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8th Apr 2012

Twin Peaks (1990)

Trivia: Hank Jennings has the same prison number that Jean Valjean does in Les Misérables.

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21st Mar 2012

Rizzoli and Isles (2010)

Trivia: It's mentioned across the series that Captain Sisko and his son Jake are both baseball fans. Cirroc Lofton, who plays Jake, is actually the nephew of former baseball player Kenny Lofton.

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13th Mar 2012

Star Trek (2009)

Trivia: When Kirk crashes his stepfather's Corvette, the cop who arrests him is voiced by J.J. Abrams. (00:13:20)

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Trivia: Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, even though half of the film was an original creation.

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6th Mar 2012

61* (2001)

6th Feb 2012

Game of Death (1978)

6th Feb 2012

Spaceballs (1987)

2nd Feb 2012

Stalag 17 (1953)

Trivia: According to the audio commentary on the special edition DVD, William Holden felt he didn't deserve the Best Actor Oscar awarded to him, and that it should have gone to Burt Lancaster for From Here to Eternity. Holden's wife believed that his win was just belated recognition for his Oscar-nominated performance in Sunset Boulevard.

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18th Jan 2012

Moneyball (2011)

Trivia: Although it isn't shown in the film, Billy Beane managed, by using Paul DePodesto's sabermetric analysis, to get thirteen of the twenty players he wanted in the 2002 amateur draft. At the time, this was unprecedented; no GM before had ever finished the draft with more than six of their top choices, and most GMs are lucky to even get their top two or three choices.

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6th Jan 2012

Burn Notice (2007)

The Good Wives Club - S2-E2

Trivia: While searching Chaplain Evans' home, Tony is watching an episode of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet". Not only were Ozzie and Harriet Nelson the in-laws of Mark Harmon's sister Kristen, but their show Ozzie's Girls featured Mark's first acting credit.

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16th Nov 2011

Modern Family (2009)

16th Nov 2011

CSI: Miami (2002)

16th Nov 2011

1776 (1972)

Trivia: In one of the biggest coincidences in American history, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. This fact was never included in the play, because Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone both knew that no one would believe it.

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11th Nov 2011

The Runaways (2010)

Trivia: The actor who plays Roscoe Dexter, Don and Lina's stressed-out director, is the father of Kim Fowley, a music producer who managed the Runaways, an all-girl rock band from the 1970s that featured a young Joan Jett.

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