10 Facts About Popular TV Shows

10 Random AF Facts About Your Favorite TV Shows.

We all have TV series that we watch avidly and here random facts about stars who could have been cast in lead roles but the below are a number of fun, bizarre, unknown and silly facts about popular TV shows in the UK and US that we wanted to share with you. How many of the below did you know?

1 The writer of That 70s Show gets 70 bucks when it airs

Given the name of the show, it’s very fitting that the writer, Alex Chilton, gets $70 anytime the show airs.

Because of this fact, he actually refers to the series as “That $70 Show.” Which is clever but maybe a little bit too sarcastic.

2 The “blue sky” in Breaking Bad was actually rock candy

There are many scenes from this television series that features “blue meth.”

Of course, this wasn’t actually a drug being kept on set. It was actually just blue rock candy, and the actors would sometimes eat it when they weren’t shooting.

3 Frankie Muniz doesn’t remember Malcolm in the Middle

While this might be Muniz’s most iconic role that really put him on the map, the actor himself doesn’t remember being on the show because he suffers from long-term memory loss.

The actor has opened up about this condition, and we applaud him for that.

4 Guns N’ Roses wouldn’t let Glee use their music

Slash, the famous guitarist from the band, told Entertainment Weekly he refused to let the show use the band’s music despite Glee producers trying multiple times.

He said that “I draw the line at Glee. Glee is worse than Grease and Grease is bad enough.”

5 The Sopranos: logo maker or the show, originally thought The Sopranos was about singers, not mobsters

He felt it was important for the logo to “overcome any preconceptions that the name might imply,” which probably explains the gun in the now iconic logo

6 The Flintstones: Pebbles was originally going to be a boy

This was before a toy company said that a girl would make more money because they could sell Pebbles dolls. According to Flintstones creator Joseph Barbera, the dolls made around $3 million in the first two months.

7 I’ll Be There For…Who?

‘Friends’ was originally called something totally different.

The show we know and love as Friends today could have been called Insomnia Café or Six of One.

8 The Late Late Show of Ireland which started in 1962

The Tonight Show which started in 1954 are the longest running TV talk shows in the world.

9 A real family lives in the castle where the show Downton Abbey was filmed.

It’s called Highclere Castle and it’s been occupied by the Carnavon family since 1679. You can tour it in the spring and summer and it’s also available for weddings and private events.
Downton Abbey took the world by storm when it first premiered in 2010. Viewers couldn’t get enough of the Crawleys, their relationships, and all the drama that took place inside those castle walls. To this day, fans can still visit a traveling exhibition that brings them behind the scenes of the show and back in time. In celebration of the upcoming second movie, Downton Abbey: A New Era, we’re looking back at every bit of trivia from the original show.

10 Stranger Things is inspired by a ‘true’ story.

The show was originally called ‘Montauk’ and took inspiration from an alleged US Military programme named The Montauk Project which, legend has it, included experiments on children involving mind reading, mind control and time travel.

Preston Nicols, an electrical engineer from Montauk, claims to have worked on the project and in 1992 wrote a book called Montauk Project: Experiments In Time.

“We began to look at how you could interface minds with computer systems – but it soon evolved into developing a mind-control device,” he said in an interview with The Sun.

“Later it was discovered that if the individual whose mind was powering the machine could think of other time periods, this machine could generate a vortex there – essentially a time machine.”

There’s no substantial evidence to prove anything nefarious was going on in Montauk, but it makes interesting reading and has proved to be a brilliant idea for a TV show!

From its chilling real-life roots to Billy dancing in a thong, discover some weird and wonderful facts about Stranger Things as the highly anticipated fourth season hits Netflix.