In the 1950s, outside of Italy, not a lot of people knew how spaghetti was made and so, a cameraman for the BBC took the opportunity to create one of the greatest pranks of all time.

The late 60s and 70s were dominated by game shows but in 1979 a game show was so controversial it lasted only a handful of episodes and collapsed a media empire.

Why are these melodramatic shows called Soap operas? Turns out the origin of the term ‘Soap opera’ has more to do with advertisements and singing cowboys than I ever expected.

In Portugal, 2006 hundreds of students came down with an inexplicable virus. Soon, medical officials found a link between their symptoms and a popular teen drama.