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Alpha TV is a Greek terrestrial channel (prior to 2000: ΣΚΑΪ, the Greek spelling of Sky). The station features a mix of Greek and foreign shows with an emphasis on entertainment programs. The studios are located near Athens. Alpha TV is owned by Luxembourg media giant RTL Group; previous owner Dimitris Kontominas sold majority share in the channel to RTL Group in 2008.
Alpha TV's logo, when the channel was called Skaï, was written using Greek letters. It was Latinized and changed to a blue font in 1999, when Kontominas bought it from Ioannis Alafouzos. In September 1999 it became Alpha-Sky and later A-Sky before changing to its present name in October of the same year. The logo was retained despite the changes in the channel's name. In 2006 the name was changed again to Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, to reflect the channel's popularity, and used a similarity of Swiss font letters. This A (alpha) logo is similar to the Attiki Odos logo. The font letters in 2003 changed and a circle was added over Alpha, but the two As (alphas) remain. In 2005 a new version was introduced and is colored with red, looking like the modern Adobe Logo and was updated prior to the launch of the 2007-2008 season. Ratings are now in the middle range after the introduction of Alter.
Actors: Larry Laverty (actor), Roberto Lombardi (producer), Roberto Lombardi (actor), Mark Weiler (actor), Samrat Chakrabarti (actor), Richard Brake (actor), Brian M. Wixson (actor), Mike Marino (actor), Sean Gordon (actor), Antonio San Miguel (actor), Charles Swensen (actor), Christopher Pickhardt (actor), Andrew Harrison (actor), Jack Brunacini Jr. (actor), Dan Holmes (actor),
Plot: When a mission goes bad and "Red King Force" Captain Steve Colossus is forced to leave his team inside a computerized world created for a dangerous Robotic life-form, Colossus must go back in to save his team and recover a mysterious black box that will prevent the Robotic life-form from escaping into the real world and wiping out mankind.
Keywords: future, robotActors: Gerard McSorley (actor), Kody Zimmermann (writer), Martin Ewens (actor), Robert O'Gorman (actor), Elliot Joseph (actor), Gregory Horoupian (producer), Gregory Horoupian (director), Gregory Horoupian (writer), Catriona Rubenis-Stevens (actress), Chloe Lee (miscellaneous crew), Tammy McNeill (actress), David Burfoot (actor), Lorianna Izrailova (actress), Andrew Kenneth Moss (miscellaneous crew), Noa Livne (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short, Thriller,Actors: Elijah Wood (actor), Burnie Burns (actor), Burnie Burns (director), Burnie Burns (writer), Burnie Burns (actor), Burnie Burns (actor), Burnie Burns (actor), Nathan Zellner (actor), Matt Hullum (actor), Matt Hullum (actor), Matt Hullum (actor), Matt Hullum (actor), Matt Hullum (writer), Matt Hullum (director), Chris Demarais (actor),
Plot: Witness the gripping and hilarious finale to the Project Freelancer saga, complete with newly animated battle sequences. The world's longest-running web series ever of all time, set in the universe of the enormously popular video game franchise Halo.
Genres: Action, Animation, Comedy, Short,Actors: Terry Notary (actor), Andy Serkis (actor), John Lithgow (actor), Michael Kopsa (actor), Terry Notary (actor), David Richmond-Peck (actor), Tyler Labine (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Adrian Hough (actor), Mike Dopud (actor), David Hewlett (actor), Frédéric North (actor), James Franco (actor), Timothy Webber (actor), Ty Olsson (actor),
Plot: At the story's heart is Caesar ('Andy Serkis' (qv)), a chimpanzee who gains human-like intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug. Raised like a child by the drug's creator, Will Rodman ('James Franco' (qv)) and a primatologist Caroline Aranha ('Freida Pinto' (qv)), Caesar ultimately finds himself taken from the humans he loves and imprisoned in an ape sanctuary in San Bruno. Seeking justice for his fellow inmates, Caesar gives the fellow apes the same drug that he inherited. He then assembles a simian army and escapes the sanctuary - putting man and ape on a collision course that could change the planet forever.
Keywords: 2010s, airport, alpha-male, alzheimer's-disease, ambulance, animal-attack, animal-cruelty, animal-escapes-zoo, animal-experimentation, animal-in-titleActors: Roy Vongtama (actor), Chip Bent (actor), Ken Collins (actor), Ken Collins (director), Ken Collins (writer), Courtney Sara Bell (actress), Lynn Downey (actress), Andy Kovac (actor), Jay Hewlett (actor), Shivani Thakkar (actress), Mario Vaz De Mello (composer), Jay Hewlett (producer), Gene May (editor), Matt O'Hare (actor), Ariel Llinas (actor),
Plot: Consumed by rage after losing his wife on 9/11, Michael Penn (Ken Collins) enlists in the military with an obsession for vengeance on the battlefield. Penn soon becomes entangled in a deadly black project designed to generate the ultimate assassin. Renamed: "Sandman," Penn and sleeper-killers like him find themselves in a brutal game on the streets of America where they can come off the board at any time. Jay Hewlett executes a gripping performance as Malcolm, the NSA agent tasked with eliminating the problem before embarrassing details are exposed. "Dead Americans" is a provocative thriller that is as exciting as it is timely. There is no margin for error for Penn and the others as they discover, that when your time comes, its not death, it's deactivation.
Keywords: afghanistan, assassin, conspiracy, cover-up, government, implant, mind-control, motorcycle, nsa, suicideActors: Eduardo MacGregor (actor), José Garcia (actor), Michael Herbig (actor), Alain Delon (actor), Jean-Pierre Cassel (actor), Bouli Lanners (actor), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Jean-Pierre Castaldi (actor), Jamel Debbouze (actor), Rachid Bouchareb (actor), Franck Dubosc (actor), Clovis Cornillac (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Santiago Segura (actor), Benoît Poelvoorde (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy,Actors: Robert Blanche (actor), Joshua M. Bott (actor), Leslie Taylor (actress), Robert Keli (actor), Mona Leigh (actress), Simon Mainwaring (actor), Janine Kijner (writer), Janine Kijner (director),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Rhoda Griffis (actress), Patrika Darbo (actress), Michael Rosenbaum (actor), Danny Nelson (actor), Jack Thompson (actor), Gary Anthony Williams (actor), Kevin Spacey (actor), James Gandolfini (actor), John Cusack (actor), Jude Law (actor), Bob Gunton (actor), Geoffrey Lewis (actor), Richard Herd (actor), Anne Haney (actress), Irma P. Hall (actress),
Plot: This panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William's famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim's buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy's murder, Kelso has his hands full.
Keywords: 1980s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actress-playing-herself, antique-dealer, antonyms-in-title, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, bisexual, black-comedy, bulldogActors: Ilene Pickus (miscellaneous crew), Dan Fitzgerald (actor), John DiSanti (actor), Ken Wiederhorn (actor), Ken Wiederhorn (director), Angelo Ross (editor), Robert Small (actor), Tom Tully (actor), Herb Goldstein (actor), Dan Chandler (actor), Ron Kurz (writer), Sonia Zomina (actress), Bruce McLaughlin (actor), Lee Sandman (actor), Lee Sandman (actor),
Plot: Set on the quiet campus of Yellowstream University, this comedy follows the rivalries that build between two of the college's fraternities. When they're not mooning everyone they pass and throwing garbage on the lawns of rival frats, the members of the Pi Kappa Delta fraternity are mainly interested in drinking and... well, drinking. When a campus- wide farting contest is announced, Grossout, the leader of the Deltas, is all too eager to stand up, bend over and defend the honor of his fraternity.
Keywords: bag-over-head, censored-profanity-in-title, college, contest, farting-contest, friendship, gorilla-suit, independent-film, mooning, peeping-tomActors: Roger Caine (actor), Robert Kerman (actor), Richard Mailer (actor), Richard Mailer (actor), Jake Teague (actor), Richard Mailer (producer), Richard Mailer (director), Jenny Baxter (actress), David Williams (actor), Jeanette Sinclair (actress), Hellen Carter (actress), Sara Douglas (actress), John Sands (actor),
Genres: Adult, Adult, Sci-Fi,It happens when you?re gone
The place you lay still warm
Then I close every single door
But barely can I wait
Blue autumn let me down
Leave me scattered on the ground
And decide
Won?t you fly away from me
It?s over when it?s gone
But barely can I demand
My feelings ever mean a thing
If i beg you what would I be
Blue winter let me down
Leave me frozen on the ground
And decide
Won?t you fly away from me
Blue summer bring me round
Bathe in circles from the sun
To decide