• The show was rejected by FOX until Rupert Murdoch (head of FOX’s parent company) was convinced to purchase the show by his daughter, an avid fan of the British version Pop Idol.

• Being that American Idol is the number one rated show in America, any 30 second commercial run during it’s runtime sells for $700,000.

• American Idol is referred to as the “Death Star” by competing networks, as they are forced to rearrange their show time schedules to avoid losing money.

• Since the show began in June 2002, American Idol has had a total of over 235 million viewers in the US alone.

• When producers learned that Christopher Reeve (the original Superman) was a fan of the show, they casted him to appear twice as Virgil Swann, a scientist who reveals the truth about Krypton, Superman’s home planet.

• When the character Adam Knight (Ian Somerhalder) appeared on the show, it was speculated that he was really Smallville’s version of Bruce Wayne(aka Batman).

• James Marsters, the producers’ first and only choice to play Brainiac, had initial reservations about accepting the role because he did not want to be painted green and wear the character’s traditional pink outfit.

• All scientific lingo, definitions, equations, and props used in the show are correct, thanks to Professor David Saltzburg of the University of California, Los Angeles who routinely reviews all before and during production.

• The Big Bang Theory is broadcasted Slovenia, entitled Veliki Pokovci (The Big Bangers).

• Actor Hugh Laurie was filming a movie at the time of the casting session, so he filmed his own audition tape in a Nambian hotel bathroom (apparently the only place with enough lighting).

• Producer Bryan Singer was adamant that the character of House could only be played by an American. He was exceedingly pleased with Laurie’s audition, stating how he was “impressed with the American actor that truly grasped the character of House”. Hugh Laurie is in fact, British.

• House’s most popular episode, with 29 million viewers, was “Frozen” that followed Super Bowl XLII. It was outranked only by the Super Bowl game and post-game show.

A comedy following the lives of two shepherds from New Zealand who travel to the big New York city to make their way as musicians. The idea of the show was actually based on the lives of the two actors Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who met at college and left together to make it big as a novelty folk band.

• Bret and Jemaine actually met at Victoria University of Wellington
• The song "Rock the Party" is played repeatedly at gigs, yet the entire song is never hear in any episode.
• In the episode entitled "Drive By" Bret receives a box from his mom with nothing inside it, and states "Oh, my favorite box."
• A 1983 Casio DG-20 electric guitar is featured in the episode "Bret Gives Up the Dream."
• Bret and Jemaine were awarded the "2007 Wellingtonians of the Year" in their home town after their international success following the first season.
• The second season premiere episode gathered 250,000 streams in its first 10 days on FunnyOrDie.com.

A sci-fi drama that tells the stories of ordinary humans with extraordinary, superhuman abilities and how they use them to prevent disaster. The show mimics the storytelling style of American comic books by using short stories that build up to create an overall bigger plot.

• Heroes’ creator Tim Kring was coached by Damon Lindelof, Lost executive producer, on how to successfully pitch the series to the network.

• NBC was sued by Emerson Electric Company in 2006 over a scene from “Genesis” (the first episode of Heroes) where Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere) reaches into an active garbage disposal unit labeled “InSinkErator” to grab a ring, and severely damages her hand. EEC claimed that the scene “casts the disposer in an unsavory light, irreparably tarnishing the product”.

• Actor Milo Ventimiglia (aka Peter Petrelli) claims he is undermined by his Heroes character's boyish, long bangs. Tim Kring stated: "We have a disagreement over the hair, but we're moving toward a compromise”.