Matthew Patrick delves into common questions about video game stories and tropes and develops theories to explain them.
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Ace Lightning is a children's television series co-produced by the BBC and Alliance Atlantis, which has been broadcast in the United States as well as in the United Kingdom and Australia. The show was filmed in Canada, but the program was set in America. It ran for two seasons, and spawned several books, including a yearbook for the year 2003, an activity book and a companion to the series. A computer game based upon the show was released in 2002. Most of the programme was live-action, although the heroes and villains from the video game were created using CGI. The primary focus of the series is the power of friendship, as well as the battle between good and evil. The series is significant in that until its creation, live action and CGI had not been attempted to such a huge and constant degree within a weekly television serial.
A troublesome girl Qin Xiao Lu separated from her parents as a child, making a living playing and cheating, until she became a highly qualified gangster. One day, Qin Xiao Lu blackmailed an owner of a BMW. I did not expect the owner to be a prince, the prince of the CMFU Academy. The two blame each other and together they go through a happy drama.
Hiiieeee!! America's favorite drag-couple, Sharon Needles and Alaska are taking their relationship to the next level, the Great Outdoors! Watch as the queens fiddle with their equipment to try and pitch a tent, rubbing sticks to build a fire, and beating a bushy thicket to clear a trail. All puns aside, these two vampy camp tramps butch-it-up in the wilderness, with cat walks and impromptu dance parties to boot! Can these two gay city-boys survive the forest? Will hungry bears (animal or man) attack and pillage base-camp?
Lu Xiaobai, a carefree young man, accidentally crosses paths with Shen Junye, a fierce female constable. Forced to marry into her family under a binding contract, they move from hostility to partnership, working together to catch criminals, solve mysteries, and discover love.
Best Week Ever is a weekly television program on the United States cable/satellite network VH1. It started airing in 2004 and was put on hiatus in the summer of 2009. In January 2010, it was announced that the show was cancelled. On August 3, 2012, VH1 announced the return of Best Week Ever. New weekly episodes began January 18, 2013. On the show, comedians analyze the previous week's developments in pop culture, including recent happenings in entertainment and celebrity gossip. The show's tagline is, "It's everything you love, everything you missed, and all the stuff you need to see again."
EP Daily is a daily news television show that covers movies, TV shows, comic books, collectibles and gadgets. Created and executive produced by host Victor Lucas, and his Vancouver, British Columbia production company Greedy Productions Ltd, EP Daily has been a staple on airwaves since its debut in September 1997.
A substitute bride returns to a prince's residence as his attendant and gradually falls for the seemingly cold-hearted prince. As their relationship grows, a mysterious figure begins plotting in the shadows.
The Blaxpat follows an American refugee fleeing corporate America to pursue her artist dreams abroad.
Li Changshou is reborn in the ancient era before the Fengshen War and carefully plots his path to immortality, avoiding danger at all costs. Mastering concealment, alchemy, and divine powers, he strives to remain unnoticed in a perilous world. However, his quiet life is disrupted when his master takes in a new junior disciple, throwing his plans into chaos.
Huang Xiao Yu, the head of the martial arts Bo Wu sect, participates in martial arts competitions to revitalize the martial arts faction and one day accidentally becomes the female bodyguard of the popular actor Yuan Fan. Yuan Fan is perturbed by her as he always feels that Xiao Yu has two faces; how she acts at night vs the day are completely different. It turned out that when the popular martial arts game "New Douluo Continent" endorsed by Yuan Fan was shut down, NPC Bo Ye accidentally crossed the real world when chasing down the villain Nightmare and possessed Huang Xiao Yu. Now Xiao Yu and Yuan Fan are caught in a series of conspiracies...and they also discover that their fate has long been destined
In the fantastic future world with rich spiritual energy, the enthusiastic and cheerful little fatty Wang Baole saw through the illusion created by the teachers in the entrance examination of the famous"Mischievous Taoist Academy", who won high scores with his outstanding performance, and obtained the special quota of "Magic Soldier Department". Later, he overcome obstacles and opened up his own way of growing. In the process of cultivating immortals and fighting monsters, he made a large number of close friends, and thus started a series of hilarious adventure stories.
Recently dumped, Akane is just about to quit the game she used to play with her boyfriend, when she meets Yamada in the same RPG. Yamada in real life turns out to be somewhat of a legend. The only problem is - he is ONLY interested in the game. As Akane's feelings grow, will Yamada's focus stay on the game?
When four boys meet on a Tokyo trip, their lives quietly intertwine—leading to love, growth, and a winter that might bring them back together.
This show follows adventures of two halo toys' lives. One is a dimwitted Halo 2 Master Chief action figure and other is a brilliant and skilled video game player who is a Halo 2 Arbiter action figure.
The Troll from "T.C. De Witt's The Princess Knight" gives you a weekly look behind the scenes of the making of the movie, answering emails, talking to the fans, and sharing stories of his life.
It tells the story of mathematics student, Ye An An , who upon entering university encounters and gets along with the Spirit of Mathematics, Shu Xue, and finally courageously chases love. (Source: MyDramaList)
The disciples of the Lingchuan Sect have guarded the Fans of Heaven and Earth for nearly a century. Mu Yun and Hua Yue are the only disciples of the sect that are left. The stubborn and disobedient Hua Yue unintentionally discovers that the Fan of Heaven possesses the power to travel through time. To escape being forced to study and practice martial arts by Mu Yun, Hua Yue travels to the future to have fun. Hundreds of years in the future she meets Xiao Qian who looks exactly like her. Secrets come to the surface, and adventures take place.
A series of romantic encounters between two heroines and four "virtual" idols. It's a call to return to reality, cherish life and reap a beautiful love. Lu Xiao is warm as spring in the virtual world but sensitive and lonely in real life. Jiang Kele may lead a difficult life, but she still dreams of meeting the perfect prince.
Liang Weiwei, a track and field student with superhuman strength and an idolater, accidentally entered a historical drama starring the idol Jing Qing. She becomes the disgraced empress who is set to die in the third episode. In order to get rid of this "setup", Liang Weiwei uses her knowledge as a drama fan and skilfully uses the plot mechanism to escape fate and start a fantasy bitter-sweet love story with the emperor played by Jing Qing.
Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.
These half-hour specials showcased some of the best up-and-coming comedians of the moment. The show was a pivotal stepping stone for many of today's stand-up stars.
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Da Ali G Show is a British satirical television series created by and starring English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. In the series, Baron Cohen plays three unorthodox journalists: faux-streetwise poseur Ali G, Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev, and gay Austrian fashion enthusiast Brüno Gehard. These characters conduct real interviews with unsuspecting people, many of whom are celebrities, high-ranking government officials, and other well-known figures, during which they are asked absurd and ridiculous questions.
Host Zach Galifianakis conducts comical celebrity interviews sitting with his guests between two potted ferns on a sparse set, in the awkward style of low-budget community access cable channels.
It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the world's problems. It's harder to pinpoint the systems responsible for creating them. In this series, Jon Stewart brings together people impacted by different parts of a problem to discuss how we come up with change.
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.
The World’s Foremost Drive-in Movie Critic – actually he’s pretty much the world’s only Drive-in Critic – Joe Bob Briggs brings his iconic swagger to this firebrand of horror and drive-in cinema offering honest appreciation, hilarious insight, inside stories and of course, the Drive-in totals.
Based on Scott Aukerman’s popular podcast of the same name, COMEDY BANG! BANG! cleverly riffs on the well-known format of the late night talk show, infusing celebrity appearances and comedy sketches with a tinge of the surreal. In each episode, Aukerman engages his guests with unfiltered and improvisational lines of questioning, punctuated by banter and beats provided by bandleader, one-man musical mastermind Reggie Watts, to reinvent the traditional celebrity interview. Packed with character cameos, filmic shorts, sketches and games set amongst an off-beat world, COMEDY BANG! BANG! delivers thirty minutes of absurd laugh-loaded fun featuring some of the biggest names in comedy.
Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world.
Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology, and more. Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human, the Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater.
Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC that was created and hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 as the first incarnation of the Late Night franchise and went off the air in 1993, after Letterman left NBC and moved to Late Show on CBS. Late Night with Conan O'Brien then filled the time slot. As of March 2, 2009, the slot has been filled by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. It will be filled by Seth Meyers in the spring of 2014, after Fallon becomes host of The Tonight Show.
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.
Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.
Each week, Jefferies tackles the week’s top stories from behind his desk and travels the globe to far-off locations to provide an eye opening look at hypocrisy around the world. Featuring interviews, international field pieces, and man on the ground investigations, Jim tackles the news of the day with no-bulls**t candor, piercing insight and a uniquely Aussie viewpoint.
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
Trending news, pop culture, social media, original videos and more come together in host Joel McHale's weekly comedy commentary show.
The outrageous comedy panel show hosted by the irrepressible Keith Lemon. Each episode sees top celebrities going head to head in a series of hilarious rounds unlike any other panel show.
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.
