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22 unusual facts about 2006 in television


Bonnie and Terry Turner

Bonnie and Terry Turner are a husband-and-wife writing team, best known for creating the sitcoms 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996 - 2001) and That '70s Show (1998 - 2006), for NBC and FOX respectively, as well as That '80s Show for FOX in 2002, and Normal, Ohio starring John Goodman in 2000.

Boxing After Dark

In April 2006, BAD entered its tenth season with an all-new lineup.

ComicView

The episodes aired during the 2005-2006 season were filmed in New Orleans less than a month before Hurricane Katrina.

Cristian Solimeno

He has played Jason Turner in Footballers Wives, and has also had a number of guest roles in other British television series, and appeared in the 2000 film Dead Babies, 2005 Happy New Year special of The Vicar of Dibley and the 2006 series Strictly Confidential.

Don Stark

Don Stark (born July 5, 1954) is an American actor known for his role as Bob Pinciotti on the long-running Fox Network sitcom That '70s Show for all eight seasons (1998-2006) and as fictional Los Angeles Devils owner Oscar Kinkade in Hit the Floor.

Encyclo

After rumours of the sale of the channel by AB Groupe at the start of 2006, it became part of a group of channels exclusively shown on CanalSat.

Hardwick Hall

Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the Hall as one of his five choices for the 2006 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings.

Ira Goldstein

Rather than an expensive late-model one, he was shown over 2006-2007 chauffeuring his boss around Auckland in a metallic-brown 1979 Princess 2000 HL.

John Hoskyns

Hoskyns was interviewed about Stepping Stones and the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory!.

Junglies

The Junglies was a short-lived British animated series by Terry Ward, lasting from 1992 to 1993 on ITV on TV-am, and was re-run on Tiny Living between 2005 and 2006.

Kate Isitt

She also appeared as a woman whose husband became a surrogate father in Strictly Confidential in 2006.

KDTF-LD

KDTF affiliated with Telefutura, the forerunner to UniMás, sometime in 2006, after talks reportedly broke down with sister station and former UPN affiliate XHUPN (now XHDTV-TV and part of MyNetworkTV).

Keesha Sharp

From 20052006, Sharp was signed to 9 episodes on Chris Rock's autobiographical sitcom, Everybody Hates Chris as Shiela Ridenhour, a sexy neighbor next door.

Keith Payne

Payne was interviewed for the 2006 television docudrama Victoria Cross Heroes which also included archive footage and dramatisations of his actions.

Prisma+

It is the first digital channel in Greece (it launched at 20 March 2006).

Sic 'Em Friday

In 2006, MTV2 expanded this focus by creating a second block of "outrageous" animated block of shows called Sic'emation.

Tatta Hitotsu no Koi

Tatta Hitotsu no Koi (たったひとつの恋) or also sometimes known as "Just One Love"is a Japanese drama series, produced and aired in 2006 by NTV.

The Circus, Bath

Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the Circus as one of his five choices for the 2006 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings.

The Final Report

The Final Report (or Final Report) is a 2006 National Geographic Channel documentary television series about various historical events that occurred between the early 1970s and the 2000s.

Toute l'Histoire

After rumours of the sale of the channel by AB Groupe at the beginning of 2006, it eventually became part of the group of channels exclusively shown on satellite via CanalSat.

Vidéoclick

In September 2006, the channel was officially launched under the name La Quatre and radically changed from the ideas underlying AB4 at its creation, so that it became a channel showing cult series from the 60s, 70s and 80s, and also classic films.

WPWX

WPWX is not to be confused with WPWR-TV, the local MyNetworkTV affiliate that was known as "Power 50" for a few months in 2006.