Trivia: Jeff Daniels won his Leading Actor Emmy Award for season two the night before he began filming Dumb and Dumber To.
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12th Feb 2015
The Newsroom (2012)
16th Jan 2015
High Anxiety (1977)
Trivia: When Dr. Thorndyke is checking into the hotel in San Francisco, he is informed a "Mr. MacGuffin" has changed his room number. "MacGuffin" is a movie-making term popularized by Alfred Hitchcock referring to a plot device that drives the story, but what the object actually is or does is irrelevant.
16th Jan 2015
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
1st Jan 2015
Scream (1996)
Trivia: The murder of Principal Himbry was added after producer Bob Weinstein noticed there were about thirty pages in the script (which roughly translates to thirty minutes of screen time) in which nobody died. The scene also resolved the climax at Stu's party, as it gave all the guests a reason to leave.
27th Dec 2014
The Lone Ranger (2013)
5th Dec 2014
Bones (2005)
3rd Dec 2014
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
3rd Dec 2014
Scream (1996)
28th Nov 2014
Law & Order (1990)
Scoundrels - S5-E9
Trivia: In one scene, Briscoe sarcastically comments "I never realized the law was such an exciting profession." Before joining the main cast as Briscoe, Jerry Orbach played a lawyer in an early episode of season two. (00:09:25)
20th Nov 2014
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Trivia: Hinton Battle, who plays the demon Sweet, is the most successful Tony Award winner, with three wins in the Featured Actor in a Musical category from three nominations. There have been other three-time nominees in the category, but they have won two or fewer of the three.
28th Oct 2014
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Trivia: Don Giovanni, the parody of The Godfather played by Dom DeLuise, is also the title of an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
22nd Oct 2014
The Blacklist (2013)
Trivia: Red's trademark fedora was James Spader's idea.
21st Oct 2014
Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
Trivia: Tom Paris was originally written to be Nick Locarno, the cadet Robert Duncan McNeil played in the 'Next Generation' episode "The First Duty." Because the character was the intellectual property of that episode's writers, royalty fees would have had to been paid for every new episode in which Locarno appeared. To avoid the unnecessary expense, the 'Voyager' producers instead created a new character, using Locarno as a building block.
21st Oct 2014
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Trivia: Captain Jellico holds the distinction of being the show's only guest star to record a captain's log entry while in command of the Enterprise.
15th Oct 2014
Castle (2009)
Trivia: Throughout the episode, it's heavily implied, short of mentioned outright, that Castle is being considered to write a new James Bond novel. Stana Katic is actually a Bond girl, having had a small role as a Canadian intelligence officer in 'Quantum of Solace'.
3rd Oct 2014
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Trivia: The Terminator determines the T-1000 has killed John's foster parents when he asks about the family's dog and gives them the wrong name, Wolfie, which is the name of James Cameron's German Shepherd.
1st Oct 2014
The Simpsons (1989)
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Trivia: This is the only episode in which Homer is voiced by someone other than Dan Castellaneta; his singing voice is done by a member of the Dapper Dans.
1st Oct 2014
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
15th Sep 2014
Mork & Mindy (1978)
Trivia: Robin Williams improvised so much of his dialogue that the show's writers finally stopped writing his lines and just left blank space in the scripts with cues and prompts for him.
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Suggested correction: I'm researching Mork and Mindy for a feature. Contemporary interviews say Robin Williams was given leeway to improvise but this was only about 5% of an episode. These were probably done in rehearsals and incorporated into the final scripts. It would be impossible to film each episode if Williams wholly improvised as the cameras wouldn't know if he was going to hit his marks (i.e. where any actor needs to be so is in frame) and for other cast to react to. So partly true but not the whole story.
15th Sep 2014
Aladdin (1992)
Trivia: Because Robin Williams ad-libbed or improvised so many of his lines, the film was ruled ineligible for the Adapted Screenplay category at the Academy Awards.