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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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"Cape Feare" is the second episode of The Simpsons' fifth season, which premiered on the Fox network on October 7, 1993 after being held over from season four. The episode features Sideshow Bob trying to kill Bart Simpson after getting out of jail. It is a spoof of the 1962 film Cape Fear as well as its 1991 remake, but alludes to other horror films. The production crew found it difficult to stretch "Cape Feare" in order to fulfil the standard length of a half-hour episode, leading to the padding of several scenes for which some became memorable. "Cape Feare" was written by Jon Vitti and directed by Rich Moore and was the last episode that the original writing staff helped produce. Kelsey Grammer guest stars as Sideshow Bob. The episode is generally rated as one of the best of the entire series and the score received an Emmy Award nomination.

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Mobile TV vans, France

French Outside broadcasting vans

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• ... that before pursuing a career in music, Lauren Jenkins was the host of a wrestling television show?
• ... that Dallas television station KDAF abandoned plans to launch a local newscast in 1994, after having already hired 20 staff, because it was to lose its Fox affiliation and be sold?
• ... that Sharp Corporation produced three official variants of Nintendo's Famicom in Japan, one of which was a television set that was subsequently released in the United States?
• ... that actor Jonathan Roumie, who plays the character of Jesus Christ in American television series The Chosen, is also an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion in the Catholic Church?
• ... that Windows 3.1 had a special version, known as Modular Windows, that was controlled via television?
• ... that DTK Computer was one of the first companies to have its computers sold via satellite television?

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More did you know

• ...that copies of the 1982 biopic Will: G. Gordon Liddy, about a Watergate co-conspirator, are stored in the Nixon Presidential Materials collection at the U.S. National Archives?

• ...that The O.C.'s music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas worked in the music department of over fifty Roger Corman B-movies before her television debut?

• ...that actress, writer and producer Michelle Paradise created the television series Exes and Ohs without an agent?

• ...that Melbourne rock band The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight?

• ...that the Zambian district of Chiengi has no television or telephone service?

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Skelton in 1960

Richard Red Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American entertainer best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971, especially as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show. He has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio and television, and also appeared in burlesque, vaudeville, films, nightclubs, and casinos, all while he pursued an entirely separate career as an artist.

Skelton began developing his comedic and pantomime skills from the age of 10, when he became part of a traveling medicine show. He then spent time on a showboat, worked the burlesque circuit, and then entered into vaudeville in 1934. The "Doughnut Dunkers" pantomime sketch, which he wrote together with his wife, launched a career for him in vaudeville, radio, and films. His radio career began in 1937 with a guest appearance on The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour, which led to his becoming the host of Avalon Time in 1938. He became the host of The Raleigh Cigarette Program in 1941, on which many of his comedy characters were created, and he had a regularly scheduled radio program until 1957. Skelton made his film debut in 1938 alongside Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Alfred Santell's Having Wonderful Time, and would appear in numerous musical and comedy films throughout the 1940s and 1950s, with starring roles in 19 films, including Ship Ahoy (1941), I Dood It (1943), Ziegfeld Follies (1946), and The Clown (1953). (Full article...)

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

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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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  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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  Ferdinand Braun (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 630-TS, the first mass-produced television set, which sold in 1946–1947 (from History of television)
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  LG Smart TV using the Web browser (from Smart TV)
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  The first mass-produced Czechoslovak TV-set Tesla 4001A (1953–57) (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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  Manfred von Ardenne in 1933 (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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  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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  LG Electronics smart TV from 2011 (from Smart TV)
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  Hovannes Adamian c. 1900s (from Color television)
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  An early Smart TV from 2012 running the discontinued Orsay platform (from History of television)
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  Philo Farnsworth in 1924 (from History of television)
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  DBS satellite dishes (from History of 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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  The Philco Predicta, 1958. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from History of television)
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  Samsung's discontinued Orsay platform (from Smart TV)
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  A map depicting digital terrestrial television standards (from Digital television)
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  Smart TVs on display (from Smart TV)
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  Family watching TV, 1958 (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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  Hanks receiving the Kennedy Center Honors medallion in December 2014

  
  
  Tom Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker who has had an extensive career in film, television and stage. Hanks made his professional acting debut on stage, playing Grumio in a 1977 Great Lakes Theater production of The Taming of the Shrew. He made his film debut with a minor role in the 1980 horror film, He Knows You're Alone. In the same year, Hanks appeared in the television series Bosom Buddies, a role that led to guest appearances on several shows, including Happy Days with Ron Howard. Howard cast him in his first leading role in the Ron Howard-directed fantasy romantic comedy, Splash. His breakthrough role was in Penny Marshall's age-changing comedy, Big, for which he garnered his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
  
  In 1993, Hanks starred with Meg Ryan in the Nora Ephron-directed romantic comedy, Sleepless in Seattle. Later that year, he starred in the drama Philadelphia as a gay lawyer with AIDS fighting discrimination in his law firm. For his performance, Hanks earned his first Academy Award for Best Actor. He followed with the 1994 romantic comedy-drama, Forrest Gump, winning a consecutive second Academy Award for Best Actor (the first actor since Spencer Tracy in 1938 to achieve this feat). In 1995, he played astronaut Jim Lovell in the Howard-directed historical drama Apollo 13, and voiced Sheriff Woody in the animated film Toy Story (a role that he would reprise in three sequels). (Full article...)
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  Season	Episodes		Originally aired
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  1	13		January 4, 1999 (1999-01-04)	June 11, 1999 (1999-06-11)
  2	13		November 26, 1999 (1999-11-26)	December 22, 2000 (2000-12-22)
  3	13		April 6, 2001 (2001-04-06)	July 12, 2002 (2002-07-12)
  4	13		September 27, 2002 (2002-09-27)	November 5, 2004 (2004-11-05)
  5	12		November 4, 2005 (2005-11-04)	April 28, 2007 (2007-04-28)
  6	1		June 29, 2008 (2008-06-29)
  Holiday Specials	3		December 3, 2004 (2004-12-03)	October 28, 2005 (2005-10-28)
  CN Invaded			May 11, 2007 (2007-05-11)
  Television film			November 8, 2009 (2009-11-08)

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  The Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award is an annual award honoring the achievements of a female athlete from the world of action sports. It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 2004 after the non-gender-specific Best Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award was presented the previous two years (with the American snowboarder Kelly Clark receiving the 2002 award). It is given to the female, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, adjudged to be the best action sports athlete in a given calendar year. Balloting for the award is undertaken by fans over the Internet from between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, which is composed of a panel of experts. It is conferred in July to reflect performance and achievement over the preceding twelve months.
  
  The inaugural winner of the award was the American wakeboarder Dallas Friday. During 2003 and 2004, Friday won 12 of the available 14 professional women's titles, including national and world championships. She became the first wakeboarder to be nominated for, and hence to win, an ESPY Award. Athletes from the United States have won more times than any other nationality with ten (three times to snowboarders Jamie Anderson and Chloe Kim), followed by Australians with three, two of which went to the surfer Stephanie Gilmore. Snowboarders are most successful sportspeople, with eleven awards, followed by surfers with four. It was not awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent winner of the award was Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu in 2022. (Full article...)
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  The Voice is an American singing competition television series which premiered on NBC on April 26, 2011. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the series features several stages of competition to search for new vocal talent contested by aspiring singers, age 13 or over, drawn from public auditions. The show has four coaches who choose their favourite artists during the audition rounds, and guide their selected teams through the remainder of the season. The winner is subsequently determined by television viewers; the prizes include $100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group. The Voice has been very successful since its premiere, drawing high ratings for the network and becoming one of the highest-rated shows in the country.
  
  The Voice has been nominated for numerous awards, including forty Emmy Award nominations, winning six times, including three awards in the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program category and three awards for its lighting design. The Voice has additionally received nominations for six consecutive Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Reality Series (four wins), seven People's Choice Awards (four wins), four Television Critics Association Awards and six Teen Choice Awards (three wins for the series), among other awards. The series has received nominations for its diversity, including one GLAAD Media Award, two Imagen Awards, and three NAACP Image Awards. (Full article...)
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  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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  Bob's Burgers is an American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Belcher family—parents Bob and Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, and Louise—who run a hamburger restaurant. A production between Bento Box Entertainment and 20th Television, the show has aired over 200 episodes and has been renewed for a twelfth and thirteenth season.
  
  Throughout its run, the series has received fifteen Annie Award nominations, eleven Writers Guild of America Award nominations under the Television: Animation category, a total of six Critics' Choice Television Award nominations for Best Animated Series, and four Teen Choice Award nominations for Choice TV: Animated Show. (Full article...)
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  Roddenberry's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

  
  Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter and producer of several television series, best known for his work in creating the Star Trek franchise. He began a writing career while he was a Sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and his first work to be bought by a network was The Secret Defense of 117, although it took four years to be broadcast. During that time, he wrote four episodes of the police procedural Highway Patrol under the pseudonym "Robert Wesley", as the LAPD required employees to seek formal permission to work a second job. After leaving the force, he wrote for several series, such as Have Gun – Will Travel but wanted to become a producer.
  
  He wrote pilots for a series of his own, but these were turned down by the studios until he began work on The Lieutenant. This ran for a single season on NBC on Saturday nights. While involved in that series, he began working on a science fiction premise that became Star Trek. He oversaw the production of the series for the first two seasons, but following budget cuts and the move to an unfavorable timeslot for the third season, he stepped back from working on Star Trek but remained credited as an executive producer. Following the cancellation of the series, he wrote and produced his first feature film, Pretty Maids All in a Row. He also produced several new science fiction pilots: Genesis II (also re-worked into a second pilot, called Planet Earth), The Questor Tapes and Spectre. Of these, Questor was approved to go to a full season, but following disagreements between Roddenberry and the studio over suggested changes, it was canceled. (Full article...)
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  The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series is an award presented annually by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It was first awarded at the 24th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, held in 1972, when the award was originally called Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Drama for two years.
  
  The first daytime-themed Emmy Awards were presented in 1974, when this award was renamed Outstanding Drama Series and given in honor of a daytime drama. The awards ceremony was not televised in 1983 and 1984, having been criticized for lack of integrity.
  The Emmy was named after an "Immy", an affectionate term used to refer to the image orthicon camera tube. The statuette was designed by Louis McManus, who modeled the award after his wife, Dorothy. The Emmy statuette is fifteen inches tall from base to tip. The statuette weighs 5 pounds and is composed of iron, pewter, zinc and gold. (Full article...)
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  Johansson at an event for Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014

  
  
  Scarlett Johansson is an American actress who has appeared in films, television series, video games and stage plays. Johansson made her debut in the 1994 comedy-drama North. Her first lead role was as the 11-year-old sister of a pregnant teenager in Manny & Lo (1996), for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. Johansson starred in Robert Redford's drama The Horse Whisperer (1998), and appeared with Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi in the black comedy Ghost World (2001). Two years later, Johansson played a woman in her 20s stuck in a listless marriage who befriends an aging American actor (Bill Murray) in Japan in the Sofia Coppola-directed Lost in Translation, and also played a servant in Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's household in Girl with a Pearl Earring with Colin Firth. She was nominated at the 61st Golden Globe Awards for both films, and received the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the former.
  
  Two years later, Johansson starred in Woody Allen's psychological thriller Match Point, for which she garnered a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. In 2006, she appeared in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller The Prestige, and played a journalism student in Allen's Scoop. In the same year, Johansson made her first appearance as host of the television variety show Saturday Night Live, which she has since hosted a further five times as of 2019. Two years later, Johansson starred in Allen's romantic comedy-drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona with Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, and portrayed Queen of England Anne Boleyn's sister Mary in the historical drama The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) with Natalie Portman and Eric Bana. She received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut performance in the 2010 revival of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. (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)
104	1	"Bart of Darkness"	Jim Reardon	Dan McGrath	September 4, 1994 (1994-09-04)	1F22	15.1
105	2	"Lisa's Rival"	Mark Kirkland	Mike Scully	September 11, 1994 (1994-09-11)	1F17	16.7
106	3	"Another Simpsons Clip Show"	David Silverman	Jon Vitti	September 25, 1994 (1994-09-25)	2F33	13.5
107	4	"Itchy & Scratchy Land"	Wes Archer	John Swartzwelder	October 2, 1994 (1994-10-02)	2F01	14.8
108	5	"Sideshow Bob Roberts"	Mark Kirkland	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	October 9, 1994 (1994-10-09)	2F02	14.4
109	6	"Treehouse of Horror V"	Jim Reardon	Bob Kushell	October 30, 1994 (1994-10-30)	2F03	22.2
				Greg Daniels & Dan McGrath
				David X. Cohen
110	7	"Bart's Girlfriend"	Susie Dietter	Jonathan Collier	November 6, 1994 (1994-11-06)	2F04	15.3
111	8	"Lisa on Ice"	Bob Anderson	Mike Scully	November 13, 1994 (1994-11-13)	2F05	17.9
112	9	"Homer Badman"	Jeffrey Lynch	Greg Daniels	November 27, 1994 (1994-11-27)	2F06	15.5
113	10	"Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"	Wes Archer	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	December 4, 1994 (1994-12-04)	2F07	14.1
114	11	"Fear of Flying"	Mark Kirkland	David Sacks	December 18, 1994 (1994-12-18)	2F08	15.6
115	12	"Homer the Great"	Jim Reardon	John Swartzwelder	January 8, 1995 (1995-01-08)	2F09	20.1
116	13	"And Maggie Makes Three"	Swinton O. Scott III	Jennifer Crittenden	January 22, 1995 (1995-01-22)	2F10	17.3
117	14	"Bart's Comet"	Bob Anderson	John Swartzwelder	February 5, 1995 (1995-02-05)	2F11	18.7
118	15	"Homie the Clown"	David Silverman	John Swartzwelder	February 12, 1995 (1995-02-12)	2F12	17.5
119	16	"Bart vs. Australia"	Wes Archer	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	February 19, 1995 (1995-02-19)	2F13	15.1
120	17	"Homer vs. Patty and Selma"	Mark Kirkland	Brent Forrester	February 26, 1995 (1995-02-26)	2F14	18.9
121	18	"A Star Is Burns"	Susie Dietter	Ken Keeler	March 5, 1995 (1995-03-05)	2F31	14.4
122	19	"Lisa's Wedding"	Jim Reardon	Greg Daniels	March 19, 1995 (1995-03-19)	2F15	14.9
123	20	"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds"	Bob Anderson	Mike Scully	April 9, 1995 (1995-04-09)	2F18	11.6
124	21	"The PTA Disbands"	Swinton O. Scott III	Jennifer Crittenden	April 16, 1995 (1995-04-16)	2F19	11.8
125	22	"'Round Springfield"	Steven Dean Moore	Story by : Al Jean & Mike Reiss Teleplay by : Joshua Sternin & Jennifer Ventimilia	April 30, 1995 (1995-04-30)	2F32	12.6
126	23	"The Springfield Connection"	Mark Kirkland	Jonathan Collier	May 7, 1995 (1995-05-07)	2F21	12.7
127	24	"Lemon of Troy"	Jim Reardon	Brent Forrester	May 14, 1995 (1995-05-14)	2F22	13.1
128	25	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"	Jeffrey Lynch	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	May 21, 1995 (1995-05-21)	2F16	15.0

Series	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	12		16 January 1989	10 April 1989
2	13		18 January 1990	12 April 1990
3	6		7 May 1991	11 June 1991
4	6		7 January 1992	11 February 1992
5	6		16 April 1993	21 May 1993

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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...)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
292	1	"Treehouse of Horror XIII"	David Silverman	Marc Wilmore	November 3, 2002 (2002-11-03)	DABF19	16.67
				Brian Kelley
				Kevin Curran
293	2	"How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"	Mike B. Anderson	Mike Scully	November 10, 2002 (2002-11-10)	DABF22	12.51
294	3	"Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"	Steven Dean Moore	Tim Long	November 17, 2002 (2002-11-17)	DABF20	13.34
295	4	"Large Marge"	Jim Reardon	Ian Maxtone-Graham	November 24, 2002 (2002-11-24)	DABF18	17.38
296	5	"Helter Shelter"	Mark Kirkland	Brian Pollack & Mert Rich	December 1, 2002 (2002-12-01)	DABF21	15.11
297	6	"The Great Louse Detective"	Steven Dean Moore	John Frink & Don Payne	December 15, 2002 (2002-12-15)	EABF01	15.47
298	7	"Special Edna"	Bob Anderson	Dennis Snee	January 5, 2003 (2003-01-05)	EABF02	15.00
299	8	"The Dad Who Knew Too Little"	Mark Kirkland	Matt Selman	January 12, 2003 (2003-01-12)	EABF03	12.76
300	9	"The Strong Arms of the Ma"	Pete Michels	Carolyn Omine	February 2, 2003 (2003-02-02)	EABF04	15.37
301	10	"Pray Anything"	Mike Frank Polcino	Sam O'Neal & Neal Boushell	February 9, 2003 (2003-02-09)	EABF06	13.40
302	11	"Barting Over"	Matthew Nastuk	Andrew Kreisberg	February 16, 2003 (2003-02-16)	EABF05	21.31
303	12	"I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"	Nancy Kruse	Kevin Curran	February 16, 2003 (2003-02-16)	EABF07	22.04
304	13	"A Star Is Born Again"	Michael Marcantel	Brian Kelley	March 2, 2003 (2003-03-02)	EABF08	14.56
305	14	"Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington"	Lance Kramer	John Swartzwelder	March 9, 2003 (2003-03-09)	EABF09	14.43
306	15	"C.E.D'oh"	Mike B. Anderson	Dana Gould	March 16, 2003 (2003-03-16)	EABF10	12.96
307	16	"'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"	Steven Dean Moore	Dan Greaney & Allen Glazier	March 30, 2003 (2003-03-30)	EABF11	12.56
308	17	"Three Gays of the Condo"	Mark Kirkland	Matt Warburton	April 13, 2003 (2003-04-13)	EABF12	12.02
309	18	"Dude, Where's My Ranch?"	Chris Clements	Ian Maxtone-Graham	April 27, 2003 (2003-04-27)	EABF13	11.71
310	19	"Old Yeller-Belly"	Bob Anderson	John Frink & Don Payne	May 4, 2003 (2003-05-04)	EABF14	11.59
311	20	"Brake My Wife, Please"	Pete Michels	Tim Long	May 11, 2003 (2003-05-11)	EABF15	10.56
312	21	"The Bart of War"	Mike Frank Polcino	Marc Wilmore	May 18, 2003 (2003-05-18)	EABF16	12.10
313	22	"Moe Baby Blues"	Lauren MacMullan	J. Stewart Burns	May 18, 2003 (2003-05-18)	EABF17	13.44

Season	Episodes		Originally aired		Rank	Viewers (in millions)
			First aired	Last aired
1	7		January 31, 1999	May 16, 1999	33	12.80
2	21		September 23, 1999	August 1, 2000	114	—
3	22		July 11, 2001	November 9, 2003	125	4.50
4	30		May 1, 2005	May 21, 2006	68	7.90
5	18		September 10, 2006	May 20, 2007	71	7.20
6	12		September 23, 2007	May 4, 2008	84	7.94
7	16		September 28, 2008	May 17, 2009	69	7.56
8	21		September 27, 2009	June 20, 2010	53	7.73
9	18		September 26, 2010	May 22, 2011	56	7.66
10	23		September 25, 2011	May 20, 2012	63	7.30
11	22		September 30, 2012	May 19, 2013	62	6.94
12	21		September 29, 2013	May 18, 2014	78	6.11
13	18		September 28, 2014	May 17, 2015	94	5.86
14	20		September 27, 2015	May 22, 2016	111	4.28
15	20		September 25, 2016	May 21, 2017	116	3.93
16	20		October 1, 2017	May 20, 2018	136	3.52
17	20		September 30, 2018	May 12, 2019	131	3.33
18	20		September 29, 2019	May 17, 2020	107	2.65
19	20		September 27, 2020	May 16, 2021	120	2.19
20	20		September 26, 2021	May 22, 2022	111	1.90
21	20		September 25, 2022	May 7, 2023	104	1.64
22	15		October 1, 2023	April 17, 2024 (2024-04-17)	TBA	TBA

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