HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".
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The Power Rangers command center is a real building located in a California University.
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The first video aired on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles in 1981.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons, used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop "drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes". When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
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It costs around 2.75 million dollars to make an episode of The Walking Dead, and it pulls in 11 million in commercial revenues for a profit of 8 million an episode
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The Simpsons are yellow because creator Matt Groening thought it was a good way to catch channel surfer’s attention when they saw a flash of yellow.
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
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