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• [Television fact 1] The show Australia's naughtiest home video show has the record for the quickest cancellation at 23 minutes. The owner of the network was quoted as saying "Get this s*** off the air."

  Media, Televisionsource

• [Television fact 2] Vince Gilligan strongly regretted introducing the machine gun to Breaking Bad’s last season and found writing a convincing explanation for it so difficult that he nearly abandoned the plot device out of frustration.

  Television, Weaponssource

• [Television fact 3] South Korea, despite having completed the transition to digital broadcast (ATSC) in 2012, still maintains analog broadcast near its borders for North Koreans watching South Korean TV in secret.

  Places, Televisionsource

• [Television fact 4] In 2008, a New Mexico man named Thomas Hickman tried to stage his suicide to look like a murder by tying the gun to helium-filled balloons. The lead agent solved the "murder" when others pointed out the same thing happened in an episode of CSI.

  Death, People, Television, Weaponssource

• [Television fact 5] The Game of Thrones showrunners/producers began trying to reduce the amount of frequent character and political intrigues during garden walks, because of the South Park parody episode 'Black Friday'

  Cartoons, Televisionsource

• [Television fact 6] There was a game show in the late 70s called "Three's a Crowd." The tag line of the game show was "Who knows a man better, his wife or his secretary?" The game show lasted 4 months.

  Games, Televisionsource

• [Television fact 7] There was a Breaking Bad Fan-Edit Film created by 2 dedicated fans of the series, simply titled Breaking Bad: The Movie, which condensed the entire series into a two-hour feature film.

  Movies, Televisionsource

• [Television fact 8] In the 'FRIENDS' episode, where Susan and Carol (Ross' ex-wife) got married, "NBC expected thousands and thousands of phone calls and hate mails but actually received only four complaints by telephone."

  Corporation, Televisionsource

• [Television fact 9] Not only is Kenan Thompson SNL's longest-tenured cast member, but he is also the 1st one born after the show premiered in 1975.

  Actors, Televisionsource

• [Television fact 10] Despite its name, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", the show hasn't actually aired live since 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep a swearing rant from actor Thomas Jane.

  Actors, Televisionsource

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