Summary: Brian is a working class student from Essex navigating his first year at Bristol University with a ragtag group of new friends. Brian's life-long dream is to join the team for the British quiz show University Challenge, and pull Alice, the cutest girl on the team.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STASummary: When a simplistic, "question and answer" quiz show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", goes on the air in the UK. the nation is gripped. As the show's ratings grow, so does Diana Ingram's desire to be in the hotseat with the chance of winning the biggest cash prize in history. When her husband Charles, an eccentric army man, makes it onto the show, he causes a major scandal after being caught...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV QUISummary: Will Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot ever get their relationship together? Or will three wrenching crimes and the investigation of Detective Investigator Helen Morton keep them forever out of sync? Welcome back to the hit crime series set in a bucolic Yorkshire town, where you would never expect social workers to abduct a young boy ... never imagine...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DCISummary: Disgraced detective Sandra Pullman is given a chance to save her career by heading up a team of retired detectives in charge of solving open cold cases.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWSummary: Bill Hixon has been America's Top Metropolitan Police Chief three years running. Looking for a new posting, a new challenge, he settled on Boston. But not that Boston. Bill arrives in England with his 14 year-old daughter Kelsey in tow, hoping for a fresh start. Headhunted for his numbers-driven approach, Bill is tasked with tackling East Lincolnshire's league-topping crime figures. But he's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WILSummary: As Jeopardy marks its 50th anniversary, including 30 years with Alex Trebek, take a look at the phenomenon of game shows, the iconic hosts and personalities, the contestants, and the triumphs and controversies that have shaped the evolution of this important part of our culture. See the power and influence of game shows and television personalities we₂ve invited into our living rooms.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMSummary: Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Hadleigh, Boze
Summary: "Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS network's Professor Quiz, hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate, the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jim's Question Bee and Ask It Basket, which in turn spawned successful box...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 HADSummary: Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SLUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Slumdog 2009Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLUSummary: Watch Space Ghost's definitive interviews with real celebrities whose expressions reveal everything from awkward puzzlement to an obvious hangover. Brak, Zorak and Moltar are also there to help ease your suffering - and deliciously add to Space Ghost's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPAEstes, Christina
Summary: "Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Emmy Award winning reporter Christina Estes introduces Jolene Garcia in her Tony Hillerman Prize winning debut, Off the Air. Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments-anything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at the zoo-and special projects. Stories that take more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a searing parody of American television and racial attitudes a young African American network executive, under pressure from his white boss, creates a minstrel show, hoping that it will fail and that he will be released from his network contract -- but the TV show becomes both a hit and the subject of much controversy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAMGephart, Donna.
Summary: After overcoming a number of obstacles, especially in the subject of geography, Olivia is on her way to Hollywood to appear on Jeopardy! and, she hopes, to reunite with her father who left the family two years ago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GEPSummary: Relive all the passion, brotherhood, joy, and heartbreak of the 15th precinct of NYPD Blue. This season Det. Andy Sipowicz experiences the highs of falling in love and the tragic murder of his son Andy Jr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NYPSummary: The fourth and final season of the drama finds Lucas working with Veronica Dawson, a FBI profiler. An ex-con assumes the identity of the sheriff of a small, out-of-the-way Pennsylvania town, where he continues his criminal ways while trying to keep off the radar of ruthless mobsters he double-crossed years before.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BANSummary: As punishment for messing up a kidnap rescue and shooting a dog in the process, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is re-assigned to the newly created unsolved murder squad. Due to a manpower shortage her team is made up of veteran detectives brought back onto the police force, bringing a 1970's mentality to modern policing. The team's first case is to re-investigate a twenty year old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1: Barack Obama -- Terry Gross -- Major Robert Bateman -- Lee Smith -- Harold Ramis -- Penn Jillette. Disc 2: Janeane Garofalo -- Brian Williams -- Ken Jennings -- Sarah Silverman -- Tom Hanks -- Tom & Ray Magliozzi.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN WAISummary: With Emily Byrne's suspension from the FBI nearing its end, a criminal case hits close to home, sending Emily on a dangerous journey that threatens the lives of the family she is desperately trying to hold together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ABSSummary: To the stunned disbelief of his colleagues and patients, a London psychologist appears to have taken his own life. However, his daughter refuses to believe it, and instead is convinced it was murder. She recruits one of his former patients for help.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THISummary: The first season of the innovative cartoon talk show in which real celebrities are interviewed by Space Ghost, a superhero from the 60's. The vintage animation, new voice talents and clever scripting are a hysterical combination.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPASummary: Sonny is invited to join the cast of a hit teen comedy show. She can't wait to become friends with her castmates, but not everyone is thrilled to share the spotlight, so Sonny must rely on her quick wit, talent, and good humor to get her through any challenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SONSummary: Space Ghost in his 40's is no longer a super hero, and now he even goes by his real name Tad Ghostal. However to remain in the spot light he has started his own late night talk show filmed in outer space. With his co-host and former villian Zorak, and his director Moltar they interview celebs on earth through their video phone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dist. by Warner Home Video 2004