The Lone Ranger rode onto our screens in 1949 and Superman flew across them in 1951 well before Desperate Housewives steamed them up in 2005 and 24 almost blew them up through 2006.

 

TV Mania is a culmination of 17 years of research and designed to be a definitive history of television, combined with all our favourite shows we grew up with and watched from British, Japanese, Australian & American TV shows, which are still seen today as repeats.

 

Shows so popular, Hollywood has been successfully turning them into movies 20 and 30 years later, making them available to a new generation ­ thus creating a whole new interest in these shows. The cable Networks feature all our favourite shows back to back 24/7 every day of the year for an older generation as well as a younger generation to enjoy.

 

There is a special bond between audiences and their old television shows. We invited these characters into our living room day after day, night after night, and they basically became members of our family and therefore part of our lives, so obviously there is an extremely wide acceptance of our television shows ­ not only by an older generation, but also a younger one.

 

It seems worldwide, the Television networks, Cable networks and Hollywood, all appear to agree.

 

The biggest selling DVD¹s in 2006 were both old and new television shows, surpassing DVD Movie sales.