This is a list of fictional media (films, magazines, television shows, etc) from various real media.

Advertising

Slogans

• "Big Brother is watching you" - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
• "Catch Here!" (parody of NBC's 1983-1984 promotional campaign "Be There") - promotional campaign for NewsChannel 7, Lizzie McGuire
• "Do what we say, and nobody gets hurt." - Texxon, Saturday Night Live
• "For Real" - presidential campaign, Tanner '88
• "Our Age Is Showing" - parody of an NBC's promotional campaign, Saturday Night Live
• "We're Channel 6, Just Catch Us Now!" - parody of NBC's 1982-1983 promotional slogan "Just Watch Us Now", The Simpsons

Internet

See List of fictional online services

Movies

See List of fictional films

Publications

Newspapers

• The Ankh-Morpork Inquirer - Discworld
• The Ankh-Morpork Times - Discworld
• The Borchester Echo - The Archers
• The Beast and The Daily Brute- Newspapers in Scoop (Novel by Evelyn Waugh)
• The Brentford Mercury - Robert Rankin novels
• Central City Picture News - The Flash comics, Iris West's employer
• The Daily Bugle - Marvel Comics, especially Spider-Man
• The Daily Comet- a British tabloid owned by Derek Leech in Kim Newman's fiction
• The Daily Fluxion - Cat Who... series by Lillian Jackson Braun
• The Daily Fourth Gradian - Springfield Elementary School newspaper, The Simpsons
• The Daily Glob - Monstropolis, Monsters, Inc., tabloid
• The Daily Globe - Rival paper to the Daily Bugle in the Marvel Universe
• The Daily Planet from Metropolis - Superman
• The Daily Prophet - Harry Potter series
• Daily Sentinel - Green Hornet
• Daily Supernova - Futurama
• DayFax - Spider Jerusalem's old employer in Transmetropolitan
• Gotham Gazette - Batman comics, Vicki Vale's employer
• Gotham Globe - Batman (movie), Vicki Vale's employer
• Hill Valley Telegraph - Back to the Future
• The Inquisitor - Zork Grand Inquisitor
• Lawndale Sun-Herald - Daria
• The Los Angeles Tribune - Lou Grant
• The New New York Post - Futurama
• New York Daily Inquirer - Citizen Kane
• The Pickax Picayune - Cat Who... series by Lillian Jackson Braun
• The Pseudopolis Herald - Discworld
• Quahog Informant - Family Guy
• The Red Dress Press - The Simpsons
• The Seattle Courier - The 4400
• St. Louis Daily Inquirer - Citizen Kane
• The Springfield Shopper - The Simpsons
• The Sto Plains Dealer - Discworld
• The Tally Ho - The Prisoner
• Tomorrow - owned by Elliot Carver, villain of Tomorrow Never Dies
• The Walford Gazette - EastEnders
• The Word - major journal of The City (Transmetropolitan comics)

Magazines

Pornographic

• American Breast Enthusiast - The Simpsons
• Bait - from the 1987 Dragnet movie
• Bender's Big Butt Fembots - indecent magazine, published by Bender Futurama
• Big 'Uns - a men's magazine from Married with Children (1980s and 90s)
• Butt Frenzy - Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Cheek Week - The Simpsons
• Gigantic Asses - The Simpsons
• Granny Fanny - The Simpsons
• National Pornographic - parody of National Geographic, Futurama
• Pentiumhouse - pornography for robots, parody of Penthouse magazine, Futurama
• Playbeing - a journal of sports, technology and gynecology (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
• Playbot - pornography for robots, Futurama
• Playdude magazine - The Simpsons- a take-off on Playboy
• Playpen - Married with Children- a take-off on Penthouse (also in Family Guy)
• Sapphire - adult magazine, Monk
• Spank - Beavis and Butthead - a parody of Swank adult magazine
• Stagman magazine - The Muller-Fokker Effect - a take-off on Playboy
• Taint magazine - Mr. Show with Bob and David
• Victoria's Circuit - pornography for robots, parody of Victoria's Secret catalog, so may just be a catalog, Futurama
• Zero-G Juggs - Futurama

Other

• Battle Call - Discworld, Omnian magazine, parodies War Cry
• Blue Pants Weekly - Simpsons
• Bows and Ammo - Discworld, a take-off on Guns and Ammo
• Business Shriek - Monsters, Inc., spoof of Business Week
• Chewing - a "high-gloss, literate and sophisticated" magazine for gum chewers, Calvin and Hobbes
• Composure - women's magazine similar to Cosmopolitan, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• Doggy Style - Fashion magazine for dogs, Family Guy
• Hush-Hush - gossipy tabloid magazine, L.A. Confidential
• Know Magazine - 1960s men's magazine, Down With Love
• Men's Fatness - Simpsons
• Metropolitan - news magazine Sarah Jane Smith works for in Doctor Who
• National Tatler - tabloid in Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon and its sequels
• National Whisper - tabloid in Superman comics
• The New Frontiersman - right-wing news and opinion, Watchmen
• Newstime - news magazine in Superman comics owned by Colin Thornton
• Non-Threatening Threatening Boys magazine - The Simpsons
• Now Magazine - news magazine affiliated with the Bugle in Marvel Comics
• Nova Express - news tabloid, Watchmen
• Oceanographic Explorer - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• SugarApe - Urban lifestyle magazine, Nathan Barley
• Total Pins - and other magazines for pin collectors, Discworld
• Teen Magazeen - the magazeens for teens, Dinosaur Comics
• Unadorned Facts - Discworld, Omnian magazine, parodies The Plain Truth
• Warrior of Fortune - Discworld, a take-off on Soldier of Fortune
• What Gallows? - Discworld

Radio Shows

• The Bill and Marty Show - The Simpsons
• Chris in the Morning - Northern Exposure
• Delicious Dish - NPR's show, Saturday Night Live
• Gabbin' About God - The Simpsons
• Moleman in the Morning - The Simpsons

(See also List of fictional radio stations)

Television Shows

See List of fictional television shows, List of fictional television stations, Troy McClure

Theatre

• The Courier's Tragedy - Richard Wharfinger's Jacobean revenge play (The Crying of Lot 49)
• Deathtrap - fictional play in the play and movie Deathtrap
• Don Juan Triumphant - The Phantom of the Opera
• The Enchanted Hunters - Clare Quilty's play in Lolita
• Greasier - parody of Grease, Lizzie McGuire
• Kickin' It! - celebrity drug rehab musical, The Simpsons
• The King in Yellow - play within the book The King in Yellow
• The King of Ankh - play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters
• Lease: The Musical - Team America: World Police (parody of Rent)
• Leela: Orphan of the Stars - opera, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" episode of Futurama
• Manhattan Melodies - The Muppets Take Manhattan
• The Murder of Gonzago or The Mousetrap - the play in Hamlet which the Prince uses to "catch the conscience of the King".
• A Night of Kings, aka The Lancre Play - the propaganda play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters which hews closer to Macbeth than the actual events, but inadvertently captures the conscience of the Duke.
• Nobody Said It'd Be Easy - Three-hour, one-man show by Mark Hentemann, Family Guy
• Nothing On - the play-within-a-play in Noises Off
• Nutrition and the Four Food Groups - an elementary school production in Calvin and Hobbes
• Prisoners of Love - the play in The Producers that the producers are creating at the end of the movie in prison.
• Pyramus and Thisbe - a "merry and tragical", "tedious and brief" work by Peter Quince, starring Bottom the Weaver - A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Red, White and Blaine - the musical revue in Waiting for Guffman
• Springtime for Hitler - the play in The Producers that the producers are hoping will flop in their fraud scheme.
• Stop the Planet of the Apes: I Want To Get Off! - stage musical version of Planet of the Apes, starring Troy McClure from The Simpsons
• A Wizard of Sorts, or Please Yourself - play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters
• The Wrinkled Old Family Retainer - Kilgore Trout's only drama (Timequake)

(see also Play within a play)

See also

• Archive of fictional things
• List of fictional brands
• List of fictional companies
• List of fictional electronic games

External links

• Invisible Library - fictional books mentioned in real books
• Rocklopedia Fakebandica - fictional musical acts from literature, screen, and other media