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Black Entertainment Television is an American cable network based in Washington, D.C. targeted toward young blacks and urban audiences in the United States. The network is commonly referred to as B.E.T. and most of its programming comprises hip-hop and R&B music videos as well as Flavors of Entanglement and religious programming, urban-oriented movies and series. BET was founded in 1980 by Robert L. Johnson.
On weekdays and Saturdays, BET focuses mainly on urban music programming with shows like 106 & Park and Rap City, while also airing sitcoms such as The Wayans Bros., The Jamie Foxx Show, Girlfriends, and The Parkers and now Malcolm & Eddie. Dramas including Soul Food and The Wire air Sunday nights and early mornings and the stand-up comedy program called Comic View airs throughout the week. BET has recently introduced reality programs like College Hill, collegiate sporting events, and various movies and specials. BET also created a short-lived animated comedy series called Hey Monie!, after partnering up with The Oxygen Network.
On Sundays, BET carries gospel music and other religious programming for the greater part of the day such as The Bobby Jones Gospel Hour, Video Gospel, and Lift Every Voice. Religious programming also airs in the early morning hours every day from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. EST.
BET Tonight was relaunched as a daily newscast, BET Nightly News with Jacque Reid, which began in 1999 as an extension of its news coverage. BET's news coverage became a part of the network in October 1986. After the nightly newscast was removed from the lineup in the summer of 2005, it returned in October 2005 delivering news updates on BET throughout the day and, in 2006, as a Sunday afternoon news hour. Currently as of January 7, 2008, BET has undergone a political conflict with popular show The Boondocks. BET threatened litigation if the shows 14th and 15th episodes of the second season were aired due to references to BETBET airs a number of specials, including awards shows, fashion shows, and music specials. The BET Awards honors black entertainers, athletes and actors. It is usually BET's highest rated show of the year. The BET Hip Hop Awards is BET's largest music awards show, recognizing hip hop performers, producers and music video directors. Celebration of Gospel is an annual show featuring performances by the brightest stars in gospel and R&B, and television’s #1 religious/gospel telecast. Rip The Runway, a collision of hip hop and fashion is the network's annual fashion show. Spring Bling airs during spring break each year; a show dedicated to the goings on of spring breakers. In 2008, BET launched a new awards show, The BET Honors, which recognizes the lives and accomplishments of distinguished members of the Black American Community.
Many prominent media critics, including Public Enemy rapper Chuck D,[1] journalist George Curry,[2] writer Keith Boykin,[3] comic book creator Christopher Priest,[4] filmmaker Spike Lee[5] and cartoonist Aaron McGruder (who, in addition to numerous critical references throughout his series, The Boondocks, made a particular episode criticizing the channel), have protested BET's programming and actions. The channel has been criticized by members of the African-American community who feel that the channel perpetuates harmful black stereotypes by primarily airing hip-hop videos that often have misogynistic, materialistic, and/or violent themes.[6] As a result, BET heavily censors suggestive content from the videos that it airs, often with entire verses removed from certain rap videos. Detractors also point out the irony they see in the network's choice to show strong religious (primarily Christian) programming. Not long ago, people began referring to the acronym BET as standing for "Black Exploitation Television."[7] Many critics consider BET to be a modern-day "minstrel show".[who?] BET is currently owned and operated by Viacom, which is led by Philippe Dauman, a white person.
BET has been criticized by some Christian evangelicals not only for its music and programming content, but for its morning religious lineup. Each morning, BET broadcasts evangelical TV shows, and hosts include Robert Tilton, Don Stewart, and Peter Popoff, all of whom have been criticized, proven to be heading fraud ministries, and who have had run-ins with the law. In Popoff's case, his ministry's tax-exempt status was recently revoked in Canada; also, skeptic scientist James Randi notoriously debunked Popoff on The Tonight Show in 1988.[8]
Protests against BET, for the above reasons, have taken place.[9] The most recent campaign against the stereotypes on BET is called the "Enough is Enough CampaignThe spin off channel BET J, originally called BET Jazz, is available in 28 million homes on DirecTV, Verizon FiOS TV as well as other digital cable providers. Programs include My Two Cents with Keith Boykin, Bryonn Bain, Crystal McCreary Anthony and Staceyann Chin, The Best Shorts hosted by Abiola Abrams, Living the Life of Marley about Ky-Mani Marley, My Model is Better Than Your Model with Eva Pigford and The Turn On hosted by Charlotte Burley. This channel is meant to appeal to an older, more sophisticated viewership, and aims to be the answer to the BET criticism with positive, adult programmingYou Bet! was a British game show based around the format of the German show Wetten, dass..? developed by Frank Elstner. You Bet! ran from 20 February 1988 to 12 April 1997, initially hosted by Bruce Forsyth from 1988 to 1990, then by Matthew Kelly from 1991 to 1995 and finally by Darren Day from 1996 to 1997. It was produced by LWT for ITV at Shepperton Studios.
The original format was a panel of celebrities would bet on the ability of members of the public to achieve unlikely challenges and stunts, which they had usually planned and rehearsed many times, within a limited amount of time. The panellists would receive points for each outcome they predicted correctly, and the studio audience would also bet on the outcomes. The accumulated total of points achieved by the celebrities would be added to the points totalled by the studio audience, increased several times over, converted into pounds and donated to a charity chosen by the celebrity panellist who had achieved the highest score. Each week there would be four challenges, some in the studio and some on location done by Ellis Ward. The panellists would each "sponsor" and Bruce Forsyth would also sponsor one. If the challenge sponsored by the panellist, or Bruce Forsyth was not achieved, one of them would have to do a forfeit that they have thought of before the show. (e.g., being a golf caddy or air steward for the day), it was either broadcast in the studio, which will be broadcast on this week's show or broadcast on location, which will be broacast on next week's show. The show dropped the talk show aspects of Wetten, dass...? and concentrated on the challenges, thus reducing the running time from 2 to 3 hours to 1 hour. The original theme tune was composed by Alan Lisk, better known for penning the theme tune to Men Behaving Badly. The show's airing slot was originally on Saturday nights.
You Bet! made some massive changes due to the depature of Bruce Forsyth. A new logo was introduced with You coloured in red and Bet! coloured in blue. Matthew Kelly stepped up as host to replace Bruce Forsyth, also the challenges rose to five, which meant that Ellis Ward got involved with her sponsoring challenges as well. 6 random forefits were there for the panellists, Ellis Ward or Matthew Kelly to choose from if their challenge sponsor was not achieved, but cryptic clues were written on the 6 forefits to make it more difficult. Matthew Kelly also got involved doing the work on location challenges as well as Ellis Ward.
You Bet! decided there will be no more forfeits, Instead they introduced the celebrity challenge, where the lowest celebrity scorer would do a challenge, which will be broadcast for next week's show, Then the public got to vote in at home to donate a charity of their choice for £1000 if the celebrity succeeded or failed a challenge. The set, which had been more or less the same since You Bet! began, was replaced by a new "arena" which allowed much more floor space for the challenges. Matthew Kelly announced his intention to leave You Bet! and concentrate on hosting Stars in Their Eyes after transmission of Series 8. The viewers' phone vote was dropped after Series 8 was shown.
You Bet! was returned to the way it was, with 3 celebrity panalists, actor Darren Day took over as host and the return of the co-host for all the work on the location challenges, for this penultimute series it was Diane Youdale, better known as Jet from the UK series of Gladiators, the forfeits also returned to the show but they were not chosen by the celebrity guests, they were automatically chosen by the crew at the end of each show for the celebrity who got the lowest score throughout the show.
Although this wasn't known until after the series had aired. Another new set and format was introduced; the celebrities could play their (You Bet! BONUS CARD), which meant their points would be doubled if they successfully guessed the outcome of a challenge. The celebrity challenge returned to the show and the exciting part of this series is the audience got to choose which challenge they would choose for the lowest scoring celebrity at the end of the show, the only problem is...that there will only be two choices with cryptic clue titles (e.g - Ooh! That's better! or, Dangling Down. etc.) Sarah Matravers replaced Diane Youdale as co-host for this final series, who is well known as a gong girl from Take Your Pick. The new theme tune was composed by Simon Webb.
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