For 36 years, Alex Trebek has been the purveyor of obscure facts from the archeologist who opened King Tut's tomb in 1922 (Who is Howard Carter?) to the device Alexander Graham Bell tested out on Civil War vets still riddled with bullets (What is a metal detector?). But for the past year, the longtime Jeopardy! host has been educating his followers on something infinitely more important and far more personal. "Just like 50,000 other people in the United States each year, this week I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer," he shared in a shocking March 2019 video message that has been viewed by upwards of five...
- 3/4/2020
- E! Online
SYDNEY -- The Seven Network has inked a major deal with BBC Worldwide, giving the network a stream of high-end factual programming, a genre embraced by Australian television viewers over the past couple of years. The titles include 50 one-hour episodes of Genghis Khan, which uses state-of-the-art digital effects and was shot entirely on location in the Asian Steppe; Discovering Ancient Europe, which retraces Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, the finds from the reign of Ramesses II and Champollion's deciphering of the hieroglyphs; and Massive Nature, a three-part natural-history series. Under the deal announced Thursday, Seven also has acquired a third series of What Not to Wear and a second series of Medical Mysteries.
- 10/8/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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