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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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The New Normal (TV series)
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The New Normal is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10,2012, to April 2,2013. The series was created and principally written by Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler, the storyline follows wealthy gay couple Bryan and David, who are living in Los Angeles. Deciding to have a child, they choose a surrogate mother, Goldie Clemmons, the series aired Tuesdays at 9,30 pm Eastern/8,30 pm Central after the new comedy series Go On, as part of the 2012–13 United States network television schedule. On October 2,2012, NBC commissioned a full season of The New Normal, the New Normal was officially canceled on May 11,2013. Bryan and David are a gay couple living in Los Angeles. The only thing missing in their relationship is a baby and they meet Goldie Clemmons, a single mother and waitress from Ohio. Goldie left her adulterous husband and moved to L. A. with her 9-year-old daughter Shania to escape their former life, Jane, Goldies conservative grandmother, follows them to the city against Goldies wishes, thus causing havoc for her granddaughter and the couple. Goldie decides to become Bryan and Davids gestational surrogate, and naturally, bebe Wood as Shania Clemmons, Goldie and Clays 9-year-old daughter. NeNe Leakes as Rocky Rhoades, Bryans production assistant and later a producer on Sing, jayson Blair as Clay Clemmons, Goldies estranged husband and Shanias father. Ellen Barkin as Jane Forrest, Goldies grandmother, a staunchly Republican real-estate agent prone to making outrageously racist and homophobic statements, she follows Goldie and Shania to California and is unwilling to return to Ohio without them. Casting announcements began in January 2012, with Andrew Rannells first cast in the role of Bryan Collins, ellen Barkin was next cast in the series as Jane Forrest, Goldies Republican grandmother. Justin Bartha and Georgia King both then joined the series, bebe Wood followed with her cast in the role of Shania Clemmons, Goldie and Clays daughter. NeNe Leakes was the last actor cast in the series as Rocky, on May 7,2012, the show was picked up to series. It premiered on September 11,2012, jayson Blair originally signed on to the series as Clay Clemmons, in a recurring role. However, after the pilot was ordered to series, Blair was then upped to series regular, the Halloween episode Para-New Normal Activity was originally scheduled to air on October 30,2012, but was pre-empted by NBCs coverage of Hurricane Sandy. The episode was aired in March 2013. On August 29,2012, NBC released the episode online as a preview. A similar marketing strategy was made with The New Normals time-slot companion Go On, the New Normal received mixed reviews from critics
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Freeform (TV channel)
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Freeform is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. Its programming includes contemporary off-network syndicated reruns and original series, feature films and made-for-TV original movies, in 1997, IFE and The Family Channel were acquired by a joint venture between News Corporation and Saban Entertainment, resulting in its re-branding as the Fox Family Channel. The new owners sought to re-position the network towards younger viewers as a companion for their popular Fox Kids programming block, on October 6,2015, Disney–ABC Television Group announced that the network would rebrand as Freeform, officially adopting that name on January 12,2016. The channel traces its origins to the launch of the CBN Satellite Service, by this point, its carriage grew to 10.9 million homes with a cable television subscription. On August 1,1988, the word Family was incorporated into the name to better reflect its programming format. By 1990, the network had grown too profitable to remain under the Christian Broadcasting Network umbrella without endangering the ministrys non-profit status, on January 8 of that year, CBN spun out the network into a new, for-profit corporation known as International Family Entertainment. Managed by Pat Robertsons eldest son Timothy, IFE was co-owned by the Robertsons, with a minority interest held by Liberty Media, following the spin-off, the channels name was officially shortened to The Family Channel on September 15,1990. The Family Channel started airing programs aired at preschool children, pre-teens, as a stipulation included as part of the spin-out from CBN to International Family Entertainment, The Family Channel was required to continue its daily airings of CBNs flagship program, The 700 Club. During this time, from 1994 to 1997, The Family Channel sponsored NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver Ted Musgrave in the #16 Ford Thunderbird for Roush Racing. In 1997, after International Family Entertainment put The Family Channel up for sale, News Corporation then entered into discussions to purchase a stake in the channel with IFE as a partner. After competing bids were submitted by Nickelodeon parent Viacom and The Walt Disney Company to acquire IFE as a whole, on June 11,1997, International Family Entertainment was acquired by the Fox/Saban consortium, Fox Kids Worldwide, for $1.9 billion. The Family Channel was officially renamed Fox Family Channel on August 15,1998, when Fox Family Worldwide bought the channel, the management team assigned to the network sought to re-program it towards a new dual audience – kids in daytime, families at night. Notable programs aired during this era included S Club 7 in Miami—a sitcom serving as a vehicle for the eponymous British pop group. The New York Times classified both series as being among a wave of television programming catered towards the demographic of children aged 9 through 14—also referred to as tweens. Airings of The 700 Club were scaled back to two per day, however, Fox Familys youth-oriented programming strategy alienated the networks core demographic of older viewers. The channel experienced a decline in viewership, falling in the Nielsen ratings from 10th to 17th place in cable network viewership. In 1999, Fox spun off two digital channels from Fox Family, the Boyz Channel and the Girlz Channel, which both contained programming content targeted at the respective genders. Both networks shut down one year of operation due to a lack of demand by cable providers
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Switched at Birth (TV series)
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Switched at Birth is an American teen/family drama television series that premiered on ABC Family on June 6,2011, at 9,00 ET/PT. According to ABC Family, it is the first mainstream television series to have multiple deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars, the shows debut was ABC Familys highest-rated series debut to date. The series won an honorary Peabody Award in 2013, and on July 30, on August 13,2014, ABC Family renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on January 6,2015. On October 21,2015, ABC Family confirmed the series had been renewed for its fifth season, on March 19,2016, it was announced that the fifth season was bumped from a March 2016 to a January 2017 premiere date. In October 2016, the announced that the final season would premiere on January 31,2017. Genetic testing confirms Bay is not the Kennishes biological daughter and she uses the phrase real parents, but is informed that biological is the preferred term. Daphne is deaf, having lost her hearing as a result of contracting meningitis at age three and this forces the girls, along with both families, to understand their differences and embrace their similarities. Both mothers learn to bond with their daughters, while often unintentionally angering their legal ones. John learns to relate to his daughter by coaching her deaf schools basketball team. Bay is driven by a need to find her biological father Angelo Sorrento and that causes a bond between her and Emmett that later becomes an intense romance. Sean Berdy as Emmett Bledsoe, Daphnes best friend who is also deaf, lucas Grabeel as Toby Kennish, Bay and Daphnes older brother. Katie Leclerc as Daphne Paloma Vasquez, the daughter of John. Hard of hearing rather than deaf, Leclerc learned ASL at age 17, vanessa Marano as Bay Madeline Kennish, the biological daughter of Regina Vasquez and Angelo Sorrento. She was raised in the neighborhood of Mission Hills by John. Bay is a talented artist who has a particular love for Frida Kahlo. Bay can be impulsive at times, and, at first. However, she gets better in accepting that Regina and the Kennishes are both her family. Constance Marie as Regina Vasquez, Bays biological mother and Daphnes legal mother, D. W. Moffett as John Kennish, Bays legal father and Daphnes biological father
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Young & Hungry
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Young & Hungry is an American sitcom created by David Holden, and executive produced by Ashley Tisdale. The multi-camera series stars Emily Osment, Jonathan Sadowski, Aimee Carrero, Kym Whitley and Rex Lee, on March 7,2016, Freeform renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on June 1,2016, and concluded on August 3,2016. On October 24,2016, Osment announced via Twitter that Young & Hungry had been renewed for a fifth season, set in San Francisco, wealthy entrepreneur Josh hires food blogger Gabi to be his new personal chef. The series follows the couple and their friends after the couples one-night stand dilemma, Emily Osment as Gabi Diamond, a young chef, lives in San Francisco with her best friend, Sofia. She loves cooking and she can figure out what people like to eat. Her mother died while she was still a teenager and she has been on her own ever since, after Caroline breaks up with Josh the same day, he feels distraught and he and Gabi have a one-night stand. They decide to keep it a secret, which causes her to have complicated feelings for Josh. Jonathan Sadowski as Josh Xander Kaminski, a wealthy young tech entrepreneur and he is extremely smart, charming, and sweet and always goes with his gut feeling. He and Gabi have a drunken one-night stand, which he decides to keep secret in order to propose to his vain and materialistic girlfriend, despite the fact that he and Gabi slept together, he wants to keep their relationship professional. Nevertheless, he takes a liking to Gabi, often giving her life advice. In the season 1 finale he figures out he is in love with Gabi but never tells her, Aimee Carrero as Sofia Rodriguez, an ambitious banking intern and Gabis best friend and roommate. She is a strong-minded and career-driven young woman and her job consists of fetching coffee for the clients at her firm. She fully supports Gabi, gives her advice, and often gives her pep talks about keeping her job and she also knows about Gabis hookup with Josh and unexpectedly becomes friends with Caroline when the two bond over singer Lorde in the episode, Young & Secret. Her full name is revealed to be Sofia Maria Consuela Rafaella Rodriguez, Kym Whitley as Yolanda, Joshs housekeeper. She is very loud-spoken and says what is on her mind and she is sassy with a bit of an attitude and was the first to find out about Gabi and Joshs hookup. Rex Lee as Elliot Park, Joshs publicist and right-hand-man and he fully depises Gabi as he very outspoken about the fact that hed much rather have a professional celebrity chef than Gabi. He constantly bickers with Yolanda, when it comes to her appearance or weight and he would do anything to make Josh happy and cares for him. However, he fantasizes about him
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The Walt Disney Company
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The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. It is the second largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue. Disney was founded on October 16,1923 – by brothers Walt Disney, the company also operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio and then Walt Disney Productions. Taking on its current name in 1986, it expanded its operations and also started divisions focused upon theater, radio, music, publishing. In addition, Disney has since created corporate divisions in order to more mature content than is typically associated with its flagship family-oriented brands. The company is best known for the products of its studio, Walt Disney Studios. Disneys other three divisions are Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Disney Media Networks, and Disney Consumer Products. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6,1991, Mickey Mouse, an early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, is a primary symbol and mascot for Disney. In early 1923, Kansas City, Missouri, animator Walt Disney created a film entitled Alices Wonderland. After the bankruptcy in 1923 of his previous firm, Laugh-O-Gram Studios, Disney moved to Hollywood to join his brother, Walt and Roy Disney formed Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio that same year. More animated films followed after Alice, in January 1926, with the completion of the Disney studio on Hyperion Street, the Disney Brothers Studios name was changed to the Walt Disney Studio. The distributor owned Oswald, so Disney only made a few hundred dollars, Disney completed 26 Oswald shorts before losing the contract in February 1928, due to a legal loophole, when Winklers husband Charles Mintz took over their distribution company. After failing to take over the Disney Studio, Mintz hired away four of Disneys primary animators to start his own animation studio, Snappy Comedies. In 1928, to recover from the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney came up with the idea of a character named Mortimer while on a train headed to California. The mouse was later renamed Mickey Mouse and starred in several Disney produced films, ub Iwerks refined Disneys initial design of Mickey Mouse. Disneys first sound film Steamboat Willie, a cartoon starring Mickey, was released on November 18,1928 through Pat Powers distribution company and it was the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon released, but the third to be created, behind Plane Crazy and The Gallopin Gaucho. Disney used Pat Powers Cinephone system, created by Powers using Lee De Forests Phonofilm system, Steamboat Willie premiered at B. S. Mosss Colony Theater in New York City, now The Broadway Theatre. Disneys Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho were then retrofitted with synchronized sound tracks, Disney continued to produce cartoons with Mickey Mouse and other characters, and began the Silly Symphonies series with Columbia Pictures signing on as Symphonies distributor in August 1929
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3, Viva la Fiesta. is a 2012 American direct-to-DVD comedy film directed by Lev L. Spiro. It is the third and final installment of the Beverly Hills Chihuahua series, the film focuses on Papi, Chloe and the puppies moving to a hotel. Pedro finds love when he falls head over heels for Charlotte, the film was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on September 18,2012 in a two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. Zachary Gordon and Chantily Spalan did not reprise their roles as Papi, Jr. and this was Kay Panabakers final film before she retired to become a zoologist
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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NCIS (TV series)
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The concept and characters were initially introduced in two episodes of the CBS series JAG. The show, a spin-off from JAG, premiered on September 23,2003, to date it has aired for thirteen full seasons and has gone into broadcast syndication on the USA Network and Cloo. Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill are co-creators and executive producers of the member of the NCIS franchise. NCIS was originally referred to as Navy NCIS during season one, in season six, a two-part episode led to a spin-off series, NCIS, Los Angeles. A two-part episode during the season led to a second spin-off series, NCIS. While initially slow in the ratings, barely cracking the Top 30 in the first four seasons, by its sixth season, it became a top five hit, in 2011, NCIS was voted Americas favorite television show in an online Harris Poll. The series finished its season as the most-watched television series in the U. S. during the 2012–13 TV season. On February 29,2016, NCIS was renewed for its fourteenth and fifteenth seasons, season fourteen premiered on September 20,2016, Duane Henry, Jennifer Esposito, and Wilmer Valderrama joined the cast as series regulars, replacing original cast member Michael Weatherly. NCIS follows a team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service Major Case Response Team special agents based at the Washington, D. C. field office in Washington Navy Yard, Washington. In real life, the office is based at the nearby Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling while the Navy Yard is home to the museum. It is described by the actors and producers as being distinguished by its elements, ensemble acting. The NCIS is the law enforcement and counterintelligence arm of the United States Department of the Navy. NCIS investigates all criminal offenses – for example, crimes punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice by confinement of more than one year – within the Department of the Navy. Led by laconic investigator Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the team has included former Secret Service agent Caitlin Todd, Anthony DiNozzo, by the time of the launch of the first episode, NCIS was airing under the name Navy NCIS, the name it held for the entire first season. Since the N in NCIS stands for Naval, the name Navy NCIS was redundant, the decision to use this name was reportedly made by CBS, over the objections of Bellisario, in order to, Attract new viewers, who might not know the NCIS abbreviation. Disambiguate between NCIS and the themed and similarly spelled CBS series CSI and its spinoffs. From the season two episode Lt. Jane Doe onwards, the series began showing two-second long black-and-white clips. These clips are shown at the beginning of every segment depicting the last two seconds of that segment, a segment being the 5–6 portions of the show meant to be separated by commercials
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Hulu
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Hulu is an American subscription video on demand service owned by Hulu LLC, a joint venture with The Walt Disney Company, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and as of August 10,2016, Time Warner. It is primarily oriented towards television series, carrying current and past episodes of series from its owners respective television networks, the subscription service is, in turn, divided into advertising-supported and mostly ad-free tiers. In 2016, Hulu spun out its content into a joint venture with Yahoo. called Yahoo. View and announced plans for a television streaming service some time in 2017. The name Hulu comes from two Mandarin Chinese words, húlú, calabash, bottle gourd, and hùlù, interactive recording, the company blog explains, In Mandarin, Hulu has two interesting meanings, each highly relevant to our mission. The primary meaning interested us because it is used in an ancient Chinese proverb that describes the Hulu as the holder of precious things and it literally translates to gourd, and in ancient times, the Hulu was hollowed out and used to hold precious things. The secondary meaning is interactive recording and we saw both definitions as appropriate bookends and highly relevant to the mission of Hulu. Key executives instrumental in the founding of Hulu include Bruce Campbell, Peter Chernin, JB Perrette, Michael Lang, Beth Comstock, the venture was announced in March 2006 with AOL, Comcast, Facebook, MSN, Myspace, and Yahoo. planned as initial distribution partners. Kilar was named the CEO in June 2006, the name Hulu was chosen in late August 2007, when the website went live, with an announcement only and no content. It invited users to leave their addresses for the upcoming beta test. In October, Hulu began the private beta testing by invitation, Hulu launched for public access in the United States on March 12,2008. The first product to launch was the HULU Syndication network, which was designed and developed by the NBC Universal team from New York, on October 29,2007, followed by the Hulu. com destinations site. Hulu began a campaign during NBCs broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII with an initial ad starring Alec Baldwin titled Alec in Huluwood. The ad intended to reveal the shocking secret behind Hulu. Advertisements have since aired featuring Eliza Dushku, Seth MacFarlane, Denis Leary, with its investment came a seat on the board of directors, where Providence was said to act as an independent voice on the board. In October 2012, Providence sold its 10 percent stake to Hulus media owners, ComScore says monthly video streams reached 903 million in January 2010, over three times the figure for a year earlier, and second only to YouTube. On August 16,2010, a report revealed that Hulu was planning an Initial Public Offering which could value the company at more than $2 billion. On June 21,2011, The Wall Street Journal reported that an unsolicited offer caused Hulu to begin weighing whether to sell itself
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Lifetime (TV network)
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The channel features programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles. As of July 2015, approximately 95,020,000 American households receive Lifetime, Daytime, originally called BETA, was launched in March 1982 by Hearst-ABC Video Services. The cable service operated four hours per day on weekdays, the service was focused on alternative womens programming. Cable Health Network was launched as a channel in June 1982 with a range of health-related programming. In November 1983, Cable Health Network adopted a new name, Lifetime Medical Television, Lifetime was established on February 1,1984 as the result of a merger of Hearst/ABCs Daytime and Viacoms Lifetime Medical Television. A board for the new network was formed with representation from Hearst, ABC and Viacom. It was not a success, reportedly losing $36 million in its first two years of operation, and did not become profitable until 1986. The channel suffered from low viewership, with a poll finding that some TV viewers erroneously believed it carried religious content. In 1985, Lifetime started branding itself as Talk Television with a lineup of talk shows and call-in programs hosted by people like Regis Philbin. In the process, the dropped the apple from their logo. In 1988, Lifetime hired Patricia Fili as its head of programming, in the first three years of her tenure, she changed 60 percent of Lifetimes programming, by her own estimate. A. The network also showed movies from the portfolios of its owners, Hearst, ABC, under Filis direction, Lifetime has gone a long way toward shedding its low-rent image. Lifetime began airing a limited amount of sports coverage, including the WNBA. Lifetime also adopted a new tagline, meanwhile, the channels original programming was aimed not just at women aged 24–44, but these womens spouses, who research showed watched the network in the evenings with their wives. This was done by making the characters in Lifetimes original programming – such as the film series Spencer for Hire – more appealing to men by making them more masculine. These roles were more stereotypical than previous Lifetime movies, which featured women protagonists on their own. This helped Lifetime take advantage of a bias in the Nielsen ranking system that favored upscale couples who shared a television set. By January 1995, Lifetime was the sixth most-highly rated cable network by Nielsen, according to Lifetime executives, the network stood to lose up to one million subscribers due to TCIs move
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Casper Van Dien
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Casper Robert Van Dien, Jr. is an American actor. Van Dien was born and grew up in Milton, Florida, the son of Diane, a school teacher. There is a military tradition in Van Diens family. Aside from his father, his grandfather was a Marine during World War II, Van Dien is descended from an old Dutch family long settled in the New York area, his other heritage includes Swedish, French, English, and Native American. The street on which Van Dien grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey, when Van Dien was older, his family moved to Florida, where he enrolled at the St. Petersburg campus of the Admiral Farragut Academy, graduating 3rd in command. While in the Florida prep school, Van Dien was often referred to as Ken doll due to his good looks, even some writers later described him as a perfect life-sized Ken doll. After high school, Van Dien attended Florida State University in Tallahassee, moving to Los Angeles, Van Dien landed a number of small parts in various television series and movies. Two early breaks were recurring roles as Ty Moody on the soap opera One Life to Live. Keen to expand his acting talents, Van Dien took a bit part in the video game, Van Dien starred in the 1997 James Dean biopic James Dean, Race with Destiny. Soon after, he got the role of Johnny Rico in Paul Verhoevens 1997 science fiction action film Starship Troopers. This directly led to his being cast as Tarzan in Tarzan, Van Dien next played Brom von Brunt in Tim Burtons 1999 film Sleepy Hollow, a reworking of the classic Washington Irving tale. In 2000 Van Dien appeared in Cutaway as well as Aaron Spellings short-lived NBC prime time soap Titans with Yasmine Bleeth, John Barrowman, Perry King and Victoria Principal. He filmed several scenes as Patrick Bateman in 2002s The Rules of Attraction, however, the scenes wound up on the cutting room floor. In 2008 Van Dien returned to the role of Rico in Starship Troopers 3, Marauder, Van Dien replaced Matt Mullins as Johnny Cage for the second season of the YouTube webseries Mortal Kombat, Legacy. Van Dien was married to Carrie Mitchum from 1993 to 1997 and they have two children, Casper Cappy Robert Van Dien III and Caroline Dorothy Grace Gracie Van Dien, of whom Van Dien holds full custody. Van Dien had co-starred with Robert Mitchum in James Dean, Race with Destiny. Van Dien met actress Catherine Oxenberg, who is 7 years his senior, during the filming of the 1999 TV movie The Collectors, on May 8,1999 they married in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the 2006-2007 TV season, Van Dien and Oxenberg co-starred in the American drama series Watch Over Me on MyNetworkTV, Van Dien and Oxenberg have two daughters, Maya and Celeste Alma Oxenberg and Van Dien are celebrity ambassadors for the non-profit organization Childhelp
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Kevin Sorbo
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Kevin David Sorbo is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in two television series, as Hercules in Hercules, The Legendary Journeys, and as Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda. Kevin Sorbo was born in Mound, Minnesota, where he attended Mound Westonka High School and he is the son of Ardis, a nurse, and Lynn Sorbo, a junior high school mathematics and biology teacher. His father is of Norwegian descent, while his mother has English, German and he was raised in a Lutheran family. Sorbo attended Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he majored in marketing and advertising. To help make tuition, he began to work as a model for print, Sorbo started his acting career in 1986 making guest appearances in several television series such as 1st & Ten, Murder She Wrote and The Commish. He worked in commercials, and in 1993 he began a series of international TV ads for Jim Beam bourbon whiskey. In 1994, he got his breakthrough leading role of Hercules in a series of television pilots first of which was titled Hercules and the Amazon Women. These pilots led to him starring in the adventure series Hercules, The Legendary Journeys. He also directed a few episodes of the series, in between the years playing Hercules, he played his first leading film role in Kull the Conqueror. After Hercules came to an end, Sorbo played the role of Captain Dylan Hunt in the science-fiction drama series Andromeda from 2000 to 2005. In 2006, he played a role on the final season of The O. C. and guest-starred in the sitcom Two. In 2007, he starred in the direct-to-video film Walking Tall, The Payback and he reprised his role in the second sequel, Walking Tall, Lone Justice which released later that year. He appeared in the 2008 spoof film Meet the Spartans, which was a box success despite being universally negatively reviewed by critics. He starred in the Albert Pyun directed science fiction vampire film Tales of an Ancient Empire and he served as Executive Producer and star of the movie Abels Field in 2012. In 2012, Sorbo appeared in an episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories to recount an experience he had while in Minnesota shortly after he graduated from college. He and his girlfriend claimed to have seen the ghost of the Bride of White Rock Lake – a woman who died on her wedding day. Sorbo voiced one of the protagonists, Prometheus, in the Wii video game The Conduit
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Nerdist Industries
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Nerdist Industries, LLC is part of the digital division of Legendary Entertainment. The newly formed company began to produce additional podcasts under the Nerdist Industries banner as well as producing content, in July 2012, Nerdist Industries was acquired by Legendary Entertainment. It was announced that Nerdist Industries would operate independently with Hardwick, Peter Levin left Nerdist Industries in 2013 and now heads Lionsgates Interactive Ventures and Games. Hardwick then took over, and continues to serve, as executive officer. Nerdist News is the Nerdist branded pop culture newsletter, founded, the cross-platform publisher currently has two newsletter publications, Nerdist News and TOKYOPOP. GeekChicDaily became Nerdist News after it merged with Nerdist to form Nerdist Industries in February 2012, the audio podcasts are typically an hour in length and include conversations with notable comedians or entertainers, sometimes at their own home. During 2011, Nerdist began releasing various other podcasts, as of January 2016 the full range includes, Bizarre States, hosted by Jessica Chobot and Andrew Bowser Cashing In with T. J. Miller, hosted by Cash Levy with only guest T. J. The showroom opened in April 2011 and features the Nerdist logo near the entrance, plush chairs, dark walls, performances include live stand-up comedy, storytelling shows, sketch comedy, movie screenings, writers panels and podcast recordings. It is also the home of the Comedy Central television series The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail, jim Gaffigan, Dan Harmon, Kumail Nanjiani, Jonah Ray, and Robin Williams. Tran – animated shorts featuring Dr
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Extant (TV series)
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Extant is an American science fiction television drama series created by Mickey Fisher and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The story revolves around astronaut Molly Woods who returns home to her family inexplicably pregnant after 13 months in space on a solo mission. On August 7,2013, CBS announced that it had placed a 13-episode straight-to-series order, Steven Spielberg served as one of the executive producers. Production began in Los Angeles on February 10,2014, the series was broadcast in the United States on the CBS television network, and was a production of Amblin Television. Extant premiered on July 9,2014, on October 9,2014, CBS renewed Extant for a second season, which premiered on July 1,2015 and concluded on September 9,2015. On October 9,2015, CBS cancelled Extant after two seasons, Molly Woods, an astronaut with ISEA is assigned a 13-month solo mission aboard space station Seraphim. She returns home to her husband John, an engineer who created their son Ethan. When Molly discovers that she has become pregnant despite years of infertility. Halle Berry as Molly Woods, an ISEA astronaut and scientist who becomes pregnant after seeing her dead former lover while on the Seraphim space station. Goran Visnjic as Dr. John Woods, Mollys husband, a robotics engineer heading the Humanichs Project, pierce Gagnon as Ethan Woods, Molly and Johns son, a humanoid robot and the prototype for the Humanichs Project. Grace Gummer as Julie Jules Gelineau, John Woods assistant on the Humanichs Project, jeffrey Dean Morgan as James Daniel JD Richter, a cop working special patrol who teams up with Molly. Hiroyuki Sanada as Hideki Yasumoto, owner of the Yasumoto Corporation, michael ONeill as Alan Sparks, Director of ISEA. Camryn Manheim as Dr. Sam Barton, a physician employed by ISEA, tyler Hilton as Charles Charlie Arthurs, the Chief Coder on the Humanichs Project alongside Julie. Lynnanne Zager as the voice of G. I. N. A, the Woods family personal home A. I. system and helper. Shannon Merrill Brown as the child Offspring, annie Wersching as Femi Dodd, a member of the Yasumoto Corporation Board of Directors. Shes highly skeptical of the Humanichs Project and is revealed to be part of Odins underground group that seeks to eradicate advanced technology from Earth. Brad Beyer as Harmon Kryger, an ISEA astronaut who saw his mother on the Seraphim, he faked his own suicide. Maury Sterling as Gordon Kern, the new Deputy Director of ISEA, sergio Harford as Marcus Dawkins, an astronaut and Mollys deceased lover, who died in the car accident in which he and Molly were involved years ago
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Baby Daddy
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Baby Daddy is an American sitcom created by Dan Berendsen that premiered on June 20,2012. The series follows Ben, a man in his twenties, who gets the surprise of his life when a one-night stand leaves his baby at his doorstep. Ben decides to raise his little girl with the help of his brother, Danny, Ben Wheeler, a twenty-something old bachelor, is suddenly a father when his baby daughter Emma is left at his doorstep. With the help of his overbearing mother Bonnie, his older brother Danny, Benjamin Bon Jovi Ben Wheeler, The lead character of the series. He is a man living the life of a bachelor as a bartender in New York City with his buddy Tucker. His life is turned upside down when he comes home one day to find a baby left on his doorstep by an ex-girlfriend. The baby turns out to be his daughter Emma and he was a bartender at the Bar on B but now Danny and Ben own the bar together. He used to have feelings for Riley after they danced at a wedding, the two dated two times but their relationship always failed because Ben didnt live up to Rileys expectations. Eventually it is revealed how strong Dannys feelings are for Riley, Ben initially denies this until Bonnie intervenes and points out that Danny has loved Riley nearly his whole life and tries to get the two together. Tucker Thurgood Marshall Dobbs, Bens best friend and roommate, Tucker is friendly towards everybody as long as they dont eat all of his food. Ben encouraged Tucker to drop out of law school to pursue a career that he enjoys since he was trying to be a lawyer because of his strict father. When his father, Marshall Dobbs, visits, Tucker finally reveals to his dad that he no longer wants to be a lawyer and is working in television because its something he enjoys doing and his father at first is furious, but finally accepts. Daniel Mellencamp Danny Wheeler, Bens older brother, who is a hockey player. He was traded to the New York Rangers and his little brother looks up to him, because he has everything a man would want. He has been in love with Riley ever since he was six, Danny and Riley eventually end up together and it is revealed in season five that Riley is pregnant after Danny and Riley become very serious. In Season 4, Danny purchased the bar Ben works at, Bonnie N. Walker, Ben and Dannys mother. She is a happy, outgoing, loud, and dramatic person who has a heart and loves her kids. She loves to drink, her favorite wine is chardonnay, and she has blonde hair, Bonnie has had an on and off relationship with Brad Walker since season 3
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The CW
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Entertainment division of Time Warner, former majority owner of The WB Television Network. The CW name is a derived from the first letters of the names of its two parent corporations. The network made its debut on September 18,2006, after its two predecessors, UPN and The WB, respectively ceased independent operations on September 15 and 17 of that year. The CWs first two nights of programming – on September 18 and 19,2006 – consisted of reruns, the CW marked its formal launch date on September 20,2006, with the two-hour premiere of the seventh cycle of Americas Next Top Model. As of 2008, the programming lineup was intended to appeal mainly to women between the ages of 18 and 34, although starting in 2011 the network increased in programming that appeal to men. The CW is also available in Mexico through affiliates located near the Mexico–U. S, in both countries, some CW affiliates are receivable over-the-air in border areas depending on the stations signal coverage. UPN and The WB both began just as the Fox network had started to secure a foothold with American television audiences, the two networks launched to limited fanfare and generally mediocre to poor results. However, over the subsequent 11 1⁄2 seasons, both were able to air several series that became quite popular, in the eleven years that UPN and The WB were in operation, the two networks lost a combined $2 billion. CBS chairman Leslie Moonves explained that the name of the new network was formed from the first letters of CBS and Warner Bros, joking, like both UPN and The WB, The CW targets its programming towards younger audiences. CBS and Time Warner hoped that combining their networks schedules and affiliate lineups would strengthen The CW into a major broadcast network. The CW launched with a premiere special/launch party from the CBS-produced Entertainment Tonight at Warner Bros, when Top Model made its network premiere on September 20,2006, The CW scored a 3.4 rating/5 share in the Nielsen household ratings. It scored a 2.6 rating among Adults 18–49, finishing fourth in that age demographic, on May 9,2008, The CW announced that it would lease its Sunday lineup to production company Media Rights Capital. With no first-run programming available to run on Sundays as a backup, the network added reruns of The Drew Carey Show and Jericho, the CW has generally struggled in the Nielsen ratings since its inception, primarily placing fifth in all statistics tabulated by Nielsen. On several occasions, The CW has even been outrated by Spanish language network Univision and this had led to speculation within the industry that CBS, Time Warner or both companies could abandon the venture if ratings did not improve. Executives with CBS Corporation and Time Warner also emphasized their commitment to the network and this, in turn, resulted in the discontinuance of the Sunday late afternoon repeat block that The CW inherited from The WB through its use of the predecessor networks scheduling model. Maatta began reporting to Pedowitz as a result of the appointment as network president. Pedowitz revealed that the target demographic of the network would not change. The network also ordered more episodes of its series and ran them consecutively through the first week of December, starting on September 12
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Kobalt Music Group
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Kobalt, also known as Kobalt Music Group, is an independent rights management and publishing company. Founded in 2000 by CEO Willard Ahdritz, Kobalt acts primarily as a publishing company. Kobalt owned 17. 3% of the worldwide market share among worldwide music publishers as of 2015. With headquarters in New York, Kobalt also has offices in cities such as London, Los Angeles, Nashville, Atlanta, Berlin, Stockholm, Miami, Hong Kong, and Sydney. Kobalt Music Group was founded in 2000 in New York City, with founder Willard Ahdritz, together with Klas Lunding Ahdritz had previously launched Telegram Publishing in Stockholm in 1988. Kobalts initial business model focused on collecting and distributing royalties for artists, in 2005 the company debuted its Kobalt Label Services Portal, an online portal for artists to track and manage their own portfolios. Kobalt Music Group won Independent Music Publisher of the Year at the 2009 Music Week Awards, Kobalt added a neighboring rights division in 2011. In December 2011, Kobalt bought Artists Without a Label, a digital distribution and label services company. Kobalt as a result gained access to AWALs network of retail partners, which among other companies included iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, eMusic, Rhapsody, 7Digital, Beatport, Deezer. The acquisition also allowed Kobalt to begin supplying advanced data analytics to clients, after the AWAL acquisition, Kobalt formed the label services division Kobalt Label Services in 2012. In July 2012, Kobalt Music Group signed a deal with MPL Communications to exclusively provide services to MPL in the world outside North America. The catalog included 1,200 songwriters such as Hugh Masekela and Paul McCartney, with songs such as Baby Its Cold Outside. Prince signed a deal in May 2013 to market and distribute his work with Kobalt, in 2014 Kobalt purchased the American Mechanical Rights Agency, a collection agency. This brought the total of equity raised by Kobalt to $126 million, wired reported in May 2015 that Kobalt was the top independent music publisher in the UK and the second overall in the US, with around 8,000 artists and 600,000 songs in their catalogue. At the time, Kobalt continued to collect royalty money directly from such as Spotify, iTunes, YouTube. With headquarters in London, Kobalt currently has offices in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, Atlanta, Berlin, Stockholm, Miami, Hong Kong, Kobalt has developed a number of technologies to increase its own efficiency at tracking and collecting royalties. In 2005 the company debuted its Kobalt Portal, a portal for artists to track. In 2014, Kobalt introduced ProKlaim, a YouTube integration that by 2014 had significantly increased artist revenue on the platform, ProKlaim serves as an advanced detection platform by integrating with YouTubes own music detection technology
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CBS Interactive
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CBS Interactive Inc. is an American media company and is a division of the CBS Corporation. It is a content network for information and entertainment. Its websites cover news, sports, entertainment, technology and business and it is headed by Jim Lanzone. On May 30,2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last. fm for £140 million, on June 30,2008, CNET Networks was acquired by CBS and the assets were merged into CBS Interactive, including Metacritic, GameSpot, TV. com, and Movietome. In April 2014, CBS Interactive quietly acquired a site Modern Auto Reviews to roll its extensive user database and it was never disclosed how much CBS Interactive paid for the acquisition but it likely to be in the 10-15 million dollar range. CBS Interactives entertainment brands are CBS, CBS Interactives music brands are Last. fm, the music discovery service and listening service, and MetroLyrics, lyrics, videos and news for music. CBS Interactives sports brands are CBSSports. com, the home of CBS Sports, with news, scores, video. BNET, founded in 2007, was a magazine dedicated to issues of business management. It merged into CBS MoneyWatch in June 2008 to become the anchor to CBS business-related content
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E! News
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E. News, previously known as E. News Daily and E. News Live, is the flagship entertainment newscast of the E. network in the United States. Without italics, it is the name of the networks entertainment-news division, the program first aired on September 1,1991 and was originally hosted by Dagny Hultgreen. It features stories and gossip about celebrities as well as the film, music, since its launch, it has broadcast under a variety of formats, at one point even airing live during the mid-2000s. Starting in 2006, it was hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic, in April 2012, Seacrest was replaced by Jason Kennedy. Rancic temporarily left the show on maternity leave in August 2012 due to the birth of her first son, but Rancic reassured her fans by releasing a statement saying she had just signed a three-year deal with E. News and Fashion Police. During her leave, her duties were taken over by Catt Sadler. From 2006 until late 2010, The Daily 10, hosted by Sal Masekela, Catt Sadler, on September 21,2010, E. announced the cancellation of The Daily 10. At this time, it was announced that E. News would be expanded to a one-hour format, the series also debuted a new news set and began broadcasting in 16,9 high definition, downconverted to 4,3 letterbox on the channels primary SD feed. E. News is currently hosted by Jason Kennedy and Maria Menounos, Catt Sadler, Ken Baker, Kristin Dos Santos, Melanie Bromley, Carissa Culiner, Sibley Scoles, Zuri Hall, Will Marfuggi, Erin Lim, and Marc Malkin are correspondents. In July 2015, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Maria Menounos would replace Giuliana Rancic as the co-anchor of E. News in August 2015. An hour-long weekend edition is produced, consisting of mostly rebroadcasts of stories aired during the weekday editions. ET, with encores Saturdays at 3 p. m. ET, in the UK the show airs weekdays at 8 a. m.9 a. m.4 p. m. and 7 p. m. In Europe, excluding the UK, E. News is often edited into a 30-minute version, the show also keeps changing airing times from week to week. During August 2009, it was only airing once a day at 2,25 a. m, the German version is produced by Alexander von Roon and broadcast on the Sky network. In the Philippines, the show airs on ETC after the US Telecast Tuesday to Saturday 10, 00-11,00 p. m. with replays at 1, 00-2,00 p. m. and the show only Telecasts the Weekend Edition on Velvet. In India, the show airs on Zee Cafe at 6,00 p. m from Monday to Friday, in Latin America the show was presented by Daniela Kosán and Renato López. Although E. News Latin America had different anchors, the clips were the same. Both are currently hosted by Renato López, introduced in 2010, E. News Asia was a weekly round-up of entertainment stories from Hollywood and Asia, formerly anchored by Dominic Lau and Marion Caunter
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MSN
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MSN is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24,1995, the same release date as Windows 95. Along with Windows 95s release, Microsoft debuted The Microsoft Network, at the same time, the company launched a new web portal named Microsoft Internet Start and set it as the first default home page of Internet Explorer, its original web browser. In 1998, Microsoft renamed and moved this web portal to the domain name MSN. com, the current website and suite of apps offered by MSN was first introduced by Microsoft in 2014 as part of a complete redesign and relaunch. MSN is based in the United States and offers international versions of its portal for dozens of countries around the world, from 1995 to 1998, the MSN. com domain was used by Microsoft primarily to promote MSN as an online service and Internet service provider. At the time, MSN. com also offered a start page and an Internet tutorial. Microsofts original news website, msnbc. com, which launched in 1996, was tied closely to the Internet Start portal. The new website put MSN in direct competition with such as Yahoo. Because the new format opened up MSNs content to the world for free, MSN. com became the successor to the default Internet Explorer start page, as all of the previous Microsoft Internet Start website was merged with MSN. com. Some of the websites that Microsoft launched during that era remain active in some form today. Other websites since divested by Microsoft include the travel website Expedia, the online magazine Slate, in the late 1990s, Microsoft collaborated with many other service providers, as well as other Microsoft departments, to expand the range of MSNs services. Some examples include MSN adCenter, MSN Shopping, and the Encarta encyclopedia with various levels of access to information, since then, MSN. com has remained a popular destination, launching many new services and content sites. MSNs Hotmail and Messenger services were promoted from the MSN. com portal, MSN Search, a dedicated search engine, launched in 1999. The single sign-in service for Microsofts online services, Microsoft Passport, the MSN. com portal and related group of services under the MSN umbrella remained largely the same in the early 2000s. The sports section of the MSN portal was ESPN. com from 2001 to 2004, and FoxSports. com from 2004 to 2014. MSN had a partnership with msnbc. com for news content from 1996 until 2012, when Microsoft sold its remaining stake in msnbc. com to NBCUniversal. Since then, MSN has launched MSN News, a news operation. MSN released a preview of a home page and logo on November 3,2009. It was originally expected to be available to over 100 million U. S. customers by early 2010
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Jorge Garcia
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Jorge Garcia is an American actor and comedian. Garcia performs as a stand-up comedian and he starred in the FOX television series Alcatraz and played a minor character on ABCs Once Upon a Time. He stars as Jerry Ortega on Hawaii Five-0 and can be seen in the Netflix original movie Ridiculous 6, Garcia was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Dora Mesa, is a Cuban-born professor, and his father and he grew up in San Juan Capistrano in Orange County, California and went to San Clemente High School. He wrestled in high school, where he was given the nickname Baby-Faced Killer, as a senior, he was selected by the faculty as Triton of the Year, the highest award given to a graduating senior. Garcia graduated from the University of California Los Angeles in 1995 as a Communication Studies major and he also studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school. Garcia spent six years working at Borders Books and Music while auditioning and he was in a few commercials during that time. He later said that his first taste of street recognition came from starring in a Jack in the Box commercial which was aired frequently on local television, García appeared in the second episode of the eighth season of Celebrity Poker Showdown, where he lost to Michael Ian Black. He was a contestant on an episode of Russian Roulette on Game Show Network and he missed a question about the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and fell through the trap door. Garcia is scheduled to star in the movie When We Were Pirates and he is also seen singing in the studio for the upcoming project on an officially released YouTube clip. During Losts run, Garcia wrote a blog about the show called Dispatches from the Island and he also hosted a weekly podcast, Geronimo Jacks Beard, in which he discussed the script of Season 6 along with his then girlfriend Bethany Leigh Shady. Garcia is also featured on the front cover of Weezers album Hurley, the album is named after his character from Lost. He performed as a guest vocalist at several Weezer concerts in 2010, on 21 November 2010, Entertainment Weekly announced that Garcia was cast in the upcoming U. S. television series Alcatraz. On 23 November 2010, Garcia made a guest appearance on How I Met Your Mothers episode Blitzgiving, in the episode, references are made to Garcias time on Lost. In 2011, Garcia appeared as a character in Mr. Sunshine. Starting in January 2012, Garcia portrayed Dr. Diego Soto, the show was a mid-season replacement for Foxs Terra Nova. Despite an impressive start, the series was cancelled by Fox on May 9,2012. Garcia appeared on The Nerdist podcast posted June 18,2012, in 2013, Garcia played Steve Wozniak in the parody film, iSteve, produced for the Funny or Die website
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Marymount High School
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Marymount High School is an independent, Catholic, all-girls, college-preparatory high school located in the Holmby Hills/Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It sits across from the University of California, Los Angeles campus at 10643 Sunset Boulevard, the schools main administration building, chapel and auditorium are listed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Marymount was established in 1923 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, mother Joseph Butler of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary founded the school in 1923. Marymount students and teams are known as the Sailors, Marymount High School is one of twenty members of the RSHM International Network of Schools worldwide. Marymount is one of the first all-girl schools in the United States to deploy a 1,1 laptop initiative with Apple MacBook Pro computers and has been an Apple Distinguished School since 2010, Marymount is a member of the Online School for Girls. They seek to practice service learning in the way they treat one another in their community as well as in the way they interact with their community at large. The Campus Ministry Team regularly organizes and advertises community service opportunities that are open to all students, in addition, each grade undertakes a significant service-learning project. Grade 9, Works to help support families involved with A Place Called Home, grade 10, Works with staff at A Place Called Home to plan and implement their spring health and garden fair. Grade 12, Continues their work projects that focus on human rights. Tuition for the 2014-2015 academic school year is approximately $31,000 USD, approximately 26% of all Marymount students receive need-based aid
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University of California, Los Angeles
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919 and it offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students, and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the university is organized into six undergraduate colleges, seven professional schools, and four professional health science schools. Fourteen Nobel laureates, three Fields Medalists, two Chief Scientists of the U. S. Air Force and three Turing Award winners have been faculty, researchers, or alumni, the university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015–2016 ranked UCLA 16th in the world for academics, in 2015-2016, UCLA ranked 12th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 31st in the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings. UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference, the Bruins won 126 national championships, including 113 NCAA team championships, more than any other university. UCLA student-athletes, coaches and staff won 251 Olympic medals,126 gold,65 silver and 60 bronze, UCLA student-athletes competed in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception, and won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States participated in since 1932. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29,1882, the facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their technique with children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab School, in 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School. In 1914, the moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue in East Hollywood. However, David Prescott Barrows, the new President of the University of California, the same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science. After the athletic teams entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname Bruins, in 1927, the Regents renamed the Southern Branch the University of California at Los Angeles. In the same year, the state broke ground in Westwood on land sold for $1 million, less than one-third its value, by real estate developers Edwin and Harold Janss, the campus in Westwood opened to students in 1929. The original four buildings were the College Library, Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building, the first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. A timeline of the history can be found on its website, during its first 32 years, UCLA was treated as an off-site department of UC. As such, its presiding officer was called a provost, in 1951, UCLA was formally elevated to co-equal status with UC Berkeley, and its presiding officer Raymond B. Allen was the first chief executive to be granted the title of chancellor. The appointment of Franklin David Murphy to the position of Chancellor in 1960 helped spark an era of growth of facilities. By the end of the decade, UCLA had achieved distinction in a range of subjects
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UNICEF
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The United Nations Childrens Fund is a United Nations programme headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group, the Polish physician Ludwik Rajchman is widely regarded as the founder of UNICEF and served as its first chairman from 1946. On Rajchmans suggestion, the American Maurice Pate was appointed its first executive director, in 1950, UNICEFs mandate was extended to address the long-term needs of children and women in developing countries everywhere. UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors, UNICEFs total income for 2008 was US$3,372,540,239, governments contribute two-thirds of the organizations resources. Private groups and some six million individuals contribute the rest through national committees and it is estimated that 92 per cent of UNICEF revenue is distributed to programme services. UNICEFs programmes emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children, UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in 2006. Most of UNICEFs work is in the field, with staff in over 190 countries and territories, more than 200 country offices carry out UNICEFs mission through programmes developed with host governments. Seven regional offices provide technical assistance to country offices as needed, a 36-member executive board establishes policies, approves programmes and oversees administrative and financial plans. The executive board is made up of government representatives who are elected by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, there are national committees in 34 countries, each established as an independent local non-governmental organization. The national committees raise funds from the private sector, UNICEF is funded entirely by voluntary contributions, and the National Committees collectively raise around one-third of UNICEFs annual income. This comes through contributions from corporations, civil society organizations around six million individual donors worldwide, UNICEF is present in 191 countries and territories around the world, but not involved in nine others. Many people in developed countries first hear about UNICEFs work through the activities of one of the 36 National Committees for UNICEF, the US Fund for UNICEF is the oldest of the national committees, founded in 1947. On 19 April 2007, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg was appointed UNICEF Eminent Advocate for Children, in which role she has visited Brazil, China, and Burundi. In 2009, the British retailer Tesco used Change for Good as advertising and they went on to call on the public who have children’s welfare at heart, to consider carefully who they support when making consumer choices. As part of the agreement, FC Barcelona will wear the UNICEF logo on the front of their uniform and this was the first time a football club sponsored an organization rather than the other way around. It was also the first time in FC Barcelonas history that they have had another organizations name across the front of their uniform, in January 2007 UNICEF struck a partnership with Canadas national tent pegging team. The team was officially re-flagged as UNICEF Team Canada, its riders wear UNICEFs logo in competition, the Swedish club Hammarby IF followed the Spanish and Canadian lead on 14 April 2007, also raising funds for UNICEF and displaying the UNICEF name on their sportswear. The Danish football club Brøndby IF participated in an arrangement from 2008 to 2013
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Arthritis Foundation
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The Arthritis Foundation is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to addressing the needs of people living with arthritis in the United States. There are more than 50 million adults and 300,000 children living with arthritis, the Foundation works to provide information and resources, access to care, advancements in science and community connections. The Arthritis Foundation also publishes the magazine Arthritis Today, through local offices nationwide, the Foundation sponsors a variety of year-round events to raise funds and create awareness, from local walks and runs to dinners, galas and other affairs. The Arthritis Foundation holds the annual Advocacy Summit, in which arthritis advocates converge in Washington, participants tell their stories and put a human face on arthritis pain. They continue to urge elected officials to join the Congressional Arthritis Caucus, chaired by Reps. David McKinley, the caucus serves as a bipartisan forum to aid senators and representatives in working together to address arthritis. Nationwide activities include Walk to Cure Arthritis and Jingle Bell Run/Walk, organized in 1948 as the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, the organizations name was changed in 1964 to the Arthritis Foundation. The following year, the American Rheumatism Association merged with the Foundation, in 1965, an additional professional society, Allied Health Professions, was established within the Foundation, its name was changed to the Arthritis Health Professions Association in 1980. The American Juvenile Arthritis Organization was established in 1981 as a group within the Foundation, in 1991. In 1986, the ARA became a separate, independent organization, in 1994, the AHPA became a division of the ACR and changed its name to the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals. The Arthritis Foundation is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, and has more than 100 local offices nationwide
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Major Crimes
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Major Crimes is an American television police procedural series starring Mary McDonnell. It is a successor spin-off of The Closer and premiered on TNT August 13,2012, on December 15,2015, TNT renewed the series for a 13-episode fifth season, airing on Mondays at 10,00 p. m. On June 22,2016, TNT ordered eight episodes for season five. Major Crimes was renewed for a 13-episode sixth season on January 18,2017, following the departure of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson from the Los Angeles Police Department, Captain Sharon Raydor is selected as the new head of its Major Crimes Division. Throughout Season 1, she faces the challenge of earning the trust and loyalty of her officers, ambitious young detective Amy Sykes also joins the Major Crimes Division. Raydor decides to house Rusty Beck, the key witness for the Stroh case, in her own home, in Season 2, Deputy District Attorney Emma Rios is introduced as part of the prosecution team on the Stroh case. The series also stars previous cast members from The Closer such as G. W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Phillip P. Keene, Robert Gossett, Jonathan Del Arco and Jon Tenney. On December 10,2010, TNT announced that the seventh season of The Closer. The channel said the decision to retire the show was made by Kyra Sedgwick, on January 30,2011, the media announced the final season would add six episodes to the usual 15-episode order, the final six being the build toward a possible spin-off series. On May 18,2011, TNT announced the spin-off, entitled Major Crimes, Season 2 premiered on June 10,2013. The series was renewed for a season of 15 episodes on August 15,2013. On July 18,2014, TNT renewed Major Crimes for a 15-episode fourth season, later expanded to 23 episodes, as of March 22,2017,89 episodes of Major Crimes have aired. Major Crimes received a score of 65/100 and generally favorable based on 17 critics at Metacritic. Newsdays Verne Gay gave the series a B+ grade, calling it sharply written, acted and directed, adding producers now have to turn an antagonist into a full-time protagonist. Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times called the series a nice balance between the tragic and comic, citing Mary McDonnells performance as modulated and cool, but with a blue-flame intensity. The first episode, helped by the episode of The Closer airing beforehand, had 9.5 million viewers. Its first season ratings were the highest for any new show on cable, Major Crimes airs on TNT in the United States. In Canada, it began airing on Super Channel on August 22,2012, in Australia it airs on 9Gem
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Grimm (TV series)
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Grimm is an American occult detective police procedural drama series. It debuted in the U. S. on NBC on October 28,2011, on March 31,2017, NBC aired the series finale. The show has been described as a cop drama—with a twist, a dark and fantastical project about a world in which characters inspired by Grimms Fairy Tales exist, although the stories and characters inspiring the show are also drawn from other sources. Throughout the series, he must battle against an assortment of creatures, with help from his Wesen friend, Monroe. Opening, There once was a man who lived a life so strange, only he could see what no one else can—the darkness inside, the real monster within, and hes the one who must stop them. This is the life of a Grimm, david Giuntoli as Nicholas Nick Burkhardt, the eponymous Grimm. Nick is a Homicide detective, whose Aunt Marie tells him that he is descended from a line of hunters, called Grimms, who fight supernatural forces. He temporarily lost his Grimm power after the event of season 3 finale through a scheme by Adalind. He later learns that Adalind is carrying his child, which was revealed to be a boy, Russell Hornsby as Hank Griffin, Nicks Homicide partner, who is not aware that Nick is a Grimm until Episode 3 of Season 2. Bitsie Tulloch as Juliette Silverton and Eve, Nicks girlfriend, a veterinarian and she was originally unaware of Nicks duties as a Grimm until he tells her in the finale of Season 1. Although Nicks Aunt Marie suggested that he leave Juliette for her safety and he postponed his original plans to propose to her while he explores his new life as a Grimm. After her plans for revenge culminate in the death of Nicks mother, in season 5, Tulloch plays Eve a mysterious woman who has all of Juliette’s memories and powers, but none of her emotional attachments. Silas Weir Mitchell as Monroe, a creature called a Blutbad who aids Nick with his cases. He is also a friend of Nicks, even though he has some issues with Grimms since a Grimm killed his grandfather. He also helps Nick make contact with creatures that would avoid Nick due to his status as a Grimm, eventually, Monroe fell in love with and married Rosalee, despite facing some hostility from a Wesen cult focused on purity due to their mixed heritage. Sasha Roiz as Captain Sean Renard, a fluent francophone, Nicks adept, Renard is a magical creature called Zauberbiest and royal bastard. His mother Elizabeth is a Hexenbiest, a witch, and his father is a Royal and he is also the father of Hexenbiest Adalind Schades daughter Diana. Reggie Lee as Sergeant Drew Wu, a sergeant who works with Nick and Hank, he tends to do the grunt work for them, running down facts
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Austin & Ally
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Austin & Ally is an American teen sitcom that premiered on Disney Channel on December 2,2011, and ended on January 10,2016. The series was created by Kevin Kopelow & Heath Seifert, the writers and producers of the Disney Channel sitcoms Sonny with a Chance, in the pilot, Rockers & Writers, Austin secretly records one of Allys songs without her knowing. He becomes famous from it after his best friend, Dez, directs Austin in a video for the song. Once Ally takes credit for her song, Austin convinces her to become his partner, Allys best friend, Trish, pitches in as Austins manager and Dez continues to direct Austins music videos. At the end of the first season, Austin gets signed to Jimmy Starrs record label, the second season sees both Austin and Ally taking bigger steps. Ally conquers her stage fright by performing a duet with Austin, by the end of the second season, Ally signs a record deal and records an album with Ronnie Ramone, while Austin goes on his first national tour. Due to her schedule with Ronnie Ramone, Ally is unable to attend the first half of Austins tour, in the third season, Allys career takes off. Later, Ally is making her first album, by the end of the third season, Austin sacrifices his music career when his record label forbids him from being together with Ally. Austin chooses to be with Ally as they confess their love for each other, in the end, Austin goes with Ally on her first tour, Trish starts her own management company, and Dez goes to film school in Los Angeles. In the fourth season, the group reunites after the tour and turns Sonic Boom into a school called A&A Music Factory. They combine their talents to become partners, and the stores success explodes. The series has been described as a version of HBOs comedy-drama Entourage. Austin Moon is an outgoing, confident, and talented singer and his partnership with Ally is initially built on the idea that he rocks, she writes. Ally is a brilliant songwriter, but is too timid to perform her own music, while Austin loves to perform, in the third season, they begin to date again and are found in a healthy, secure relationship throughout the fourth season. Austins best friend is Dez, who directs and films all of his music videos, Austin gives music lessons and teaches students about being a performer at the A&A Music Factory in the fourth season. In the series finale, it is revealed that Austin is married to Ally, Ally Dawson is a smart girl and a singer-songwriter with severe stage fright and a quiet, shy personality. Allys father ran a store and thats where Ally learned to love music. Her partnership with Austin is initially built on the idea that she writes, Ally is a brilliant songwriter, but is too timid to perform her own music, while Austin loves to perform, but is unable to write songs for himself
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Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)
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Hawaii Five-0 is an American action police procedural television series, which premiered on Monday, September 20,2010 on CBS. The series is a reboot of the series, which aired on CBS from 1968 to 1980. Like the original, it follows a state police task force set up to fight crime in the state of Hawaii. On March 25,2016, CBS renewed the series for a seventh season, on March 23,2017, CBS renewed the series for an eighth season. The series covers the actions of a small, specialized DPS task force in Hawaii, headed by Lt. Commander Steve McGarrett, the task force answers only to the Governor of the state of Hawaii and was given immunity and means to investigate crimes ranging from terrorism to kidnapping. McGarrett chooses as his partner Honolulu PD Detective Danny Danno Williams and he fills out the team by selecting Chin Ho Kelly, his fathers protégé, and Chins cousin, Kono Kalakaua, a rookie HPD cop. They are assisted by Dr. Max Bergman, an examiner for the County of Honolulu, and Jerry Ortega, Chins high school classmate. Steve later adds Lou Grover, a former HPD SWAT commander, to the Five-0 team and Catherine Rollins, Alex OLoughlin as Lieutenant Commander Steven J. Steve McGarrett, USNR. A decorated former Navy SEAL, McGarrett is head of the Five-0 Task Force, johns murder and storyline forms the premise of Steves return to Hawaii and the formation of the Task Force. Scott Caan as Detective Sergeant Danny Danno Williams, HPD and he is a divorced single father who transferred from Newark PD in New Jersey to be with his daughter and is the de facto second-in-command of Five-0. Daniel Dae Kim as Detective Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly, HPD, a veteran HPD detective, he was John McGarretts former rookie and provides technical expertise and local know-how. Grace Park as Officer Kono Kalakaua, HPD, a former surfer, she was personally recruited by McGarrett while still in her final days at the HPD Academy. She is the cousin of Lieutenant Kelly, Masi Oka as Dr. Max Bergman, the eccentric and well-respected County of Honolulu medical examiner Lauren German as Special Agent Lori Weston Michelle Borth as Lieutenant Catherine Rollins, USNR. A former Navy Intelligence officer and McGarretts ex-girlfriend, chi McBride as former HPD SWAT Captain Lou Grover. A transfer from Chicago PD and has two children with his wife Renée, Jorge Garcia as Jerry Ortega, a conspiracy theorist who assisted Five-0 during several investigations and is eventually hired as a consultant. In Episode 7/21, Ua Maloo Ka Wai, Jerry is finally given the badge of a member of the 5-0 team. Taylor Wily as Kamekona Tupuola, a rehabilitated ex-convict, turned entrepreneur and owner of the Waiola Shave Ice, Kamekonas Shrimp Truck and he is a CI for the Five-0 Task Force and their friend. Mark Dacascos as Wo Fat, a lord and mastermind with ties to the Yakuza, arms merchants, terrorists, high-ranking government officials
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Anger Management (TV series)
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Anger Management is an American television sitcom that premiered on FX on June 28,2012. The series is based on the 2003 film of the same name, Anger Management broke a ratings record with 5.74 million viewers on its series debut night, which ranks as the most-watched sitcom premiere in cable history. On November 7,2014, FX announced that the series would end after its 100th episode, the series revolves around Charlie Goodson, a one-time minor league baseball player who struggled to take the next step due to recurring anger issues. Thanks to a therapist, Dr. Kate Wales, Charlie was able to get his issues under control, but he had a relapse during a big league game, breaking a bat over his knee in anger and causing a career-ending injury. The incident inspired Charlie to return to school and become an anger management therapist, Charlie is divorced from his one-time wife, Jennifer, on whom he cheated multiple times during his baseball-playing days. The two still see a lot of other, mainly due to having joint custody of their teenage daughter, Sam. Charlie has a relationship with Kate, who is not only his therapist, but also his best friend. He holds regular sessions in his home for anger management patients. Charlie Sheen as Charles Charlie Goodson, a professional baseball player turned anger management therapist. Selma Blair as Dr. Kate Wales, Charlies ex–therapist-colleague and friend with benefits, Shawnee Smith as Jennifer Goodson, Charlies ex-wife. Daniela Bobadilla as Sam Goodson, Charlie and Jennifers teenage daughter, Noureen DeWulf as Lacey Patel, Charlies spoiled, shallow & destructive anger management patient. Michael Arden as Patrick, Charlies homosexual passive-aggressive anger management patient, Derek Richardson as Nolan Johnson, Charlies normally unassertive anger management patient. Barry Corbin as Ed, Charlies elderly redneck anger management patient, Brian Austin Green as Sean Healy, Charlies nemesis who has also dated Jennifer. After Jennifer leaves him over his infidelity, Sean and Charlie become friends, laura Bell Bundy as Dr. Jordan Denby, a new psychologist and business partner for Charlie. Often Charlies comic foil, Jordan links up sexually with Sean Healy, Brett Butler as Brett, the female bartender at a tavern that Charlie frequents. Michael Boatman as Michael, Charlies neighbor and friend who is in the estate business. He is always freeloading off Charlie while listening to him talk about his romantic pursuits and he is especially unlucky at love. James Black as Cleo/Derek, a gay member of Charlies prison anger therapy group
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Wendell & Vinnie
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Wendell & Vinnie is an American sitcom television mini-series that premiered on Nickelodeon on February 16,2013 and ran until September 22,2013. The series stars Jerry Trainor and Buddy Handleson, the first official promo for the show was released on December 21,2012. On August 15,2013, Nickelodeon cancelled Wendell & Vinnie after one season, after Cartoon Network began programming shows with a TV-PG rating, Nickelodeon started development on TV shows that were more 18+-oriented than their regular programming. Writing and filming of Wendell & Vinnie began in late 2011/early 2012 at Warner Brothers Studios, and it premiered on February 16,2013. Vinnie is the owner of a pop culture memorabilia store and lives in Los Angeles without a care in the world, after his nephews parents suddenly die six months before the setting of the show, Vinnie finds himself as the legal guardian of his wise-beyond-his-years nephew, Wendell. With a little help from Vinnies sister, Wilma, and his neighbor, Taryn. At the same time, Wendell finds himself trying to keep his immature uncle under control, Jerry Trainor as Vinnie Bassett, the true child of the two. He even says in one episode, I know what 12-year-old boys like cause Ive been one for 20 years and he runs a pop culture memorabilia business, and is fond of video games, comic books, and eating junk food. He realizes that he was given custody for Wendell because Wendell’s parents wanted to give Vinnie a chance, Buddy Handleson as Wendell Bassett, an intelligent 12-year-old who has a number of hobbies. His parents died six months before the events of the show and he is stereotypically nerdy and does not have many friends. He enjoys magic tricks and homework, nicole Sullivan as Wilma Bassett, Vinnies older sister, Wendell’s aunt, and personal injury attorney. She does not understand why Wendell’s parents left Vinnie in charge, haley Strode as Taryn Kleinberg, the beautiful recently divorced new neighbor of Wendell and Vinnie and close friend of the two. Vinnie was originally attracted to her but she rejected him after Vinnie stopped on asking her out he asks out someone else, in the series finale, Taryn noticed that she loves Vinnie and shares a kiss with him but then Vinnie tells her that hes involved with someone else. Angelique Terrazas as Lacy, Wendells best friend whom he met in detention and she threatened him at first, but then she revealed that she is not really mean, but just wanted to look tough in front of her friends. She sometimes gets Wendell into trouble—Wendells grandfather considers her a bad influence—but Wendell still likes her and it is revealed that Vinnie is in a scrapbook club with Lacys grandmother. The series was canceled by Nickelodeon on August 15,2013, Wendell & Vinnie received some negative reviews. Common Sense Media gave the show 2 out of 5 stars saying Lackluster sitcom has mixed messages about parenting, Wendell & Vinnie at the Internet Movie Database Common Sense Media Age-Appropriate review of Wendell and Vinnie
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Wedding Band
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Wedding Band is an American comedy drama series starring Brian Austin Green, Harold Perrineau, Peter Cambor and Derek Miller. The series ran on TBS from November 10,2012 to January 19,2013 at 10 pm EST and it was created by Darin Moiselle and Josh Lobis. On January 22,2013, TBS officially cancelled the series after one season due to low ratings, the series follows four friends who, despite their ups and downs, spend their spare time performing in a wedding band. Brian Austin Green as Tommy Harold Perrineau as Stevie Derek Miller as Barry Wilson Peter Cambor as Eddie Wilson Jenny Wade as Rachel Kathryn Fiore as Det. Ingrid Wilson Melora Hardin as Roxie Rutherford Skyler Day as Catherine The project first appeared on the development slate at TBS in May 2010. On October 20,2010, TBS placed an order on The Wedding Band, written by Darin Moiselle and Josh Lobis. Kathryn Fiore and Jenny Wade were then cast, with Fiore playing Ingrid, Melora Hardin was the last actor cast in the series, she plays the role of Roxie Rutherford. On May 11,2011, TBS ordered The Wedding Band to series with a 10-episode order, guest stars set to appear in season one include, Megan Fox, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kurtwood Smith, Donald Faison, Ashley Williams and Molly Sims. On January 22,2013, Wedding Band was canceled by TBS, Wedding Band received mixed reviews on Metacritic with a score of 61 out of 100 based on 12 critics reviews. Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times said, Wedding Band plays too long but has a good beat, in the Daily News, David Hinckley Smith stated the jokes flow nicely, the music is fun, and the pop culture references will make almost everyone smile. In The New York Times, Neil Genzlinger stated that Here are two things you see very often, an hourlong television comedy and a scripted sitcom on Saturday night that is worth watching. Official website Wedding Band at the Internet Movie Database
