These 20 TV shows were massive hits across the globe—but barely made a splash in the U.S. Discover what the rest of the world was watching.

The night Keith Moon wrecked another hotel room seemed routine — until what happened hours later revealed the fragile truth behind rock’s wildest drummer.

There’s a reason hip hop heads still argue about the 1990s like it’s a religious doctrine. This was the decade when lyricism mattered, regional sounds thrived without canceling each other out, and artists weren’t afraid to be funny, political, vulnerable, or confrontational—sometimes all in the same verse.

Curtis Mayfield had already lived several musical lifetimes by the time fate intervened. He’d helped invent socially conscious soul, soundtracked the civil rights movement, and quietly influenced generations of artists who followed. Then, in 1990, a falling stage light changed everything. What came next wasn’t a dramatic comeback or a victory lap—it was a slow, stubborn refusal to stop creating. This is how Curtis Mayfield kept making music when almost nothing worked the way it used to.

Before theme songs became skip buttons and recaps started explaining things you absolutely already knew, TV shows had one precious chance to grab your attention. Enter the cold open—the pre-credits moment designed to hook you, delight you, or completely derail your expectations before the story even begins. Let’s journey through some of the most iconic cold opens in TV history.

American remakes of British TV have a reputation—and not always a flattering one. For every awkward cultural transplant, there’s a reinvention that somehow clicks harder, lasts longer, and embeds itself into pop culture in a way the original never quite managed. Sometimes it’s a cast change, sometimes it’s pacing, and sometimes it’s just the confidence to go bigger, louder, and messier.