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Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports.

Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 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 influencing public 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 earlier cathode-ray tube (CRT) screen displays with compact, energy-efficient, flat-panel alternative technologies such as LCDs (both fluorescent-backlit and LED), OLED displays, and plasma displays was a hardware revolution that began with computer monitors in the late 1990s. Most television sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs. Major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, DLP, plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. In the near future, LEDs are expected to be gradually replaced by OLEDs. Also, major manufacturers have announced that they will increasingly produce smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s. (Full article...)

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Stephen Colbert's performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner mocked the Bush administration and the White House press corps, and subsequently generated significant controversy. Stephen Colbert was the featured entertainer for the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, delivering a 20-minute speech and video presentation which was broadcast live on C-SPAN and MSNBC. Colbert spoke as the same character as the one he plays on The Colbert Report: an over-the-top send-up of a conservative pundit in the fashion of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. Colbert satirized the Bush administration and the White House press corps. Colbert spoke directly to President Bush several times, satirically praising his foreign policy, lifestyle, and beliefs, and referencing his low approval rating and popular reputation. Various reports give an impression that Bush did not take too kindly to the performance, as several of Bush's aides and supporters walked out during Colbert's speech, and one former aide said that the President had "that look that he's ready to blow." Reaction to the event caused it to become an Internet and media sensation, and ratings for The Colbert Report soared 37% in the week following the speech.

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High-definition television (HDTV) is a digital television broadcasting system with greater resolution than traditional television systems (NTSC, SECAM, PAL). HDTV is digitally broadcast, because digital television (DTV) requires less bandwidth if sufficient video compression is used. HDTV technology was introduced in the United States in the 1990s by the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, a group of television companies.

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... that a line of the 1840 song "Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit", claiming "no country more beautiful" and presented by its author as a Volkslied, is quoted as the title of books and television series?
... that as general director of the Grand Theatre in Łódź, bass singer Kazimierz Kowalski led a worldwide television broadcast of Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor?
... that Lifetime Medical Television, "the network for physicians only", charged the highest advertising rates on cable?
... that the Japanese pop group Yaen, originally formed to perform a parody song on a television variety series, went on to produce three top-ten albums?
... that Ernst Jacobi, known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's film The Tin Drum, played more than 200 roles as a television actor?
... that child actress Melinda Plowman, who appeared in many early television shows, was one of the original Mouseketeers?

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The audience is never wrong.

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

...that one of the television advertisements from the Good things come to those who wait Guinness advertising campaign was voted the "Best ad of all time" by the British public?

...that the ABC television network created controversy when they licensed and produced a doll based on fictional rapist Todd Manning?

...that the color signals of Israel Broadcasting Authority television transmissions were erased until 1981, to insure equality for families who couldn't afford color-tv?

...that Ralph "Petey" Greene overcame a drug addiction and prison sentence to become an Emmy Award-winning radio and television talk show host and a guest at the White House?

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Howard W. "Kroger" Babb (December 30, 1906 – January 28, 1980) was an American film producer and showman. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots in the medicine show tradition. Self-described as "America's Fearless Young Showman", he is best known for his presentation of the 1945 exploitation film Mom and Dad, which was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2005.

Babb was involved in the production and marketing of many films and television shows, promoting each according to his favorite marketing motto: "You gotta tell 'em to sell 'em." His films ranged from sex education-style dramas to "documentaries" on foreign cultures, intended to titillate audiences rather than to educate them, maximizing profits via marketing gimmicks. (Full article...)

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Image 1Baird in 1925 with his televisor equipment and dummies "James" and "Stooky Bill" (right). (from History of television)
Image 2RCA CT-100 at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention playing Superman. The RCA CT-100 was the first mass-produced color TV set. (from Color television)
Image 3DBS satellite dishes. (from History of television)
Image 4This live image of actress Paddy Naismith was used to demonstrate Telechrome, 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. (from Color television)
Image 5Color bars used in a test pattern, sometimes used when no program material is available. (from History of television)
Image 6Comparison of image quality between ISDB-T (1080i broadcast, top) and NTSC (480i transmission, bottom) (from Digital television)
Image 7Hovannes Adamian c. 1900s (from Color television)
Image 8The Nipkow 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. (from History of television)
Image 9The Philco Predicta, 1958. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from History of television)
Image 10Samsung’s discontinued Orsay platform (from Smart TV)
Image 11RCA 630-TS, the first mass-produced television set, which sold in 1946–1947 (from History of television)
Image 12Family watching TV, 1958 (from History of television)
Image 13A map depicting digital terrestrial television standards (from Digital television)
Image 14LG Smart TV using the Web browser (from Smart TV)
Image 15Smart TVs on display (from Smart TV)
Image 16A color television test at the Mount Kaukau transmitter site, New Zealand in 1970.
A test pattern with color bars is used to calibrate the signal. (from Color television)
Image 17The first mass-produced Czechoslovak TV-set Tesla 4001A (1953–57) (from History of television)
Image 18Ad for the beginning of experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939 (from History of television)

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a media franchise and shared fictional universe that is the setting of superhero television series based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. Marvel Television released the first series in the universe, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which began airing on ABC during the 2013–14 television season, and was joined by Agent Carter in the 2014–15 television season. Inhumans aired on ABC in the 2017–18 television season. Netflix's Marvel series began in 2015 with Daredevil and Jessica Jones, with Luke Cage releasing in 2016. Those series were followed by Iron Fist, the crossover miniseries The Defenders, and The Punisher in 2017. Additionally, the MCU expanded to Hulu with Runaways, also in 2017, and Helstrom in 2020, and expanded to Freeform with Cloak & Dagger in 2018. Marvel Studios—the production studio behind the MCU feature films—began releasing series in 2021 that feature greater interconnectivity with the films than these series.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is headlined by Clark Gregg in the role of Phil Coulson, while Hayley Atwell stars as Peggy Carter in Agent Carter, both reprising their roles from the MCU films. Anson Mount headlines Inhumans as Black Bolt. Charlie Cox is featured as Matt Murdock / Daredevil in Daredevil, while Krysten Ritter leads as Jessica Jones in Jessica Jones, which also introduces Mike Colter as Luke Cage, who later headlined Luke Cage. Finn Jones stars as Danny Rand / Iron Fist in Iron Fist and joins Cox, Ritter, and Colter in reprising their roles for The Defenders. Jon Bernthal stars as Frank Castle / Punisher in The Punisher, after being introduced in the second season of Daredevil. Runaways co-stars Rhenzy Feliz as Alex Wilder. Cloak & Dagger sees Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph as Tandy Bowen / Dagger and Tyrone Johnson / Cloak, respectively. Helstrom stars Tom Austen and Sydney Lemmon as Daimon and Ana Helstrom, respectively. (Full article...)
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Sim as the Laird in Geordie, 1955

The Scottish actor Alastair Sim (1900–1976) performed in many media of light entertainment, including theatre, film and television. His career spanned from 1930 until his death. During that time he was a "memorable character player of faded Anglo-Scottish gentility, whimsically put-upon countenance, and sepulchral, sometimes minatory, laugh".

After studying chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, he was employed, between 1925 and 1930, as a lecturer in elocution at New College, Edinburgh, and also established his own school of drama and speech training. In 1930 he made his professional stage debut as a messenger in Othello at the Savoy Theatre, London—with Paul Robeson and Peggy Ashcroft in the lead roles. During the next five years he appeared on stage in New York and the UK, and spent two years at the Old Vic. (Full article...)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
14	1	"Bart Gets an 'F'"	David Silverman	David M. Stern	October 11, 1990 (1990-10-11)	7F03	33.6
15	2	"Simpson and Delilah"	Rich Moore	Jon Vitti	October 18, 1990 (1990-10-18)	7F02	29.9
16	3	"Treehouse of Horror"	Wes Archer Rich Moore David Silverman	John Swartzwelder Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky Edgar Allan Poe & Sam Simon	October 25, 1990 (1990-10-25)	7F04	27.4
17	4	"Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"	Wes Archer	Sam Simon & John Swartzwelder	November 1, 1990 (1990-11-01)	7F01	26.1
18	5	"Dancin' Homer"	Mark Kirkland	Ken Levine & David Isaacs	November 8, 1990 (1990-11-08)	7F05	26.1
19	6	"Dead Putting Society"	Rich Moore	Jeff Martin	November 15, 1990 (1990-11-15)	7F08	25.4
20	7	"Bart vs. Thanksgiving"	David Silverman	George Meyer	November 22, 1990 (1990-11-22)	7F07	25.9
21	8	"Bart the Daredevil"	Wesley Meyer Archer	Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky	December 6, 1990 (1990-12-06)	7F06	26.2
22	9	"Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"	Jim Reardon	John Swartzwelder	December 20, 1990 (1990-12-20)	7F09	22.2
23	10	"Bart Gets Hit by a Car"	Mark Kirkland	John Swartzwelder	January 10, 1991 (1991-01-10)	7F10	24.8
24	11	"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"	Wesley M. Archer	Nell Scovell	January 24, 1991 (1991-01-24)	7F11	24.2
25	12	"The Way We Was"	David Silverman	Al Jean & Mike Reiss and Sam Simon	January 31, 1991 (1991-01-31)	7F12	26.8
26	13	"Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"	Rich Moore	Steve Pepoon	February 7, 1991 (1991-02-07)	7F13	26.2
27	14	"Principal Charming"	Mark Kirkland	David M. Stern	February 14, 1991 (1991-02-14)	7F15	23.9
28	15	"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"	W.M. "Bud" Archer	Jeff Martin	February 21, 1991 (1991-02-21)	7F16	26.8
29	16	"Bart's Dog Gets an 'F'"	Jim Reardon	Jon Vitti	March 7, 1991 (1991-03-07)	7F14	23.9
30	17	"Old Money"	David Silverman	Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky	March 28, 1991 (1991-03-28)	7F17	21.2
31	18	"Brush with Greatness"	Jim Reardon	Brian K. Roberts	April 11, 1991 (1991-04-11)	7F18	20.6
32	19	"Lisa's Substitute"	Rich Moore	Jon Vitti	April 25, 1991 (1991-04-25)	7F19	17.7
33	20	"The War of the Simpsons"	Mark Kirkland	John Swartzwelder	May 2, 1991 (1991-05-02)	7F20	19.7
34	21	"Three Men and a Comic Book"	Wes M. Archer	Jeff Martin	May 9, 1991 (1991-05-09)	7F21	21
35	22	"Blood Feud"	David Silverman	George Meyer	July 11, 1991 (1991-07-11)	7F22	17.3

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No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Death Has a Shadow"	Peter Shin	Seth MacFarlane	January 31, 1999 (1999-01-31)	1ACX01	22.00
2	2	"I Never Met the Dead Man"	Michael Dante DiMartino	Chris Sheridan	April 11, 1999 (1999-04-11)	1ACX02	14.50
3	3	"Chitty Chitty Death Bang"	Dominic Polcino	Danny Smith	April 18, 1999 (1999-04-18)	1ACX04	13.78
4	4	"Mind Over Murder"	Roy Allen Smith	Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan	April 25, 1999 (1999-04-25)	1ACX03	11.69
5	5	"A Hero Sits Next Door"	Monte Young	Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman	May 2, 1999 (1999-05-02)	1ACX05	12.61
6	6	"The Son Also Draws"	Neil Affleck	Ricky Blitt	May 9, 1999 (1999-05-09)	1ACX06	11.20
7	7	"Brian: Portrait of a Dog"	Michael Dante DiMartino	Gary Janetti	May 16, 1999 (1999-05-16)	1ACX07	13.10

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Hitohira (ひとひら, lit. Petal) is a Japanese animated television series. The episodes are directed by Akira Nishimori and produced by the Japanese animation studio XEBEC M2 and Genco. They are based on the Hitohira manga by Izumi Kirihara, and adapt the source material over twelve episodes. The episodes aired from March 28, 2007 to June 13, 2007 on AT-X, Chiba TV, Sun TV, TV Aichi, TV Kanagawa and TV Saitama.

Two pieces of theme music are used for the episodes: one opening theme and one ending theme. The opening theme is "Yume, Hitohira" (夢、ひとひら, lit. Dream, Petal) by Yūko Asami, and the ending theme is "Smile" (スマイル, Sumairu) by Mai Mizuhashi. (Full article...)
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Rihanna at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017

Barbadian singer Rihanna has released four video albums and appeared in sixty-two music videos, twelve films, thirteen television programs, and several television commercials. In 2005, Rihanna signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings and released her debut single "Pon de Replay", taken from her first studio album Music of the Sun (2005). Like its lyrical theme, the music video for the song was inspired by disco and dance; it was directed by Little X. Three separate videos were released for "SOS", the lead single from her second studio album A Girl like Me (2006), all of which contained various dance sequences. The same year, American director Anthony Mandler directed the accompanying music video for the second single "Unfaithful", which featured Rihanna in a dangerous love triangle with her lover and her husband. "Unfaithful" was Rihanna's first collaboration with Mandler; they later worked together regularly. Also in 2006, Rihanna played herself in the third installment of the Bring It On film series, entitled Bring It On: All or Nothing.

The music video for "Umbrella", the lead single from her third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), was directed by Chris Applebaum and featured scenes of Rihanna naked and covered in silver paint. It won the Video of the Year accolade at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. Seven more singles, accompanied with separate music videos directed by Mandler, were released from the album. Rihanna flew to Europe to shoot the music videos for the 2007 singles "Shut Up and Drive" and "Don't Stop the Music" in Prague. "Russian Roulette", the lead single from Rihanna's fourth studio album Rated R (2009), featured a cameo appearance by American actor and model Jesse Williams. The music video for the second single, "Hard", was directed by Melina Matsoukas, who also directed the videos for Rihanna's 2010 singles, "Rude Boy" and "Rockstar 101". The same year, Rihanna provided vocals for Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie". The song's accompanying music video features actors Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox in a love-hate relationship while Eminem and Rihanna perform in front of a burning house. In 2010, Rihanna also filmed the scenes for her second film appearance in Battleship, which was released in April 2012. (Full article...)
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Holby City is a British medical drama television series that was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 12 January 1999 and 29 March 2022. The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the BBC medical drama Casualty, which is set in the emergency department of the fictional Holby City Hospital, based in the equally fictitious town of Holby. Young wanted to explore what happened to patients treated in Casualty once they were taken away to the hospital's surgical wards. He opined that Casualty limited itself to "accident of the week" storylines, while Holby City allowed the possibility of storylines about long-term care, rather than immediate life-and-death decisions.

Holby City has earned various awards and nominations, with the nominations in categories ranging from Best Drama to its writing and editing work to the cast's acting performance. It received nominations for eight awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs), winning the Best Continuing Drama in the 2008 British Academy Television Awards — an award for which it was unsuccessfully nominated in for three years prior to winning and five years after winning. Despite being the most shortlisted Holby City actress, Amanda Mealing (who portrayed Connie Beauchamp) did not win any awards for her role. Jimmy Akingbola was the most acclaimed actor from the series, winning two awards for his role as Antoine Malick. Rebecca Wojciechowski and Peter Mattessi are the only members of the show's production team to win an accolade; they have each won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award. The serial has also been nominated for 32 awards at the National Television Awards, although it has never won. (Full article...)

Season	Episodes	Originally aired
Season	Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
Pilot		January 11, 2007 (2007-01-11)		Nicktoons
1	26	April 5, 2010 (2010-04-05)	September 27, 2010 (2010-09-27)	Cartoon Network
2	26	October 11, 2010 (2010-10-11)	May 9, 2011 (2011-05-09)
3	26	July 11, 2011 (2011-07-11)	February 13, 2012 (2012-02-13)
4	26	April 2, 2012 (2012-04-02)	October 22, 2012 (2012-10-22)
5	52	November 12, 2012 (2012-11-12)	March 17, 2014 (2014-03-17)
6	43	April 21, 2014 (2014-04-21)	June 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
7	26	November 2, 2015 (2015-11-02)	March 19, 2016 (2016-03-19)
8	27	March 26, 2016 (2016-03-26)	February 2, 2017 (2017-02-02)
9	14	April 21, 2017 (2017-04-21)	July 21, 2017 (2017-07-21)
10	16	September 17, 2017 (2017-09-17)	September 3, 2018 (2018-09-03)

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Hanks receiving the Kennedy Center Honors medallion in December 2014

Tom Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker who has had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. Hanks made his professional acting debut on stage playing Grumio in a 1977 Great Lakes Theater production of The Taming of the Shrew. He made his film debut with a minor role in the 1980 horror film He Knows You're Alone. In the same year, Hanks appeared in the television series Bosom Buddies, a role which led to guest appearances on several shows including Happy Days with Ron Howard. Howard cast him in his first leading role in the fantasy romantic comedy Splash. His breakthrough role was in the age-changing comedy Big (1988), for which he garnered his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 1993, Hanks starred with Meg Ryan in the Nora Ephron-directed romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle. Later that year he starred in the drama Philadelphia as a gay lawyer with AIDS fighting discrimination in his law firm. For his performance, Hanks earned his first Academy Award for Best Actor. He followed this with the 1994 romantic comedy-drama Forrest Gump, winning a consecutive second Academy Award for Best Actor; he is the first since Spencer Tracy in 1937 and 1938 to achieve this feat. In 1995, he played astronaut Jim Lovell in the Howard-directed historical drama Apollo 13, and voiced Sheriff Woody in the animated film Toy Story (a role which he would reprise in three sequels). (Full article...)
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QI (short for Quite Interesting) is a BBC comedy panel game television show that began in 2003. It was created by John Lloyd, and was hosted by Stephen Fry until the end of Series 13 [M] after which Sandi Toksvig took over, and features permanent panellist Alan Davies. Each series covers topics that begin with a different letter of the alphabet; for example, the first series covered topics whose word began with "A". Thus it is referred to as "Series A" instead of "Series One".

QI was given a full series after BBC executives responded well to a nonbroadcast pilot and the first episode, "Adam" premiered on BBC Two on 11 September 2003. From the second to the fifth series, episodes aired each week on BBC Two; the second and subsequent episodes were shown first on BBC Four in the time-slot after the previous episode's BBC Two broadcast. When the sixth series of QI began in 2008, the show moved to BBC One and the broadcasting of episodes on BBC Four was replaced in favour of an extended repeat broadcast on BBC Two the following day, titled QI XL. From the ninth series, QI returned to BBC Two on Friday at 10 pm with the XL edition on Saturdays. Lloyd acted as the producer for the first five series. Piers Fletcher became producer starting from Series F. (Full article...)
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Winslet at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival

English actress Kate Winslet made her screen debut at age fifteen in the BBC series Dark Season (1991). Following more television appearances in the UK, she made her film debut with the leading role of murderess Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's crime film Heavenly Creatures (1994). Winslet gained wider recognition for playing Marianne Dashwood in a 1995 film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, for which she received an Academy Award nomination and won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year, she appeared in the Royal Exchange Theatre's production of Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw. In 1997, she starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in James Cameron's romance Titanic, which emerged as the highest-grossing film of all time to that point; it established her as a star and earned her a Academy Award for Best Actress nomination.

Winslet followed Titanic with roles in small-scale period dramas which were critically acclaimed but not widely seen. She played a disillusioned single mother in Hideous Kinky (1998), an Australian woman brainwashed by a religious cult in Holy Smoke! (1999), a sexually repressed laundress in Quills (2000), and the novelist Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001). For the last of these, she received her third Academy Award nomination. Winslet was awarded a Grammy Award for narrating a short story in the children's audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), and she sang the single "What If" for the 2001 animated film Christmas Carol: The Movie. The 2004 science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind marked one of her first roles set in contemporary times, and Winslet followed it by playing Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in Finding Neverland (2004) and an unhappy housewife in Little Children (2006). She received Academy Award nominations for the first and last of these, and went on to star alongside Cameron Diaz in the commercially successful romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). (Full article...)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
127	1	"Road to the Multiverse"	Greg Colton	Wellesley Wild	September 27, 2009 (2009-09-27)	7ACX06	10.17
128	2	"Family Goy"	James Purdum	Mark Hentemann	October 4, 2009 (2009-10-04)	7ACX01	9.66
129	3	"Spies Reminiscent of Us"	Cyndi Tang	Alec Sulkin	October 11, 2009 (2009-10-11)	7ACX03	8.88
130	4	"Brian's Got a Brand New Bag"	Pete Michels	Tom Devanney	November 8, 2009 (2009-11-08)	7ACX02	7.38
131	5	"Hannah Banana"	John Holmquist	Cherry Chevapravatdumrong	November 8, 2009 (2009-11-08)	7ACX05	7.73
132	6	"Quagmire's Baby"	Jerry Langford	Patrick Meighan	November 15, 2009 (2009-11-15)	7ACX04	8.28
133	7	"Jerome Is the New Black"	Brian Iles	John Viener	November 22, 2009 (2009-11-22)	7ACX08	7.38
134	8	"Dog Gone"	Julius Wu	Steve Callaghan	November 29, 2009 (2009-11-29)	7ACX07	8.48
135	9	"Business Guy"	Pete Michels	Andrew Goldberg & Alex Carter	December 13, 2009 (2009-12-13)	7ACX11	7.67
136	10	"Big Man on Hippocampus"	Dominic Bianchi	Brian Scully	January 3, 2010 (2010-01-03)	7ACX09	8.10
137	11	"Dial Meg for Murder"	Cyndi Tang	Alex Carter & Andrew Goldberg	January 31, 2010 (2010-01-31)	7ACX12	6.21
138	12	"Extra Large Medium"	John Holmquist	Steve Callaghan	February 14, 2010 (2010-02-14)	7ACX14	6.42
139	13	"Go, Stewie, Go!"	Greg Colton	Gary Janetti	March 14, 2010 (2010-03-14)	7ACX15	6.72
140	14	"Peter-assment"	Julius Wu	Chris Sheridan	March 21, 2010 (2010-03-21)	7ACX16	6.65
141	15	"Brian Griffin's House of Payne"	Jerry Langford	Spencer Porter	March 28, 2010 (2010-03-28)	7ACX13	7.27
142	16	"April in Quahog"	Joseph Lee	John Viener	April 11, 2010 (2010-04-11)	7ACX18	6.93
143	17	"Brian & Stewie"	Dominic Bianchi	Gary Janetti	May 2, 2010 (2010-05-02)	7ACX20	7.68
144	18	"Quagmire's Dad"	Pete Michels	Tom Devanney	May 9, 2010 (2010-05-09)	7ACX19	7.22
145	19	"The Splendid Source"	Brian Iles	Based on a short story by : Richard Matheson Teleplay by : Mark Hentemann	May 16, 2010 (2010-05-16)	7ACX17	7.59
146	20	"Something, Something, Something, Dark Side"	Dominic Polcino	Kirker Butler	May 23, 2010 (2010-05-23)	6ACX21 6ACX22	6.13
147	21	"Partial Terms of Endearment"	Joseph Lee	Danny Smith	June 20, 2010 (2010-06-20) (UK, TV) September 28, 2010 (2010-09-28) (US, DVD)	7ACX10	N/A

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Millennium is a crime-thriller television series which was broadcast from 1996 to 1999. Created by Chris Carter, the series aired on Fox for three seasons with a total of sixty-seven episodes. It starred Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Klea Scott and Brittany Tiplady. Henriksen played Frank Black, an offender profiler for the Millennium Group (a private investigative organisation). Black retires from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to move his wife Catherine (Gallagher) and daughter Jordan (Tiplady) to Seattle, where he begins consulting on criminal cases for the group. After the group's attempt to cause an apocalyptic viral outbreak kills his wife, Black returns to the FBI to work with new partner Emma Hollis (Scott) to discredit the group.

Black was one of the first elements conceived for the series, the remainder of which were fleshed out by Carter around his character. Black has been described by a producer as Millennium's constant, as the series' tone and direction changed around him with each successive season. Except for Frank Black, the series' characters have been criticized as one-dimensional, "generic" and little more than "symbol[s]". Television critic Robert Shearman said that the series featured "half a dozen actors who could be termed regulars [...] but without exception they remain functional ciphers". (Full article...)