What’s your favorite movie? Or do you prefer getting stuck into a series? Either way, here are interesting facts about the best (and worst) films & TV shows ever released!
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Film & TV Facts
From 1953 to 1957, NBC’s Today Show had a chimpanzee co-host named J. Fred Muggs. It is estimated he brought in the network around $100 million.
The original “Star Wars” premiered on just 32 screens in the U.S. in 1977 to generate buzz before expanding to more theaters.
Larry the Cable Guy’s real name is Daniel Lawrence Whitney. His notable Southern accent is fake; he was born and raised in the Midwest, not the South.
Top Gear set a Toyota Hilux on fire, submerged it, hit it with a wrecking ball, and buried it in a building collapse; each time it was repaired without spare parts and restarted.
Hanna-Barbera pitched “The Flintstones” to networks for eight weeks before it was finally picked up. It became the first-ever animated show to air during primetime.
Oscar the Grouch was magenta in his concept sketches, then he was orange in Sesame Street’s first season in 1969, and finally became green the following year.
Ziggy Marley, Bob Marley’s son, wrote the theme song for the popular children’s cartoon, “Arthur,” when he was 26.
Star Wars was re-released in the Navajo language in 2013, making it the first motion picture to be translated into a Native American language.
The iconic cement hand-and-footprint tradition at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre began in 1927 when silent film star Norma Talmadge accidentally stepped in wet cement during construction.
Movie theaters make roughly 40% of their profit from concession stands. This is because ticket revenues have to be shared with the movie distributors.
In 2016, a UK filmmaker protested high film classification fees by submitting a 10-hour movie of paint drying, which the British Board of Film Classification had to watch in full.
The insurance company backing the payouts for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” sued the show in 2001 for being too easy.
Because Daniel Radcliffe was allergic to nickel in his initial Harry Potter specs, production replaced them with hypoallergenic glasses.
In the Netherlands’ version of “Sesame Street,” instead of Big Bird, they have a blue bird named Pino. He was later established as Big Bird’s cousin.
In 2015, 69,278 people signed a petition to rename the Australian dollar to “Dollarydoo,” a nod to an episode of The Simpsons.
Snoop Dogg’s real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., and his nickname came from his mother, who thought he looked like Snoopy from “Peanuts.”
In 2011, Abercrombie & Fitch offered $10,000 to cast members of “Jersey Shore” if they agreed to stop wearing their brand on the show.
In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first Black person to win an Oscar but had to sit at a segregated table at the ceremony due to the hotel’s racist policies.
Saturn’s moon Mimas bears a striking resemblance to the Death Star from “Star Wars” thanks to an enormous crater called the Herschel Crater.
The youngest ever PowerBall winner was a 19-year-old from South Carolina who blew all $35 million of his winnings on an all-female wrestling TV show called “Wrestilicious.”
In 2018, Peppa Pig was censored on a popular Chinese social media platform because it was linked to a youth subculture promoting “gangster” behavior.
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening originally planned for Krusty the Clown to be Homer Simpson in disguise, which is why Krusty looks so similar to Homer.
Godzilla’s roar was created by dragging a resin-coated leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass.
