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Heroes Character Map

Here's a link for Heroes fans (myself included). It's a map showing relationships between the different characters in the show (up until episode 17). [via]

Video: Russian Big Brother

Celebrity Big Brother would have been so much more interesting if they battled it out like they did on Russian Big Brother rather than just bickering. [via]

Battle For Craggy Island Title

Only Father Ted fans will find this article interesting. It's about two Irish islands that are feuding over the right to compare themselves to Craggy Island from the show Father Ted.

The largest of the two islands, Inis Mor is holding a "Friends of Ted" festival next month in a bid to help it win the title. Events will include a Father Jack Cocktail Evening, the Father Dougal Breakfast Movie Charades, the Lovely Girls Contest and Charity Auction and A Song for Europe.

Also featured on the bill are the Toilet Duck Comedy Awards, Crazy Golf, Hide A Nun and Seek, Ludo Aerobics, Buckeroo Speed Dating and a Ferrero Rocher Quiz Night.

Ad Free TV

I've already posted a link to Ad Free TV but it appears that the site has had a bit of an overhaul and now includes even more content.

Video: Disney, Silly Symphonies - The Skeleton Dance

A bizarre, yet entertaining 1929 cartoon from Walt Disney in which skeletons dance around and use each other as musical instruments. [via]

Video: CSI: Miami Oneliners

CSI: Miami fans will find this collection of Horatio Caine one-liners amusing. How do the writers manage to come up with so many cheesy lines? [via]

AdFreeTV

AdFreeTV has a ton of links to TV shows, documentaries and cartoons that you can watch for free. An interesting documentary that I watched last night was Supermarket Secrets which discusses how supermarkets have affected the food that we eat. [Thanks Michael]

Video: Family Guy - 40 Deleted Scenes From Season 4

40 deleted scenes from Family Guy Season 4. I can see why they decided to delete them. I@m a big fan of Family Guy but most of them weren't funny at all. [via]

Video: Burger King Snake Advert

This advert doesn't make me want to eat that burger. [via]

The Sexiest Newsreader In The World?

If you want to get more people watching the news you need to recruit someone like Mélissa Theuriau. [via]

Video: Black Adder II Full Episode

PistolWimp has posted a full episode of Black Adder II. If you want to see classic British comedy at its finest go here and watch.

Choose And Watch Sent Cease And Desist

Choose And Watch, one of the better TV sites, has been issued a warning from the MPAA asking them to close the site within 72 hours or face legal action. They have chosen not to close the site stating that they are linking to channels and not streaming them from our servers.

It makes sense but legally I'm not sure where they stand. They are not linking to illegal content although it may bethe sites providing the streaming content may not allow the content to be linked from an external site.

Video: Borat On Saturday Night Live

Borat makes an appearance on Saturday Night Live. Very funny!

List Of Homer Simpson's Jobs

A list of jobs that Homer Simpson has had. He's been busy! [via]

TV Links

TV Links offers links to lots of different TV shows, cartoons and anime that you can watch online.

Chose and Watch

Choose and Watch is another directory site of free streaming TV channels. There seems to be quite a lot on offer and the interface is pretty good.

Every Futurama & Simpsons

Watch every episode of Futurama and The Simpsons online. [via]

Video: Family Guy Pilot

The pilot episode of Family Guy that Seth Macfarlane submitted to Fox. This is different to the actual pilot episode that was aired and contains poorer animation, different voices and names.

Prison Break Season 2 Set Pics

In anticipation of the start of season 2 of Prison Break next Monday (at least in the US and on the Internet ;o), here are some pictures from filming in Little Elm, Texas. [via]

CSI: Miami - The Best Show In The World

CSI: Miami has been named the world's most popular TV show in a study of ratings in 20 countries. The programme made the top 10 viewing charts in more of those nations than any other show.

"The objective of our research was to find the most consistently successful programme worldwide in terms of attracting viewers," said Adam Thomas, the media research manager responsible for the study.

"We were not therefore concerned with shows that performed extremely well in a relatively small number of markets.

Here's the top 10 shows...

1. CSI: Miami
2. Lost
3. Desperate Housewives
4. Te Voy a Ensenar a Querer
5. The Simpsons
6. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7. Without a Trace
8. Inocente de Ti
9. Anita, No Te Rajes!
10. The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Channel King

Channel King is another site that allows you to watch TV on the Internet.

Sesame Street - Most Memorable Videos

A colelction of memorable Sesame Street videos including the one where Cookie Monster steals Ernies' cupcakes, the one where Grover examines Kermit's teeth and the one where REM sing 'Furry Happy Monsters'. [via]

Prison Break Season 2

Prison Break Season 2 has been given a release date of August 21st in the US. Woo hoo! This time around I don't think I'm going to wait until it is released in the UK. Here a few pictures from the filming of the second season - 1, 2, 3 - which indicate that they got beyond the airport.

Frasier's Dog Eddie Dies Aged 16

Moose the dog, better known as Eddie in US sitcom Frasier, has died aged 16 in Los Angeles, his trainer has said.

Eddie appeared in 192 episodes over a period of 10 years and shared the part of Eddie with his son Enzo.

He was so loved that during the height of the show he received more fanmail than the other stars of the show.

120 Live TV Channels

Similar to Channel Chooser, this site has 120 different TV channels to watch online. [via]

Prison Break Season 2 = More Traffic

Prison Break season 1 has just finished on UK TV and don't I know it. The second it finished I noticed a spike in traffic from people searching for information about the second season. They were arriving at a post I made on May 31st which was subsequently ranked highly on Google for the search term, 'Prison Break Season 2'.

I enjoyed the season finale but am left wondering what will happen next. The police were so close to catching them at the end so how will they get away from them?

Information on the second season is sketchy but a post on a MySpace blog indicates that filming will begin in Dallas on June 9th.

Update: Season 2 airs on August 21st in the US.

Itchy & Scratchy Episodes

Every (?) Itchy & Scratchy episode available for download. Get 'em while you can. [via]

Full Length Cartoons

Over 500 full-length cartoons categorised and stored on YouTube. [via]

Prison Break Season 2

Update: Welcome Prison Break fans. If you are looking for some more information about the second season there's not much information out there. A blog on MySpace has posted that the second season will commence filming in Dallas on June 9th.

Prison Break is probably the only US TV show that I have resisted downloading and stuck to watching it on UK TV. For some reason I wanted to stick to the UK schedule and have been diligent enough not to watch episodes from the Internet or read up about it.

Every other US show I've liked I've downloaded, so that by the time the episodes reach our shores I know exactly what's happened. I suppose I could have down exactly the same thing as every other show and still had the same suspense watching them but Monday's were always boring, so having Prison Break to watch made it worthwhile resisting downloading it.

I knew that a second season was in the pipeline and according to Gossip or Truth, filming starts on June 15th but I have no idea what it's going to be about. I think there are two episodes to go in the UK and the escape is just about to start. I have no idea whether they escape or not or whether the next season is based inside or outside the prison.

Those who have seen it had better not spoil it for me by revealing the end ;o)

Update: Season 2 airs on August 21st in the US.

Automatically Download Your Favourite TV Shows

Lifehacker's guide to automatically downloading your favourite TV shows.

Free TV Episodes

Watch over 700 TV online episodes for free. Includes, Family Guy, Lost, 24 and Prison Break. Watch 'em while you can. [via]

Channel Chooser

Watch 70 different TV channels online for free. Careful of the Adult Channels, they're rude. [via]

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Classic Cartoon Podcast

ReFrederator is a video podcast that releases classic cartoons based around a theme.

TV Logos

Old UK TV logos recreated in Flash. I never knew that there used to be a Welsh channel called Teledu Cymru.

Al-Jazeera Buys Welsh Sheep Show

It's not often you get to see titles as bizarre as Al-Jazeera Buys Welsh Sheep Show but according to the BBC it's true.

A Welsh-language children's show featuring musical sheep is to be shown on Arabic TV channel al-Jazeera.

The Middle East broadcaster has brought the rights to screen 52 episodes of S4C's The Baaas, as well as the Welsh children's show Sali Mali.

The series will be shown in Arabic in countries like Saudi Arabia and Iraq and in the Palestinian territories.

Family Guy Torrents

Family Guy torrents and nothing else. [via]

Yay! Rainbow Is Back

BBC: Kids' favourite Rainbow returns

Popular children's show Rainbow is to return, 14 years after it was taken off TV screens.

The series, which featured George the hippo, Bungle the bear, loudmouth Zippy and human pal Geoffrey, will be repeated by digital channel Nick Jr.

Rainbow, which also featured singers Rod, Jane and Freddy, was screened by ITV from 1972 until 1992.

Re-runs dating from 1982 will begin on Monday as part of the channel's evening nostalgia programming.

Don't know what Rainbow is? View this hilarious unaired clip (read script). Unfortunately, the other episodes of Rainbow weren't as funny.

Homer Voted Most Romantic TV Husband

Homer Simpson has been voted the most romantic TV husband of all time.

The Simpsons cartoon oaf’s devotion to wife Marge helped him clinch the title in a viewers’ poll. - The Sun

'Family Guy's' Stewie To Host His Own Web Talk Show

Yahoo! 'Family Guy's' Stewie hosting Web talk show

The tyrannical tyke in the Fox animated series "Family Guy" will be the virtual host of a talk show being developed strictly for the Internet later this year.

Stewie's show will be based on familyguy.com (http://www.familyguy.com) and other News Corp.-owned Web properties catering to the young demographics that have embraced the Fox series.

"We think that the property is perfectly suited for that audience," Fox Interactive Media president Ross Levinsohn said Tuesday.

CSI Miami Blogging Episode

I've just finished watching an episode of CSI Miami (4.13) and as usual, they like to make episodes about the latest technology or crazes (e.g. flashmobs). This weeks epsiode talked a lot about blogs.

The blog in question was written by someone inside a drug company and was posted on a proprietary system (as always) that looked like something out of The Matrix. In order to find out who was behind the blog the geniuses at the CSI used a couple of fancy tricks that were just plain stupid.

First they used the times of three posts to give them an IP address. They then did a reverse lookup on the address which, in true CSI-style, gave them the email address! If only. With technology like that there would no longer be any cybercrime left.

And one other thing. Apparently bloggers like to hide messages in text with the same colour as the background. That's news to me.

No New 'Friends'

According to The Sun, rumours of more episodes of Friends and spin-offs are not true. Stories on the Net claimed the six stars of the sitcom had agreed £3million-a-head deals to star in four one-hour specials next year.

‘Friends’ Returns to TV

All six stars of Friends have agreed to return for four one hour specials.

In a secret meeting before Christmas, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry reportedly agreed a $5 million apiece deal with NBC bosses in Los Angeles.

Scriptwriters have already started penning lines for the four double episodes, which are due to air next year.

Network bosses have also hinted at a second spin-off of the hit comedy, following the disappointing performance of Matt LeBlanc's show Joey. The new program will see the three male stars--Perry, Schwimmer and LeBlanc--pilot a series called It's A Guy Thing.

[via]

Autopsy: Life and Death

If you enjoyed Anatomy for Beginners then Dr Gunther von Hagens' new series, Autopsy: Life and Death should be right up your street.

It starts tonight on Channel 4 at 11:05pm and is on every night until Thursday. I know where I'll be for the next four nights.

Smoking Censorship In The Simpsons

Not content with added text warnings to The Simpsons whenever someone smoked on-screen, the Thai authorities now blur out anything related to smoking incuding bubble blowing pipes. [via]

Outrageous Firsts In Television History

YesButNoButYes has an interesting list of firsts in television.

XTVI

XTVI - you can never have enough TV torrent sites. [via]

Family Guy Clips And Interviews

The Sun presents exclusive Family Guy clips and interviews. I only skipped through the 9 minute clip so don't know how exclusive the material is.

Rhythm Of Life

A very cool Guiness advert. [via]

UNICEF Bombs The Smurfs

The Telegraph: Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers

The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes.

The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, and is to be broadcast on national television next week as a campaign advertisement.

Belgian television viewers were given a preview of the 25-second film earlier this week, when it was shown on the main evening news. The reactions ranged from approval to shock and, in the case of small children who saw the episode by accident, wailing terror.

Worldwide TV

Watch TV from around the world for free. The site has links to over 100 channels from many different countries and they are available in different formats. A word of warning: don't watch the Chinese channels. The way they speak is hypnotising! [via]