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What is a production company?

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A production company is a company that produces

The term mainly comes from the television world, where it is a company that produces/creates programs. In The Netherlands We also use the term production house to make theatre performances, radio or TV programmes. In films one speaks more frequently about a production house. When creating a television programme, the direction and production are therefore at the production house, if the series is finished (or perhaps already during), the program will be tried to sell it to a broadcaster that can then broadcast it. In The Netherlands we have many different production houses, some are known. IDTV, EyeWorks, and Endemol. Read More

What is Narcos?

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Narcos is a TV series

Narcos is an American crime drama web television series created and produced by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro. Season 1, comprising 10 episodes, originally aired on August 28, 2015, as a Netflix exclusive.[1]

Set and filmed in Colombia, season 1 tells the story of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who became a billionaire through the production and distribution of cocaine, while also focusing on Escobar’s interactions with drug lords, DEA agents, and various opposition entities.[2][3] The series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on September 2, 2016 with 10 episodes.[4] On September 6, 2016, Netflix renewed the series for a third and fourth season.[5] The third season will premiere on September 1, 2017

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What is Fargo?

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Fargo is a tv series

Fargo

Plot: A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Fargo was released in 2014 and Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton play the lead parts. The genre of Fargo is Crime, Drama, Thriller.

Networks: FX

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What is Scandal?

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Scandal is a tv series

Scandal

Plot: Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these “gladiators in suits,” who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand — their own.

Scandal was released in 2012– and Kerry Washington, Guillermo Díaz, Darby Stanchfield, Katie Lowes play the lead parts. The genre of Scandal is Drama. Series 6 just started airing in 2017.

Networks: American Broadcasting Company

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What is the meaning of HTGAWM?

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HTGAWM means How to Get Away with Murder

How To Get Away With Murder

How To Get Away With Murder is a tv series.
Plot: A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.

How To Get Away With Murder was released in 2014– and Viola Davis, Billy Brown, Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee play the lead parts. The genre of How To Get Away With Murder is Drama, Mystery.

New episodes of Series 3 have started airing on Network: American Broadcasting Company

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What is Riverdale?

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Riverdale is a tv series

Riverdale

Plot: Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade. Based on the “Archie” comics, the new drama paints the classic small town as a hotbed of illicit romance and murder.

The new series of Riverdale was released in 2017 and Ashleigh Murray, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse, KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart and Luke Perry play the lead parts. The genre of Riverdale is Drama, Mystery.

Networks: The CW

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BBC

What is BBC?

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BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation

The BBC is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, and is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation. The BBC is also the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with over 20,950 staff in total.

The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBCs extensive radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK. Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded the BBC World Service (launched in 1932 as the BBC Empire Service), which broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online services in Arabic, and Persian.

Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide Ltd, which sells BBC programmes and services internationally and also distributes the BBCs international 24-hour English-language news services BBC World News, and from BBC.com, provided by BBC Global News Ltd.

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MIC - Made in Chelsea

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MIC is Made In Chelsea, a tv series

Made In Chelsea

Made in Chelsea is a reality tv series broadcast by E4 in the UK. It’s time to peek behind the designer curtains of South West London and meet London’s young socially elite, Made in Chelsea. Yes, they’re immaculately dressed; yes, they are fiercely ambitious; and of course they party hard. But beyond the posh accents, fast cars and polo parties, life isn’t all champagne and canapés. See the real-life rivalries and relationships that set tongues wagging and phones beeping behind closed doors on the Kings Road. Enjoy every love-in, fall out and bitch fest captured on camera and played out over deliciously decadent one-hour episodes.

Made In Chelsea was released in 2011– and Alexandra Felstead, Rosie Fortescue, Jamie Laing, Louise Thompson feature in the series.

Networks: E4

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TOWIE - The only way is Essex

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TOWIE is the Only Way Is Essex

The Only Way Is Essex

TOWIE is a reality tv series on ITVBe in the UK. Part soap opera, part reality show, TOWIE follows the lives, loves and scandals of a group of real-life Essex guys and girls. Cameras capture the happenings at all kinds of glamorous locations as the cast meet up in nail bars, nightclubs and salons. Each episode features action filmed just a few days previously.

The Only Way Is Essex was released in 2010 and Denise Van Outen, James Argent, Chloe Sims, Jessica Wright play the lead parts. The genre of The Only Way Is Essex is Reality.

Networks: IVTBe

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The Mentalist

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The Mentalist is a tv series

The Mentalist

Plot: The Mentalist is an American police procedural television series that follows former “psychic” Patrick Jane, who is a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation, using the highly developed observational skills he previously employed to “read” people’s minds.

The Mentalist was released in 2008–2015 and Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman play the lead parts. The genre of The Mentalist is Mystery, Drama.

Networks: CBS

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