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Disney is missing out a lot of good potential

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I'm going to say this but W.I.T.C.H.  should become available to stream on Disney+. For real because they do in fact own the IP as the source material of the show (as in the comics) were published by their Italian comic book publishing division.

Out of the restaurants originating in the UK

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Greggs is my favourite, with good reason. The reason? They have great sandwiches, great cakes and great sausage rolls.

The fifth science fiction franchise with the word "star"

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As in Starship Troopers , but the 1959 novel actually predated Star Trek  (by seven years), Star Wars  (by 17 years), Battlestar Galactica  (by 19 years) and Stargate  (by 35 years). And even more is that the 1997 film is not even the first adaptation of the novel since it was in fact the 1988 six-part original video animation series.

2024-25 is the first season for Power Rangers

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To have no new original episodes due to Hasbro's handling of the franchise right now. The 2009-10 season does not count since while 2010 did not have any new original episodes, it should be worth knowing that the second half of RPM  aired during this season.

So, what would be Nirvana's fourth album?

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Well, for me, it would be MTV Unplugged in New York . Why? It gave us one of the best covers of all time but also, this version of "All Apologies" was a bigger hit than the one from In Utero .

As in seen in the film The Way, Way Back

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The car with a seat at the back area from the film is in fact a 1970 Buick Estate station wagon. That's how the film got its name from.

Once a music TV channel, now a generalist TV channel

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Did you know that Italian TV channel TV8 had its roots as a music channel? Yep, the channel was launched as Videomusic in 1984. The channel would later be rebranded as TMC2 after being bought by Telemontecarlo (now La7) in 1994 and then became MTV Italy in 1997 before that channel was split into two in 2015 with MTV8 and MTV Next and MTV8 would become TV8 a year later.

Cineworld Unlimited was introduced 25 years and one month ago

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Well, it originated as UGC Unlimited membership until 2004 when Cineworld bought the UK cinemas of the French cinema chain. Unlimited is also a precursor to the Virgin Megapass membership under UGC's predecessor Virgin Cinemas.

First ad for O2 after being rebranded from BT Cellnet

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On June 18, 2002, BT Cellnet was rebranded as O2 by parent company mmO2 plc.

First ad for T-Mobile UK after being rebranded from One2One

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On April 18, 2002, One2One was rebranded as T-Mobile UK by parent company Deutsche Telekom.