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Aishite ne Motto

Aishite ne Motto was used as the ending theme for the anime Tenjou Tenge, while the c/w track Eyes, was used as the ending theme for the TV drama Eko Eko Azarak ~Me~, in which Aiko played the character Misuzu Kurahashi.

Bert Whalley

He was played by actor Dean Andrews in the 2011 television drama United, which centred on the successes of the Busby Babes and the decimation of the team in the Munich crash.

Henohenomoheji

In the opening sequence of the 1967 TV drama Comet San, the main character (played by Yumiko Kokonoe) uses her magic to draw a henohenomohe on the surface of the moon.

Neil Dudgeon

This series was recommissioned and aired in April 2011, the same month that Dudgeon played the role of one time Football League secretary Alan Hardaker in the TV drama United, which was centred on the events of the 1958 Munich air disaster involving Manchester United.

The Legend of Lylah Clare

The film was based on a 1962 Dupont Show of the Week TV drama co-written by Wild in the Streets creator Robert Thom.


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Adriano Giannini

Giannini has a leading role in the 2012 ABC-TV drama series Missing, starring Ashley Judd and Sean Bean.

Arriflex 416

The 416 is used on movie and TV drama productions such as Bronson, Canterbury's Law, The Walking Dead, the 2008 movies Ivory and The Wave, Black Swan, Dhobi Ghat, and Fruitvale Station.

Carennac

On film: French TV drama La Rivière Espérance (1997), shot in Carennac and depicting the changes brought about by the introduction of railroad in the 19th century.

Charlie Clemmow

Clemmow has recently filmed the part of Anne Simpson in the one off, half an hour TV drama "The Tractate Middoth", written and directed by Mark Gatiss - based on one of M. R. James's chilling short stories.

Cy Chadwick

Cy has recently returned to a role in front of the camera, playing Peter Stringfellow in the forthcoming TV Drama, The String, to be broadcast on ITV3.

Erik Poppe

He directed the first four episodes of the TV-drama Brigaden.

Eva Birthistle

In 2002, Eva appeared in two dramas about the same challenging subject, Bloody Sunday: the documentary-style TV drama Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt, and Sunday, written by Jimmy McGovern.

Food for Life

Yummy Yummy, a TV drama jointly produced by Singapore's SPH and Hong Kong's TVB

Fort Worth Alliance Airport

Alliance filled-in for Los Angeles International Airport during the filming of the short-lived 2004 TV drama LAX.

Frank Vertosick

Vertosick is also a black belt in tang soo do and was a consultant to the head writer of the TV drama Chicago Hope.

Heritage: The Young Concubine

Heritage: The Young Concubine (歲月河山:我家的女人) is a 1980 Hong Kong TV drama by RTHK starring Leslie Cheung.

Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds

Its distinctive exterior led to it being used as a backdrop in one of the scenes from feature length TV drama A Is for Acid

I Say Good-bye

"I Say Good-bye" is a song written by Akinori Nakagawa and the theme song of the Japanese TV drama Saigo no Kazoku.

Ikebukuro

Ikebukuro is the setting of the Japanese manga and TV drama Ikebukuro West Gate Park.

Jacobo Rispa

Having gained respect and recognition from the industry, in 1999 he started directing the TV drama Hospital Central for Telecinco, which is currently the longest-running fiction in Spanish TV.

Jeremy Swift

In 2009 he played the lead in the true story of Sean Greenhalgh in The Antiques' Rogue Show for BBC2 with Liz Smith and Peter Vaughn, The Deacon in a film adaptation of Anton Checkhov's short story The Duel and featured in Canoe Man, a 2010 TV drama based on the John Darwin disappearance case.

Jesse Stone: Thin Ice

The film received an American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, as well as a Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in TV Drama for Rene Ohashi.

Ken Catran

Ken's television credits include soap operas (Radio Waves, Close to Home) as well as stand-out episodes in the TV drama Mortimer's Patch including two episodes that were the most watched TV programme in New Zealand in their respective weeks: a feat that is unlikely to be repeated.

Kestie Morassi

In recent work, Morassi played whip-cracking brothel manager Natalie in Foxtel's groundbreaking drama Satisfaction and portrays sultry and infatuated criminal defence lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson in the Nine Network TV drama series Underbelly.

Lahore Grammar School

Fawad Afzal Khan, musician, actor and model, lead vocalist of the band Entity Paradigm and played lead role in Khuda Kay Liye and in lead role for the TV drama Humsafar.

Linc's

In 1999, Linc's was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Drama Series, and Pam Grier was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop.

Linton Alexander

Linton Alexander is a footballer on the British footballing TV drama Dream Team, played by Robbie Gee.

Lost Paradise

A Lost Paradise, 1997 novel by Japanese author Junichi Watanabe, made into a film and TV drama the same year

Marumi Shiraishi

In 1978, Shiraishi auditioned for the part of leading man Hiromi Go's sweetheart on the TBS TV drama, Mū ichozoku and debuted as the girl in "Izakaya Hiromi."

Odo, Earl of Kent

On screen, Odo has been portrayed by John Nettleton in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest (1966), part of the series Theatre 625, and by Denis Lill in the TV drama Blood Royal: William the Conqueror (1990).

Ollie Barbieri

Ollie Barbieri (born 12 November 1991) is a British actor, best known for his role as JJ Jones in the hit British TV drama Skins.

Paul Chung

In 1981, he had dispute with Commercial radio, and then turned to Asia Television Limited (ATV/RTV) to cast several TV drama.

Prunella Ransome

In the 1970s she had major multi-episode roles in three well-regarded TV drama series: Warship and A Horseman Riding By for the BBC; as well as Dangerous Knowledge for Southern Television.

R Force

R Force's exploits were dramatised in the 2004 TV drama Fooling Hitler starring Jason Durr.

Safirio Madzikatire

His nickname comes from his role as Mukadota Baba VaRwizi on The Mukadota Family, a Shona TV drama which ran on Zimbabwe Broadcasting Television ZTV in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Shelley Memorial

The statue was a key element in the meeting of two main characters in the 1997 movie The Saint, starring Val Kilmer, and also features in an episode of the British TV drama, Lewis.

Shintaro Morimoto

In 2008 he played a role in TV drama Battery which starred Yuma Nakayama.

Simon Bent

Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright, notable for work including BBC TV drama Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006), the screenplay for the feature film Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000), and the Joe Orton biographical play Prick Up Your Ears based on John Lahr's book.

Snooky Serna

More recently, she's been in various top-rating soap operas in rival stations GMA Network and ABS-CBN, notably Marina, Captain Barbell and Habang Kapiling Ka where she again was awarded a best actress trophy for TV drama performance from PMPC in 2003.

St Margaret's School, Bushey

Christabel Bielenberg 1909-2003 (née Burton), author of best-selling novel 'The Past is Myself' 1968, made into a TV drama 'Christabel'1988.

Thai television soap opera

In 2008, Thai Airways flight attendants urged the government to remove a prime-time TV drama (Songkhram Nang Fah) because it showed women flight attendants in short-skirted uniforms fighting while over a male pilot.

The Truth About Marika

It included: A TV drama,the Conspirare website, an SVT dedicated webpage, a debate television program, ARGs activities and Entropia Universe.

Thomas Brereton

The 1978 children's paranormal TV drama "The Clifton House Mystery" was a ghost story based on the circumstances of Brereton's death.

Tony Steedman

Tony Steedman (21 August 1927 - 4 February 2001) was an English character actor, perhaps best known for roles in British TV drama series of the 1970s and 1980s and for his role as Socrates in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Tracey Forbes

In 2012/2013, she co-created, wrote and executive produced the TV drama series "Cracked" on CBC in Canada.

Uenuku

It was the first TV drama to be entirely performed in te reo (The Listener magazine softened viewers by providing a translation prior to screening).

Up and Coming

Although it was short-lived, it was one of the first weekly American TV drama series centered around an African American family (preceded only by Harris and Company, a 1979 NBC drama starring Bernie Casey).

War of the Genders

An average of 3.1 million viewers watched the episode finale live, creating the highest rating average below the 2003 Charity Football Competition Real Madrid vs Hong Kong and tied with the 2005 Korean TV drama Dae Jang Geum and the 2008 TVB TV drama Moonlight Resonance.

Wild Seven

Wild 7, a 1969 Japanese manga series, later adapted into a TV drama, an anime and a live action film

You Know I'm No Good

In summer 2007, "You Know I'm No Good" was used in advertisements for AMC's TV drama Mad Men, as well as the opening to ITV's Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

Yuma Nakayama

The single includes "Missing Piece" as the opening song and "Mizu no Kaeru Basho" as the insert song for the his TV drama Piece; the latter song is his rendition of "Kuroi Mizu" (written and originally performed by singer/songwriter Mikio Sakai).