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North Hollywood, Los Angeles
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North Hollywood is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles. It is home to the NoHo Arts District and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, there is a municipal park and a recreation center. The neighborhood is an important transportation center, and it is also a place where many people have lived or worked. North Hollywood was established by the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company in 1887 and it was first named Toluca before being renamed Lankershim in 1896 and finally North Hollywood in 1927. It is not contiguous with Hollywood, being separated by parts of the San Fernando Valley. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 87,241, in 2000 the median age for residents was 30, considered an average age for city and county neighborhoods, the percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was among the countys highest. The neighborhood was considered moderately diverse ethnically within Los Angeles, the breakdown was Latinos,57. 7%, whites, 27%, Asians,5. 7%, blacks,5. 6%, and others, 4%. Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 46. 4% of the residents who were born abroad—a high percentage for Los Angeles, the percentages of never-married men and never-married women were among the countys highest. The median yearly income in 2008 dollars was $42,791, considered average for the city. The percentages of households that earned $40,000 or less were high for the county, renters occupied 75. 4% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 24. 6%. North Hollywood is bordered on the north by Sun Valley and on the northeast and east by Burbank, Toluca Lake borders North Hollywood on the southeast and south, and Studio City abuts it on the southwest. It is flanked by Valley Village and Valley Glen on the west, North Hollywood was once part of the vast landholdings of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España, which was confiscated by the government during the Mexican period of rule. A group of investors assembled as the San Fernando Farm Homestead Association purchased the half of the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando. The leading investor was Isaac Lankershim, a Northern California stockman and grain farmer, in 1873, Isaac Lankershims son and future son-in-law, James Boon Lankershim and Isaac Newton Van Nuys, moved to the San Ferndando Valley and took over management of the property. Van Nuys thought the property could profitably grow wheat using the dryland farming developed on the Great Plains. In time the Lankershim property, under its name, the Los Angeles Farming and Milling Company. Lankershim established a townsite which the residents named Toluca along the old road from Cahuenga Pass to San Fernando, the land boom of the 1880s went bust by the 1890s, but despite another brutal drought cycle in the late 1890s, the fruit and nut farmers remained solvent. The Toluca Fruit Growers Association was formed in 1894, the next year the Southern Pacific opened a branch line slanting northwest across the Valley to Chatsworth
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L.A. Law
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L. A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC, from September 15,1986, to May 19,1994. The series often also reflected social tensions between the senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. In addition to its main cast, L. A. Sanders, James Avery, Gates McFadden, Bryan Cranston, pounder, Kevin Spacey, Richard Schiff, Carrie-Anne Moss, William H. Macy, Stephen Root, Christian Slater, and Lucy Liu. Several episodes of the show included celebrities such as Vanna White, Buddy Hackett. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series. The series was set in and around the fictitious Los Angeles-based law firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, the exteriors for the law firm were shot at the Citigroup Center in downtown Los Angeles, which was known as the 444 Flower Building at the time. The show often combined humor and drama in the same episode. In the pilot episode of the series, only the back and hand of law partner Chaney, one of Chaneys final acts was to hire a new secretary, who began work on the morning Chaneys body is discovered. Later in that episode, in front of his partners, friends and his wife, the secretary at Chaneys eulogy reveals that she is transsexual, Chaney had been financially supporting her gender transition, and hired her as part of her real life test. She is then fired from her job by Douglas Brackman. This once caused problems when a client used him to set up her husband to be murdered, a running gag during Harry Hamlins tenure was to have his character, Michael Kuzak, always shown picking, scrutinizing, and eating pastries or fruit at the morning staff meetings. He was the one who ate from the mountains of food provided. To some extent, the sexual peccadilloes of almost the entire cast would become fodder for episodes of the series. After Grace van Owen makes a comment that Michael Kuzak would have to be a monkey before shed be interested in him, Douglas Brackman becomes involved with a sex therapist. Benny Stulwicz, an intellectually disabled clerk at the office, has sex with the disabled daughter of a client of the firm. Leland McKenzie and Rosalind Shays, antagonists, secretly become lovers, Douglas Brackman, their boss, is also arrested in the mayhem of the riots as he is on his way to get remarried. In one scene later in the series, the writers enacted an inside joke, in her final scene, the character of Rosalind Shays steps into the empty shaft and falls to her death. The name Chaney remains in the name of the law firm, despite changes in personnel
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Psych
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Psych is an American detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network with syndicated reruns on ION Television. It is produced by Franks and Tagline Televisions Chris Henze and Kelly Kulchak, Psych debuted on Friday, July 7,2006, immediately following the fifth-season premiere of Monk, and continued to be paired with the series until Monks conclusion on December 4,2009. During the second season, a segment titled The Big Adventures of Little Shawn. It was the highest-rated U. S. basic cable television premiere of 2006. USA Network renewed the series for a season on December 19,2012, to include eight episodes. On February 5,2014, USA Network confirmed that the season of Psych would be its last. Most episodes begin with a cold open in the form of a flashback to Shawn, the flashbacks usually involve Shawn and Gus being taught a lesson by a young Henry Spencer, who wishes that his son would follow in his footsteps and become a law enforcement officer. These lessons often play a role for the climax of the episode, as a child, Shawn was taught by Henry to hone his powers of observation and deduction, often using games and challenges to test him. Each flashback also sets the theme for the episode, Shawn originally becomes known as a psychic when, after calling in tips on dozens of crimes covered on the news which help the police to close the case, the police become suspicious of his knowledge. The police theorize that such knowledge could only come from the inside, to avoid being sent to jail, Shawn uses his observational skills to convince the police that he is psychic. The interim police chief warns Shawn that if his powers are fake, pretending to have psychic powers allows him to engage in strange and comic behavior as he turns real clues into hunches and otherworldly visitations. He enjoys teasing lifelong friend Burton Guster, a pharmaceutical representative, Henry and Shawn have a difficult relationship, but despite this, Henry reluctantly helps Shawn on various occasions. Shawn Spencer is a consultant with the Santa Barbara Police Department who pretends to be a psychic. However, really his exceptional skills and eidetic memory allow him to obtain his visions. He refuses to take anything seriously, but has matured throughout the seasons. He has had romantic tension with Juliet OHara since they met, in the middle of season six, he tries to propose to her, but finds out that neither of them is ready. Though the two hit a bump in season seven when she discovers he is not psychic, they soon reconcile, when she moves to San Francisco to be Vicks head detective, he realizes he cannot live without her and resolves to move there. In a final effort to clean, he makes several DVDs, one of which he sends to Lassiter, upon which he starts to confess the truth to him
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Psych: The Musical
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Psych, The Musical is an episode of the seventh season of Psych, and the 110th episode in the series overall. Formatted as a musical, it aired as a two-hour event, the episode aired on December 15,2013. Steve Franks wrote and directed the episode, including creating the lyrics for original songs, the episode was many years in the making, promised to fans early on and delayed. It was finally produced in October 2012, Steve Franks was attached to write and direct Psych’s musical episode from many years prior to its completion. Franks made slow progress on writing and struggled to get the episode to production, originally slated to air in the shows sixth season, the episode was pushed to the seventh. It was later announced that the episode would air as a special with original songs written by Steve Franks. Steve Franks and composer Adam Cohen wrote the songs featured in the special. Franks wrote the script and directed the episode, filling the order of two episodes, it went into production for 14 days in October 2012, given no more production time than normal episodes. There was a screening in San Diego, CA, on July 17,2013. Announced as Psych, The Musical, the episode aired December 15,2013, later, it was announced that Ally Sheedy would reprise her role as Mr. Yang. The episode features fourteen original songs, the plot deals with a criminally insane playwright named Zachary Zander, who goes by his pen name Z. The episode takes the format of an episode of Psych. Psych, The Musical takes place before the events of the Psych episode Deez Nups, as a result, there are several continuity errors throughout the episode. The episode begins with a whimsical storybook opening, followed by the opening number, six years before the events of the episode, Zs play about Jack the Ripper is abruptly cancelled and he is sent to a mental institution. Before the premiere of his play, Z had allegedly set the theater on fire, after six years, a similar play is in production at a different Santa Barbara theater and its womanizing owner Armitage. Z escapes his mental institution and presumably murdered another man, psychic Shawn Spencer, his partner Gus, and the Santa Barbara Police Departments Juliet and Lassiter go to the mental institution and elicit the help of serial killer Mr. Yang. While Shawn and Gus are investigating Armitages new production, the falls from the catwalk. At the coroners office, Woody labels the death a suicide, Shawn suspects that Zs next target is likely Elisa, his muse and a cast member of his original play
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Amanda Pays
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Amanda Pays is an English actress. Pays was born in London, England, the daughter of Jan, an actress, and Howard Pays and she is the niece of former child actress Mandy Miller, after whom she is named. Her first marriage, from 1984 to 1987, was to Peter Kohn, following her divorce, Pays married American actor Corbin Bernsen on 19 November 1988, with whom she has four sons. Her mother-in-law was long-time The Young and the Restless actress Jeanne Cooper, Pays made her film debut in Oxford Blues and she played a French nun, Sister Nicole, in Off Limits with Willem Dafoe, Gregory Hines and Fred Ward. She is known for her roles as Theora Jones in the film and television series Max Headroom and she also appeared in some early 1980s music videos, including those for Love Shadow by Fashion, and Smooth Operator by Sade. Pays is a designer and hosts Fine Livings Breathing Room. She also appeared in the low-budget 1980s horror film The Kindred, in 1985 she played the part of Nikki South in the television film Minder on the Orient Express, alongside Dennis Waterman and George Cole. In 2014, Pays was cast in another The Flash series to play a version of the character she played in the 1990 series of the same name. The Cold Room —Carla Martin/Christa Bruckner Oxford Blues —Lady Victoria Wingate A. D
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Jeanne Cooper
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Wilma Jeanne Cooper was an American actress, best known for her role as Katherine Chancellor on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. At the time of her death, she was eighth on the all-time list of longest-serving soap opera actors in the United States and she was the mother of actor Corbin Bernsen. Cooper was born in Taft, California, to Albert Troy Cooper, and his wife and she was the youngest of three siblings. The family lived in Kern County for several years, first in Taft until 1942 and her mother died August 21,1944, and her father died April 11,1986. Cooper began her career in the 1950s, appearing as a player in films with stars like Maureen OHara, Glenn Ford, Tony Curtis. Her first film role was as Myra in the 1953 western film, Cooper was a fixture on episodic television throughout the 1950s and 1970s. In 1956, she was cast as Mrs. Hinton in The Rabbi Davis Story of the anthology series. That same year, she portrayed Louise Douglas in Girl Bandit of Broderick Crawfords syndicated crime drama and she also appeared in the Wagon Train episode titled The Whipping. In 1958, she was cast in the episode Wheel of Fortune of the NBC western series, Jefferson Drum, also in 1958, Cooper appeared as Lucy in Sundown at Bitter Creek of the CBS western anthology series, Dick Powells Zane Grey Theater. In 1960, she again played Belle Starr in an episode of the TV series Bronco titled Shadow of Jesse James. Cooper made five guest appearances during the run of CBSs Perry Mason, beginning with the role of Laura Beaumont in the 1958 episode. In the final season of the show, she made her fifth and final appearance as defendant Miriam Fielding in the 1966 episode, in 1962, Cooper earned her first Emmy nomination for her performance in Ben Casey. After a turn as a regular on NBCs Brackens World and she also appeared in The Twilight Zone, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Ironside, Storefront Lawyers, The Silent Force, Touched by an Angel, Gunsmoke, The Untouchables, and many other series. In 1965, Cooper appeared in the ABC networks western television series, The Big Valley, as Elaine Baxter Jason, a store owner. In another episode she appears as the aunt of Heath. Her husband was portrayed in the episode by John Anderson, who later became known as MacGyvers grandfather. Cooper is best known for her role as Katherine Chancellor on the soap opera The Young. Her character has broken ground in the medium, Katherine has endured several bouts with alcoholism, ischemic stroke
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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 Dentist
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The Dentist is an 1996 American horror film directed by Brian Yuzna and written by Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon, and Charles Finch. It stars Corbin Bernsen, Linda Hoffman and Ken Foree and it was followed by the sequel The Dentist 2, in 1998. Dr. Alan Feinstone is a successful dentist, however, everything changes on the day of his wedding anniversary, when he discovers his wife Brooke is cheating on him with the poolman, Matt. After they finish, Alan retrieves his pistol and follows Matt in his car and he is led to Paula Robertss house, a friend of Brookes. Alan invents a story about a party for Brooke and watches Paula invite Matt inside. Paulas dog attacks Alan, and he shoots it in self-defense, after returning to his car, he drives to work. At his dental practice, Alans first appointment goes poorly when he hallucinates a child has rotten teeth, as Detective Gibbs investigates the death of Paulas dog, Alan sees his second patient, April Reign, a beauty queen. Alan hallucinates she is his wife, and, while she is unconscious, takes off her pantyhose, as she wakes, Alan snaps out of it and hides her pantyhose. Alan tells his manager, Steve Landers, she is still dizzy from nitrous oxide, when Steve realizes what really happened, he returns, punches Alan, and threatens a lawsuit. Alan ends the day early and sends his staff and patients home, including Sarah, later that night, Brooke meets Alan at a new opera-themed room at his practice. After sedating her under the premise of cleaning her teeth, he pulls out her teeth, Detective Gibbs and his partner Detective Sunshine arrive at Alans house the next morning to ask him questions. After the policemen leave, Matt discovers Brooke, who is still alive, Sarah and Paula are waiting for Alan at his practice. Alan sees Paula first, much to Sarahs disappointment, when Paulas conversation turns to how good a job Matt does for her, Alan overly-aggressively drills into her tooth, destroying it. His assistant, Jessica, questions what he is doing, Alan asks Jessica to finish for him, but after he discovers she has sent Paula home, he fires Jessica. When she pulls out Aprils pantyhose and threatens to expose him, at the police station, Detective Sunshine discovers that the bullet pulled from Paulas dogs only matches one gun in the area, Alans. He and Detective Gibbs drive to the Feinstone house to him further. Near the pool, they discover Matts body and they quickly break into the house and find the mutilated Brooke, tied to the bed but still alive. Meanwhile, IRS agent Marvin Goldblum, using Alans tax problems as leverage, extorts a free dental exam, later, Alans other dental assistant, Karen, finds Marvin still in the dental chair
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Henry Spencer (Psych)
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Henry William Spencer, Jr. is a fictional character on the American television dramedy Psych. He is played by American actor Corbin Bernsen, a retired police officer, Henry Spencer raised his only son, Shawn, to follow in his footsteps, schooling him in detective work from a young age. The character is based loosely on series creator Steve Franks father and he would sometimes try to hone Franks observational skills by asking how many people were wearing hats in a restaurant, a tactic which Henry employs with Shawn in the series pilot. In the penultimate episode of the season, Chief Vick set Henry up with her friend Susan Sue B. from the Mayors office. Hes the son of Henry Spencer, Sr, in Psychs Guide to Crime Fighting for the Totally Unqualified its revealed that Shawns Grandma Emma is still alive. In the 14th episode of the season, Think Tank. Henry initially declined the job offer, preferring retired life but later accepted it in the season four finale, while pursuing the serial killer Mr. Yin. It is revealed in the Season Seven premiere that Henry survived the gunshot after undergoing surgery to remove the bullet, in Season Eight, he becomes a professor in criminology and in the series finale, helped Shawn solve his case, and even brought along his class. Actor Corbin Bernsen describes Henry as a guy whos very, very disciplined, as the show progresses, the two begin to mend their relationship. Bernsen notes that Shawn is being everything I want him to be, but hes not being it my way, making Shawns work a source of both pride and frustration
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USA Network
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USA Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable division of NBCUniversal, itself a subsidiary of Comcast. As of July 2015, USA Network is available to approximately 95.567 million pay television households in the United States, USA Network originally launched on September 22,1977 as the Madison Square Garden Network. The network was founded by cable provider UA-Columbia Cablevision and Kay Koplovitz, the channel was one of the first national cable television channels, using satellite delivery as opposed to microwave relay to distribute its programming to cable systems. Initially, the network ran a mix of college and less well-known professional sports, the channel began its broadcast day after 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekdays and 12,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekends. That fall, USA began signing on at 12,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekdays, it added some talk shows. Sports programming began airing at 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time weekdays, in the fall of 1981, USA began its daily programming at 6,00 a. m. Later, in 1982, Time Inc. and Gulf+Westerns Paramount Pictures unit would buy stakes in the venture, the three partners had a non-compete clause that would prevent them from owning other basic cable networks independently from the USA joint venture. Said clause would cause Time Inc. to drop out of the venture in 1987, as the company attempted to buy CNN from Ted Turner, MCA and Paramount subsequently became the sole owners of the channel. In the fall of 1982, USA began operating on a 24-hour-a-day schedule, running a mix of shows, a childrens program. Weekends featured a mix of movies, some drama series and talk shows during the morning hours. Overnights consisted of old films and film shorts, and music as part of a show called Night Flight. One tradition on USA was a lineup of game show reruns mixed in with several original low-budget productions that aired over the years. It began in October 1984 with reruns of The Gong Show, more shows were progressively added soon afterward such as The Jokers Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough, Press Your Luck, High Rollers and Hollywood Squares, along with Wipeout, Face the Music and Name That Tune. In June 1987, the channel debuted another original game show, when it began, the game show block ran for an hour, but expanded significantly the following year. By 1989, the network ran game shows Monday through Fridays from 12,00 to 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time. In January 1989, USA debuted USA Up All Night, a showcase of feature films that aired as part of its weekend overnight schedule. Short news updates, branded as USA Updates, were shown from as early as 1989 until 2000, however, when KYWs news operations were heavily revamped in response to falling ratings in 1991, production of USA Updates was then taken over by the All News Channel. The ANC-produced updates continued through 2000, USA Network has not carried any news programming since the news updates were discontinued, USA Network was the first cable channel to preempted the syndicated market by purchasing a 26 Touchstone films package in October 1989
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Major League (film)
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Made for $11 million, Major League grossed nearly $50 million in domestic release. Major League deals with the exploits of a version of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. Former Las Vegas showgirl Rachel Phelps has inherited the Cleveland Indians baseball team from her deceased husband. Phelps has received a deal to move the team to Miami. To do this, she replaces their existing players with aging veterans and inexperienced rookies, Phelps hires Lou Brown, a former coach from the Toledo Mud Hens, to manage the team. The team starts the season on a losing streak, the team rallies, bringing the Indians higher in the division standings. Phelps tries to demoralize the team by taking away their luxuries such as a jet, but the team still holds strong. Meanwhile, Taylor finds that his ex-girlfriend Lynn is living in Cleveland, when Phelps original plan falls through, she decides that she will purposely void the contract, despite the financial penalty, and will move the team to Miami regardless. Her plan is to get rid of the bad players and Brown, once they reach dead last, donovan relays this to Brown, who informs the team that no matter how well they do, they will be fired after the season. So, they work hard and reach the American League Championship so Phelps cant move the team or throw them out, the team succeeds in tying the division with the New York Yankees, leading to a one-game playoff to determine the title. In the playoff in Cleveland, the Yankees take an early lead, in the top of the 9th, with the bases loaded, Vaughn manages to strike out the Yankees best hitter, sending the Indians up to bat. With the game tied and the Indians with two outs, the speedy Willie Mays Hayes manages a single to get on base, Taylor steps up, and after signalling to Brown, calls his shot to center field. With the Yankees prepared for the play, Taylor instead bunts, allowing Hayes to make it to home safely. As the team celebrates, Taylor sees Lynn in the stands, the two rush to hug each other as the city celebrates the victory. The theatrical releases ending includes Rachel Phelps, apparently unable to move the team because of increased attendance, angry, an alternate ending on the Wild Thing Edition DVD shows a very different characterization of Phelps. Lou tenders his resignation and tells Phelps that he cant in good work for her after she sought to sabotage the team for her own personal gain. Phelps then tells him that, in fact, she loves the Indians, however, when she inherited the club from her late husband, it was on the brink of bankruptcy. She tells Lou that she felt that he was the right manager to bring the ragtag group together
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Major League II
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Major League II is a 1994 sequel to the 1989 film Major League. Major League II stars most of the same cast from the original, including Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, absent from this film is Wesley Snipes, who played Willie Mays Hayes in the first film and who by 1994 had become a film star in his own right. Omar Epps took over his role, Major League II also welcomes some new faces to the team. David Keith plays Jack Parkman, a selfish superstar catcher who is looking to replace the aging Jake Taylor as the starter, takaaki Ishibashi, of Japanese comedic duo Tunnels, is outfielder Isuro Kamikazi Tanaka who helps excite the team. Eric Bruskotter is rookie catcher Rube Baker who is getting used to the MLB life, in the previous season, the Cleveland Indians won the division title by beating the New York Yankees in a one-game playoff, but were defeated in the ALCS by the Chicago White Sox. The success of last season has changed the attitudes of the Indians, pitching sensation Rick Wild Thing Vaughn has become a media sensation and as such is now more concerned about his public image than his pitching, causing him to lose the edge on his fastball. Instead, he begins to rely on highly ineffective breaking balls, home run hitter Pedro Cerrano becomes a Buddhist and adopts a more placid, carefree style as opposed to the angry and aggressive player he was before. Aging catcher Jake Taylor has also returned and conceited third baseman Roger Dorn has retired and purchased the team from its previous owner, one of his first acts as owner is to sign Oakland Athletics all-star catcher Jack Parkman, which forces Jake to compete for his old position. Jack Parkman is an arrogant jerk who thinks this team is a joke, to further complicate things, minor-league catcher Rube Baker has also been invited to camp despite his inability to throw the ball back to the pitcher with any consistency. Lou, after being confronted by Jake, informs Taylor that he is not going to him as a player. While initially upset over being forced into retirement and with the amount of job offers he gets, Jake elects to take Lous offer. To make matters worse, Dorn has been unable to keep up with the finances and is forced to do strange things to bring in money. Eventually, Lou reaches the end of his tolerance regarding Parkman, Parkman then informs Lou that the suspension is moot as he has been traded to the White Sox. Lou confronts Dorn for not consulting him about the trade, Dorn explains that he could no longer afford to pay Parkmans salary and had no choice but to trade him. In return, Japanese import Isuro Kamikaze Tanaka, a left fielder with a penchant for crashing into the fence, is sent to the Indians. Finally out of options, Dorn sells the Indians back to Rachel Phelps, Rachel keeps Dorn on as the Indians general manager and his first order of business is to re-activate himself as a player. Rachel doesnt need the money, she has more than enough, Lou suffers a heart attack in the clubhouse due to his frustration over the teams performance and Jake is given the reins of the team. Things come to a head during a doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox, Rube is hit by a pitch in his ankle and Hayes is called upon to run for him
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Major League: Back to the Minors
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Major League, Back to the Minors is a 1998 film, distributed by Warner Bros. written and directed by John Warren. It is the film in the Major League series, following Major League. Roger Dorn is now the owner of the Minnesota Twins, aging minor league pitcher Gus Cantrell, who plays for the Fort Myers Miracle, is planning to retire. Then, Roger recruits Gus to be the manager of the Buzz, however, Gus clashes with Leonard Huff, the snobby manager of the Twins. The game is scheduled to take place at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minnesota, the Twins take a 3-0 lead in the 6th inning, but Downtown hits a home run that ties the game at 3-3 in the 8th inning. However, the media says that the Twins were still outplayed by the Buzz, Huff now wants to bring Downtown up to the Twins, even though Gus believes that he is not yet ready. However, Anderson jumps on the opportunity, turning his back on Gus, without Downtown, the Buzz start losing again. With the Twins, Anderson starts hitting poorly, proving Huff wrong, Gus manages to get the Buzz back on track, and Downtown is sent back down to the Buzz, where Gus teaches him how to get more hits. Gus leads the Buzz to a title in their league. Gus issues a challenge for Huff to bring the Twins to Buzz Stadium for another game, if the Twins win, Gus will give his salary for the year to Huff. If Gus and the Buzz beat the Twins, Gus can take over as the manager of the Twins, Huff accepts the challenge and takes the Twins to play against the Buzz. Gus decides that he wants to stay with the Buzz so he can continue to work with minor league players on their skills, the film failed at the box office, grossing only $3.6 million in ticket sales. The plot would see Sheens character Ricky Wild Thing Vaughn coming out of retirement to work with a young player, Major League, Back to the Minors at the Internet Movie Database Major League, Back to the Minors at Rotten Tomatoes
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General Hospital
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General Hospital is an American daytime television medical drama. General Hospital premiered on the ABC television network on April 1,1963, same-day broadcasts as well as classic episodes were aired on SOAPnet from January 20,2000, to December 31,2013, following Disney-ABCs decision to discontinue the network. General Hospital is the serial produced in Hollywood, and the longest-running entertainment program in ABC television history. It holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, the show was created by husband-and-wife soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, who originally set it in a general hospital, in an unnamed fictional city. In the 1970s, the city was named Port Charles, New York, from its beginning, General Hospital starred John Beradino and Emily McLaughlin, and both actors stayed with the show until their deaths in 1996 and 1991 respectively. They were joined a year later by Rachel Ames who remains to date the longest serving actress on an ABC soap opera, General Hospital was the second soap to air on ABC. In 1964, a sister soap was created for General Hospital, The Young Marrieds, taped at The Prospect Studios, General Hospital aired for a half-hour until July 23,1976. The series was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26,1976, ever since the late 1970s, most of the storylines have revolved around the Quartermaines and the Spencers. From 1979 to 1988, General Hospital had more viewers than any other soap opera. The soap opera is known for its high-profile celebrity guest stars who have included, among others, Roseanne Barr, James Franco. In 2007, the program was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME, on April 23,2009, General Hospital began broadcasting in high definition, making it the first ABC soap opera to make such a transition. The series aired its 13, 000th episode on February 24,2014, General Hospital became the oldest American soap opera on September 17,2010, following the final broadcast of CBS As the World Turns. On April 14,2011, ABC announced the cancellation of both All My Children and One Life to Live, leaving General Hospital as the last remaining soap opera airing on the network after January 13,2012, the show celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 1,2013. General Hospital was created by Frank and Doris Hursley and premiered on April 1,1963, the first stories were mainly set on the seventh floor of General Hospital, in an unnamed midsize Eastern city. Launched in 1963, the first stories were set at General Hospital in an unnamed midsized Eastern city. The name of the city, Port Charles, would not be mentioned until 1976 by headwriters Eileen, storylines revolved around Dr. Steve Hardy and his friend, Nurse Jessie Brewer. Jessies turbulent marriage to the much-younger Dr. Phil Brewer was the center of many early storylines, in 1964 Audrey March, a flight attendant and sister of Nurse Lucille, came to town, and was the woman who won Steves heart. By the end of the 1970s, General Hospital was facing dire ratings when executive producer Gloria Monty was brought in to turn the show around, Monty is credited with creation of the first supercouple, Luke Spencer and Laura Webber, played by Anthony Geary and Genie Francis
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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The Young and the Restless
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The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, first broadcast on March 26,1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. The show expanded to one-hour episodes on February 4,1980, in 2006, the series began airing encore episodes weeknights on SOAPnet until 2013, when Y&R moved to TVGN. Pop still airs the episodes on weeknights, starting July 1,2013. The series is syndicated internationally. The Young and the Restless originally focused on two families, the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family. After a series of recasts and departures in the early 1980s, all the characters except Jill Foster. Bell replaced them with the new families, the Abbotts. Over the years, other such as the Newmans, Winters. Despite these changes, one storyline that has endured through almost the entire run is the feud between Jill Abbott and Katherine Chancellor, the longest rivalry on any American soap opera. Since its debut, The Young and the Restless has won nine Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series and it is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television. As of 2008, it had appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1,000 weeks since 1988. As of December 12,2013, according to Nielsen ratings, The Young, on January 15,2014, the series was in the middle of its final year of its 2010 contract, and was renewed by CBS through 2017. Y&R is also a show to the Bells other soap opera The Bold. To compete with the youthful ABC soap operas, All My Children, One Life to Live, William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell created The Young and the Restless in 1972 for the network under the working title, The Innocent Years. We were confronted with the very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence, innocence as we had known and lived it all our lives had, in so many respects, ceased to exist. They changed the title of the series to The Young and the Restless because they felt it reflected the youth, the Young and the Restless began airing on March 26,1973, replacing the canceled soap opera, Where the Heart Is. Bell worked as writer from the debut of the series until his retirement in 1998
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Beverly Hills High School
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Beverly Hills High School is the only major public high school in Beverly Hills, California. The other public school in Beverly Hills, Moreno High School, is a small alternative school located on Beverlys campus. Beverly is part of the Beverly Hills Unified School District and located on 19.5 acres on the west side of Beverly Hills, the land was previously part of the Beverly Hills Speedway board track, which was torn down in 1924. Beverly, which all of Beverly Hills, was founded in 1927. The original buildings were designed by Robert D. Farquhar in the French Normandy style, the school also receives its funding from its on-campus oil tower. Beverly Hills High School was originally in the Los Angeles City High School District, newsweek ranked Beverly Hills High School as the 267th best public high school in the country. Most students are residents of Beverly Hills, students in that program, which was financed by state funds tied to student enrollment, were required to supply their own transportation. The program accepted 30 students each year, the program began in the 1970s in order to expose the then-predominately Anglophone white/Caucasian students to other cultures. Until 1991 the program admitted students who graduated from Emerson Middle School in Westwood. It was expanded since there were complaints that it was taking away the best students from University High School, as of 1991 19% of the students were Iranian, and almost 20% of the students were either Asian, Black, and/or Latino. In 2008, Beverly Hills High School had 2,412 students, 70% Caucasian, 17% Asian, 5% African-American, in 2014, the student body was 72% white, 16% Asian, 6% black, and 5% Hispanic. The student body is, as of 2008, predominantly Jewish, many students are Iranian Americans, the majority of whom at the school are also Jewish. Due to the number of students of Iranian origin, the school has historically scheduled a staff development day on or around Nowruz. As of 2012 about 35% of Beverlys current student body was born outside the United States, as of 1991 home languages other than English included Mandarin Chinese, French, Hebrew, Korean, and Russian. Some television shows like Beverly Hills,90210 have been criticized for not accurately portraying the student body, the 1988 non-fiction book Hard Lessons by Michael Leahy documents the life of six Beverly seniors for a full school year. In 1984, Beverly had a 100% graduation rate but three students committed suicide and these suicides piqued Leahys interest in Beverly, and in 1985 he began writing Hard Lessons. Leahy had heard stories about Beverly having intense academic pressure, rampant cocaine abuse. However, after speaking to Beverly students he concluded that sex, Beverlys social attitudes and morals were also nearly identical to these schools
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UCLA Bruins
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The UCLA Bruins are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Los Angeles. The Bruin mens and womens teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pac-12 Conference, for football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I. UCLA has the most decorated athletic program in NCAA history, with 113 NCAA team championships, UCLA offers 10 varsity sports programs for men and 13 for women. UCLA sponsors teams in mens and fourteen womens NCAA sanctioned sports. * = Beach volleyball is a fully sanctioned NCAA sport which had its first national championship in the spring of 2016, the UCLA athletic teams colors are True Blue and Gold. In the early days of the school, UCLA had the colors as the University of California, Berkeley, Yale blue. When football coach Red Sanders came to UCLA for the 1949 season he redesigned the football uniforms, the Yale blue was changed to a lighter shade of blue. Sanders figured that the blue would look better on the field. He would dub the baby blue uniform Powderkeg blue, powder blue with an explosive kick, for the 1954 football season, Sanders added a gold loop on the shoulders, the UCLA Stripe. UCLA still uses different color blues and they have an alternate uniform that is predominately Navy. Their helmet has the UCLA script in Royal, the Jackie Robinson 42 Athletics and Recreation Complex monument was installed in front of the John Wooden Recreation Center and was unveiled on March 5,2016. The school also retired number 42 which was the number Robinson worn as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, two notable sports facilities serve as home venues for UCLA sports. Since 1982, the Bruin football team has played games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. From 1923–81, including the Bruins 1954 National Championship year, the played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. The women’s gymnastics, mens and womens basketball, and volleyball teams play at Pauley Pavilion on campus, the softball team plays on campus at Easton Stadium. Down the hill, the teams as well as the swim. For baseball, there is the Steele Field at the Jackie Robinson Stadium, see also, Drake Stadium, Los Angeles Tennis Center, Spieker Aquatics Center. As of December 2015, UCLA has won 113 NCAA team championships, on May 13,2007, UCLA became the first school to win 100 NCAA championships, defeating Stanford, 5–4, for the 2007 Womens Water Polo Championship
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Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme
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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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Ryan's Hope
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Ryans Hope is an American soap opera created by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, originally airing for 13 years on ABC from July 7,1975 to January 13,1989. It revolves around the trials and tribulations within a large Irish-American family in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. In late 1974, ABC Daytime approached Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, Labine and Mayer added a large Irish-American family — the Ryans — to what ABC was initially calling City Hospital. Another of the working titles was A Rage to Love. A pub theme originated with Mayers and Labines work on the earlier soap Where The Heart Is, on the other side of town in a small Irish bar. Ryan patriarch Johnny owned a bar, Ryans, across from fictional Riverside Hospital in New York City and his wife, Maeve, assisted him in his duties, as did their children, Frank, Patrick, Mary, and Siobhan. The Ryans and the wealthy Coleridges were the core families of the show. The soap took the approach of situating itself in an actual community—the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. Maeves parish sat in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, references were often made to Central Park, Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, and other localities to provide a sense of place. We wanted to show how New York has communities, Labine said, Labine and Mayer also served as the executive producers of the show at this point, with George Lefferts as the producer. Lefferts was soon replaced by Robert Costello, who remained with the show until 1978, Nancy Ford co-wrote the first episode with Labine and Mayer. and Diana van der Vlis. The show contrasted the cultures of conservative parents with their more liberated, 70s-drenched children, older morals about lifetime marriages, church-proscribed divorce, chastity outside of marital sanction were constantly being tested by New-World, New-Era urban values. The political scandal angle was soon reiterated with Franks short tenure in the state senate, Delia became involved with all three of Johnny Ryans sons, Frank, Pat, and Dakota. Mary became irresistibly attracted to a reporter exposing Franks blackmailing scandal, the fiery Jack Fenelli, Marys career and personal goals were given neurotic counterpoint in Delias machinations with Marys brothers. After two years of growth and success, Ryans Hope began encountering challenges, Michael Hawkins left the role of Frank Ryan in 1976, and subsequent replacements included Andrew Robinson, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Geoffrey Pierson, and John Sanderford. In late 1977, Kate Mulgrew announced she would be leaving in January 1978, followiing Mulgrews departure, three different actresses, Mary Carney, Kathleen Tolan, and Nicolette Goulet, played Mary. It was Goulet who was in the role when storywriters Labine, the writers initially wanted to kill off Mary when Mulgrew announced her decision to leave but ABC refused to allow the popular character to be killed off, going ahead with the three re-casts. When it became obvious that no one other than Mulgrew herself would be accepted in the role, Malcolm Groome chose to leave the role of Pat Ryan in 1978 and was replaced with John Blazo, Robert Finoccoli, and Patrick James Clarke
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Steven Bochco
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Steven Ronald Bochco is an American television producer and writer. He has developed a number of series, including Hill Street Blues, L. A. Law, Doogie Howser, M. D. Bochco was born as a baby, to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Mimi, a painter, and Rudolph Bochco and he was educated in Manhattan at the High School of Music and Art. His elder sister is actress Joanna Frank, in 1961, he enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh to study playwriting and theater. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater in 1966 and he wrote the story and teleplay for Columbo, Murder by the book and the teleplay only for several other episodes. He wrote the screenplay for the 1968 television movie The Counterfeit Killer and worked on Silent Running and he left Universal in 1978 to go to MTM Enterprises where he had greater scope for producing. His first effort there was the short-lived CBS police drama Paris and he achieved major success for NBC with the police drama Hill Street Blues. It ran from 1981 to 1987 and Bochco was credited as co-creator and also wrote, the series also garnered considerable critical acclaim and many awards, and was nominated for a total of 98 Emmy Awards throughout its run. Bochco was fired from MTM in 1985 following the failure of Bay City Blues, Bochco moved to 20th Century Fox where he co-created and produced L. A. Law which aired on NBC. This series was widely acclaimed and a regular award winner. Hooperman was part of a deal with ABC in 1987 to create and produce ten new television series. From this deal came Doogie Howser, M. D. and 1990s Cop Rock and it was one of his most high-profile failures. In 1992, Bochco created a television series, Capitol Critters, along with Nat Mauldin. After a lull, Bochco co-created NYPD Blue with David Milch, other projects in this period that failed to take off include Murder One, Brooklyn South, City of Angels, Philly, and Over There. All five shows failed to match Bochcos earlier success though Murder One, in 2005, Bochco took charge of Commander in Chief which was the creation of Rod Lurie and brought in a new writing team. However, in spring 2006, he left the show because of conflicts with ABC, Bochco described his experience on the show as horrible. In 2006 Bochco produced a pilot ABC show, Hollis & Rae, yet another legal drama entitled Raising the Bar was produced for TNT, this time in partnership with David Feige, although it was cancelled in December 2009 during the second season. The network executives stay the same age and I keep getting older, when I was doing my stuff at NBC with Brandon and Hill Street, we were contemporaries, says Bochco
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Seinfeld
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Seinfeld is an American sitcom that originally ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a version of himself. It is often described as being a show about nothing, as many of its episodes are about the minutiae of daily life, Seinfeld was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment. In syndication, the series has been distributed by Sony Pictures Television since 2002, a favorite among critics, the series led the Nielsen ratings in seasons six and nine, and finished among the top two every year from 1994 to 1998. In 2002, TV Guide named Seinfeld the greatest television program of all time, E. named it the number 1 reason the 90s ruled. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America named Seinfeld the No.2 Best Written TV Series of All Time and that same year, Entertainment Weekly named it the No.3 best TV series of all time and TV Guide ranked it at No.2. Main Jerry Seinfeld – Jerry is a minor celeb stand-up comedian who is depicted as the voice of reason amidst the general insanity generated by the people in his world. The in-show character is a mild germaphobe and neat freak, as well as an avid Superman, New York Mets, Jerrys apartment is the center of a world visited by his eccentric friends and a focus of the show. Plot lines often involve Jerrys social interactions and romantic relationships around New York City and he typically finds minor, pedantic reasons to break up with women, including a habit of eating peas one at a time, oversized man hands and an irritating laugh. Other plot lines involve his longtime enemy Newman and his overbearing relatives, Elaine Benes – Elaine is Jerrys ex-girlfriend and later friend. She is attractive and genial, while also being humorous, arrogant and she sometimes has a tendency to be too honest with people, which often gets her into trouble. She usually gets caught up in her boyfriends quirks, eccentric employers unusual behaviors and idiosyncrasies, and she tends to make poor choices in men she chooses to date and is often overly reactionary. First she works at Pendant Publishing with Mr. Lippman, is hired as a personal assistant for Mr. Pitt. One of Elaines trademark moves is her forceful shove while exclaiming Get Out, when she receives good, objectionable or surprising news. Another is her memorable Little Kicks dance move, which is described as a full body heave accompanied by a double-fisted thumbs-up and she hates The English Patient, which is met with significant social disapproval. Elaine is popularly described as an amalgamation of Davids and Seinfelds girlfriends during their days in New York as struggling comedians. Cosmo Kramer – Kramer is Jerrys wacky neighbor and his trademarks include his humorous upright pompadour hairstyle, vintage clothes, and energetic sliding bursts through Jerrys apartment door. Kramer was heavily based on a neighbor of Davids during his amateur comedic years in Manhattan and this is seen in his success with women and employers
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The Larry Sanders Show
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The Larry Sanders Show is an American television sitcom set in the office and studio of a fictional late-night talk show. The series was created by Garry Shandling and Dennis Klein and aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network, the series stars Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, and Rip Torn and features celebrities playing exaggerated, self-parodying versions of themselves. The show has its roots in Shandlings stand-up comedy background, his experience as a guest host on The Tonight Show and his earlier sitcom Its Garry Shandlings Show. The program has had a marked and long-lasting influence on HBO as well as on shows in the US and Britain such as Curb Your Enthusiasm,30 Rock. The supporting cast includes Janeane Garofalo, Wallace Langham, Penny Johnson, Linda Doucett, Scott Thompson, Garry Shandling took a slightly different path with the cable network sitcoms The Larry Sanders Show and its forerunner Its Garry Shandlings Show. In Its Garry Shandlings Show, Shandling makes use of the George Burns technique of addressing the audience. He speaks to the studio and home audiences as well as the other actors, in both shows celebrity guests appear as themselves and Shandling essentially plays himself, a star of a television show and stand-up comedian with a distinctive comic persona and rhythm. I thought I could make the show look very real so the audience would buy that part. In 1981, Shandling performed a routine on The Tonight Show and subsequently became a regular guest. He also began appearing as a guest host and, in 1986 and he was considered to be a possible, although unlikely, successor to Johnny Carson. After Jay Leno replaced Carson in 1992, Shandling was offered his own talk show but preferred instead to create a show about a talk-show. Alex Pareene commented Shandling turned down hosting a late night show to do a brilliant cult hit sitcom about a version of himself who took the deal. The show follows the production of a late night talk show The Larry Sanders Show. It chronicles the life of host Larry, producer Arthur Artie, sidekick Hank Kingsley and their interaction with celebrity guests. Episodes focus on the professional and personal lives of the principal characters, ancillary characters are also featured, among them the writers Phil and Jerry, talent bookers Paula and Mary Lou, and the personal assistants Beverly, Darlene and Brian. Larrys wife, ex-wife and girlfriends are frequent sources of conflict, a typical early episode opens to the titles with the sound of Hanks audience warm-up routine in the background. This is followed by the shows titles and an excerpt from Larrys monologue. Episodes vary after this, sometimes continuing with the studio recording, the Larry Sanders Show is a satire on show business that mixes fact with fiction
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Kounterfeit
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Kounterfeit is a 1996 American crime/thriller film starring Bruce Payne and Hilary Swank. Kounterfeit was directed by John Mallory Asher and written by David Chase, Katherine Fugate, a counterfeiter of money is attacked by two masked men and threatened to inform them where a certain amount of counterfeited money is. The counterfeiter pleads ignorance and is subsequently killed, tommy Hopscotch Hopkins, who has the money, learns of the death of the counterfeiter and begins to fear for his own safety. Consequently, he asks his friend, the street smart Frankie, Frankie reluctantly agrees to assist his friend. The two attend the venue of the exchange, which is the house of a police officer. Danny believes that he is being assisted by two FBI agents in order to arrest Frankie and Hopscotch, instead the other two men shoot and kill Danny and attempt to kill Frankie and Hopscotch. Frankie manages to shoot the two men after they kill Danny and he and Hopscotch flee the house with the real, Frankie also pulls some paper out of the jacket of one of the two purported FBI agents. The shootout is witnessed by Dannys sister Colleen, who was hiding in the house, distraught, she mistakenly believes that Frankie killed her brother and provides the police with his description. After fleeing the scene, Frankie escorts Hopscotch to the house of the latters brother, Frankie advises Hopscotch to lie low while he conjures up a plan of what to do with the money. Marty seems concerned that his brother is associating with someone like Frankie, Colleen is comforted by the colleagues of her dead brother Danny, including his boss Captain Evans. He advises her that they will do whatever is necessary to find Dannys killers, the investigation into Dannys death is led by Vic, who is Colleens former lover. It transpires that Vic had ended his relationship with Colleen acrimoniously years previously, despite their troubled past, he spends time with Colleen to help her combat her grief. However, struggling to restrain her emotions, Colleen becomes frustrated with the investigation into her brothers death as she begins to believe that progress is being made. As a result, she loses faith with her brothers former colleagues and decides to conduct her own investigations and she manages to track down Frankie and asks to be allowed to perform at his strip club. He admits that she is pretty enough to do the job, meanwhile, after Frankie is attacked by the two masked men who killed the counterfeiter, he and Hopscotch decide to bury the three suitcases of money in the desert to ensure that they are safe. After burying the money Hopscotch is killed and Frankie is forced to engage in a shootout with the killer, the killer is revealed to be one of the two masked men and Hopscotchs brother, Marty. Frankie persuades Marty to inform him of the identity of the masked man who he soon learns is Vic. In a show of disloyalty, Vic kills Marty and requests that Frankie tell him of the whereabouts of the money, Frankie declines to do so and returns to his strip club, where in a private performance he watches Colleen audition for a job
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Aurora: Operation Intercept
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Aurora, Operation Intercept is a 1995 film directed by Paul Levine and starring Bruce Payne, Lance Henriksen and John Stockwell. The Aurora is a secret military aircraft based at Groom Lake. It is very similar to what aviation experts assume to be the Aurora aircraft, in the film, it is being stolen by a Russian terrorist who tries to destroy the White House. The propulsion system is a combined cycle conventional/scramjet engine, Francesca Zaborszin believes that the U. S. government murdered her father, a Soviet scientist and defector, and made it look like suicide. Francesca sets up her own base in the deserts of Kazakhstan, wielding powerful electromagnetic pulses channelled though orbiting navigation satellites to attack and she also captures the revolutionary high-altitude fighter-bomber Aurora One. Summoned to strike back are Major Paul Gordon Pruitt and Major Andy Aldrich, forced down by Zaborszin, the pair are caught and tortured by her private army of sinister Slavs, but Pruitt escapes. Eventually, things lead both Francesca and Pruitt to take to the skies in separate Auroras and she penetrates D. C. airspace to make a bombing run at the White House, but Pruitts afterburners cause Francescas jet to barrel roll and explode, killing Francesca. Commentators have noted that since the making of the movie, reality has imitated fiction, Bruce Payne as Gordon Pruett Natalya Andreychenko as Francesca Zaborszin Lance Henriksen as William Stenghel Corbin Bernsen as Flight Engineer Murphy Curt Lowens as Dr
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Boston Legal
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Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley and produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3,2004, to December 8,2008, prior to the shows premiere, it had a working title of Fleet Street, an allusion to the real street in Boston where the fictitious Crane, Poole & Schmidt had its offices. The working title was modified to The Practice, Fleet Street. The real building shown as the law office is located at 500 Boylston Street,1.4 miles away from Fleet Street, the American producers of the series also hired British writer Sir John Mortimer, QC, as a consultant for Boston Legal. The shows pilot was produced with former The Practice stars James Spader and Rhona Mitra, guest stars William Shatner and Lake Bell. It featured a storyline with Larry Miller as Edwin Poole. Monica Potter was later cast as junior partner Lori Colson and René Auberjonois as senior partner Paul Lewiston, the pilot premiered on ABC on October 3,2004. On November 30,2004, it was announced that Candice Bergen would join the cast as senior partner Shirley Schmidt, Lake Bell left the series mid-season, and René Auberjonois was promoted to main cast member. Anthony Heald and Betty White also made regular guest appearances, having appeared as the same characters on The Practice. The success of Greys Anatomy placed Boston Legal on hold until autumn 2005, both Rhona Mitra and Monica Potter left the series during the hiatus, while Julie Bowen was cast as Denise Bauer. Ryan Michelle Bathe and Justin Mentell were later cast as junior associates Sara Holt, the second episode of Season 3 introduced Craig Bierko as Jeffrey Coho and Constance Zimmer as Claire Simms. In Episode 11, guest star Gary Anthony Williams joined the cast, on June 4,2007, TV Guide announced that René Auberjonois, Julie Bowen, Mark Valley, and Constance Zimmer would not return for Season 4. Christian Clemenson, who had guest-starred occasionally as Jerry Espenson – was promoted to main cast, production also stated that René Auberjonois, Mark Valley, Julie Bowen, and Constance Zimmer may return in guest roles. Burrows later became a full-time cast member, on May 13,2008, ABC announced that Boston Legal would return for a fifth season in the fall. Saffron Burrows did not return as a regular, having joined the cast of My Own Worst Enemy. The final season consisted of 13 episodes to reach the 100 episode mark, there was speculation that Boston Legal might receive an additional episode-order if the show had another strong showing in the Emmy Awards and produced solid ratings in its new fall time slot. The season began airing on September 22,2008, on June 18 and June 20,2008, it was reported that Gary Anthony Williams and Taraji P. Henson would not return for Season 5 as Clarence Bell and Whitney Rome, respectively. On July 17,2008, Boston Legal was nominated for a series-high seven Emmy nominations, Spader, Bergen, and Shatner were each nominated for their respective roles
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Star Trek, The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran between 1987 and 1994. Roddenberry, Maurice Hurley, Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor served as producers at different times throughout its production. The series involves a starship named Enterprise and is set in the regions of the Milky Way galaxy. The first episode takes place in the year 2364,100 years after the start of the mission described in the original series. It features a new cast and a new starship Enterprise, the fifth to bear the name within the franchises storyline and these are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission, to strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations. TNG premiered the week of September 28,1987, drawing 27 million viewers, in total,176 episodes were made, ending with the two-hour finale All Good Things. The week of May 23,1994, the series was broadcast in first-run syndication with dates and times varying among individual television stations. Three additional Star Trek spin-offs followed The Next Generation, Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, Star Trek, Voyager, and Star Trek, Enterprise. The series formed the basis for the seventh through to the tenth of the Star Trek films, and is also the setting of novels, comic books. In its seventh season, Star Trek, The Next Generation became the first, the series received a number of accolades including 19 Emmy Awards, two Hugo Awards, five Saturn Awards, and a Peabody Award. The series follows the adventures of a crew on board the starship USS Enterprise, the fifth Federation vessel to bear the name and registry. The series is set about 70 years after the mission of the original Enterprise crew under the command of James T. Kirk. Beverly Crusher, conn officer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, and junior officer Lieutenant Worf, the death of Lieutenant Yar in the series first season prompts an internal shuffle of personnel, making Worf official chief of security. Geordi La Forge is promoted to engineer at the beginning of season 2. The series begins with the crew of the Enterprise-D put on trial by a nefarious, the god-like entity threatens the extinction of mankind for being a race of savages, forcing them to solve a mystery at nearby Farpoint Station to prove their worthiness to be spared. After successfully solving the mystery and avoiding disaster, the crew departs on its mission to explore strange new worlds. Subsequent stories focus on the discovery of new life and sociological and political relationships with alien cultures, several new species are introduced as recurring antagonists, including the Ferengi, the Cardassian, and the Borg
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JAG (TV series)
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The first season was co-produced with NBC Productions. Rival network CBS picked up the series for a midseason replacement, for several seasons, JAG climbed in the ratings and was on the air for nine additional seasons. JAG furthermore spawned the hit series NCIS, which in turn spun off NCIS, Los Angeles and NCIS, in total,227 episodes were produced over 10 seasons. At the time of the airing of its fifth season in the United States. JAG entered syndication early in 1999, the stereotype in the post-Vietnam war era of crazed Vietnam veterans was notably subverted, by not just one, but three of the main characters, in Magnum P. I. of which Bellisario was the co-creator. Following the cancellation of his series Quantum Leap, Bellisario began working on a screenplay of a murder mystery aboard a U. S. Navy aircraft carrier. The issue of whether or not to expand the options for women serving in the U. S. armed forces as fighter pilots and in other frontline assignments was a contentious social issue of the day. The fallout from the incident resulted in a blow to the naval aviation community. The common counterclaim from the side of the aisle, as articulated by former Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration. In 1997, though, the services had begun to change their minds. Almost all episodes of the series feature scenes filmed aboard real United States Navy ships, the ship most widely used was the USS Forrestal, in commission as a training carrier at the time. Most of the Nimitz-class carriers also appear in one or several episodes, USS Saratoga, USS Enterprise, and USS John F. Kennedy were also used in the series. USS Enterprise was used as the fictional USS Seahawk in many episodes, USS Forrestal and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower were also used as the fictional Seahawk, both in season four and for one episode each. For scenes filmed aboard Enterprise, the crew wore caps reading USS Seahawk – CVN65 so they matched the ships real hull number. USS Forrestal was featured in episodes, most prominently two in which she portrayed the fictional USS Reprisal. In these episodes, all members wore caps with the CV-35 pennant number. This number was out of sequence with the pennant numbers of active USN carriers at the time the series was filmed. Only six USN ships featured in the series were called by their names, USS Hornet, USS Coral Sea, USS Kitty Hawk, USS America, USS Theodore Roosevelt
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Republican Party (United States)
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The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution and it was founded by anti-slavery activists, modernists, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers in 1854. The Republicans dominated politics nationally and in the majority of northern States for most of the period between 1860 and 1932, there have been 19 Republican presidents, the most from any one party. The Republican Partys current ideology is American conservatism, which contrasts with the Democrats more progressive platform, further, its platform involves support for free market capitalism, free enterprise, fiscal conservatism, a strong national defense, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions. In addition to advocating for economic policies, the Republican Party is socially conservative. As of 2017, the GOP is documented as being at its strongest position politically since 1928, in addition to holding the Presidency, the Republicans control the 115th United States Congress, having majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures, the main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil, the first public meeting of the general anti-Nebraska movement where the name Republican was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20,1854, in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The name was chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jeffersons Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6,1854, in Jackson and it oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877. The Republicans initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest, with the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 United States presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states, early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan free labor, free land, free men, which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio. Free labor referred to the Republican opposition to labor and belief in independent artisans. Free land referred to Republican opposition to the system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land. The Party strove to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power, Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of preserving the Union, and destroying slavery during the American Civil War, in the election of 1864, it united with War Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket. The partys success created factionalism within the party in the 1870s and those who felt that Reconstruction had been accomplished and was continued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President Ulysses S. Grant ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and the system, the Half-Breeds led by Chester A. Arthur pushed for reform of the civil service in 1883
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The West Wing
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The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22,1999, to May 14,2006. The West Wing was produced by Warner Bros, for the first four seasons, there were three executive producers, Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme, and John Wells. The West Wing received acclaim from critics, as well as praise from political science professors, in total, The West Wing won three Golden Globe Awards and 26 Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Drama Series, which it won four consecutive times from 2000 through 2003. In the years since its run, it has appeared on lists of the greatest television dramas ever made. The Writers Guild of America also ranked it #10 in its 101 Best-Written TV Series list, the West Wing employed a broad ensemble cast to portray the many positions involved in the daily work of the federal government. The President, the First Lady, and the Presidents senior staff, numerous secondary characters, appearing intermittently, complement storylines that generally revolve around this core group. Sam Seaborn is the Deputy Communications Director and he departs the White House following the re-election of President Bartlet to run for Congress. He is recruited to become Santos Deputy Chief of Staff at the series end, mandy Hampton is Josh Lymans ex-girlfriend and a media consultant contracted by the Bartlet administration. She departs without explanation following the first season, charlie Young is originally the Personal Aide to the President and later a Deputy Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff. He is in a relationship with Zoey Bartlet, at the series end he begins to study law at Georgetown. She succeeds Leo McGarry as Chief of Staff and departs White House at the end of the Bartlet administration, post-series, she marries Danny Concannon and has a child. He is fired from the Bartlet administration during a leak investigation and he has twin children with his ex-wife who is a congresswoman from Maryland. Leo McGarry, Bartlets close personal friend and Chief of Staff, following a heart attack, he becomes Counselor to the President, and later the Democratic Candidate for Vice President. Josh Lyman, is the Deputy Chief of Staff to Leo McGarry and C. J. Cregg, when Santos is elected, Josh becomes White House Chief of Staff. Josiah Jed Bartlet is the President of the United States, an economist by training, he is a former Congressman and Governor from New Hampshire who unexpectedly won the Democratic Party nomination. He suffers from multiple sclerosis, a fact he hides from the electorate. Donna Moss is the Senior Assistant to Josh Lyman and she later departs to be a spokesperson for the Russell campaign and then the Santos campaign. Upon Santos election, she becomes Chief of Staff to the First Lady, abbey Bartlet is the First Lady, Jeds wife, and a physician
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Dead Air (2009 film)
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Dead Air is a 2009 American science fiction-horror film directed by Corbin Bernsen and starring Bill Moseley and Patricia Tallman. The story focuses on a station that warns its listeners after an explosion unleashes zombies into Los Angeles. Screenwriter Kenny Yakkel explained before the release that the undead presented are not actual zombies, Its like a PCP zombie movie. A plague in the form of a toxic gas is unleashed at major sporting events across the United States. The gas turns its victims instantly into a rage of insanity. Controversial Los Angeles talk show radio host Logan Burnhardt and his team are caught up in the middle of the chaos. Only blocks away from the site, they begin to receive reports of rioters in the streets. In addition to those infected by the virus, the terrorists, led by Abir, responsible for the attempt to make their way to Logans studio. Bill Moseley as Logan Burnhardt Patricia Tallman as Lucy David Moscow as Gil Navid Negahban as Abir Corbin Bernsen as Dr and it has been described as 28 Days Later meets Talk Radio, but this is less about the flesheating-zombie thing and more about the paranoia following 9/11. It brings together Bill Moseley and Patricia Tallman as Lucy, Moseleys characters ex-wife, the film also marks Tallmans return to the genre, which the actress says is her first work of substance since the end of her run on TVs Babylon 5. Though originally slated for a Winter 2007 theatrical release, Dead Air, was released on October 27,2009, paul Mount of Starburst rated it 6/10 stars and called it an enjoyably hokey experience that overcomes its derivativeness. Gareth Jones of Dread Central rated it 2/5 stars and wrote that the scenes lack any kind of suspense or sense of threat, dustin Hall of Brutal as Hell wrote the film isn’t particularly scary but gives much to ponder. Official website Dead Air at the Internet Movie Database
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Shawn Spencer
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Shawn Spencer is a fictional character on the American television drama and comedy Psych played by American actor James Roday. Taking advantage of his memory, he poses as a psychic. Shawn is a baby, born in February 1977. His parents separated in 1992, and later divorced, his mother, Madeleine and his father, Henry Spencer, schooled Shawn in detective work from birth, aiding the development of his extraordinary powers of observation and deduction. At the age of 15, he achieved a score of 100 on the detectives exam. This is drawn loosely from the childhood of series creator Steve Franks, Franks father would ask him how many people were wearing hats in a restaurant, a tactic employed in the shows pilot episode by Shawns father. Though often it may seem that Henry is intentionally aggravating or imposing his will on his grown son, for example, tipping off the meter maid to ticket Shawns motorcycle which is parked too close to a hydrant outside his apartment. The impounding as a result was Henrys ultimate goal, as Shawn had gotten into an accident some time ago. When push comes to shove, Shawns father is there to back him up, whether it be providing advice on a case Shawn is stuck on or tracking down Shawns kidnappers. For years, Shawn blamed his father for leaving his mother and ending their marriage but in the season opener. Shawn thus realizes his father never told the truth as he didnt want to ruin the image Shawn had of his mother as near perfect and sees Henry in a new light. In his spare time, he entertains himself by calling in tips to the police hotline based on observations he has made on crime scenes shown in news footage. After one such tip, the Santa Barbara police become suspicious of Shawn, desperate to avoid jail time, Shawn lies, explaining that he obtained the information in a psychic vision. They hire Shawn as a consultant, although Shawn and Gus often have disagreements, they have been friends since early childhood and actor James Roday describes the pairs bond as unbreakable. Its one of those friendships that make people who dont have one ask and its not about putting up with one another. Its about knowing each other so well that things that might annoy someone from the outside dont annoy you anymore. Shawn knows exactly how to manipulate Gus, and often frustrates his friend with his antics, but has come to rely on him more in their case work as the series has progressed. Roday believes that Shawn has evolved a lot as a partner and he states that under Guss influence, Shawn has wisened up a little bit and is learning to display a little more discretion at times
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James Roday
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James Roday is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He starred on the USA Network series Psych as hyper-observant consultant detective, Roday was born in San Antonio, Texas, as James David Rodriguez. He attended Taft High School in San Antonio and his father, Jaime Jim Rodriguez, is of Mexican descent, and his mother, Irene Rodriguez, is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Rodays father is now the regional catering manager of Taco Cabana, at New York Universitys Experimental Theatre Wing, Roday studied theatre and earned a bachelors degree in fine arts. At the age of 22 he selected the professional name James Roday as there was already another James Rodriguez registered in the Screen Actors Guild, in the New York production of White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour. He starred in the 2003 film Rolling Kansas, and appeared in the 2005 film adaptation of The Dukes Of Hazzard as Billy Prickett, behind the scenes, he and writing partners Todd Harthan and James DeMonaco wrote the screenplay for the film Skinwalkers. The team also worked on a script for the adaptation of the video game Driver. Roday directed his first feature film, Gravy in 2013, written by him, rodays television credits include starring roles on NBCs Miss Match in 2003 as Nick Paine and 2001s First Years as Edgar Egg Ross. The July 7,2006 series premiere of USA Networks original series Psych was the highest-rated scripted basic cable TV show premiere of 2006, after Psych, Roday starred in various pilots and independent films before focusing more and more on his work behind the camera. He has since directed episodes for Battle Creek, Rush Hour, Rosewood, in 2006, Roday was nominated for the Best Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical for Psych by the Satellite Awards. He was listed as #62 in People magazines 100 Most Beautiful People issue in 2007, in 2008, he was nominated for Outstanding Actor In a Comedy Television Series for Psych by the NCLR ALMA Awards. His role as Shawn Spencer in Psych earned him an EWwy Award nomination in 2009 for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, in 2009, he was nominated by the ALMA Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for Psych. In 2011, he was nominated again by the ALMA Awards for Favorite TV Actor-Leading Role for Psych, in 2010, he was nominated by the Image Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for Psych for the episode High Top Fade Out. In 2009 and 2011, he was nominated by the Imagen Foundation Awards for Best Actor-Television for Psych. Roday also won the award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series at the 2nd Annual Timmys Awards in 2012, after being nominated the previous year, in 2012, Roday won the award for Best Actor in a television series for Psych at the Imagen Awards. Roday is the director of the Red Dog Squadron, a Los Angeles theater company he co-founded with Brad Raider. Roday dated fellow Psych co-star Maggie Lawson for eight years before she married actor Ben Koldyke in 2015, James Roday at the Internet Movie Database USA Network biography of James Roday
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25 Hill
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25 Hill is a 2011 drama film written and directed by Corbin Bernsen about the All-American Soap Box Derby, the championships of which are held each August in Akron, OH. It stars Nathan Gamble, Corbin Bernsen, Maureen Flannigan,12 year-old Trey Caldwell is shattered when his soldier father is killed in Afghanistan, leaving a hole in the boy’s life – and an unfinished Soap Box Derby car in the garage. A final gift from his dad, the car is a constant reminder of all that could have been. But when Trey meets Roy Gibbs, a grizzled Fire Chief devastated by the loss of his son on 9/11. Nathan Gamble as Trey Caldwell, a boy who has no interest in derby racing, Corbin Bernsen as Roy Gibbs, a man who helps Trey build his derby cart. Maureen Flannigan as Maggie Caldwell, Treys mom, who supports him, Ralph Waite as Ed, a man who helps Trey. Timothy Omundson as Thomas Caldwell, Treys dad, bailee Madison as Kate Slater, Treys nemesis. Brad Raider as Derek Slater, Kates father, andrew Nellise, Todd Hinton, Scott Sherwood as Team Slater Jim Clark, Western Regional Track Announcer Filming started in Akron, Ohio on April 7,2010 and went into post-production on August 13. 25 Hill at the Internet Movie Database Official website
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Soap Box Derby
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The Soap Box is a youth soapbox car racing program which has been run in the United States since 1934. World Championship finals are held each July at Derby Downs in Akron, cars competing in this and related events are unpowered, relying completely upon gravity to move. In the wake of the first car races, local auto races took place in the US at a very early stage. In 1914 the motion picture Kid Auto Races at Venice starring Charlie Chaplin was shown in the cinemas, in 1933 Myron Scott, a photographer for Dayton, Ohio newspaper Dayton Daily News, put together an impromptu race for 19 boys. There was so much interest that Scott arranged a bigger race, an amazing crowd of 362 kids showed up with homemade cars built of orange crates, sheet tin, wagon and baby-buggy wheels. The following year, the first All-American race was held on August 19, the national winner was Robert Turner of Muncie, IN, who made his car from the wood of a saloon bar. In 1935 the race was moved from Dayton to Akron because of its central location, an accident in 1935 captured the publics interest, and boosted the events profile. A car went off the track and struck NBCs top commentator, despite a concussion and other injuries, McNamee described the collision to his listeners and finished his broadcast. In 1936, Akron civic leaders recognized the need for a permanent track site for the youth racing classic and, through the efforts of the Works Progress Administration, Derby Downs became a reality. In 1947, actor James Stewart was appearing in the Broadway play Harvey, in order to attend the event, he cancelled a weekends worth of performances, at its peak, the Derby was one of the top five sporting events in terms of attendance. Starting in 1993, the All-American Soap Box derby began the Rally World Championship, the Rally derby is a grand prix style of race in which each district, ten in all, sends back a number of champions based on number of racers and races in each district. Today there are categories that extend the age range to younger racers. This is especially helpful for children who cannot use power tools. Using standardized wheels with precision ball bearings, modern gravity-powered racers start at a ramp on top of a hill, each heat of a race lasts less than 30 seconds. Most races are double elimination races where a racer that loses a heat can work their way through the Challengers Bracket in an attempt to win the overall race. The annual World Championship race in Akron, however, is an elimination race which uses overhead photography, triggered by a timing system. Approximately 500 racers compete in two or three car heats to determine a World Champion in each divisions, there are three racing divisions in most locals and at the All-American competition. The Stock division is designed to give the first-time builder a learning experience, boys and girls, ages 7 through 13, compete in simplified cars built from kits purchased from the All-American
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Zombie
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A zombie is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works, the term comes from Haitian folklore, where a zombie is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magic. Modern depictions of zombies do not necessarily involve magic but often invoke science fictional methods such as carriers, radiation, mental diseases, vectors, viruses, scientific accidents, etc. The English word zombie is first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, the Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African, and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi and zumbi. One of the first books to expose Western culture to the concept of the zombie was The Magic Island by W. B. This is the account of a narrator who encounters voodoo cults in Haiti. Time claimed that the book introduced zombi into U. S. speech, Zombies have a complex literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft to Mary Shelleys Frankenstein drawing on European folklore of the undead. In 1932, Victor Halperin directed White Zombie, a film starring Bela Lugosi. Here zombies are depicted as mindless, unthinking henchmen under the spell of an evil magician, a new version of the zombie, distinct from that described in Haitian folklore, has also emerged in popular culture during the latter half of the twentieth century. This zombie is taken largely from George A. Romeros seminal film Night of the Living Dead, the word zombie is not used in Night of the Living Dead but was applied later by fans. The zombie apocalypse concept, in which the world is brought low by a global zombie infestation. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African, in Haitian folklore, a zombie is an animated corpse raised by magical means, such as witchcraft. The concept has been associated with the religion of voodoo. How the creatures in contemporary zombie films came to be called zombies is not fully clear, the film Night of the Living Dead made no spoken reference to its undead antagonists as zombies, describing them instead as ghouls. Although George Romero used the term ghoul in his original scripts, the word zombie is used exclusively by Romero in his 1978 script for his sequel Dawn of the Dead, including once in dialog. According to George Romero, film critics were influential in associating the term zombie to his creatures and he eventually accepted this linkage even though he remained convinced at the time that zombies corresponded to the undead slaves of Haitian voodoo as depicted in Bela Lugosis White Zombie. Zombies are featured widely in Haitian rural folklore as dead persons physically revived by the act of necromancy of a bokor, the bokor is opposed by the houngan or priest and the mambo or priestess of the formal voodoo religion. A zombie remains under the control of the bokor as a personal slave, the Haitian tradition also includes an incorporeal type of zombie, the zombie astral, which is a part of the human soul
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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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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
