The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School
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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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The janitor from Scrubs was originally a figment of J.D.'s imagination.
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Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
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There was a cable network called The Puppy Channel that, for 3 years, broadcast only broadcast footage of puppies playing.
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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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