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The Almighty Johnsons is a new South Pacific Pictures comedy-drama series about four brothers, raised in heartland New Zealand, who also happen to be the living incarnations of Norse Gods. They even have their own super-God-powers. Sort of - it's just that their powers aren't actually all that powerful. Well, not yet - but that could all change soon
 
Genre: Comedy / Family / Fantasy

A United States astronaut finds his life vastly complicated when he stumbles on to a bottle containing a female genie.
 
aka: Sin cita previa
A spin-off of the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" centering on the life of neonatal surgeon Addison Montgomery.
 
Anthony Bourdain's new show gives us a glimpse into the history and culture of countries relatively closed off to the world.
  
Cable Access Televisions exciting new program on how to paint is not only educational, it's also a high octane gabfest. Hosted by renowned Los Angeles artist and performer John Kilduff, "Lets Paint TV" encourages the viewer not to be afraid to, as Kilduff likes to say, "throw down the paint!"

The artist's devil-may-care attitude is instrumental in helping viewers conquer the primary stumbling block that prevents most people from expressing themselves on canvas, the fear of making mistakes. Kilduff got that one figured out: "Making mistakes is part of the fun! Ole!"

Join Kilduff as he takes you through the entire process of creating still-lifes, landscapes, and portraits.

In "Lets Paint TV" Kilduff also leavens his lessons with light hearted banter. It is sort of like the show Emeril Lagasse might do if he were a painter. Emphasize "sort of" here.

This is the link to "Let's Paint TV Youtube Channel" While I'm at it here's the Myspace as well.
 
Bonanza (1959)
The adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
 
A comedy drama about three couples:
Adam and Rachel meet and, after many ups and downs, seem to be building a happy, lasting relationship. Fate, however, intervenes to spoil Adam's happiness.

David and Karen are both tempted into extra-marital relationships. Eventually, they decide to go their separate ways.

Pete and Jenny also separate and are eventually divorced. Pete later remarries, but his second marriage is very short-lived.
 
Maburaho (2003)
aka: まぶらほ
His name is Kazuki Shikimori, 17 years old. He attends Aoi Academy, a school for elite magicians. Each magician has a set limit of spells, and performing more spells than the limit allows will cause the user to turn into dust. In this case, the number of magic Kazuki can use is far below the average in his school. Then one day, all of a sudden, three girls: Yuuna Miyama, Kuriko Kazetsubaki and Rin Kamishiro, appear before him. But of all the things that they are after, it is his genes. And for Kazuki, the girls' appearances may also spell his doom, as he soon realizes that his magic count is decreasing ever steadily due to the fact that he can't resist using magic to help them.
 
After surviving the traumatic world of high school, Rebecca Freely (Judy Greer) returns to her alma mater as the school's newest guidance counselor. Now free of the insecurities of her teenage years, Rebecca immerses herself in the behavioral problems of the student body and lends support and guidance when needed. Rebecca must fend off the romantic advances of the persistent male nurse Gary (Jonathan Sadowski) as she lusts for the hot Spanish teacher, Tim (Kristoffer Polaha). However, in the ever-changing world of high school angst, Lisa (Brooke Burns), a former cheerleader and classmate of Rebecca's, also returns to the school as a new English teacher, forcing Rebecca to face her unpopular days of high school all while trying to win Tim's heart.
 
A new York veterinarian who moves his family -- his second wife and their two sets of kids -- to his father-in-law's game reserve in South Africa.
 
Comic Relief is the BBCs biennial fund raising event, which raises millions for the charity of the same name. The charity supports people suffering both in the UK and the third world.

Comic Relief began on Christmas Day 1985 with a fund raising event on the BBC's Late, Late Breakfast Show hosted by Noel Edmonds. More live events followed until finally Comic...
 
Saxondale (2006)
Saxondale on bbc.co.uk/comedy. ... Steve Coogan returns as Tommy Saxondale, the world-travelled ex-roadie with anger-management issues and a pest control
 
aka: ああっ女神さまっ
aka: Ā Megami-sama
aka: Oh My Goddess!
Keiichi Morisato is looking forward to university life. But in reality, he has no luck in anything, and he has trouble with clubs, love, etc. The truth is that he has an unlucky star above his head. One day, Keiichi is stuck watching the dorm while his sempai are away, and has a mountain of chores to do to boot. But Keiichi is a good-natured person, and is set about doing his duties. As he is about to finish his final chore, he makes a phone call to his sempai. But the words that came through the receiver are, 'Goddess Help Line.' Shortly afterwards, a beautiful goddess named Belldandy appears in front of him from the mirror of his room.
 
Excel Saga (1999)
aka: Heppoko jikken animêshon excel saga
aka: エクセル・サーガ
aka: Ekuseru Sāga
Hyperactive Excel does anything and everything to try to please her lord, Ilpalazzo, who wants to take over the planet.
Excel’s misadventures takes her and her partner, the ever-dying Hyatt, all over the world, meeting several strange people as they go.
Everything is bizarre and goofy, as any kind of anime or entertainment genre gets mocked and spoofed.
  
aka: ご愁傷さま二ノ宮くん
aka: Goshūshō-sama Ninomiya-kun
aka: Our Condolences, Ninomiya-kun
aka: My Heartfelt Sympathy, Ninomiya-kun
Shungo is a normal high school student living in a huge house. One day, his sister Ryoko send two siblings, Mayu and Mikihiro Tsukimura, to live with him so as to help Mayu overcome her problem—androphobia, by making Mayu and Shungo share the same room and bed, and to even take baths together. To make things even worse, Reika Hojo, the student-council chair, somehow ends up becoming their maid.
 
aka: Ai yori aoshi 'enishi'
aka: 藍より青し
aka: Our Condolences, Ninomiya-kun
aka: My Heartfelt Sympathy, Ninomiya-kun
Kaoru Hanabishi appears to be an average university student, but in actually, he's the eldest son of Yūji Hanabishi, the head of the Hanabishi Zaibatsu, and was set to take over the zaibatsu after his father retired. His mother, Kumi Honjō, and his father never married, making life difficult for both him and his mother. Kaoru's father died when he was five years old. Since then, Yūji's grandfather, Gen'ichiro Hanabishi, took Kaoru under his wing and began educating him for the eventual succession. Yet Kaoru never felt at home in the Hanabishi family and left to live alone in self-imposed exile after his mother died. Day by day he felt alone, thinking that he was living life with no reason pushing him on.
 
aka: ボボボーボ・ボーボボ
aka: Bobobōbo Bōbobo
aka: Our Condolences, Ninomiya-kun
aka: My Heartfelt Sympathy, Ninomiya-kun
Bo Bobo is a man with the incredible power of hearing the voices of hair and using his own to fight. He uses his power to fight off the Margarita Empire and all of EmperorTsuru Tsuruiina's minions who are stealing the hair off of anyone they find to power up their emperor.
 
Set in one of New York City's hottest hotels, Do Not Disturb follows the behind the scenes antics of The Inn. Recently named one of New York City's "10 Best Places to Stay," The Inn is the place to be, with the top clientele and staff. Though The Inn's owner, R.J. (Robert Wagner) takes all of the credit for the hotel's success, Neal (Jerry O'Connell) is just egotistical enough to believe the success is all his doing and will do everything in his power to keep the hotel up to his high standards.

Also working at The Inn is Rhonda (Niecy Nash), the head of Human Resources, who spends her day keeping Neal in check with a daily dose of brutal honesty and her own set of high standards to follow. The front desk is handled by Nicole (Molly Stanton), a former model who checks guests in while wearing 6-inch Manolos. Jason (Brando Eaton), is a Nebraska native and naive to the ways of the world, but was hired as a bellman to show off his perfect face and pecs. Rounding out the staff are Molly (Jolene Purdy), the reservations clerk who dreams of being a pop singer; and Larry (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), the head of housekeeping who does more talking than cleaning.
 
Rocko's Modern Life is an American TV animated series, the fourth of Nickelodeon's Nicktoons, created by Joe Murray and aired for four seasons from 1993 to 1996. The show was based around the surreal, parodic adventures of an anthropomorphic wallaby named Rocko, and his life in the city of O-Town. The show is laden with double entendres, sexual innuendos, and social commentary,
 
Life Of Riley is a British sitcom about two newlyweds, both who have been married before
and their dysfunctional families and the children each of them bring from a previous relationship.
 
aka: House of Payne
aka: Bobobōbo Bōbobo
aka: Our Condolences, Ninomiya-kun
aka: My Heartfelt Sympathy, Ninomiya-kun
Tyler Perry's House of Payne is a new comedy series about a multigenerational, working class family who experiences all of life's struggles with faith, love and most importantly humor. Pops, the uncle and head of the household, has his life and home turned upside down when an unexpected event forces his nephew, CJ, played by Allen Payne, and CJ's kids to move into the house, putting three generations under one roof.

This chaotic living situation takes its toll on cranky Pops, who is reluctant to have his routine disturbed. In addition to CJ's family, Pops and Ella's son, Calvin, a wise-cracking college kid with no money, hangs out at home which makes it impossible for Pops to have any peace and quiet. It soon becomes evident just how wide the generation gap is, as the family tries to find a way to coexist through all of life's hilarious ups and downs.
 
What happens when that "real world" our parents warned us about never quite comes to pass? "The CollegeHumor Show" is a new scripted comedy series written by and starring the actual staff of CollegeHumor.com. When they're not creating some of today's most popular Internet comedy, the staffers are turning their workplace into a chaotic, not entirely mature, play land -- with a functioning ball pit. Based in CH's actual New York office, the show combines the energy and absurdity of their online videos with all-new office storylines, bringing all of the best things about the site to the big(ger) screen.
 
Kippei Katakura is a high school playboy who would flirt with any girl he sees. His life was turn upside down when one day, his 5-year old cousin Yuzuyu shows up at his house after her mother had seemingly abandoned her. And now, Kippei has been handed the task of taking care of Yuzuyu for the time being, and he must learn how to become the "mother" that Yuzuyu needs.
 
aka: Sex and The City
aka: Bobobōbo Bōbobo
aka: Our Condolences, Ninomiya-kun
aka: My Heartfelt Sympathy, Ninomiya-kun
A sensuous and ironic sitcom about four young, desirable, virtually inseparable New York bachelor girls who lead and confide in each-other their ever changing and confusing sex lives, as different as their natures. Carrie Bradshaw is a charming petite columnist, and often the narrator of the story, either writing her copy or off screen, constantly tossing up and rejecting different views on just about anything that does or might impact modern women's sex lives; she tries almost everything, is constantly disappointed, but always seems to return to a certain Mr. Big. Miranda Hobbes is a red-hair lawyer determined to score professionally and to be though in love to, yet her only faithful lover is an insecure nerd. Charlotte York is a gallery-managing wasp from a prestigious, super-rich family, with high old-fashioned moral standards for her lovable but insecure self but unfortunately almost impossible to live up to for any lover, whenever she can find a socially acceptable one. Samantha Jones is every feminist's hero, and the utterly unashamed voice of lust at their meetings: an acclaimed PR agent and unstoppable nymphomaniac man-eater who can flirt the pants off almost any man (often literally and fast) and always feels like more, without a hint of commitment, claiming this is the age for woman to do what men always did to them.
 
aka: Justice for All
aka: Those Were the Days
aka: Mi familia
aka: My Heartfelt Sympathy, Ninomiya-kun
All in the Family is an American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979. In September 1979, the show was revamped, and given a new title, Archie Bunker's Place. This version of the sitcom lasted another four years, ending its run in 1983.

Produced by Norman Lear and based on the British television series Till Death Us Do Part[1], the show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy, such as racism, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, miscarriage, breast cancer, menopause and impotence.

The show ranked #1 in the yearly Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976. As of 2008, The Cosby Show has been the only other show to top the ratings for at least five consecutive seasons. TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time ranked All in the Family as #4. Bravo also named the show's protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV's greatest character of all time[2]. IMDB 8.8
TV series 1971-1979
 
Set against the backdrop of the high-pressure world of advertising, Mason (Eric McCormack) and Conner (Tom Cavanagh) are a pair of ad men who, although they differ greatly in their approach to their work and their lives, are better together than they are apart. Mason, an art director, is a responsible, workaholic family man with an undying loyalty to the brands he helps sell. By contrast, his writing partner, Conner, is a single, impulsive copywriter with the attention span of a teenager. The series follows the changing dynamics between these two friends.
 
Rex (2009)
The show, created by Guy Shalem who created (and directed some episodes of) Lifetime's "Lovespring International," centers around Simon Rex and his search to get back in the limelight
 
After a car accident gave Samantha amnesia, she has to start her life all over, while gradually discovering her past. These personalities clash, as her former self is too wicked to accept, but the past won't just be forgotten by those who knew her: family, house-mate/exes and professional circles.
 
“The Dating Guy” is an all new adult animated comedy featuring four friends and their weekly hunt for love… or at least some kind of “happy ending”.
 
aka: Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
aka: Those Were the Days
aka: Mi familia
aka: My Heartfelt Sympathy, Ninomiya-kun
From the creator of Family Guy and the co-creator of American Dad! Comes a brand-new animated series of pop culture parodies, skewered stories, and fabulously filthy fun nuggets.
  
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List is a six-episode, one-hour unscripted series that takes a hilariously unabashed look at the talented comic's life and surreal celebrity encounters that serve as fodder for her successful stand-up comedy specials and sell-out live performances. Each episode will include a portion of Griffin's stand-up act or public appearance, as well as the behind-the-scenes negotiations and preparations that go into each performance. It's an insider's look at the indignities and encounters that can only happen when one is a well-known and under-appreciated comic doing what it takes to make a living. The series will also feature Griffin's "peeps," who include: her husband, Matt; her assistant, Jessica; her live-in decorator, Mike; her "favorite gays" Dennis and Tony; her overworked public relations team; her parents; her out-of-town in-laws; and a host of others who manage to both help and hinder Griffin's quest for fame.
 
In this final series, Blackadder is a World War I army captain trying to survive at the front lines at the Western Front.
 
Manchild (2008)
Comedy based on the British series of the same name about four 49-year-old male friends in the midst of their midlife crises.


 
aka: Blackadder 3
aka: Those Were the Days
aka: Mi familia
aka: My Heartfelt Sympathy, Ninomiya-kun
During the Regency period, the insane King George III's stark raving mad son, George, is the Prince Regent of Wales. Vulgar and staggeringly slow-and-dim-witted, George exhausts the country's money and would surely be dead by know were it not for his dry, angry, bitter, arrogant and cynical butler, Edmund Blackadder, Esq. Blackadder is an ex-aristocrat who has lost his family fortune and been reduced to servant-hood, and full of loathing knowing he should have a better position then serving a lunatic. Sod-Off Baldrick is his dirty, smelly peasant servant, and Mrs. Miggins is an annoying cheerful coffee-shoppe owner who is too stupid to understand most of Mr. Blackadder's insults.
 
The spin-off picks up shortly after the original left off. Fraser returns to Chicago, to find a blond has assumed Ray Vecchio's identity, and everyone just seems to accept it but him. Fraser and his new partner (real name Stanley Raymond Kowalski) soon find level ground to agree on, and work together to solve crimes on the mean streets of Chicago.
 
A year after his father's fatal accident, Joe Roman returns to Philadelphia to collect his share of his Dad's estate, a car customizing business. His reunion with Claire and his half-brothers is a little rocky. Despite her best efforts, Claire is struggling to keep the business afloat. Fifteen-year-old Matt, tormented by a number of teen crises both real and imagined, harbors a lot of resentment toward Joe. And Andy, a wildly imaginative seven-year-old, can't quite hide his need for a father figure. It doesn't take Joe long to realize how much he's needed, so he accepts Claire's offer to move in and work in the family business. Downstairs in the garage, Joe works alongside his father's pit-crew chief, the slightly scrambled Lloyd, and Lou, a feisty conceptual artist/mechanic. The romantic tension between Lou and Joe grows as the two try to maintain a working relationship. Upstairs, Joe is becoming a part of the family he never knew, with all the adjustments, responsibilities, joys and heartaches that a family has.
 
Do Over (2002)
Thirty-four-year-old Joel Larsen gets a second chance to get his life right, thanks to a freakish accident that catapults him back to 1981. Blessed with adult wisdom, though hampered by adolescent urges, Joel sets out to right the wrongs that will befall his family.
 
Lowdown (2010)
Narrated by Geoffrey Rush, this eight-part Australian comedy portrays tabloids and celebrity journalism through the eyes of the Sunday Sun's gossip columnist Alex Burchill (Adam Zwar).
 
The series is set at a high school located on a cruise ship, allowing the episodes to be set in a variety of exotic locations, although the series was, in fact, filmed entirely in Burnaby, British Columbia. The show deals with teen issues such as dating, finances, and friendship, although the series tends to steer away from the "tougher" situations outlined in other teen dramas.
 
Stunning 15 years old Yamada enters the high school with an ambitious dream: to have one hundred sex friends! The problem is: she is a virgin, and she hasn't even has a boyfriend! When she meets the shy - and also virgin - Takashi Kosuda, she chooses him as her first "victim". But as the story progress, Yamada's plan isn't looking that it is going to reach any place ever, as she begins to have feelings for Kosuda.
 
Shameless (2011)
Set in working-class Chicago, the Gallagher family, a working class family of eight, must survive the ups and downs of today’s recession. With a mother who is out of her element and an alcoholic father who usually ends up passed out on the living room floor, 18-year-old daughter Fiona is left with the task of keeping her five younger brothers and sisters on the straight and narrow. This series is based on the UK series of the same name.
 
An unusual feature of Dr Katz is the novel animation technique called Squigglevision, whereby, essentially, there is no lateral movement by any of the characters or objects, with only lips, eyes, and the like animated. However, the edges of the characters are in a constant state of zigzagging flux, and this gives the impression of movement.
 
The series centers on the Kingston-Persons family, a blended family facing the challenges of everyday life and the trials of a new blended family trying to get adjusted with one another. Nick Persons (Terry Crews) and Suzanne Kingston (Essence Atkins) have been newlyweds for six months, and their family is already beginning to show growing pains. Nick, a former athlete, has traded his job at a sports memorabilia shop he owned for a job in information technology and is trying to figure out his role in the family; while Suzanne, who has two children: 14-year-old daughter Lindsey and 10-year-old son Kevin, from a previous relationship, also works a very hectic schedule as a party planner. Nick's mother (Telma Hopkins) is not happy about her son's recent marriage or her new role as a grandmother, and has a hard time getting along with her new daughter-in-law. The series draws its humor from the everyday family situations.
 
Xzibit finds the owner of a ruined car and takes it to the West Coast Customs for a renovation.
 
Sophie has everything: a loving boyfriend, her own talent agency, beauty, friends and a baby on the way. Everything... that is until one day her picture-perfect world starts to come apart at the seams as she tries to cope with her new single-mom status, the tormented artists that call her agency home, a neurotic mother, her father's delusional ex-mistress and her entire eclectic and funny entourage... Sophie is about to experience a year where every emotion in the book gets thrown at her... and then some!
 
A comedy that revolves around the lives of four young Hollywood assistants and college students who compete for the approval of their eccentric boss.
 
A group of blue-collar guys scheme to rob a celebrity in New York City
 
The Middleman is based on the comic book by Javier Grillo-Marxauch (Medium, The Chronicle), The show follows Wendy Watson when she get recruited by a secret agency, directed by the Middleman. Together they fight mad scientist, evil supervillains, ghosts, ghouls, zombies, and science experiments gone wild.
 
The Riches (2007)
Wayne and Dahlia Malloy spent their youth pulling cons with a traveling band of modern Irish gypsies roaming about the US. Now years later, Wayne hits a spiritual and midlife crisis and begins to question their lifestyle just as his wife, newly sprung from prison, rejoins the family. They decide to finally settle down in suburbia where they battle to live a normal life while trying to escape their former friends.
 
Rhoda (1974)
Rhoda Morgenstern was born in the Bronx in December 1941. She's always felt responsible for World War II. She had a bad puberty. It lasted 17 years. She's a college graduate, she went to art school. Her entrance exam was on a book of matches. She decided to move out of the house at the age of 24. Her mother still refers to this as the time she ran away from home. Eventually, she ran to Minneapolis where it's colder, and she figured she'd keep better. Now she's back in Manhattan. New York, this is your last chance!
 
Coupling (2000)
On average, men and women think about sex every six seconds. Shorten that to every second, and you've got Coupling. It's more than just a one night stand! When a couple gets together, it's never just the two of them - they also bring baggage - and Susan (Sarah Alexander) and Steve (Jack Davenport) are no exception. Their baggage is a crowd of best friends and exes who talk about all aspects of sex and relationships on their never-ending quest to find true love. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps...
 
Coupling (2003)
aka: Coupling U.S.
aka: Those Were the Days
aka: Mi familia
aka: My Heartfelt Sympathy, Ninomiya-kun
Based on the outrageous British hit series of the same name, Coupling concerns love and lust among six thirty- somethings who are either involved, formerly involved, or looking to become intimately involved -- often with each other. The result, not surprisingly, is a very involving comedy filled with eye-popping situations and equally jaw-dropping one-liners. The comic possibilities for pairings appear as limitless as the characters' desires for Coupling.
 
An aspiring supervillain must balance his career and his pursuit of a beautiful do-gooder.
 
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