starred Richard Benjamin.

From Quiz Match the TV Plots

Answer: Starman

Based on the 1984 movie of the same name.

From Quiz Television Shows About Television Shows

Answer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show

For seven seasons from 1970, Mary Tyler Moore starred as a producer of a TV news show based in Minneapolis. She was well supported by a cast that included Ed Asner, Valerie Harper, and Betty White. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", sometimes the definite article was dropped in the title, has been described as "groundbreaking" in its portrayal of Tyler Moore as a woman keeping down a high pressure job in a men's world. One review said the show "..."took 20 years of pointless, insipid situation comedy and spun it on its heels ... pioneered reality comedy and the establishment of clearly defined and motivated secondary characters." ["Rome News-Tribune", July 1973.] As much as it was about news, the show was more about the relationships between co-workers and the highs, lows and in-betweens of their lives. Ed Asner was later to describe the cast as like a family.

From Quiz That Sounds Familiar

Answer: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The character of Dobie Gillis was created in 1945 by American author and humorist Max Shulman and was featured in a collection of short stories entitled "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", which was the basis for the series. Dwayne Hickman portrayed the title character, and Bob Denver played his good friend Maynard G. Krebs, a slacker whose main goal in life is to stay unemployed. During the first season of the show a couple of future stars appeared as semi-regulars. Tuesday Weld played Dobie's primary love interest Thalia Menninger and Warren Beatty portrayed Milton Armitage, a classmate of Dobies who is also vying for Thalia's affections. At a time when most teenagers on American TV shows were cast in supporting roles, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" was one of the first series to feature them as leading characters. The show premiered in 1959 and lasted four seasons.

From Quiz Glued to the Box

Answer: Modern Family

First televised by the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 2009, "Modern Family" follows the lives of Jay Pritchett and his family in suburban Los Angeles. The series was created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan and is presented in a 'mockumentary' style (where the characters talk directly into the camera). Included in Jay Pritchett's family are his second wife Gloria (formerly Delgado, née Ramirez) - a Colombian half his age with a son from her previous marriage, Manny Delgado; their infant son Fulgencio (Joe) Pritchett; and his two adult children and their partners and children. Jay's daughter, Clair, has a fairly conventional marriage with three children; but his son, Mitchell, is the character that raises most laughs (and eyebrows) because he's homosexual, married to Cameron Tucker and they adopted a daughter, Lily Tucker-Pritchett, from Vietnam! The laughs (and perhaps shudders) you get from this show make you appreciate even more the relative 'normality' of your own family life; but as families are definitely becoming more complex this show deals very well with helping viewers accept what's happening around them.

From Quiz My Favorite TV Shows

Answer: I Dream of Jeannie

The show revolves around the meeting of astronaut Tony Nelson (Hagman) and the genie Jeannie (Eden) and their relationship as they fall in love and later marry each other. It lasted until 1971. Despite is popularity, it was not well-received by critics.

From Quiz I am Your Meal Ticket, So Be Nice

Answer: One Day at a Time

"One Day at a Time" was created by Whitney Blake and her third husband, and is based in part on her own experiences as a divorced mom raising three children from her first marriage. Mrs. Blake's daughter became actress Meredith Baxter, famous for her own 1970s shows "Family" and "Family Ties".

From Quiz Name that TV Show

Answer: Being Human

"Being Human" is a show on BBC that also earned an American remake on the Syfy channel. The main vampire in the American remake was named after the actor for the main vampire in the original series.

From Quiz Name the TV Show, Part 2

Answer: Gossip Girl

"Gossip Girl" is a soap opera that follows the lives of a group of the richest youths in New York on the Upper East Side. We see them grow from high school in the first season all the way through college by the end of the show. Sex and scandal seem to follow them wherever they go. XOXO "Gossip Girl".

From Quiz Name the TV Show, Part 1

Answer: Revenge

"Revenge" is the story of Amanda Clarke. Her father was framed by the wealthy Grayson family of the Hamptons. He was arrested for helping provide funds for a terrorist plot that killed many people in a plane crash when she was a young girl. She returns to the Hamptons as an adult with a new identity to carry out a complex plan to get revenge on everybody involved.

From Quiz The Last I Heard...

Answer: The Sopranos

The finale of "The Sopranos" ended in a cliffhanger because people didn't know if Tony, the main character, was killed or not. There was a lot of backlash over this episode because people wanted to know what happened to Tony. The season finale of "The Sopranos" aired in 2007.

From Quiz T.V. Addicts

Answer: What I Like about You

"The Amanda Show" is another one of Amanda Byne's T.V. shows. In "What I Like about You", Jennie Garth plays Valerie and Simon Rex ("Scary Movie Three") plays Val's boyfriend, Jeff.

From Quiz What is that Show?

Answer: The Simpsons & Simpsons

This show has been an animated comedy show that people of all ages watch. Matt Groening, the creator of "The Simpsons" has a dad called Homer.

From Quiz TV Shows!

Answer: Friends

'Friends' stars include Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing; Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani; Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay; Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green; Courteney Cox Arquette as Monica Geller; and David Schwimmer as Ross Geller. There are a total of 10 seasons.

From Quiz TV Stories

Answer: "The Golden Girls"

Rose is blonde and goofy. Sophia is the mother of Dorothy and has a lot of spunk. Blanche is the sexy one of the group. Dorothy is a substitute teacher who has trouble finding dates.

From Quiz Match the TV Plots - Over 20 Season-Long Shows

Answer: Toast of the Town

It was renamed in 1955. The show ran from 1948 to 1971.

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