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1 Events
- February 9 - Kerry McFadden wins ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!.
- March 28 - Maori Television starts broadcasting in New Zealand.
- April 2 to 8 - TV Tokyo premieres eight shows during the first week of the month.
- April 17 - ToonamiToonami (a pun on tsunami, suggesting a "tidal wave" of animated cartoons) is a trademark of Cartoon Network, used initially for action-oriented programming blocks on the US and UK Cartoon Network television channels, among other countries. The name was s moves from 5 PM to 7 PM (primary time) and extends by four hours (from two to six).
- May 15May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). There are 230 days remaining. Events 1602 Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to discover Cape Cod. 1618 Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected disco - Jimmy FallonJames Thomas Fallon (born September 19, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comedian, actor and musician who is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live''. Fallon was raised in Saugerties (Upstate New York) with his one year older sister Glor makes his last appearance as a cast memberWriters Cast members on SNL are expected to write; those that don't write often and well end up not getting parts and eventually leaving the show. Three groups serve as “farm clubs” for the cast and writing staff: the improvisational comedy troupes the Gr of Saturday Night LiveSaturday Night Live SNL is a weekly late-night ninety-minute live comedy- variety show which has been broadcasted every Saturday night on the American NBC network since 1975. It is one of the longest-running network entertainment programs in American tele on its season finaleA season finale is the final episode of a season of a television program. Frequently a season finale will contain cliffhangers to be resolved in the next season ( Star Trek: The Next Generation usually did this, and the finale of the first season of Twin.
- June 2June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. Events 455 The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks. They depart with countless valuables, spoils of the Temple in Jerusalem br - a contestant on Jeopardy!Jeopardy is a popular international television game show, originally devised by Merv Griffin, who also devised Wheel of Fortune''. The show originated in the United States. Jeopardy debuted on March 30, 1964. It is a game of trivia, during which three con, Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah, begins a long and ongoing (as of November) run as champion.
- June 4 - Kitten Pinder is evicted from the Big Brother house, shouting against the Queen and the aristocracy on the way out.
- June 16 - In the UK, Big Brother is taken off air as the housemates threaten to kill each other.
- September 28 - Longtime veteran Marcy Walker makes what has been termed by soap sources as her final appearance on All My Children after two decades of being affiliated with the program.
- November 1 - The Young and the Restless airs its milestone 8,000th episode.
- November 18 - The video for new charity single Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid 20 airs simultaenously on all five main UK television networks, as well as over twenty satellite and cable stations. This unprecedented broadcast attracts over fourteen million viewers between 5:50 and 6 PM.
- December 16 - All My Children airs its milestone 9,000th episode. [1]
- General Electric, owner of NBC, purchases Universal Studios from Vivendi, leaving all six US broadcast networks part of a company which also owns a film studio.
