Random TV Facts

    39 facts tagged with TV Facts

    HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".
    2
    Mermaid Mockumentary
    Mermaid Mockumentary
    In 2012, Animal Planet aired a two-hour mockumentary called "Mermaid: The Body Found" that many viewers found so convincing, they overwhelmed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with phone calls demanding the truth about the existence of mermaids.
    13
    Warner Brother's hated the name 'Beetlejuice', and urged Tim Burton to change it to something clever. Burton jokingly suggested calling the movie 'Scared Sheetless', and was horrified when the studio actually liked it.
    12
    Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
    5
    44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
    106
    The Power Rangers command center is a real building located in a California University.
    4
    Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
    5
    There was a cable network called The Puppy Channel that, for 3 years, broadcast only broadcast footage of puppies playing.
    1