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Survivor 49
Survivor 49 is the forty-ninth season of the American competitive reality television series Survivor. It premiered on September 24, 2025, on CBS in the United States. It was the seventeenth consecutive season to be filmed in the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji. The season ended on December 17, 2025, when Savannah Louie was voted the Sole Survivor, defeating Sophi Balerdi and Sage Ahrens-Nichols in a 5–2–1 vote. Louie became the fifth winner of Asian heritage, following Yul Kwon from Survivor: Cook Islands, Natalie Anderson from Survivor: San Juan del Sur, Erika Casupanan from Survivor 41, and Rachel LaMont from Survivor 47.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is an American reality television series created for Hulu. The series follows a group of Utah-based TikTok influencers, known as "MomTok", as they navigate the complexities of their personal and professional lives. The first season was released on September 6, 2024, and became Hulu's most-watched unscripted season premiere of 2024. The second season was released on May 15, 2025. A third season premiered on November 13, 2025. A fourth season premiered on March 12, 2026.
Super Bowl LX halftime show
The Super Bowl LX halftime show, officially known as the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show for sponsorship purposes, took place on February 8, 2026, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It was headlined by Bad Bunny and featured guest appearances from Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, and Los Pleneros de la Cresta. The performance marked the first time a Latino solo artist headlined the Super Bowl halftime show and the first halftime set performed almost entirely in Spanish. Martin is the first openly gay male Super Bowl halftime performer.
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is the first adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire franchise, a series of high fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is A Game of Thrones. The show premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and concluded on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes broadcast over eight seasons.
Teletubbies
Teletubbies is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on their bellies. Recognised throughout popular culture for the uniquely shaped antenna protruding from the head of each character, the Teletubbies communicate mostly through gibberish and were designed to bear resemblance to toddlers.
Peppa Pig
British preschool animated television series
24
American television series (2001–2010, 2014)
Bart Simpson
fictional character from The Simpsons
Dexter (TV series)
Dexter is an American crime television series that initially aired on Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan, a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers inadequately punished by the justice system due to corruption or legal technicalities. The show's first season was derived from the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004), the first in a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay. It was adapted for television by James Manos Jr., who wrote the pilot episode.
Two and a Half Men
American Television series, 2003-2015
iCarly
iCarly is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider, which originally aired on Nickelodeon from September 8, 2007, to November 23, 2012.
85th Academy Awards
award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 2012
House of Cards
2010s political drama TV series
Riverdale
American teen drama television series (2017–2023)
13 Reasons Why
2017 American teen drama television series
Married... with Children
American television sitcom (1987-1997)
SpongeBob SquarePants
main character from the animated television show SpongeBob SquarePants
Beavis and Butt-Head
American adult animated sitcom created by Mike Judge
Lucifer
American television series (2016–2021)
Euphoria (American TV series)
Euphoria is an American teen drama television series created and principally written by Sam Levinson for HBO. It is based on the Israeli miniseries of the same name created by Ron Leshem and Daphna Levin. The series stars Zendaya as Rue Bennett, a troubled teenage drug addict who struggles to get sober, find her place in the world, and adjust to her relationships after rehab. Though Rue is the central focus of the show, the beginning of most episodes provides backstories for the rest of the main characters.
Shake It Up
American sitcom (2010-2013)
The Ren & Stimpy Show
American animated television series
Sam & Cat
American television series
Cow and Chicken
American animated television series
Big Little Lies
American television series
Batwoman
American television series (2019-)
Dan Schneider
American TV producer and actor (born 1966)
The Owl House
American animated television series
Jackass
American reality comedy series
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
2022 American television series
The Day After
1983 film directed by Nicholas Meyer
All in the Family
All in the Family is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS for nine seasons from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979, with a total of 205 episodes. It was followed by Archie Bunker's Place, a continuation series, which picked up where All in the Family ended and ran for four seasons through April 4, 1983.
Leaving Neverland
2019 documentary film
Girls
American comedy-drama television series (2012-2017)
Drake & Josh
American television series
NYPD Blue
American television police drama (1993–2005)
Caillou
Caillou (; ; , stylized in lowercase) is an animated children's television series that aired on Teletoon (both English and French versions), with the first episode airing on the former channel on September 15, 1997 until the fourth season. After that, the fifth season channel was moved to Treehouse TV, and the series finale aired on April 17, 2011. It also aired on PBS and the PBS Kids channel from 2000 to 2020. A series reboot was announced in 2023 with a release date set to debut later that year on Peacock with 52 eleven-minute episodes. Still, it was delayed for undisclosed reasons to Febru
MacGyver
American television series (2016–2021)
Lethal Weapon
TV series (2016-2019)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
American superhero television series
Ancient Aliens
American extraterrestrial visitation television series
Grace and Frankie
American comedy-drama web television series
Empire
American musical drama television series
Feud
American anthology television series
Murphy Brown
American television sitcom for CBS (1988-1998 and 2018)
Zoey 101
American television series
The Boondocks
American animated sitcom (Adult Cartoon)
Super Bowl XLI
2007 edition of the Super Bowl
Pimp My Ride
American television series
The Gilded Age (TV series)
The Gilded Age is an American historical drama television series created and written by Julian Fellowes for HBO that is set in the United States during the Gilded Age, the boom years of the 1880s, in New York City. Originally announced in 2018 for NBC, it was later announced in May 2019 that the show was moved to HBO. The first season premiered on January 24, 2022, and the second on October 29, 2023. In December 2023, the series was renewed for a third season, which premiered on June 22, 2025. In July 2025, the series was renewed for a fourth season.
Messiah
American television series
Insatiable
2018–2019 American television series
The Jerry Springer Show
American talk show hosted by Jerry Springer
2023 Writers Guild of America strike
strike
R. Budd Dwyer
American politician (1939–1987)
Invader Zim
animated television series
Jersey Shore
American reality television series
Mad TV
American sketch comedy TV series (1995-2016)
The View
American talk show
2023 SAG-AFTRA strike
labor strike involving actors in the labor union SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers