Six Degrees of Separation - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Six Degrees of Separation is a 1993 film drama featuring Will Smith, Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing.
• Six Degrees is a 2006 television series on ABC in the US. The show details the experiences of six New Yorkers who go about their lives without realizing they are affecting each other, and gradually meet one another.
• The television program Lost also explores the idea of six degrees of separation, as almost all the characters have randomly met each other before the crash or someone the other characters know.
• Lonely Planet Six Degrees is a TV travel show that uses the "six degrees of separation" concept: the hosts, Asha Gill and Toby Amies, explore various cities through its people, by following certain personalities of the city around and being introduced by them to other personalities.
• The Oscar-winning film, Babel, is based on the concept of Six Degrees of Separation. The lives of all of the characters were intimately intertwined, although they did not know each other and lived thousands of miles from each other.
• Six Degrees of Martina McBride was a television pilot where six aspiring country singers from America's smallest towns try to connect themselves to Martina McBride in under six points of human connection. Those that make it from "Nowhere to Nashville to New York," get a shot at a studio session with Martina McBride and a record deal with SONY BMG.
• The Woestijnvis production Man Bijt Hond, broadcast on Flemish TV, features a weekly section Dossier Costers, in which a worldwide event from the past week is linked to Gustaaf Costers, an ordinary Flemish citizen, in six steps.
• One of the achievements in the video game Brütal Legend is called "Six Degrees of Schafer", after the concept and Tim Schafer, who was presumably in the handful of players to have the achievement as of the game's release. A player can only obtain this achievement by playing online with someone who already has it, further paralleling it to the concept.
• Connected: The Power of Six Degrees is a 2008 television episode on the Science Channel in the US and abroad.
• The No Doubt song Full Circle has a central theme dealing with six degrees of separation.
• Six Degrees of Separation is an episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.
• 'Six Degrees of Separation' is the title of the 2nd track on The Script's 3rd album, #3.