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Flat-screen television receivers on display for sale at a consumer electronics store in 2008

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set, rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers.

Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries.

In 2013, 79% of the world's households owned a television set. The replacement of earlier cathode-ray tube (CRT) screen displays with compact, energy-efficient, flat-panel alternative technologies such as LCDs (both fluorescent-backlit and LED), OLED displays, and plasma displays was a hardware revolution that began with computer monitors in the late 1990s. Most television sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs. Major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, Digital Light Processing (DLP), plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. LEDs are being gradually replaced by OLEDs. Also, major manufacturers have started increasingly producing smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s. (Full article...)

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The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes, also known as The Simpsons Halloween episodes, are a series of episodes in the animated television series The Simpsons. They are Halloween specials, each consisting of three separate, self-contained segments. These segments usually involve the Simpson family in some horror, science fiction, or supernatural setting. Considered non-canon, they always take place outside the normal continuity of the show and completely abandon any pretense of being realistic. The first Treehouse of Horror episode aired on October 25, 1990 as part of the second season and was inspired by EC Comics horror tales. As of 2007, there are 18 Treehouse of Horror episodes, with one airing every year. The episodes are known for being far more violent and much darker than an average Simpsons episode. Episodes contain several trademarks, including the alien characters Kang and Kodos, "scary names" in the credits, a special version of the opening sequence, and parodies of horror and science fiction films. The show's staff regard the Treehouse of Horror as being particularly difficult to produce as the scripts often go through many rewrites, and the animators typically have to design new characters and backgrounds.

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CNN headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia

Cable News Network, commonly referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major news cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. The network is now owned by Time Warner; the news network is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System. CNN introduced the idea of 24-hour television news coverage, celebrating its 25th anniversary on June 1, 2005.

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• ... that John Seigenthaler hosted a literary interview program which ran for 42 years on Nashville Public Television?
• ... that Gloria Cameron was the first native Jamaican in the UK to appear on the British television programme This Is Your Life?
• ... that to prepare for her role in the television film Search for Grace, actress Lisa Hartman Black underwent hypnosis?
• ... that Japanese actor Kouhei Higuchi prepared for his role on the television drama adaptation of My Personal Weatherman by learning from a weather forecaster?
• ... that actor Tatsunari Kimura ate pancakes and drank coffee while talking for eight hours during the filming of the television drama Old-Fashioned Cupcake?
• ... that the 1992 documentary film Daddy and the Muscle Academy, which focuses on the life of gay erotic artist Tom of Finland, has been broadcast on Finnish television multiple times?

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• ...that noitulovE, a cinema and television advertising campaign for Guinness draught stout, won more awards than any other commercial worldwide in 2006?

• ...that Anne Montgomery, who has been a sportscaster for several local television stations as well as SportsCenter, was the first female football referee in Arizona?

• ...that Black Entertainment Television comedy series We Got to Do Better, had its name changed from Hot Ghetto Mess amidst allegations of enforcing negative stereotypes of African Americans?

• ...that Olivia Newton-John made at least 16 appearances on The Go!! Show, an Australian popular music television series which aired between 1964 to 1967, before she found international success?

• ...that Great American Country television host Nan Kelley (then Nan Sumrall) became Miss Mississippi in 1985 after her fellow Mississippian Susan Akin was crowned Miss America?

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Howard W. "Kroger" Babb (December 30, 1906 – January 28, 1980) was an American film producer and showman. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots in the medicine show tradition. Self-described as "America's Fearless Young Showman", he is best known for his presentation of the 1945 exploitation film Mom and Dad, which was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2005.

Babb was involved in the production and marketing of many films and television shows, promoting each according to his favorite marketing motto: "You gotta tell 'em to sell 'em." His films ranged from sex education-style dramas to "documentaries" on foreign cultures, intended to titillate audiences rather than to educate them, maximizing profits via marketing gimmicks. (Full article...)

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The following are images from various television-related articles on Wikipedia.

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  An early Smart TV from 2012 running the discontinued Orsay platform (from History of television)
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  Public television in France uses 819 line b&w high definition, from 1959 until 1983 (TF1). (from History of television)
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  Color bars used in a test pattern, sometimes used when no program material is available (from History of television)
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  A map depicting digital terrestrial television standards (from Digital television)
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  Manfred von Ardenne in 1933 (from History of television)
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  Samsung's discontinued Orsay platform (from Smart TV)
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  DBS satellite dishes (from History of television)
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  Smart TVs on display (from Smart TV)
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  The Nipkow disk. This schematic shows the circular paths traced by the holes, which may also be square for greater precision. The area of the disk outlined in black shows the region scanned. (from History of television)
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  Comparison of image quality between ISDB-T (1080i broadcast, top) and NTSC (480i transmission, bottom) (from Digital television)
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  RCA CT-100 at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention playing Superman. The RCA CT-100 was the first mass-produced color TV set. (from Color television)
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  Ferdinand Braun (from History of television)
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  First television test broadcast transmitted by the NHK Broadcasting Technology Research Institute in May 1939 (from History of television)
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  LG Electronics smart TV from 2011 (from Smart TV)
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  The Philco Predicta, 1958. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from History of television)
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  RCA 630-TS, the first mass-produced television set, which sold in 1946–1947 (from History of television)
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  Family watching TV, 1958 (from History of television)
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  The first mass-produced Czechoslovak TV-set Tesla 4001A (1953–57) (from History of television)
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  Philo Farnsworth in 1924 (from History of television)
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  Ad for the beginning of experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939 (from History of television)
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  Hovannes Adamian c. 1900s (from Color television)
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  This live image of actress Paddy Naismith was used to demonstrate Telechrome, John Logie Baird's first all-electronic color television system, which used two projection CRTs. The two-color image would be similar to the basic Telechrome system. (from Color television)
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  Baird in 1925 with his televisor equipment and dummies "James" and "Stooky Bill" (right) (from History of television)
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  A color television test at the Mount Kaukau transmitter site, New Zealand in 1970.
  A test pattern with color bars is used to calibrate the signal. (from Color television)
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  LG Smart TV using the Web browser (from Smart TV)

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  Blue Peter is a British children's television programme created by John Hunter Blair. The first programme was broadcast on 16 October 1958. It is the longest-running children's television programme in the world, and also one of the longest-running television programmes in the world.
  
  Blue Peter currently airs weekly on Fridays in the United Kingdom on CBBC, a digital television channel. The show is produced in a magazine format, often transmitting live, and features a combination of studio presentation, interviews and outside broadcasting items. There have been forty-three official presenters of Blue Peter. (Full article...)
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  Anne Hathaway is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the short-lived television drama series Get Real (1999–2000) before starring in her breakthrough role of Mia Thermopolis in the successful Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001). It established her as a teen idol and she later reprised the role in its sequel, Royal Engagement. The following year, Hathaway made her New York stage debut in the Encores! production of Carnival!. This was followed by a string of family films such as Nicholas Nickleby (2002) and Ella Enchanted (2004), which were box office flops. In 2005, she transitioned to more mature roles with the acclaimed romance Brokeback Mountain. In 2006, Hathaway starred opposite Meryl Streep in the highly successful comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada and portrayed Jane Austen in the biographical drama Becoming Jane the following year.
  
  Hathaway received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a recovering alcoholic in Rachel Getting Married (2008). She played Viola in The Public Theater's 2009 production of Twelfth Night, which garnered her a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. In 2010, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for providing her voice for an episode on The Simpsons. The same year, she played the White Queen in Tim Burton's $1 billion grossing fantasy adventure Alice in Wonderland. For her role as a free-spirited artist in Love & Other Drugs (2010), she earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. During this period, Hathaway also starred in a number of other box-office hits such as Get Smart (2008), Bride Wars (2009) and Valentine's Day (2010). She then went on to voice a Spix's macaw named Jewel in the animated comedy adventure film Rio (2011) and its sequel Rio 2 (2014). (Full article...)
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  Numbers is an American television series produced by brothers Ridley and Tony Scott. It premiered on CBS on Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 10:00 pm with its pilot episode then moved to its Friday slot five days later. It remained in that slot for the rest of its run. The series is set in Los Angeles, California, and follows the stories of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team and a mathematics professor, focusing on relationships between FBI Special Agent in Charge Don Eppes (Rob Morrow), his brother Professor Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz) and their father, Alan Eppes (Judd Hirsch), and on the brothers' efforts to fight crime. A typical episode begins with a crime, which is subsequently investigated by Don's team and mathematically described by Charlie. The insights provided by Charlie's mathematics are almost always crucial to solving the crime.
  
  In total, six complete seasons consisting of 118 episodes were broadcast. The first season, a mid-season replacement for Dr. Vegas, was the shortest of the six, and spanned 13 episodes from January to May 2005. Seasons two and three aired from September to May of the 2005–2006 and 2006–2007 seasons respectively, but season four was cut short by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Twelve episodes were originally produced and aired from September 2007 to January 2008. Six more episodes were aired in April and May 2008 after the strike ended. Season 5 began airing on October 3, 2008 and continued through to May 2009. Season six began in late September 2009 and concluded in March 2010. (Full article...)
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No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
81	1	"Stewie Loves Lois"	Mike Kim	Mark Hentemann	September 10, 2006 (2006-09-10)	4ACX32	9.93
82	2	"Mother Tucker"	James Purdum	Tom Devanney	September 17, 2006 (2006-09-17)	4ACX31	9.23
83	3	"Hell Comes to Quahog"	Dan Povenmire	Kirker Butler	September 24, 2006 (2006-09-24)	4ACX33	9.66
84	4	"Saving Private Brian"	Cyndi Tang	Cherry Chevapravatdumrong	November 5, 2006 (2006-11-05)	4ACX34	8.45
85	5	"Whistle While Your Wife Works"	Greg Colton	Steve Callaghan	November 12, 2006 (2006-11-12)	4ACX35	9.04
86	6	"Prick Up Your Ears"	James Purdum	Cherry Chevapravatdumrong	November 19, 2006 (2006-11-19)	5ACX01	9.30
87	7	"Chick Cancer"	Pete Michels	Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild	November 26, 2006 (2006-11-26)	5ACX02	9.49
88	8	"Barely Legal"	Zac Moncrief	Kirker Butler	December 17, 2006 (2006-12-17)	5ACX03	8.91
89	9	"Road to Rupert"	Dan Povenmire	Patrick Meighan	January 28, 2007 (2007-01-28)	5ACX04	8.80
90	10	"Peter's Two Dads"	Cyndi Tang	Danny Smith	February 11, 2007 (2007-02-11)	5ACX05	7.97
91	11	"The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou"	Julius Wu	Mark Hentemann	February 18, 2007 (2007-02-18)	5ACX06	8.53
92	12	"Airport '07"	John Holmquist	Tom Devanney	March 4, 2007 (2007-03-04)	5ACX08	8.59
93	13	"Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey"	Dominic Polcino	Steve Callaghan	March 11, 2007 (2007-03-11)	5ACX07	8.05
94	14	"No Meals on Wheels"	Greg Colton	Mike Henry	March 25, 2007 (2007-03-25)	5ACX09	7.97
95	15	"Boys Do Cry"	Brian Iles	Cherry Chevapravatdumrong	April 29, 2007 (2007-04-29)	5ACX10	8.13
96	16	"No Chris Left Behind"	Pete Michels	Patrick Meighan	May 6, 2007 (2007-05-06)	5ACX11	7.95
97	17	"It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One"	Zac Moncrief	Alex Borstein	May 13, 2007 (2007-05-13)	5ACX12	7.22
98	18	"Meet the Quagmires"	Dan Povenmire & Chris Robertson	Mark Hentemann	May 20, 2007 (2007-05-20)	5ACX13	9.15


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No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
204	1	"Lard of the Dance"	Dominic Polcino	Jane O'Brien	August 23, 1998 (1998-08-23)	5F20	11.84 7.0 (HH)
205	2	"The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"	Mark Kirkland	John Swartzwelder	September 20, 1998 (1998-09-20)	5F21	13.90 7.95 (HH)
206	3	"Bart the Mother"	Steven Dean Moore	David X. Cohen	September 27, 1998 (1998-09-27)	5F22	11.94 7.35 (HH)
207	4	"Treehouse of Horror IX"	Steven Dean Moore	Donick Cary	October 25, 1998 (1998-10-25)	AABF01	15.12 8.5 (HH)
				Larry Doyle
				David X. Cohen
208	5	"When You Dish Upon a Star"	Pete Michels	Richard Appel	November 8, 1998 (1998-11-08)	5F19	15.34 9.0 (HH)
209	6	"D'oh-in' in the Wind"	Mark Kirkland & Matthew Nastuk	Donick Cary	November 15, 1998 (1998-11-15)	AABF02	13.94 8.3 (HH)
210	7	"Lisa Gets an 'A'"	Bob Anderson	Ian Maxtone-Graham	November 22, 1998 (1998-11-22)	AABF03	13.61 8.0 (HH)
211	8	"Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble'"	Mike B. Anderson	John Swartzwelder	December 6, 1998 (1998-12-06)	AABF04	12.38 7.2 (HH)
212	9	"Mayored to the Mob"	Swinton O. Scott III	Ron Hauge	December 20, 1998 (1998-12-20)	AABF05	13.90 8.5 (HH)
213	10	"Viva Ned Flanders"	Neil Affleck	David M. Stern	January 10, 1999 (1999-01-10)	AABF06	19.68 11.5 (HH)
214	11	"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"	Mark Ervin	Larry Doyle	January 17, 1999 (1999-01-17)	AABF07	15.21 8.8 (HH)
215	12	"Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"	Steven Dean Moore	Tom Martin, George Meyer, Brian Scully & Mike Scully	January 31, 1999 (1999-01-31)	AABF08	19.11 11.5 (HH)
216	13	"Homer to the Max"	Pete Michels	John Swartzwelder	February 7, 1999 (1999-02-07)	AABF09	13.98 8.3 (HH)
217	14	"I'm with Cupid"	Bob Anderson	Dan Greaney	February 14, 1999 (1999-02-14)	AABF11	12.35 7.7 (HH)
218	15	"Marge Simpson in: 'Screaming Yellow Honkers' "	Mark Kirkland	David M. Stern	February 21, 1999 (1999-02-21)	AABF10	14.64 8.6 (HH)
219	16	"Make Room for Lisa"	Matthew Nastuk	Brian Scully	February 28, 1999 (1999-02-28)	AABF12	12.40 7.6 (HH)
220	17	"Maximum Homerdrive"	Swinton O. Scott III	John Swartzwelder	March 28, 1999 (1999-03-28)	AABF13	15.51
221	18	"Simpsons Bible Stories"	Nancy Kruse	Tim Long	April 4, 1999 (1999-04-04)	AABF14	12.86
				Larry Doyle
				Matt Selman
222	19	"Mom and Pop Art"	Steven Dean Moore	Al Jean	April 11, 1999 (1999-04-11)	AABF15	14.13 8.5 (HH)
223	20	"The Old Man and the 'C' Student"	Mark Kirkland	Julie Thacker	April 25, 1999 (1999-04-25)	AABF16	11.16 6.9 (HH)
224	21	"Monty Can't Buy Me Love"	Mark Ervin	John Swartzwelder	May 2, 1999 (1999-05-02)	AABF17	12.59 7.26 (HH)
225	22	"They Saved Lisa's Brain"	Pete Michels	Matt Selman	May 9, 1999 (1999-05-09)	AABF18	10.45 6.8 (HH)
226	23	"Thirty Minutes over Tokyo"	Jim Reardon	Donick Cary & Dan Greaney	May 16, 1999 (1999-05-16)	AABF20	12.51 8.0 (HH)

Season	Episodes		Originally aired			Rank	Average viewership (in millions)
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1	22		September 13, 2005 (2005-09-13)	May 4, 2006 (2006-05-04)	The WB	165	3.81
2	22		September 28, 2006 (2006-09-28)	May 17, 2007 (2007-05-17)	The CW	216	3.14
3	16		October 4, 2007 (2007-10-04)	May 15, 2008 (2008-05-15)		187	2.74
4	22		September 18, 2008 (2008-09-18)	May 14, 2009 (2009-05-14)		161	3.14
5	22		September 10, 2009 (2009-09-10)	May 13, 2010 (2010-05-13)		125	2.64
6	22		September 24, 2010 (2010-09-24)	May 20, 2011 (2011-05-20)		209	2.42
7	23		September 23, 2011 (2011-09-23)	May 18, 2012 (2012-05-18)		176	2.03
8	23		October 3, 2012 (2012-10-03)	May 15, 2013 (2013-05-15)		152	2.52
9	23		October 8, 2013 (2013-10-08)	May 20, 2014 (2014-05-20)		141	2.81
10	23		October 7, 2014 (2014-10-07)	May 20, 2015 (2015-05-20)		156	2.02
11	23		October 7, 2015 (2015-10-07)	May 25, 2016 (2016-05-25)		131	2.81
12	23		October 13, 2016 (2016-10-13)	May 18, 2017 (2017-05-18)		132	2.62
13	23		October 12, 2017 (2017-10-12)	May 17, 2018 (2018-05-17)		166	2.32
14	20		October 11, 2018 (2018-10-11)	April 25, 2019 (2019-04-25)		159	2.07
15	20		October 10, 2019 (2019-10-10)	November 19, 2020 (2020-11-19)		131	1.63

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Winslet at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival

English actress Kate Winslet made her screen debut at age fifteen in the BBC series Dark Season (1991). Following more television appearances in the UK, she made her film debut with the leading role of murderess Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's crime film Heavenly Creatures (1994). Winslet gained wider recognition for playing Marianne Dashwood in a 1995 film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, for which she received an Academy Award nomination and won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year, she appeared in the Royal Exchange Theatre's production of Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw. In 1997, she starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in James Cameron's romance Titanic, which emerged as the highest-grossing film of all time to that point; it established her as a star and earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination.

Winslet followed Titanic with roles in small-scale period dramas which were critically acclaimed but not widely seen. She played a disillusioned single mother in Hideous Kinky (1998), an Australian woman brainwashed by a religious cult in Holy Smoke! (1999), a sexually repressed laundress in Quills (2000), and the novelist Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001). For the last of these, she received her third Academy Award nomination. Winslet was awarded a Grammy Award for narrating a short story in the children's audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), and she sang the single "What If" for the 2001 animated film Christmas Carol: The Movie. The 2004 science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind marked one of her first roles set in contemporary times, and Winslet followed it by playing Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in Finding Neverland (2004) and an unhappy housewife in Little Children (2006). She received Academy Award nominations for the first and last of these, and went on to star alongside Cameron Diaz in the commercially successful romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). (Full article...)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
179	1	"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"	Jim Reardon	Ian Maxtone-Graham	September 21, 1997 (1997-09-21)	4F22	17.44
180	2	"The Principal and the Pauper"	Steven Dean Moore	Ken Keeler	September 28, 1997 (1997-09-28)	4F23	14.86
181	3	"Lisa's Sax"	Dominic Polcino	Al Jean	October 19, 1997 (1997-10-19)	3F26 3G02	12.85
182	4	"Treehouse of Horror VIII"	Mark Kirkland	Mike Scully	October 26, 1997 (1997-10-26)	5F02	19.03
				David X. Cohen
				Ned Goldreyer
183	5	"The Cartridge Family"	Pete Michels	John Swartzwelder	November 2, 1997 (1997-11-02)	5F01	18.03
184	6	"Bart Star"	Dominic Polcino	Donick Cary	November 9, 1997 (1997-11-09)	5F03	17.91
185	7	"The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"	Steven Dean Moore	Richard Appel	November 16, 1997 (1997-11-16)	5F04	19.80
186	8	"Lisa the Skeptic"	Neil Affleck	David X. Cohen	November 23, 1997 (1997-11-23)	5F05	16.01
187	9	"Realty Bites"	Swinton O. Scott III	Dan Greaney	December 7, 1997 (1997-12-07)	5F06	17.73
188	10	"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"	Bob Anderson	Ron Hauge	December 21, 1997 (1997-12-21)	5F07	16.17
189	11	"All Singing, All Dancing"	Mark Ervin	Steve O'Donnell	January 4, 1998 (1998-01-04)	5F24	15.90
190	12	"Bart Carny"	Mark Kirkland	John Swartzwelder	January 11, 1998 (1998-01-11)	5F08	19.21
191	13	"The Joy of Sect"	Steven Dean Moore	Steve O'Donnell	February 8, 1998 (1998-02-08)	5F23	16.20
192	14	"Das Bus"	Pete Michels	David X. Cohen	February 15, 1998 (1998-02-15)	5F11	15.98
193	15	"The Last Temptation of Krust"	Mike B. Anderson	Donick Cary	February 22, 1998 (1998-02-22)	5F10	16.50
194	16	"Dumbbell Indemnity"	Dominic Polcino	Ron Hauge	March 1, 1998 (1998-03-01)	5F12	17.35
195	17	"Lisa the Simpson"	Susie Dietter	Ned Goldreyer	March 8, 1998 (1998-03-08)	4F24	17.79
196	18	"This Little Wiggy"	Neil Affleck	Dan Greaney	March 22, 1998 (1998-03-22)	5F13	14.96
197	19	"Simpson Tide"	Mike B. Anderson	Joshua Sternin & Jennifer Ventimilia	March 29, 1998 (1998-03-29)	3G04	14.77
198	20	"The Trouble with Trillions"	Swinton O. Scott III	Ian Maxtone-Graham	April 5, 1998 (1998-04-05)	5F14	11.39
199	21	"Girly Edition"	Mark Kirkland	Larry Doyle	April 19, 1998 (1998-04-19)	5F15	13.46
200	22	"Trash of the Titans"	Jim Reardon	Ian Maxtone-Graham	April 26, 1998 (1998-04-26)	5F09	17.35
201	23	"King of the Hill"	Steven Dean Moore	John Swartzwelder	May 3, 1998 (1998-05-03)	5F16	14.80
202	24	"Lost Our Lisa"	Pete Michels	Brian Scully	May 10, 1998 (1998-05-10)	5F17	12.86
203	25	"Natural Born Kissers"	Klay Hall	Matt Selman	May 17, 1998 (1998-05-17)	5F18	14.12

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Weaver at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con.

Sigourney Weaver is an American actress who began her career in the early 1970s by appearing in plays. Throughout her career, she has acted in nearly 40 stage productions. She made her film debut with a minor role in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Annie Hall (1977), but her breakthrough came when she portrayed Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's science fiction film Alien (1979). She reprised the role in Aliens (1986), this time helmed by director James Cameron. Her performance netted her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She returned to the role in two more sequels: Alien 3 (1992) and Alien Resurrection (1997), neither of which were as well received. Although originally written as a male role, Ripley is now regarded as one of the most significant female protagonists in cinema history, and consequently, Weaver is considered to be a pioneer of action heroines in science fiction films.

Although best known for her role in the Alien franchise, Weaver has fostered a prolific filmography, appearing in more than 60 films. In 1981, she starred alongside William Hurt in the neo-noir Eyewitness. Her next role was opposite Mel Gibson in the Peter Weir–directed The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). She played Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters (1984), later returning to the franchise in Ghostbusters II (1989), Ghostbusters (2016), and Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021). In 1986, Weaver starred opposite Michael Caine in the erotic thriller Half Moon Street. Her next role was primatologist Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist (1988), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. That same year, she also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her performance alongside Harrison Ford in Working Girl. Weaver was the first actor to have two acting wins at the Golden Globes in the same year. She also received an Academy Award nomination for both films. (Full article...)

Survivor is an American reality television show, based on the Swedish program Expedition Robinson. Contestants are referred to as "castaways", and they compete against one another to become the "Sole Survivor" and win one million U.S. dollars. First airing in 2000, there currently have been a total of 46 seasons aired; the program itself has been filmed on five continents.

Contestants usually apply to be on the show, but the series has been known to recruit contestants for various seasons. For Survivor: Fiji, the producers had hoped to have a more racially diverse cast, and hoped that a more diverse group would apply after the success of the racially segregated Survivor: Cook Islands. When this did not happen, the producers turned to recruiting and in the end, only one contestant had actually submitted an application to be on the show. For the most part, contestants are virtually unknown prior to their Survivor appearance, but occasionally some well-known people are cast. (Full article...)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
129	1	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"	Wes Archer	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	September 17, 1995 (1995-09-17)	2F20	22.6
130	2	"Radioactive Man"	Susie Dietter	John Swartzwelder	September 24, 1995 (1995-09-24)	2F17	15.7
131	3	"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"	Susie Dietter	Jon Vitti	October 1, 1995 (1995-10-01)	3F01	14.5
132	4	"Bart Sells His Soul"	Wes Archer	Greg Daniels	October 8, 1995 (1995-10-08)	3F02	14.8
133	5	"Lisa the Vegetarian"	Mark Kirkland	David X. Cohen	October 15, 1995 (1995-10-15)	3F03	14.6
134	6	"Treehouse of Horror VI"	Bob Anderson	John Swartzwelder	October 29, 1995 (1995-10-29)	3F04	19.7
				Steve Tompkins
				David X. Cohen
135	7	"King-Size Homer"	Jim Reardon	Dan Greaney	November 5, 1995 (1995-11-05)	3F05	17.0
136	8	"Mother Simpson"	David Silverman	Richard Appel	November 19, 1995 (1995-11-19)	3F06	15.3
137	9	"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"	Dominic Polcino	Spike Feresten	November 26, 1995 (1995-11-26)	3F08	14.2
138	10	"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"	David Silverman	Jon Vitti	December 3, 1995 (1995-12-03)	3F31	16.4
139	11	"Marge Be Not Proud"	Steven Dean Moore	Mike Scully	December 17, 1995 (1995-12-17)	3F07	16.7
140	12	"Team Homer"	Mark Kirkland	Mike Scully	January 7, 1996 (1996-01-07)	3F10	16.7
141	13	"Two Bad Neighbors"	Wes Archer	Ken Keeler	January 14, 1996 (1996-01-14)	3F09	16.5
142	14	"Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"	Susie Dietter	Jennifer Crittenden	February 4, 1996 (1996-02-04)	3F11	14.4
143	15	"Bart the Fink"	Jim Reardon	Story by : Bob Kushell Teleplay by : John Swartzwelder	February 11, 1996 (1996-02-11)	3F12	15.0
144	16	"Lisa the Iconoclast"	Mike B. Anderson	Jonathan Collier	February 18, 1996 (1996-02-18)	3F13	13.4
145	17	"Homer the Smithers"	Steven Dean Moore	John Swartzwelder	February 25, 1996 (1996-02-25)	3F14	14.1
146	18	"The Day the Violence Died"	Wes Archer	John Swartzwelder	March 17, 1996 (1996-03-17)	3F16	14.4
147	19	"A Fish Called Selma"	Mark Kirkland	Jack Barth	March 24, 1996 (1996-03-24)	3F15	12.9
148	20	"Bart on the Road"	Swinton O. Scott III	Richard Appel	March 31, 1996 (1996-03-31)	3F17	11.8
149	21	"22 Short Films About Springfield"	Jim Reardon	Richard Appel, David X. Cohen, Jonathan Collier, Jennifer Crittenden, Greg Daniels, Brent Forrester, Rachel Pulido, Steve Tompkins, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein & Matt Groening	April 14, 1996 (1996-04-14)	3F18	10.5
150	22	"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'"	Jeffrey Lynch	Jonathan Collier	April 28, 1996 (1996-04-28)	3F19	13.0
151	23	"Much Apu About Nothing"	Susie Dietter	David X. Cohen	May 5, 1996 (1996-05-05)	3F20	11.3
152	24	"Homerpalooza"	Wes Archer	Brent Forrester	May 19, 1996 (1996-05-19)	3F21	12.9
153	25	"Summer of 4 Ft. 2"	Mark Kirkland	Dan Greaney	May 19, 1996 (1996-05-19)	3F22	14.7

Book	Name	Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
1	Water	20		February 21, 2005 (2005-02-21)	December 2, 2005 (2005-12-02)
2	Earth	20		March 17, 2006 (2006-03-17)	December 1, 2006 (2006-12-01)
3	Fire	21		September 21, 2007 (2007-09-21)	July 19, 2008 (2008-07-19)

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Season	Episodes		Originally aired		Rank	Rating
			First aired	Last aired
1	9		March 27, 2005 (2005-03-27)	May 22, 2005 (2005-05-22)	8	11.6
2	27		September 25, 2005 (2005-09-25)	May 15, 2006 (2006-05-15)	5	12.5
3	25		September 21, 2006 (2006-09-21)	May 17, 2007 (2007-05-17)	7	12.1
4	17		September 27, 2007 (2007-09-27)	May 22, 2008 (2008-05-22)	9	10.4
5	24		September 25, 2008 (2008-09-25)	May 14, 2009 (2009-05-14)	10	9.6
6	24		September 24, 2009 (2009-09-24)	May 20, 2010 (2010-05-20)	11	9.0
7	22		September 23, 2010 (2010-09-23)	May 19, 2011 (2011-05-19)	17	7.5
8	24		September 22, 2011 (2011-09-22)	May 17, 2012 (2012-05-17)	21	7.6
9	24		September 27, 2012 (2012-09-27)	May 16, 2013 (2013-05-16)	18	7.7
10	24		September 26, 2013 (2013-09-26)	May 15, 2014 (2014-05-15)	11	8.5
11	25		September 25, 2014 (2014-09-25)	May 14, 2015 (2015-05-14)	17	7.8
12	24		September 24, 2015 (2015-09-24)	May 19, 2016 (2016-05-19)	11	7.9
13	24		September 22, 2016 (2016-09-22)	May 18, 2017 (2017-05-18)	16	7.3
14	24		September 28, 2017 (2017-09-28)	May 17, 2018 (2018-05-17)	12	7.1
15	25		September 27, 2018 (2018-09-27)	May 16, 2019 (2019-05-16)	20	6.5
16	21		September 26, 2019 (2019-09-26)	April 9, 2020 (2020-04-09)	30	7.0
17	17		November 12, 2020 (2020-11-12)	June 3, 2021 (2021-06-03)	36	7.6
18	20		September 30, 2021 (2021-09-30)	May 26, 2022 (2022-05-26)	34	6.4
19	20		October 6, 2022 (2022-10-06)	May 18, 2023 (2023-05-18)	42	5.2
20	10		March 14, 2024 (2024-03-14)	May 30, 2024 (2024-05-30)	42	5.1

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