"TV Slagalica TV Slagalica (Serbian Cyrillic: ТВ Слагалица; ) or simply Slagalica is Serbia’s longest-running quiz show produced by RTS and airs on RTS1. It is based on Countdown a UK game show. It first aired on November 22, 1993. at 7 pm. It comprises five simple mind games (word, number and knowledge games). Contestants play for a spot in the quarter finals, semi finals and then the finals. Contestants win prizes as they progress. It has three female hosts: Marija Veljković, Kristina Radenković and Milica Gacin. ""TV Slagalica"" is the longest-running quiz show which has survived competition from internationally"
"The series was accompanied by a behind-the-scenes sister show ""Space Cadets: The Satellite Show"", with interviews and phone-ins. The series described itself as the most elaborate hoax perpetrated in television history. The title is a reference to the slang phrase ""space cadet"", meaning a person out of touch with reality. It was not clear if the contestants were aware of the show's title, although a whiteboard in the 'barracks' had ""Space Cadettes"" [""sic""] written on it during one of the parties organised in the facility. A group of twelve contestants (who answered an advert looking for ""thrill seekers"") were selected"
"station. Space Race The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for dominance in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II, aided by captured German missile technology and personnel from the Aggregat program. The technological superiority required for such dominance was seen as necessary for national security, and symbolic of ideological superiority. The Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, uncrewed space probes of the Moon, Venus, and Mars,"
"Space Race The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for dominance in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II, aided by captured German missile technology and personnel from the Aggregat program. The technological superiority required for such dominance was seen as necessary for national security, and symbolic of ideological superiority. The Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, uncrewed space probes of the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and"
"Conquest of Space (TV series) Conquest of Space is a Canadian science television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1969. Percy Saltzman hosted this Ottawa-produced series which concerned the history of travel in outer space. Emphasis was given to the years since 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 and covered the American space program whose Apollo 11 successfully placed people on the moon a week before this series' debut. Footage from Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States was combined with interviews of scientists and engineers who were engaged in outer space programs. This hour-long"
"Reed in January 2012, while being interviewed by ""The Huffington Post"". While Reed didn't reveal much on the background of the installment, he teased: ""I love it when everybody gets to go [on a mission], so a lot more people than you would think get to go to outer space."" ""Space Race"" is imbued with various references relating to music, cinema, media, and other popular culture entities. The episode title gives homage to the synonymously named era of space exploration between the Soviet Union and the United States, which coincided during the Cold War. The episode plot gives homage to"
"put them on display in their Space|Now display. Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination The Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (QUID) is a proposed ""space currency"" created as a viral marketing campaign launched by Travelex with the London-based public relations and advertising firm, talkPR. The full name is a backronym from 'quid', a slang term for the British Pound. The campaign stated that Travelex was launching a new form of money for space tourists that had no sharp edges, was chemically inert, and had other advantages over paper money. After coming up with the idea of a space-money campaign, talkPR and Travelex contacted"
"Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination The Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (QUID) is a proposed ""space currency"" created as a viral marketing campaign launched by Travelex with the London-based public relations and advertising firm, talkPR. The full name is a backronym from 'quid', a slang term for the British Pound. The campaign stated that Travelex was launching a new form of money for space tourists that had no sharp edges, was chemically inert, and had other advantages over paper money. After coming up with the idea of a space-money campaign, talkPR and Travelex contacted the National Space Centre, whose employees were presented"
"The Space Show The Space Show is a biweekly Internet radio talk show, presented by David Livingston, about space commerce and exploration that is also available archived online as a podcast. According to Livingston, the show started in 2001 as Business without Boundaries on a small Arizona radio station, which added Internet audio streaming later. When the show moved to Seattle in 2002, it was renamed ""The Space Show"" and aired on, and streamed from, KKNW. , ""The Space Show"" has produced more than 1900 shows/interviews, including Neil deGrasse Tyson, Freeman Dyson, Alan Hale, John Logsdon, Alan Boyle, Jordin Kare,"
"the famously misquoted phrase ""Beam me up, Scotty"" entering the vernacular. The ""Star Trek"" replicator is credited in the scientific literature with inspiring the field of diatom nanotechnology. In 1976, following a letter-writing campaign, NASA named its prototype space shuttle ""Enterprise"", after the fictional starship. Later, the introductory sequence to ""Star Trek: Enterprise"" included footage of this shuttle which, along with images of a naval sailing vessel called ""Enterprise"", depicted the advancement of human transportation technology. Additionally, some contend that the ""Star Trek"" society resembles communism. Beyond ""Star Trek""s fictional innovations, its contributions to TV history included a multicultural and"
"Nickelodeon Launch Box Nickelodeon Launch Box is an educational television series that was produced jointly by Nickelodeon and NASA. It was meant to teach kids about space travel technology. As part of the Cable in the Classroom service, the show was intended to be taped by teachers and shown in the classroom. Each episode also included a teachers portion before and after where ideas for lessons and other aides were discussed. The show was taped before a live studio audience at Nickelodeon Studios and made use of many sets for Nickelodeon shows such as ""What Would You Do?"" and ""Double"
"and sold a toy space helmet styled after the one worn by the main character, Colonel Ed McCauley. All 38 episodes of ""Men Into Space"" are released on 10 DVDs by SkaryGuyVideo. They are also available on Region 1 DVD-R from Loving the Classics home video. Men into Space Men Into Space (a.k.a. Space Challenge in later UK syndication) is an American black-and-white science fiction television series, produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc., that was first broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS. The syndicated series depicts future efforts by the United States Air Force to"
"phrase on ""The Honeymooners"" television show in an episode called ""TV or Not to TV,"" original airdate October 1, 1955. The popular meanings of ""space cadet"" later shifted in popular culture away from astronaut-in-training to indicate, by the 1960s, an ""eccentric person disconnected with reality"" (often implying an intimacy with hallucinogenic drugs) although by the 2010s, drug use was rarely implied by this phrase, nor was low intelligence implied; ""space cadet"" was more simply associated with ""spacing out,"" wandering from present concerns, especially of others present, and being a ""space case."" Both the ""trainee astronaut"" and ""person regarded as being"
"been launched sooner."" A radio show, the ""Space Show"", offers “educational” information about topics dealing with aerospace, space policy, astrophysics and more. The program is broadcast from California and licensed by the One Giant Leap Foundation. The program is hosted by Dr. David M. Livingston, whom syndicated radio host, John Batchelor of the John Batchelor Program, refers to as “Dr. Space”. The show is very careful not to be misunderstood or misrepresented and states on the website,""Remember, The Space Show does not endorse or support guest projects, ventures, or business plans. Listeners must rely upon their own judgment and discernment"
"are also schools named after John Glenn. Politicians and journalist in order to stimulate controversy, interest, or competition will use the phrase space race to achieve such goals. The term was used during the cold war to describe the competition between the USSR and the US. Today the phrase is used by journalist frequently to draw attention to competing countries developing technology and access to space. As Time Magazine states, “Space exploration is a powerful rallying point for national pride… The contest may not be accompanied by the blaring cold-war overtones of the last great space race between the U.S."
"U.S.–Soviet Space Bridge The US-Soviet Space Bridge was a series of experimental, international telecasts between Soviet and U.S. viewers, performed by group of communication enthusiasts during the late Cold War era. Translated from the Russian word ""telemost"" (literally, ""TV bridge""), a space bridge was a public interactive television link between two or more geographically separate and culturally distinct locations, a form of public videoconference. The first space bridge was an arrangement between the Unison Corporation and Gosteleradio of the USSR for the US Festival, sponsored by computer pioneer Steve Wozniak. On September 5th, 1982, a TV-link was established for the"
"Space Race (TV series) Space Race is a BBC docudrama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between 14 September and 5 October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race up to the first landing of a man on the moon. It focuses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart. The series was a joint effort between British, German, American and Russian production teams. We see the results of Wernher von Braun's work on the V-2 for the Nazis at Mittelwerk and Peenemünde, and his final activities"
"Daily further defined the word on the July 4, 1965 episode of the same show, saying that it's a term used by the Air Force at Cape Kennedy, in the process of launching rockets, ""it means something's gone wrong and you can't figure out what it is so you call it a ""glitch"". Later, on July 23, 1965, ""Time Magazine"" felt it necessary to define it in an article: ""Glitches—a spaceman's word for irritating disturbances."" In relation to the reference by ""Time Magazine"", the term has been believed to enter common usage during the American Space Race of the 1950s,"
"Men into Space Men Into Space (a.k.a. Space Challenge in later UK syndication) is an American black-and-white science fiction television series, produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc., that was first broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS. The syndicated series depicts future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The series' star, William Lundigan, played Col. Edward McCauley. ""Men Into Space"" was not set in a specified era, but clues dropped in the scripts indicated that it took place between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, with the first Moon landing happening"
"videos. News outlets have compared the videos to bullet time scenes from science fiction films such as ""The Matrix"", """", """", ""Lost in Space"" or ""Buffalo '66"". Meanwhile, the participatory nature of the challenge on social media makes it similar to memes such as Makankosappo or the Harlem Shake. Others have noted similarities with the HBO TV series ""Westworld"", which debuted around the same time, where robotic hosts can be stopped in their tracks. A number of notable sports teams, including both collegiate and professional, as well as sports personalities, have engaged in the challenge. Notable instances of sport-figure participation"
"the Space Race, starting with his report on the first satellite to orbit Earth. Ubell reported on the Sputnik 1 launch, starting with the words: ""Our planet has a new moon tonight"". He reported on many other scientific advances, including the development of the polio vaccine and the discovery of the structure of DNA. Ubell became well regarded for his ability to translate science into English that a layperson could understand and received several awards, including one from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his reporting on Steady State theory in an article titled, ""How Joke Begot"
"Quiz channel A quiz channel (also known as a participation television channel) is a television channel that focuses on phone-in quizzes. The quizzes usually focus on puzzles, such as filling in blanks, identifying subjects, or other forms of word puzzles. The channels make money by encouraging viewers to call a toll phone number for the chance to play. The first dedicated quiz channel is considered to be Germany's 9Live, which launched on September 1, 2001. The best known example in the United Kingdom is Quiz TV (2004–2006), the first to launch in that country. Two major commercial television networks, ITV"
"of the Royal Aeronautical Journal. It describes a certain routine as ""a sort of 'beam me up scotty' routine'"". Over time, the phrase has been extended to, ""Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!"", popularized on bumper stickers and t-shirts, despite neither quote ever being said on the show. The science fiction parody ""Spaceballs"" (1987) devotes a small movie scene to the misquotation. It starts with following conversation between president Skroop, who distrust the transporter technology, and spaceship officer Zircon: The planetarium in the animated series ""South Park"" (1997) carries the inscription """"Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!"""", which"
"Space Quest Space Quest is a series of six comic science fiction computer adventure games released between 1986 and 1995. The games follow the adventures of a hapless janitor named Roger Wilco as he campaigns through the galaxy for ""truth, justice and really clean floors"". Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy (who called themselves the ""Two Guys from Andromeda""), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as ""Star Wars"" and ""Star Trek"" (the theme song itself is a parody of the ""Star Wars"" theme), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft. The"
"come to eclipse the program in popular memory. ""Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"" (1950–55) and ""Space Patrol"" (1950–55) were a fast-turnaround second generation of TV sci-fi, telling more compelling stories on larger budgets. Thanks to a stronger connection to their sponsors, both shows offered a shower of mail-in premiums that solidified their brand names, leading to the first TV tie-in toys on store shelves. Both offered daily radio programs featuring the television casts to augment their television adventures, and the actors were pressed into service for public appearances on a weekly basis. The schedule was grueling, but the resulting media blitz"
"is a translation of the misquotation into Latin. Beam me up, Scotty ""Beam me up, Scotty"" is a catchphrase that made its way into popular culture from the science fiction television series """". It comes from the command Captain Kirk gives his chief engineer, Montgomery ""Scotty"" Scott, when he needs to be transported back to the Starship ""Enterprise"". Though it has become irrevocably associated with the series and films, the exact phrase was never actually spoken in any ""Star Trek"" television episode or film. Despite this, the quote has become a phrase of its own over time. It can be"
"Andrew Chaikin, Francis French, and MirCorp entrepreneur and tax evader Walter Anderson. Pete Worden, center director for NASA's Ames Research Center, described himself as a ""reformed zealot"" about space-based solar power systems on the show. Livingston earned his MBA in 1978, and his Doctorate of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in 2001. Livingston and the show have been quoted by NBC News in 2006 and Fox News in 2009 regarding progress in civilian space funding and execution, specifically SpaceShipOne, and the reentry of the doomed Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars spacecraft in 2011. ""The Space Show"" hosted, and Livingston moderated, the"
"of China and the United States being the two superpowers that expanded into space. The show also features slang not used in contemporary culture, such as adaptations of modern words, or new words altogether. For example, ""shiny"" is frequently used in a similar manner as the real world slang ""cool"", and ""gorram"" is used as a mild swear word. Written and spoken Chinese as well as Old West dialect are also employed. As one reviewer noted: ""The dialogue tended to be a bizarre purée of wisecracks, old-timey Western-paperback patois, and snatches of Chinese"". Tim Minear and Joss Whedon pointed out"
"Quizz or Buzz Quizz or Buzz is a TV game show of French origin, initially piloted by French channel TF1 in 2013 (hosted by Gérard Vivès and Estelle Denis, with the title ""51 Buzzers"") and in 2014 (hosted by Jean-Pierre Foucault with the title ""The Last Buzzer""), and whose first international production was released by the Turkish channel ATV in the summer of 2014. It is based on multiple choice (MCQ) of general knowledge. Two contestants, working as a team, must correctly answer 7 general knowledge questions, each having 4 possible answers, to win €1,000 or €100,000. 30 buzzers are"
"board and through a series of events in August 2002, Bass entered cosmonaut training in Star City, Russia. Bass was considered as the US host of a space competition show to be entitled ""The Big Mission"", which had been successful in Denmark, in which several contestants would go through rigorous training in order to win a seat on a Russian Soyuz space capsule. However, the game show concept was reconsidered, as the producers of the show decided it would be a much better idea to shoot a documentary of a celebrity actually training and going into space, and airing it"
"been given a release date. Space Quest Space Quest is a series of six comic science fiction computer adventure games released between 1986 and 1995. The games follow the adventures of a hapless janitor named Roger Wilco as he campaigns through the galaxy for ""truth, justice and really clean floors"". Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy (who called themselves the ""Two Guys from Andromeda""), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as ""Star Wars"" and ""Star Trek"" (the theme song itself is a parody of the ""Star Wars"" theme), as well as pop-culture phenomena"
"founding producers. Space is effectively the Canadian equivalent of The Sci Fi Channel, an English language cable television specialty channel owned and operated by CTVglobemedia. It features mainly sci-fi and fantasy movies, documentaries and television series. Askwith was one of the founding producers of the channel, which was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1996, and debuted on October 17, 1997 at 6:00 p.m. EST, under the ownership of CHUM Limited. Askwith is particularly involved in the documentary side of things, and the so-called 'interstitial' materials which pepper the channels' output. The first of which was"
"Space opera Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and risk-taking. Set mainly or entirely in outer space, it usually involves conflict between opponents possessing advanced abilities, futuristic weapons, and other sophisticated technology. The term has no relation to music, but is instead a play on the terms ""soap opera"" and ""horse opera"", the latter of which was coined during the 1930s to indicate clichéd and formulaic Western movies. Space operas emerged in the 1930s and continue to be produced in literature, film, comics, television and video games. An"