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openLive action show in Japan - nerdy girl gets into a fight? Live Action TV
Okay, this is a real long shot. I was in Japan in April and I happened to be flicking through TV stations - I remember one of them was NHK but I have no idea if that's what this show was on. It was a live action show that seemed to be set in a high school; I think it was a brand new show. The main character was a nerdy girl who, if I remember correctly, at one point got into a fight and had a nosebleed which prevented her from attending a dance.
It's really silly but I'd love to find out what this show is!
openHigh Heart Rate Live Action TV
All I remember is a show where the MC has a heart condition that he/she (think it was he) took medication for, but the high heart rate was some kind of ability that the character needed to learn to use.
openKids/Teen TV show about Indian family 2000-2010s era possibly British Live Action TV
Does anybody know about a show that aired in the late 2000s to early 2010s about an Indian family with a male lead likely British, it aired in Australia as well and the only episode I remember was about the importance of healthy eating where the main character tries to get his family to eat healthy (and non-Indian) food in order to win a competition, his family react badly to the idea. His father eats food out of the bin and he introduces bland healthy food before appealing to his neighbours for help and they make sushi. The episode ends with the wrong tape being sent in and it showing all of his families failed attempts to eat healthy. It's not much to go on but it was an okay show and I would very much appreciate being pointed in the right direction. Thanks
openCan you help? Live Action TV
So I remember watching this at least 4 or more years ago (it's probably longer to be fair but I have no sense of time) and I know it was real despite not being able to find anything on it. It's a TV show and it starts off with this sort of scholarship girl getting in to this elite university or college and when she gets there it's all rich kids and endless amounts of sex and drugs and stuff and I think she gets propositioned by this smarmy arrogant guy and at some point one of the characters gets killed with rowing equipment. Possibly stabbed with an oar? I originally thought it was by BBC or itv but now I don't know.
Edited by TheRougeMagpieopenA TV show about a gamer who becomes a secret agent Live Action TV
I think I watched this TV show around (2007-2010) I’m sure this aired on YTV and maybe possibly Nickelodeon. I remember it was about a teenager who was a high school student, I think he bought or went online and played a really popular video game, then he became the #1 best player in the world, then one day his life completely changed when a man with a bald head told him that he was hiring him to become, I think a secret agent or something similar of that profession. I remember one scene where the main character didn’t believe that what the bald man was saying was true, so the bald head man proved it by ripping off him arm revealing that he was a robot. Also the bald man said that said that if he accepted the position then the bald man would be his personal bodyguard and then after accepting he gave him a glove that shoots beams or plasma looking balls that explode on impact, a black futuristic looking air ship, that shooting lightning underneath the base of it and beams people up into it and the main character has a younger brother that through the series, comes close to finding out that his older brother (the main character) is living a double life as a secret agent. Also the main character attends high school like a normal high school student, but then if he gets called for a mission then he goes and saves the day. Also I know this TV show was targeted towards Teens.
openLive action cooking show. Live Action TV
I remember watching this live action show a few years ago, where a bunch of different people each had to make a dinner for the other contestants. After they all hosted their dinner's they would vote on who had the best one (and of course the couldn't vote for themselves). Whoever won got a prize. I'm not sure if it even still airs on TV.
openTime travel girl on brick wall Live Action TV
I am trying to remember a show where a girl was sitting on wall with her friend and then she all of sudden gets sent back in time. her friend all of sudden gets a letter from the girl in the past saying that she went 1920s and had a family. I cant remember what show is that from
Edited by imnossopenKid/teen show Live Action TV
I used to watch this show when I was little (about 5-7 years old) and it had a bunch of kids (non-animated) that basically ran an animal clinic. They also helped out a scientist who liked inventing weird inventions. I remember one episode where they went and searched for a chupacabra but they didn't find one, of course. Every episode they went out on missions.
openKid/ Teen Show Live Action TV
Okay, so I used to watch this one show. I think it was on Nickelodeon. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with some kids attending this boarding school or something. This one creepy guy would say, "It's so quiet, you could hear a pin drop." Like every time the kids went to bed. Then they founds these clues that lead them to find out about a cult or something??? And I remember a grandfather clock being heavily involved. I thought it was called the Annex, it's not, but it's something like that.
openUnusual Deaths Live Action TV
An American tv show I only ever caught one episode of. Mainly focused on unusual or strange deaths/accidents but was very stylised in how it was shot. Main narrator to the show looked like John Waters and told the story of each death/murder/accident. The episode I saw featured a story on a man who died in a motorcycle accident and his parents were suspected of killing him and he was found to be buried alive in a coma, then another story about a lady staging a barn fire (to maybe hide a murder) and she pulled her own teeth out to fake her own death.
openplease help Live Action TV
I remember a Old kids tv show where this kid found an abondoned carnival or wear house or something and finds an old arcade machine ( I think ) and a character within the game comes to life ( he is animated ) and helps the main character
openLive action TV show from the early 80's/85 or so - metal lizard statues, gemstone encrusted Live Action TV
Hi,
This was possibly set in Australia or somewhere exotic...a bunch of kids following some old man around, going on adventures, hunting down gemstone encrusted metal lizard statues...
openWeird British education Live Action TV
An educational show to teach schoolchilden about spelling:
There's two kids (a boy and a girl) who walk around with a bug called Zap (I think?). He's blue, he flies, he has a British accent and he's entirely CG. The only scene I can remember from this show is when the bug goes pale, says "I've been Zapped!" and falls to the ground almost dead.
openCN High school kids show Live Action TV
There was a show that aired on cartoon Network sometime between 200-2010, but I don't think it was a cartoon Network original. It was a live action about some high school aged kids that were trapped in a building and they couldn't remember why or how they got there. They might have had powers of some sort.
openMystery show that was on Netflix at some point? Live Action TV
So the premise was 'A family is in a car crash and one of the people died. Whenever the Main character sleeps they switch world to a different family member died. The ending of the show was ultra dispointing cause they had perfectly set up one ending then opt'd out because it was to depressing
openOld show on nick? Live Action TV
So i remember this show I think I saw on nickelodeon between 2000-2010ish. There was one episode where a girl (blonde long hair I think) could hear snakes talking and she discovered there were snakes in the walls en she send them after some other people. This was a show where the main 'room' was some kind of garage and they jumped in a tv (don't know it was a game or not) it's not the show where the kids are trapped in a pirate game.
openPBS Show With Puppet Cat and Dog Live Action TV
I vaguely seeing an episode of a PBS show with live action humans and puppet animals when I was about seven or eight. I'm pretty sure the whole thing took place on a train and the main characters were a cat puppet and a dog puppet. Also the dogs fleas were characters too. Oh, and I think the plot of the episode I saw had something to do with a bucket and the aunt of the cat and dog's owner.
openUnknown Show/Movie Live Action TV
I watched a live-action TV show (or maybe movie) a couple years ago, and I don't know what it's called. Here's what I can remember:
The cast are a group of college-aged people who seek to solve a mystery involving a missing person who is older than them—pretty sure it was a professor—and maybe some fellow students. They seek out someone more knowledgeable on the subject and he reluctantly agrees to help them. They use magic or witchcraft or something to transport to another plane of existence, where it turns out that the professor character has gone mad with the power of being able to shape the alternate reality to be whatever he wants. His whole universe is basically one big creepy mansion house on a hill, in which he plays a twisted game of hide and seek with his victims and then kills them. Since he can manipulate reality, there's no way for them to escape and they ultimately die. (I vaguely remember one of the victims wearing black glasses and a sweater vest).
Ultimately, the guy who was reluctant to come along with them sacrifices himself to save the remaining cast and still-living victims in the house. I think he lives, but is forever trapped in the alternate plane, but resolves to make it a good place.
It's a newer/newish production (like the last 5-10 years most likely). Can ANYONE tell me WTF it was that I watched? I've already ruled out "The Magicians," but its production value was similar. Please help!
open“Birds of A Feather” Episode Live Action TV
I’m looking for a episode of “Birds of a Feather”, in which Tracey is visiting Darryl, and he tells her about how to have a proper getaway vehicle. Can anyone help me please?

This show where a black kid (not to be a racist) played an alien who is on Earth and is a part of a family, this is around 15 years old, may be more... Today, when I picture him, I see Marquees Brown-Lee (from the youtube channel mkbhd?) I remember this distinct scene where he is walking on a rocky path and stands by a sign board for hours, as it reads STOP, Thank u in advance!