Urban Legends (2007)
- Directed by
- Luke Campbell
- Genre
- crime film
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 3 seasons, 45 episodes
- Rated
- 14+
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A TV series where each episode shows three dramatized urban legends. Viewers guess which one or two stories really happened, with real people telling the true ones and actors faking the others. Quick quiz segments break up the show.
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What happens
Urban Legends is a Canadian documentary-style television series hosted by Michael Allcock until David Hewlett became the new host in 2011. In each episode, three urban legends are dramatized and presented to the television audience; the audience is then asked to speculate which one or two of the three is true. Each legend has witnesses to tell the story. For the one or two fake legends, the witnesses are actors, while the true legend(s) uses real people affected by the story. Included in each episode are two quick quiz-like stories, called mini-myths, which air before the commercial breaks. Each begins with the number of the mini myth and its name, followed by the story. After the commercial, the answer to the mini-myth is announced and the rest of the programming continues as it previously had. The show originally aired on the Biography Channel in the US, History Television and Global in Canada and FX in the United Kingdom where it was hosted by Mark Dolan. It has also aired in Argentina, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Finland, Estonia, The Netherlands, Russia, Hungary and Denmark. The series briefly returned to the Syfy network as an "Original Series" with new episodes starting on Monday April 18, 2011, then moved to the regular time, Fridays at 10. The new episodes followed exactly the same format as the original but were narrated by Stargate's David Hewlett. The show aired occasionally as reruns and mini-marathons on both SyFy and Chiller. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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실화극장 죄와 벌/ Silhwageugjang Joewa Beol (2003)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.