The anime Comic Party Revolution is the follow-up series to Comic Party, both of which are based on the computer game Comic Party.
Comic Party follows the continuing misadventures of Kazuki, Taishi, and their friends.
The series takes a wacky look at Japan’s doujinshi (fan-made manga) subculture.
Project Canvas has been given the final go-ahead by the BBC Trust, and work on the IPTV standard and associated set-top boxes can finally proceed.
However, BSkyB and Virgin Media still aren’t happy, and are looking to continue the fight against the joint venture.
Project Canvas, likely to be renamed YouView (an amalgam of YouTube and Freeview) before launch, is the proposed IPTV standard which could bring on-demand video content to every home in the U.K.
The anime Afro Samurai is based on the manga by Takashi Okazaki.
Afro Samurai follows a samurai named Afro who is after revenge for the slaughter of his father.
Afro Samurai features the voice of Samuel L. Jackson and a soundtrack composed by The RZA of Wu-Tang Clan.
The ComScore figures for May show that online video is back on track, after a couple of wobbly months. YouTube enjoyed an especially good period, while Hulu had a somewhat mixed month with views up but viewers remaining static.
I think it’s safe to say online video is established. The new ComScore statistics for online video viewers show that 183 million people in the U.S watched online video during the month of May. That’s 84.8 percent of all Internet users in the U.S.
The Benny Hill Show is a comedy sketch television show produced by ITV that premiered in August of 1951.
The Benny Hill Show featured Benny Hill (who was also the series creator) and a number of other regulars including Henry McGee, Bob Todd and Jackie Wright to name a few, performing sketches that included slapstick and double entendre. The series also used fast motion, mime and parody. The Benny Hill Show aired in 140 countries and its theme song was created by Boots Randolph and called Yakety Sax.
The Benny Hill Show aired 19 seasons.
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was an anthology crime series produced by ITV that premiered in September of 1971.
Produced by Thames Television, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes chronicling the adventures of various Victorian private investigators – literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation. The series was based on anthologies by Hugh Greene (brother of Graham Greene).
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes aired two seasons.
Adam Adamant Lives! is a comedy adventures series produced by BBC that premiered in 1966.
Adam Adamant Lives! followed adventures of Adam Adamant (played by Gerald Harper), Victorian adventurer who wakes up from cryogenic sleep in a distant future of the 1960s. Paired with the beautiful and talented Georgina Jones (played by Juliet Harmer) begins adjusting to the swinging sixties and resumes his never-ending fight against evil.
Adam Adamant Lives! aired two seasons.
