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TV Show Feature: The Adventures of Sinbad

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The Adventures of Sinbad tv show The Adventures of Sinbad is a Canadian television series which aired from 1996 to 1998. Filmed in southern Ontario, Canada and in Cape Town, South Africa, the series is a re-telling of the adventures of Sinbad from The Arabian Nights.

The tv show is set in a land of myth and magic in the Middle East, around the Persian Gulf. Sailing from Baghdad in their Nomad ship, Sinbad and his crew search for wealth and adventure. Along the way they face witches, wizards, strange tribes, and fantastic creatures.

The tone of the series resembled its contemporaries Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. With great visual effects and fight scenes, the sword and sorcery adventures in this series will surely keep you at the edge of your seat.

Celebrity Feature: Alexis Bledel

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Alexis Bledel in Gilmore Girls tv showAlexis Bledel got her biggest breakthrough in the hit Emmy award-winning series Gilmore Girls. She portrayed Rory, a high school student living with her single mother. The tv show lasted for seven seasons, thus establishing Alexis as one of the hottest young stars of the generation.

In 2005, the Houston-born actress starred in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, in which she played Lena, a talented artist on a journey with her three best friends, linked over the summer by a pair of magical jeans. She also appeared in Sin City, playing a prostitute named Becky.

Alexis was also voted one of Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in 2002. For two years in a row, she won the Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress Comedy for Gilmore Girls (2005-2006). He next project is the sequel of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, scheduled for release this year.