Glee is a highly successful musical comedy-drama TV show. Created by Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuk, the show premiered on May 19, 2009, after American Idol. While Brennan also serves as a co-executive produces, Falchuck and Murphy show-run and produce the series.

The award-winning show focuses on “New Directions”, a high school glee club and is being based on a real experience. The show is centered on Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), a music teacher who attempts to restore William McKinley High’s Glee Club former glory and rescue it from obscurity.

Producers have sought actors who have played in musicals before as well as actors with no theatrical experience but who have proved to be able to act, sing and dance. Members of the cast include Chris Colfer, Dianna Agron, Jessalyn Gilsig, Jane Lynch and Jayma Mays, Amber Riley, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith etc.

The music from the show is a huge commercial success with two soundtracks certified gold and over 4 million digital downloads sold. During its first episodes, Glee treated its audience to covers of songs by Liza Minnelli, Queen, Beyonce, Barbra Streissand, Kanye West, Rihanna, Neil Diamond, etc. The series has landed a number of awards including five Satellite Awards, a Peabody Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy.

Also known as “Top Model”,  America’s Next Top Model is a widely-known reality TV show in which a number of contestants compete for the Top Model Title and a career in the modeling industry. The show debuted in 2003 to quickly become one of UPN’s best rated TV shows. Top Model is hosted by former supermodel Tyra Banks, who  also serves as executive producer and head judge of the show. Anthony Dominici and Ken Mok co-produce the series.

The contestants have to go through a series of challenges that are relevant to the fashion world, after which they are judged by their appearances and their attitude. The judging panel includes such personalities as Nigel Barker (fashion photographer) and Andre Leon Talley (Vogue editor-at-large). The show has been criticized for its cruel judges, and for humiliating and degrading women. The Shine website has gone so far to create a list called “10 reasons why ‘America’s Next Top Model’ is bad for women, humans” showing how the series can be damaging for women world-wide. The show was also accused that is hasn’t produced any real supermodels.

ANTM continues to be a huge success and is currently being aired on TV in 170 regions and countries including: Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, Japan, United Kingdom and Australia.

Launched in 2004, The Biggest Loser is a reality TV show produced by NBC Universal Television Studio. The American show was created by J.D Roth who is also the executive producer and the narrator of the series. The Biggest Loser has quickly managed to become a smash TV hit that helps people become more aware of the importance of good health through weight control. The Biggest Loser is a weight-loss reality drama in which top health experts are paired up with celebrity fitness trainers to help obese contestants lose weight.

The series is currently hosted by Alison Sweeney of Days of Our Lives fame. Contestants are grouped into teams at the start of each season, and each team has to follow their personal trainer’s exercise plans and nutrition plans. A weigh-in is held at the beginning of each week. Every team’s goal is to lose the highest percentage of weight. Each week, the weakest contestant is voted off by the members of his team. As the number of contestants becomes less, the teams dissolve and each contestant competes on his own, but under the supervision of the same trainer.

At the end of the show contestants will have transformed their bodies, health and overall life.  The “biggest loser”,  becomes the biggest winner, walking away healthier and $ 250.000 richer.

Dancing with the Stars is a show that pairs up professional ballroom dancers with a number of celebrities, in an intense, live competition. The contestants have to compete each week by performing various dances in front of the nation, and a studio audience.

The pairs are voted by the viewers at home and also judged by a number of expert judges (Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli). Each week, the team that gets the lowest combined score is eliminated. The challenge is to maintain composure, grace and focus while learning new movements. The show offers its audience impressive dancing, dazzling costumes, contemporary music, behind-the-scenes training and celebrity gossip. The winners of the contest receive a grand prize of a mirror ball trophy.

Dancing with the Stars is based on the British hit series, Strictly Come Dancing. It airs on ABC in the United States. The format of the show has become an international hit in several countries including Ukraine, Sweden, South Africa, Russia, Romania, Norway, The Netherlands, Japan, Israel, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Croatia, Austria, Albania etc.

The first edition of the Dancing with the Stars World Championship took place in 2007 and brought together countries like Ecuador, Paraguay, Panama, Slovakia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina and Romania. The winner of the competition was Mexico, which was also hosting the event.

Created by Simon Fuller – founder of 19 Entertainment – in 2002, American Idol is a very popular Emmy Award-winning reality television competition. The show continues to be today a big favorite with TV audiences world-wide.

The program is currently at its ninth season, with Ryan Seacrest as the host and Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi, Randy Jackson and newcomer talk show host Ellen DeGeneres as the show’s judges. Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson have been judges right from the beginning of the series. As viewers and judges together decide who will be America’s next singing superstar, the show is all about interaction.

Contestants perform each week for TV viewers and the studio audience. Voting begins after each performance show and the result is revealed during the following broadcast. The winner of the show is guaranteed a record contract. However, other contestants have been signed too by different record labels. Winners as well as contestants who have been eliminated have a chance to become major stars.

Past winners Kris Allen, David Cook, Jordin Sparks, Taylor Hicks, Carrie Underwood, Fantasia Barrino, Ruben Studdard and Kelly Clarkson have made their mark on the music industry. The show is directed by Bruce Gowers and executive-produced by Bruce Gowers, and Cecile Frot-Coutaz.

Grey’s Anatomy is a highly acclaimed hospital tv show from ABC studios. Created by Shonda Rhimes, the show premiered in 2005. The story follows the lives of several surgical residents at the Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in Washington. During the time spent Seattle Grace, Meredith Grey and her fellows doctors Cristina, Alex, George and Izzie make new lovers, friends and enemies. They all have to struggle with the changes in their lives while staying sharp at work. The show is smart, and highly addictive for a medical drama. More than being about the medicine, Grey’s Anatomy is about the people behind it, their feelings and emotions.

The cast includes: Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Justin Chambers, Patrick Dempsey, Katherine Heigl, T.R Knight and many others. The characters are deep and enriching. They are about to learn that neither relationships nor medicine can be defined in black and white. Each season introduces new characters, changes and life challenges. The show’s title is a reference to the famous medical textbook.

Since its creation, the series has attained critical acclaim and commercial success. Winner of two Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards, Grey’s Anatomy is currently one of the most watched tv series.

Pro – It is now easy to watch your favorite TV shows and the latest movies. Just a click away.
Con – It can take a while to find out about it.
Pro – No more Bit Torrent, Kazaa or Emule. Bye bye torrent trackers that require invitations, seeding and ratios.
Con – The resolution is not that good and the sound is awful. Think of it like watching a movie on YouTube, sometimes even worse.
Pro – Now you don’t have to wait for the movie to download.
Con – Channel 131 does not offer the possibility of adding subtitles.
Pro – The administrators are serious and upload TV shows just after they have been broadcasted on TV.
Con – The whole site looks awful and it is full of commercials.
Pro – Although it looks like this, it is simple, intuitive and has a great functionality.
Con – Unfortunately, you cannot adjust any setting like you did with a regular video player software.

One of the great passions of people from the current generation is watching movies or television shows. Every one of us has a list of favorite movies and actors and we enjoy spending time in front of the television or at the cinema in order to watch good, entertaining movies. Then, there are also persons that watch regularly one or more TV shows, waiting every week for a new episode and during the long breaks, for a new series.
However, we have to take in to consideration that the current generation, our generation, has quite a dynamic life that puts us always on the move. Therefore, there is little time for going to the cinema or watching movies in front of the home television. This is why Hollywood productions and television shows have moved to the Internet. If the generation of our parents could have been called the TV generation, we can say that today’s generation is strongly attached to the Internet and to all that is related to it. When it comes to movies, it offers huge advantages, starting with the fact that you don’t have to go to a crowded cinema to watch your favorite actor in his latest movie and finishing with the fact that you can watch a TV series whenever you want, without being interrupted by commercials.

Because we enjoy watching our favorite actors in their latest movies and our favorite TV shows, although time is quite limited and it does not allow going to the cinema or spending too much in front of the home television, we have to look for other methods to do this. And, it seems that we have found it on the Internet, a place that can be called the second home of the persons from our generation.
Channel 131 can be called heaven by the persons that want to watch their favorite TV shows and the latest movies on the Internet. If you don’t know what it is all about, a brief visit to www.ch131.com will be enough to provide you a clear image of what you can find there. Although the site looks awfully simple, believe us that it offers great functionality and you can find the stuff that you are interested in extremely fast. In addition, the persons that are taking care of the site seem to be serious and respect the visitors by uploading TV shows in just a short amount of time after they have been broadcasted for the first time on television. When it comes to movies, not only you will find the latest Hollywood titles, but also classic movies that have made history over the years.