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A singing couple gets their own television show, and the strains of putting on a TV show every week starts to jeopardize their relationship.
STREET SMART: LESSONS FROM A TV ICON is a feature documentary about Sonia Manzano — known to millions as “Maria” from SESAME STREET. The film follows Sonia’s remarkable journey, from a young girl in the South Bronx finding refuge in television, to becoming the first Latina on American TV in a regular role, through 44 years on screen on SESAME STREET, and now as a creator of ALMA'S WAY. Featuring interviews with luminaries, original animation, and scripted scenes that blend humor and heart, this inspirational documentary invites viewers to learn once again from this beloved icon.
TV producer Warren is developing his masterpiece, a reality show called "Handicaps" starring a variety of people with disabilities. Aided by an overbearing partner with anger issues and an ex-prison guard, Warren creates a hit. But he soon learns that his cast can be just as vain and egotistical as anyone else in Hollywood.
Fuddlehead is addicted to watching television. He runs his life according to what products are advertised on the commercials. The idiot does everything that the TV tells him, much to his wife's annoyance. It gets him pummeled, the kitchen floor wrecked, the kitchen demolished, and the house repossessed. But when Fuddlehead wins a TV contest, things work out for the best... or do they?
Professor Ludwig von Drake plays a variety of popular music, all of which he wrote. First, ragtime: the Rutabaga Rag, with vegetables dancing in stop-motion. Next, the Charleston, with cut-out animation of a singer and dancers. Dixieland and more cut-out animation; the crooner/love ballad; 50's doo-wop; and finally, rockabilly.
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.
This musical comedy with an all-black cast imagines what television entertainment will be like in the near future.
While getting ready for a date with the girl of his dreams, Marco is visited by a man in the TV who starts talking to him. And he has a request to make... Hallucination or reality? That’s what Marco will have to figure out.
A completely real collection of television programs and advertisements from Channel 2.5, a TV station from 1963.
A Japanese cartoons nerd tries to emulate his television heroes, with tragic and unexpected consequences. In fact, he will discover that he can go far beyond his simple expectations as an emulator.
A sarcastic look at the content provided by television programs
A short film focusing on a minimalist mime performance piece concerning man's relationship to television with the union of man, chair and television. Without dialogue.
Finding the perfect gift, cooking the perfect turkey, welcoming the whole family, hosting the most wonderful Christmas Eve dinner: these are all moments that comedians love to gently poke fun at. Let's take a look back at the most hilarious and surprising Christmas sketches. On the menu: unexpected anecdotes, laughter, and tender moments.
A young man, listlessly looking for a job, spends his time watching television when Johnny Fortune, a supernatural game-show host, interrupts and promises him anything he wants, provided he can win Johnny's game
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A two-hour special compiling and ranking 50 of the greatest magic tricks ever seen on TV.
Debate on the launch of Basque television (ETB, Euskal Telebista).
A woman secretly sells her ancestral home in order to fund her sweetheart's new invention, a videophone, and then marries him when his fortune is made, only to be betrayed by his affair with her best friend.
As ITV's move from its iconic base on Quay Street to the Orange Tower at MediaCityUK nears completion, this tribute looks back at 56 years of Granada television. Beginning from its inception in 1954, including rare archive footage of its co-founders, brothers Sidney and Cecil Bernstein, replays archive clips of some of the programmes and performances filmed and produced there - from Coronation Street, Prime Suspect, Jewel In the Crown, and Stars In Their Eyes, to the television debuts of The Sex Pistols, Take That, and the Beatles.
In suburban London, on New Years Eve in 1999, an Afghan housewife lives cut off from society by her controlling husband. In secret, with the aid of a present gifted by her mother, she sets out to reconnect with the world.
