Assignment task:
Finally, network executives review the feedback from preview audiences to determine which pilots should be made into television series.
The process of getting a television show into production is long and often difficult.
Next, network executives decide which scripts will be turned into pilots, or test episodes.
First, writers pitch ideas for television shows to network executives.
Then the executives select a few ideas to be turned into scripts to be read and evaluated.
Days later, the would-be saboteurs traveled across the United States, visiting old friends, shopping for new clothes, and dating former girlfriends.
On June 12, 1942, a Nazi U-boat dropped four secret agents on Long Island.
The next morning the German spies, who had previously lived in the United States, took a train to New York City to destroy important military installations.
A week after the landing, one of the saboteurs turned himself in to the FBI.
Within days, the FBI rounded up all the spies before they committed a single act of sabotage.
In 1957, The Cat in the Hat made famous both its hat-wearing tomcat with terrible manners and its author.
Before he died in 1991, Dr. Seuss inspired millions to love language with such creations as the Grinch, Nerds, Wockets, Bar-ba-loots, bunches of Hunches, and a fox in socks.
Green Eggs and Ham came out in 1960 and told a memorable story, using only fifty-five different words.
In his long career, Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, wrote forty-six wildly imaginative children's books, now read all over the world.
His first book was rejected by twenty-eight publishers, who found it "too strange for children."
In 1937, when it finally was published, readers loved the rhythmic march of tongue-twisting, invented words and the wacky characters.