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11 unusual facts about TV Guide


1986 NBA Playoffs

Game 2, where the record was set, was ranked by TV Guide as the 26th Most Memorable Moment in Television History and is credited with boosting the NBA's popularity surge and eventual rise to near the top of the United States television sports market, trailing only football by the mid-90s.

Arrest and Trial

In a 1963 TV Guide interview, Gazzara described his portrayal of Anderson: "I'm supposed to be a thinking man's cop. I'm a serious student of human behavior, more concerned with what creates the criminal than how to punish him. In other words, I'm not the kind of cop who asks, 'Where were you the night of April 13th?' It's my job to show that there is room for passion and intellectualism and personal display even within a policeman."

Baby Bob

In 2002, TV Guide ranked Baby Bob number 14 on its '50 Worst TV Shows of All Time' list.

Dish Network

Beginning in January 2010, Dish Network charges $6.00 as a DVR service fee, which covers cost of licensing EPG (electronic program guide) from TV Guide.

Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal

In 1955 a nationwide competition was held in TV Guide to find a young actor to play Dr. Hudson's protégé, Tim Watson, for several episodes.

Edith Efron

She became a writer and, later, a senior editor of the widely circulated TV Guide magazine in the 1960s and 1970s, where she wrote celebrity profiles, political columns and editorials.

Everyone's Waiting

TV Guide ranked the episode #22 on its list of "TV's Top 100 Episodes of All Time" and also named it one of the best TV moments of the decade.

KUOK

Prior to affiliating with Univision, KOKT-LP operated as an independent station from 1994 to 1995, before becoming the UPN affiliate for the Ada, Oklahoma-Sherman, Texas television market between 1995 and 2004; however Oklahoma City area and North Texas editions of TV Guide (during the magazine's local listings era) claimed that the market's NBC affiliate KTEN ran select UPN programs as an additional affiliation from 1995 to 2002.

The Jeff Dunham Show

On December 29, 2009, TV Guide reported that The Jeff Dunham Show would not be renewed for a second season, noting that despite the strong premiere, the series' ratings had dropped sharply by the season finale.

Tommy Pickles and The Great White Thing

Apart from the false TV Guide listing in the 8/10/1991 edition (as well as many newspaper TV listings), there were actually plans to televise this episode in another format.

Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?

In 2002 TV Guide ranked it number 25 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list.


Antonio Pontarelli

In February 2006 his performances from the red carpet of the 48th Annual Grammy Awards were featured on "The Tonight Show", CNN, TV Guide and E! .

Ben Blue

Blue made the cover of TV Guide's June 11, 1954 Special Issue along with Alan Young, headlining an edition featuring that season's summer replacement shows.

Betfair

On 27 January 2009, Betfair announced the purchase of the TVG Network in the United States from Macrovision $50 million USD as part of Macrovision's dissolving of TV Guide's assets.

Billy Frolick

Frolick’s work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Movieline, TV Guide, The Huffington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, for which he interviewed such personalities as Milton Berle and Richard Pryor.

Brad Posey

In response to a prominent interview with Simon Rex that appeared in TV Guide, Jay Leno included references in his The Tonight Show monologue to Mr. Posey's provocative work with Rex.

Disney family

Distant relatives active in entertainment or media include singer/voice actress Melissa Disney, TV Guide executive Anthea Disney, musician Colin Thomas, College Gameday host Lee Corso, surfer Derrick Disney, and Makela Disney.

Drive-In Massacre

A score of two out of four was given by TV Guide, which wrote "Obviously inspired by Peter Bogdanovich's masterful Targets, Drive-In Massacre has none of its predecessor's insight, intelligence, or craft. Instead, it's an ultracheap slice-and-dice effort that even boasts the tired 'They're coming to get you!' ending designed to make drive-in audiences uncomfortable. Needless to say, the effect is greatly diminished on home video".

FHWA Series fonts

It has been adopted by many companies for branding; for example, NBC used it for NBC Sports graphics packages from 1997 to 2006, and TV Guide uses the typeface on its cover.

Garrison's Gorillas

TV Guide reviewer Cleveland Amory said of the show in 1968 that despite it being ludicrously one-sided, a second-hand idea, and third degree violence, that it was a first rate show.

Greenlee Smythe

New head writers of the series, James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten, in their interview with TV Guide, stated that they helped Singh take over the part by writing specifically for her.

Houston, We've Got a Problem

Jim Lovell wrote a letter to TV Guide about the film, saying that the crises in Mission Control were dramatized.

Indre Viskontas

Viskontas has appeared on several other television shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Entertainment Tonight, CNN, Access Hollywood, E!, and TV Guide.

Jason Mewes

Mewes, Smith, and Degrassi star Stacie Mistysyn made the cover of the January 29, 2005 issue of Canadian TV Guide.

Jason Morgan and Elizabeth Webber

Jason Morgan and Elizabeth Webber (commonly known as Liason for Liz and Jason) are fictional characters from the long running ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital and a popular supercouple pairing, according to TV Guide.

John Alexander Porteous

Returning to New Brunswick in 1974, he became known as a commentator for the CBC, published numerous articles and columns for such publications as The Globe and Mail, TV Guide and the Reader's Digest.

Jumping the shark

Hein subsequently authored two "Jump The Shark" books and later became a regular on The Howard Stern Show around the time he sold his website to Gemstar (owners of TV Guide).

Kerry Kennedy

Kennedy has appeared numerous times on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and PBS as well as on networks in countries around the world, and her commentaries and articles have been published in The Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times, L’Unita, The Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, The New York Times, Página/12, TV Guide and the Yale Journal of International Law.

Lucas Jones

According to TV Guide, Carnes was allegedly fearful of being typecast in gay roles, due to his previous work on television series, Desperate Housewives and the film Eating Out.

Michael Glazer

Most notably, his creation of a nationwide event tour for Columbia Pictures Identity, as well as TV Guide's SeenOn.com launch party, and other prominent media and press events in Los Angeles.

Nash Brennan and Jessica Buchanan

MSN/TV Guide routinely referred to the couple as a supercouple.

NeoPlanet

Throughout 2000, NeoPlanet garnered partnerships to market and distribute branded browsers with major companies in the entertainment, computer manufacturing and sports arenas, including Universal Studios, Interscope/Geffen/A&M Records, USA Networks, MTV, Lord of the Rings, TV Guide, Hewlett Packard, Carolina Hurricanes and Phoenix Coyotes.

Raymond Ameijide

Ameijide served as an illustrator a variety of clients, including Fortune, National Geographic, IBM, Pfizer, TV Guide, Chase Manhattan, Discover, Harcourt Brace and the United States Post Office (per his obituary January 12, 2000, TheJournalNews.com).

Sami Brady and EJ DiMera

EJ and Sami's relationship has been recognized as a top couple to view by Sympatico/MSN/TV Guide.

Tami Taylor

Tami's relationship with Eric was included in was included in AOL TV's list of the "Best TV Couples of All Time" and in the same list by TV Guide.

The Loner

Longtime TV Guide critic Cleveland Amory wrote that Serling "obviously intended The Loner to be a realistic, adult Western," but the show's ratings indicated it was "either too real for a public grown used to the unreal Western or too adult for juvenile Easterners."

Ultra Seven

Ultra Seven is sometimes incorrectly called "Ultraman Seven" by many sources outside Japan (or in the case of KHON/Honolulu, Hawaii, Ultra7, as listed in TV Guide when it ran in 1975).

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, have also appeared in numerous publications, including Essence, Family Circle, TV Guide, Ms., The New York Times, and the Swiss weekly magazine Die Weltwoche.