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PROGRAMMING
HIGHLIGHTS
Grammy Awards
In February of 2005, the greatest stars of the music world will again gather for the annual 3É hour CBS Television Network special also known as the 47th annual GRAMMY AWARDS. The world's most popular television musical event for more than three decades, the GRAMMY AWARDS has always been a spectacular mix of exhilarating performances, exciting productions and exceptional ratings. Over the years, almost every major international music star has appeared and/or performed on the GRAMMY AWARDS show. Last year, the GRAMMY AWARDS show was the highest-rated broadcast in years, seen in over 172 countries, with more than half receiving the event live via satellite.
Genre: Awards Special
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Golden Globe Awards
For a night full of glamour and celebrity, nothing says Hollywood like the GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (1 x 240'). Hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS honor achievements in film and television from the previous year. One of the most popular worldwide entertainment awards shows, the GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS feature today's hottest stars in often impromptu moments of humor as well as delivering moving acceptance speeches. The 2005 62nd Annual GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS, airing on the NBC television network in 2005, will definitely be one of Hollywood's biggest parties next year.
Genre: Awards Special
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2005 52nd Annual Miss Universe Pageant
One of the year's most exciting live television events, the 2005 52nd Annual Miss Universe Pageant includes a star-studded panel of judges culled from film, television, fashion and the arts. Airing on the NBC television network in the US in late spring, the two-hour event has delegates competing in three categories -- swimsuit, evening gown and interview, during which time five finalists are selected. Then, upon further review by the judges, Miss Universe 2004 Jennifer Hawkins of Australia, will crown her successor. The two-hour primetime telecast draws an estimated worldwide viewing audience of more than 600 hundred million in over 180 countries.
Genre: Awards Special
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World Poker Tour
This series is an intriguing primetime reality series that dealt America's cable network, The Travel Channel, it's highest ever ratings jackpot. The series is also credited with single-handedly turning poker into the hottest new television trend and spectator sport. Set in exotic locations like Aruba, Paris and of course, Las Vegas, WORLD POKER TOUR involves an intriguing range of people from all over the world and all the drama that high stakes wagering delivers. The show's announcers, poker pro Mike Sexton and actor Vince Van Patten, guide the viewers through the game with a play-by-play analysis and the looming question, "Who will call your bluff?"
Genre: Series
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Elton John LIVE at Radio City Musci Hall
Elton John's first US television special in four years, the unprecedented two-hour ELTON JOHN LIVE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL was filmed over five history-making concerts performed at Radio City Music Hall in July. The performances, his first ever at Radio City Music Hall with his Band, mark the first time the venerable musician has performed accompanied by a full symphony orchestra and choir (conducted by James Newton Howard) in North America. Both orchestra and choir featured students from John's alma mater, London's Royal Academy of Music, and New York's esteemed Julliard School. During this captivating concert special, Elton John performs his greatest all time hits, including Your Song, Levon and Saturday Night Is Alright For Fighting, as well as soon-to-be classics from his new Peachtree Road CD, his first full, in-studio project in three years. The two-hour concert special will air on the Bravo cable network in the U.S. on November 24 of this year.
Genre: Music Special
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Hollywood Shootout
With a combined six decades of show business experience between the two hosts - VARIETY editor Peter Bart and "Überproducer" Peter Guber, Hollywood Shootout: The Ultimate Interview Show take viewers on a fantastic journey behind the scenes and inside the minds of the entertainment industry's biggest names. The provocative series, airing in the US on the AMC cable network, serves as a unique face-off between the two hosts and the power brokers who help make Hollywood what it is today.
Genre: Series
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Totally Outrageous Behaviour
Leave it to Nash Entertainment and the FOX network to produce TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR, featuring the newest, wildest, most hilarious, jaw-dropping, eye-popping moments ever captured on videotape. This uproarious primetime series is a ratings sensation, exposing people's most embarrassing and outrageous behavior on security and surveillance cameras, home video and even police tapes. Each of the side-splitting 31 half-hour episodes include hysterical home videos, bloopers, sports mishaps, dumb criminals and outrageous competitions. From ridiculous and bizarre attempts to be different, to the simple yet funny everyday things some people do, Totally Outrageous Behavior is comical, entertaining and always outrageous.
Genre: Light Entertainment Series
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World's Most Amazing Videos
This is the long-running and successful "caught on video" series from Nash Entertainment culls footage from a variety of sources, including news cameras, police cameras and home videos and allows audiences to witness truly amazing stunts, sporting accidents, natural disasters, and just plain old bad luck.
Genre: Series
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World's Wildest Police Videos
The hit Fox Television Network series, focuses on the most extreme and extraordinary footage possible of real crime in progress, captured from all over the world. Action so incredible, so intense, much of it has never been seen outside the law enforcement community.
Genre: Series
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Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
This is the hit Fox Television Network series that features five fascinating re-enactments of bizarre and astonishing stories in each episode. Can you tell fact from fiction? Truth from lies? Real events from make believe? It's up to the audience to decide if truth is stranger that fiction.
Genre: Series
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The American Music Awards
A dazzling three-hour ABC Television Network music event that honors today's superstars in the world of music. The show is a worldwide sensation, broadcast in over 100 territories around the world.
Genre: Music Special
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Radio Music Awards
Some of the music world's top performers come to salute their own as radio's most popular songs are honored on the NBC Television Network, two-hour all-star spectacular Radio Music Awards. Nominations, which are based on how much radio airplay musicians received in the past year, recognize the achievements of recording artists and radio personalities in the different musical formats.
Genre: Music Special
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Justin Timberlake: Down Home in Memphis
This is the eagerly anticipated one-hour NBC Television Network solo debut special of the hottest male recording act in the world today. A member of the multi-platinum group *NSYNC, Justin appears in his first ever U.S. Network solo special. and performs some of his biggest hits to date.
Genre: Music Special
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Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures
Jack Hanna, the world's most popular animal expert, stars in this nationwide syndicated television series. Each show, Jack travels around the world to the most intersting and exciting locations to give viewers an up-close and personal look at the multi-dimensional world of animals.
Genre: Series
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The Man Upstairs
This CBS Television Network Motion Pictures is a funny and poignant film about Victoria, an elegant recluse played by the enchanting Katharine Hepburn, who discovers Moony Polanski, an escaped convict played by Ryan O'Neal, hiding in her attic. A relationship develops between this unlikely pair - he finding the home he never had, she losing her loneliness.
Genre: Movie
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Predators at War
Focusing on the five 'mega-predators' of Africa - lions, leopards, hyenas, cheetahs and wild dogs -- PREDATORS AT WAR captures their struggle for survival during a cruel season of deprivation on the Mala Mala Reserve in South Africa. Groundbreaking images and innovative storytelling are further enhanced with 3D graphics and computer animation, transporting viewers into the heat of combat. The film reveals the vulnerabilities and strengths of each species while also theorizing as to the animals' motivation for combat.
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Forces of Nature
Showcasing some of the most intense examples of nature's power, FORCES OF NATURE, previously released as a large-format theatrical, provides audiences with a seemingly first-hand experience of earthquakes, volcanoes and severe storms. Following scientists on their ground-breaking quests to understand what triggers these deadly disasters, viewers are brought up to date on methods for predicting and minimizing the horrific effects of the world's most destructive forces.
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Siva Pacifica: The Last Voices from Heaven
Part high-adventure and part music documentary, SIVA PACIFICA: THE LAST VOICES FROM HEAVEN follows World Music artist and producer Anthony Copping on his quest to place the origins of South Pacific culture through its rhythm and song. Viewers travel with Anthony from the isolated shores of the Solomon Islands to the unexplored mountains of Irian Jaya as he searches for the source of these hypnotic rhythms. Throughout his journey, he gains the trust of the South Pacific communities and earns the privilege of recording their songs using only his own passion for music and the universal language of song. The program also offers cross-promotional opportunities with Sony Music on the release of Siva Pacifica: Last Voices from Heaven CD.
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Beyond the Movie: Alexander
Just in time to take advantage of potential cross-promotional opportunities with Warner Bros. theatrical release of ALEXANDER (starring Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Rosario Dawson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Rory McCann, Elliot Cowan and Joseph Morgan) this November, NGT&F delivers BEYOND THE MOVIE: ALEXANDER, an exploration of the extremes and contradictions that comprised the extraordinary warrior known as Alexander the Great. Characterized as a vindictive, bloodthirsty conqueror by some and an idealist who brought Greek culture to distant lands by others, this in-depth examination tries to ascertain who Alexander really was. Hero or tyrant, demon or god, audiences are still fascinated by this man two and a half thousand years after his death.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Jared Diamond, GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL is a riveting, intellectual adventure story. Telling the history of the last 13,000 years in a three-part series, available January 15, 2005, GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL is hosted by the author. Journeying across all five continents, the series goes in search of the very source of human civilization, as it charts its evolution. Engaging and revealing, it illuminates past civilizations and cultures and will alter audiences' ideas about the world. Providing enormous relevance for the present, this incredible series also offers enduring interest for the future.
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