HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".
2
The first video aired on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles in 1981.
107
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
183
The scene in Skyfall where Daniel Craig is shaved with a classical razor lead to a 400% increase of straight edge razor sales.
10
Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
5
Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
33
There was a cable network called The Puppy Channel that, for 3 years, broadcast only broadcast footage of puppies playing.
1
In 1997, Kevin Smith was hired by Warner Brothers to write the script for a Superman movie. He was forced to write Superman without the power of flight and he had to fight a giant spider. The movie would’ve starred Nicolas Cage.
-3