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Drama
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Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning action, which is derived from I do, the two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia, Thalia was the Muse of comedy, while Melpomene was the Muse of tragedy. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the mode has been contrasted with the epic. The use of drama in a narrow sense to designate a specific type of play dates from the modern era. Drama in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy—for example and it is this narrower sense that the film and television industries, along with film studies, adopted to describe drama as a genre within their respective media. Radio drama has been used in both senses—originally transmitted in a performance, it has also been used to describe the more high-brow. The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production, the structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. The early modern tragedy Hamlet by Shakespeare and the classical Athenian tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles are among the masterpieces of the art of drama, a modern example is Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill. Closet drama describes a form that is intended to be read, in improvisation, the drama does not pre-exist the moment of performance, performers devise a dramatic script spontaneously before an audience. Western drama originates in classical Greece, the theatrical culture of the city-state of Athens produced three genres of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Their origins remain obscure, though by the 5th century BCE they were institutionalised in competitions held as part of celebrating the god Dionysus. The competition for tragedies may have begun as early as 534 BCE, tragic dramatists were required to present a tetralogy of plays, which usually consisted of three tragedies and one satyr play. Comedy was officially recognized with a prize in the competition from 487 to 486 BCE, five comic dramatists competed at the City Dionysia, each offering a single comedy. Ancient Greek comedy is traditionally divided between old comedy, middle comedy and new comedy, following the expansion of the Roman Republic into several Greek territories between 270–240 BCE, Rome encountered Greek drama. While Greek drama continued to be performed throughout the Roman period, from the beginning of the empire, however, interest in full-length drama declined in favour of a broader variety of theatrical entertainments. The first important works of Roman literature were the tragedies and comedies that Livius Andronicus wrote from 240 BCE, five years later, Gnaeus Naevius also began to write drama. No plays from either writer have survived, by the beginning of the 2nd century BCE, drama was firmly established in Rome and a guild of writers had been formed
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Sarah Shahi
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Aahoo Jahansouz Sarah Shahi is an American television actress and former NFL Cheerleader of Iranian and Spanish ancestry. She played Kate Reed in the USA Network legal drama Fairly Legal in 2011–12, Carmen on The L Word in 2008 and she has also appeared as the main female role Det. Dani Reese in Life, and in a role in Alias. Sarah Shahi was born on January 10,1980, in Euless, Texas and she is the daughter of Mah Monir, an interior designer, and Abbas Jahansouz Shahi, who divorced when she was ten. Her maternal grandfather is Persian and her grandmother is from Spain. She has a brother, Cyrus, and a younger sister, Samantha. Her fathers family left Iran two years before the Iranian Revolution and her father, who was working at the American Embassy in Iran, was slated for execution when the regime collapsed in 1979 but was allowed to flee the country. Her birth name, Aahoo, means gazelle in Persian, Shahi adopted Sarah as her name in second grade after hearing a song called Sarah because she was tormented by other children about her unusual birth name. At her fathers behest, she grew up speaking Persian, in addition to English, shahis parents began entering her in beauty pageants at the age of eight. Shahi attended Trinity High School, where she was captain of the volleyball and basketball teams, Shahi won the Miss Fort Worth pageant in 1997. Hoping to become an actress, she joined the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders squad despite not having cheered before, while working as an extra on the set of Dr. In 2005 she appeared in the character role of DJ Carmen de la Pica Morales on The L Word. Shahis two-year contract was not renewed after the end of the fourth season, in 2007, she secured a small role in Rush Hour 3 as Zoe, a scantily clad rich girl who is pursued by Chris Tuckers character, Detective Carter. In 2007, she took on her first permanent leading role on a TV series, the series ran for two seasons. In October 2009, Shahi landed the role in the USA Network pilot. Shahi began filming in November 2009, the show followed the life of Kate Reed, a legal mediator who is frustrated with the bureaucracy and injustice she witnesses in the legal system. The series title was changed to Fairly Legal. The show was cancelled after two seasons in November 2012, Shahi was cast as a recurring love interest for Taylor Kinneys character Lt. Kelly Severide on NBCs show Chicago Fire in October 2012
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Dennis Haysbert
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Dennis Dexter Haysbert is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his appearances in commercials for Allstate Insurance and he is also known for playing U. S. Senator David Palmer on the first 5 seasons of 24 and has appeared in the films Love Field, Heat, as of late autumn 2016, Haysbert co-stars in the science fiction series Incorporated. Haysbert was born in San Mateo, California, the son of Gladys, a homemaker and house cleaner and he is the eighth of nine children, having two sisters and six brothers. Haysbert graduated from San Mateo High School in 1972, after high school, being 6 ft 5 in tall, he was offered athletic scholarships but instead chose to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Haysbert is a divorced father of two. He announced in April 2009 that he was starting a TV, film and his first project was to be a documentary for HBO about an up-and-coming boxer. During the 2010 California elections, Haysbert supported Democratic Senatorial incumbent Barbara Boxer by appearing with her at campaign events, Haysbert has been acting in film and television since 1978, starting with a guest role in The White Shadow. In 1993, he had a role in Return to Lonesome Dove as outlaw Cherokee Jack Jackson. In 1999, Haysbert starred with Eric Close in Now and Again, in 2001, Haysbert became best known when he was cast in 24 as U. S. Senator David Palmer, who served as Americas first African American President during the second and he also returned as a guest star in the last six episodes of season 4 and the first episode of season 5. He was nominated for a Golden Globe and for a Golden Satellite Award in 2002 for this role, Haysbert stated in an interview for the show that the three men he admires most—Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Colin Powell—collectively embody his idea of what a President should be. Haysbert believes that his playing of David Palmer on 24 helped Barack Obama—whom Haysbert supported—to win the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Haysbert was the first actor to portray DC Comics character Kilowog, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, in a medium outside of comics. He provided the voice of Kilowog on various episodes of Justice League, on March 4,2006, Haysbert guest starred on the Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Natalie Portman as the host of a live action/animated TV Funhouse cartoon called Belated Black History Moment. In his role, Haysbert paid homage to fictional short-lived Saturday morning cartoons featuring black characters and he also portrayed Nelson Mandela in Goodbye Bafana. Haysbert portrayed the lead character Jonas Blane in the CBS action-drama The Unit, in March 2013, Haysbert narrated the documentary The World According to Dick Cheney on the Showtime television channel. In 2015, Haysbert played Detective John Almond in Backstrom, in November 2016, Haysbert began his co-starring role in the nightmarish world of 2074 Milwaukee in Incorporated. The planet is in hell, and civilization is now ruled by a handful of super-corporations
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Sendhil Ramamurthy
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Sendhil Ramamurthy is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as geneticist Mohinder Suresh in the NBC sci-fi drama Heroes, Ramamurthy was born in Chicago to a Kannadiga Indian father and a Tamil Indian mother who had emigrated from India. He grew up speaking English and a little Kannada and he has one sister who is also a physician. He and his sister were raised in San Antonio, there, he went to Keystone School and graduated in 1991. He is the cousin of comedian and film director Jay Chandrasekhar, Ramamurthy is married to actress Olga Sosnovska with two children, daughter Halina and son Alex, and lives in London. Ramamurthy attended Tufts University initially as a major to follow in his parents footsteps. He was also a member of the Kappa Charge of Theta Delta Chi and he became interested in acting when he took an Intro to Acting class during his junior year as part of his graduation requirement. After participating in several plays — including Our Countrys Good, he chose to change career goals and he graduated with a bachelors degree in history and then attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1996, graduating in 1998. Ramamurthy has appeared in productions of A Servant of Two Masters in Londons West End, Indian Ink at the Soho Repertory Theatre. His film credits include Love & Debate, Orient Express, Blind Dating, Little India, Shor in the City and Gurinder Chadhas comedy film Its a Wonderful Afterlife. In addition, he has appeared on several TV shows, including Ellen, Casualty, Guiding Light, Greys Anatomy, Ultimate Force, CSI, Miami, Heroes and he made a conscious decision to not audition for stereotypical Indian roles, although he has been offered such parts. Ramamurthys role on Heroes was his biggest to date, although the character of Mohinder Suresh was originally written for a 55-year-old, his audition tape and screen test were convincing enough for writers to rewrite the part for Ramamurthy. Ramamurthy starred in all four seasons of Heroes, although his appearance in the season was limited, had the series been recommissioned for a fifth season. In 2000, he appeared in NBCs television biblical miniseries In the Beginning in the role of Adam, Ramamurthy guest starred in a season four episode of Psych titled Bollywood Homicide, directed by Jay Chandrasekhar. Ramamurthy joined the cast of the USA Network show Covert Affairs as Jai Wilcox from the second episode onward, replacing character Conrad Sheehan III, the show premiered in July 2010. His character was out of the show in the premiere of season 3. In 2012, Ramamurthy appeared in the season of The Office as Kelly Kapoors new boyfriend. On December 19,2012, it was announced that he would appear in the CW show Beauty & the Beast as Gabriel Lowen and he appeared in his Heroes role in that seriess continuation entitled Heroes Reborn, in 2015 and 2016
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Steven Spielberg
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Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE, OMRI is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the pioneers of the New Hollywood era. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios, in a career spanning more than four decades, Spielbergs films have spanned many themes and genres. His other films include Jurassic Park, A. I, artificial Intelligence, and War of the Worlds. Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan, three of Spielbergs films—Jaws, E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park—achieved box office records, originated and came to epitomize the blockbuster film. The unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $9 billion worldwide and his personal net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family and his mother, Leah Posner, was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg, was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine who settled in Cincinnati in the first decade of the 1900s, in 1950, his family moved to Haddon Township, New Jersey when his father took a job with RCA. Three years later, the moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis, as a child, Spielberg faced difficulty reconciling being an Orthodox Jew with the perception of him by other children he played with. It isnt something I enjoy admitting, he said, but when I was seven, eight, nine years old, God forgive me. I was embarrassed by the perception of my parents Jewish practices. I was never really ashamed to be Jewish, but I was uneasy at times, Spielberg also said he suffered from acts of anti-Semitic prejudice and bullying, In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. His first home movie was of a wreck involving his toy Lionel trains. Throughout his early teens, and after entering school, Spielberg continued to make amateur 8 mm adventure films. In 1958, he became a Boy Scout and fulfilled a requirement for the merit badge by making a nine-minute 8 mm film entitled The Last Gunfight. Years later, Spielberg recalled to an interviewer, My dads still-camera was broken. He said yes, and I got an idea to do a Western, I made it and got my merit badge
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Universal Television
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Universal Television is the television production subsidiary of the NBCUniversal Television Group and, by extension, the production arm of the NBC television network. It was formerly known as Revue Studios, MCA/Universal, NBC Studios, NBC Universal Television Studio, both NBC Studios and Universal Network Television are predecessors of Universal Media Studios. Revue Productions was founded in 1943 by MCA to produce live radio shows, Revue was re-launched as MCAs television production subsidiary in 1950. The partnership of NBC and Revue extends as far back as September 6,1950, with the television broadcast of Armour Theatre, MCA bought the Universal Studios lot in 1958 and was renamed Revue Studios. Following its merger with Decca Records, the then-parent of Universal Pictures, during the early years of television, Revue was responsible for producing and/or distributing many television classics. The most noteworthy included Leave It to Beaver, which ran for one season on CBS before going to ABC from 1958 until 1963. It produced Bachelor Father, for Bachelor Productions, Edmond OBriens syndicated crime drama Johnny Midnight, another of its offerings was the 52-episode Crusader, the first Brian Keith series, which ran on CBS 1955–1956. Also McHales Navy was produced by Revue from 1962 to 1966, in December 1958 MCA/Revue purchased Universal Studioss 367 acre backlot to produce television series, then leased it back to Universal for a million dollars a year for a decade. Wagon Train was the only Revue-produced TV show ever to finish an American television season in first place, NBC Productions was founded in 1947 by RCA. In 1996, the company was renamed NBC Studios, in 2004, NBC Studios was merged with Universal Network Television to form NBC Universal Television Studio. MCA TV was founded in 1951, several years before parent MCAs purchase of the US branch of Decca Records, for more than four decades, it was one of the most active syndicators of television programming. MCA Television and Paramount Domestic Television had formed Premier Advertiser Sales, as a possible outgrowth of this sales joint venture, MCA and Paramount began plans for a new network, Premier Program Service. MCA Television Entertainment was formed in 1987 and it primarily dealt with made-for-TV movies and series like Dream On that were made for cable networks like HBO. Like MCA TV, in 1996 it was renamed Universal Television Entertainment, EMKA, Ltd. is the holding company responsible for a majority of the pre-1950 Paramount Pictures sound library. As an official part of the Universal Pictures library, they are part of the television unit. The first incarnation of Universal Television was reincorporated from Revue Productions in 1966,4 years after MCA bought Universal Pictures, uni TV also co-produced many shows with Jack Webbs Mark VII Limited such as Emergency. Adam-12 and a revival of the 1951 series Dragnet. I, which received critical acclaim and several TV movie spin-offs after their cancellations. In 1990, MCA/Uni TV began the Law & Order franchise, in 1996, MCA was reincorporated as Universal Studios
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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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WonderCon
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The convention will return to the Anaheim Convention Center in 2017. The convention was conceived by retailer John Barrett and originally held in the Oakland Convention Center, in 2003, it moved to San Franciscos Moscone Center. The shows original name was the Wonderful World of Comics Convention, the WonderCon logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Tim Zach. Retailer Joe Field and his partner Mike Friedrich owned and operated the convention for fifteen years, in 2001, they brokered a deal with the management team that runs the San Diego Comic-Con International to make it part of the Comic-Con International convention family. This gave the San Francisco show an audience and has made it a venue for previews and early screenings of major motion pictures. These have included Spider-Man 2 in 2004, Batman Begins and Fantastic Four in 2005, Superman Returns in 2006,300 in 2007, Watchmen in 2009, all of these events featured the stars of the films fielding questions from the audience. WonderCon had 34,000 attendees in 2009,39,000 in 2010, the show left the Bay Area after the 2011 con, because San Franciscos Moscone Center was being remodeled. The convention moved to Anaheim in 2012, and was rebranded WonderCon Anaheim, in 2016, a new convention started in the Bay Area, called the Silicon Valley Comic Con. WonderCon relocated from Anaheim to Los Angeles in 2016, and is now called WonderCon Los Angeles and was held March 25-27,2016 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the 2017 edition of the convention returned to Anaheim and was held March 31-April 2,2017. While the main attraction of WonderCon has always been various retailers selling back issues of comic books and action figures, there is also an Artists Alley featuring mainly comic book artists selling artwork, signing books, and doing sketches, and mainstream celebrities signing autographed pictures. WonderCon hosted the Harvey Award ceremonies from 1997–1999, since 2007, academicians and comic industry professionals have held the Comics Arts Conference in conjunction with WonderCon. In addition, WonderCon features an event called Trailer Park, where trailers for upcoming films are shown, the WonderCon masquerade competition usually takes place on Saturday after the convention closes. Awards are given to those with the most creative performances, though anyone can participate, official website WonderCon feature on Sidewalks Entertainment WonderCon founders website
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Crisis negotiation
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Crisis negotiation is often initiated by the first officer on the scene. Modern hostage negotiation principles were established in 1972 when then-NYPD Detective Harvey Schlossberg, also a psychologist, the first Hostage Negotiation Teams were often created as elements of Special Weapons and Tactics Teams and merely created a diversion while SWAT deployed. In modern usage, while acting independently, hostage negotiation teams are often deployed in conjunction with SWAT. The FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit and Singapore Police Force Crisis Negotiation Unit are examples of specialized units trained in these techniques, one specific model developed by the FBI is the Behavioral Change Stairway Model. Police negotiators that follow this model work through the stages in order Active Listening, Understand the psychology of the perpetrator. Empathy, Understand their issues and how they feel, rapport, When they begin to see how the negotiator feels, they are building trust. Influence, Only once trust has been gained can solutions to their problem be recommended, Behavioral Change, They act, and maybe surrender. It is considered to be important to work through these steps in order, and not to try to effect behavioral change before rapport has been established
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Virtual reality
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VR also simulates a users physical presence in this environment. A person using virtual reality equipment is able to look around the world, and with high quality VR move about in it. Virtual reality is displayed with a virtual reality headset, VR headsets are head-mounted goggles with a screen in front of the eyes. Programs may include audio and sounds through speakers or headphones, advanced haptic systems may include tactile information, generally known as force feedback in medical, video gaming and military training applications. Some VR systems used in games can transmit vibrations and other sensations to the user through the game controller. Virtual reality also refers to remote communication environments which provide a presence of users with through telepresence and telexistence or the use of a virtual artifact. The immersive environment can be similar to the world in order to create a life-like experience grounded in reality or sci-fi. In 1938, Antonin Artaud described the nature of characters and objects in the theatre as la réalité virtuelle in a collection of essays. The English translation of book, published in 1958 as The Theater. The term artificial reality, coined by Myron Krueger, has been in use since the 1970s, the term virtual reality was used in The Judas Mandala, a 1982 science fiction novel by Damien Broderick. Virtual has had the meaning being something in essence or effect, the term virtual has been used in the computer sense of not physically existing but made to appear by software since 1959. A dictionary definition for cyberspace states that word is a synonym for virtual reality. Virtual reality shares some elements with augmented reality, AR is a type of virtual reality technology that blends what the user sees in their real surroundings with digital content generated by computer software. The additional software-generated images with the virtual scene typically enhance way the real look in some way. Some AR systems use a camera to capture the surroundings or some type of display screen which the user looks at. The Virtual Reality Modelling Language, first introduced in 1994, was intended for the development of worlds without dependency on headsets. The Web3D consortium was founded in 1997 for the development of industry standards for web-based 3D graphics. The consortium subsequently developed X3D from the VRML framework as an archival and these components led to relative affordability for independent VR developers, and lead to the 2012 Oculus Rift kickstarter offering the first independently developed VR headset
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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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American Ninja Warrior
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American Ninja Warrior is an American sports entertainment competition spin-off of the Japanese television series Sasuke. The series began on the cable channel G4 and now airs on NBC with encore episodes airing on Esquire Network. To date only two competitors, rock-climbers Isaac Caldiero and Geoff Britten, have won the course and achieved Total Victory, Caldiero is the only competitor to win the cash prize. The series has been renewed for a ninth season, American Ninja Warrior succeeded G4s American Ninja Challenge as the qualifying route for Americans to enter Sasuke. American Ninja Warrior was originally hosted by G4s American television personality Blair Herter, in the second season, American actor, comedian, and television host Matt Iseman joined the show, replacing the former host, Blair Herter. Additionally, Jimmy Smith was brought in as a co-host, while Alison Haislip was demoted to sideline reporter, the panel remained the same throughout season three. For season four, skier Jonny Moseley was brought in as a new co-host, also, American journalist, sportscaster, and documentary filmmaker Angela Sun replaced former sideline reporter, Alison Haislip. For season five, two newcomers were added, former NFL football player and sports analyst Akbar Gbaja-Biamila replaced season four co-host, Jonny Moseley, while ESPN sportscaster and model Jenn Brown replaced Angela Sun as sideline reporter. The season five panel remained the same through the sixth season, for season seven, CBS Sports reporter Kristine Leahy joined the show as the new sideline reporter, replacing Jenn Brown. The current panel consists of Matt Iseman, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila, potential contestants go through a rigorous series of steps before the possibility of becoming the next American Ninja Warrior. Over 3,500 athletes have attempted to conquer Mount Midoriyama, there are some requirements possible contestants have to meet before participating at a regional qualifier. Contestants must be residents of the United States of America. There is no age limit, but participants must be at least 21 years old. Contestants have to fill out a 20-page questionnaire and make a video about themselves, the required length of the video has differed over the years. Submission video length requirements have varied from 2–8 minutes, depending on the season, producers select 100 applicants from each region to participate in their regional qualifiers. 20-30 walk-ons who in some cases wait for weeks camping outside are also selected by producers to get a chance on the course. 1,000 people applied to compete in one,5,000 people in season six,50,000 in season seven. City finals courses are the follow-up to each city qualifying course, qualifying and finals courses are filmed back-to-back, usually over two days
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The Blacklist (TV series)
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The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series that premiered on NBC on September 23,2013. Raymond Red Reddington, a former U. S. Navy officer turned high-profile criminal, however, he insists on working exclusively with a rookie FBI profiler by the name of Elizabeth Keen. The series also stars Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, and Harry Lennix, the pilot episode was written by Jon Bokenkamp and directed by Joe Carnahan. Executive producers for the series include Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, and John Davis for Sony Pictures Television, Universal Television, on October 4,2013, NBC ordered nine more episodes, filling out the series first season. On December 3,2013, NBC renewed the series for a 22-episode second season, on May 11,2014, owing to the series breakout success, NBC decided to air an episode in the coveted post-Super Bowl timeslot in 2015. On December 5,2015, the series was renewed for a fourth season, a spin-off series, The Blacklist, Redemption premiered on February 23,2017. The series has received positive reviews, with critics praising Spaders performance in particular. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D. C and he offers Cooper his knowledge and assistance on two conditions, immunity from prosecution, and that he wants to work exclusively with Elizabeth Keen, a rookie profiler newly assigned to Cooper. Keen and Cooper are suspicious of Reddingtons interest in her, the mysteries of Reddingtons and Lizs lives, and his interest in her, are gradually revealed as the series progresses. Each episode features one of the criminals, Reddington assisting the team tracking and apprehending them. The rank of the criminal on the list is displayed at the start of every episode. The only exception to rule is the sixty-third episode of the series. During an NBC upfront presentation in May 2013, it was announced that The Blacklist was NBCs highest-testing drama in 10 years, Eisendrath said the casting process was difficult. In February 2013, NBC offered Kiefer Sutherland the lead role of Raymond Reddington, after considering other actors for the role, Eisendrath and Bokenkamp called James Spader to see if he would be interested in it. Feeling confident in Spaders understanding of the character, they cast him three days before filming began, megan Boone took a week to prepare for her audition as FBI profiler Elizabeth Keen. Feeling like her initial audition was one of the auditions of her career. In March 2013, Deadline. com reported that Boone accepted the role as the lead in the series. Despite being set in Washington, D. C. the series is filmed in the same Manhattan studio where Law & Order was filmed for 20 years
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Blindspot (TV series)
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Blindspot is an American crime drama television series created by Martin Gero, starring Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander. The series premiered on September 21,2015, a back nine order was given on October 9,2015, bringing the first season to a total of 22 episodes, plus an additional episode bringing the order to 23 episodes. On November 9,2015, NBC renewed Blindspot for a second season, the second season premiered on September 14,2016. Blindspot focuses on a mysterious tattooed woman who has lost her memory, the FBI discovers that her tattoos contain clues to crimes they will have to solve. Sullivan Stapleton as Kurt Weller, an FBI agent now assistant director at New York field office, in season 1 as head of the FBI Critical Incident Response Group, who is called into the investigation into Jane when his name is found mysteriously tattooed on Janes body. He comes to recognize Jane as his childhood friend Taylor Shaw and becomes very protective, due to having never recovered from the pain. Despite lacking conscious memories, Jane occasionally has flashbacks to her past life and retains a variety of combat. It is suspected she is a former Navy SEAL, whose identity is classified due to involvement in special operations and it is later revealed that Jane was born Alice Kruger in South Africa, then orphaned and trained as a child soldier by the apartheid regime. Shepherd eventually adopted her and raised her as a daughter, audrey Esparza as Special Agent Natasha Tasha Zapata, an FBI agent and member of Kurts team, previously an NYPD officer at the 96th District for five years. Secretly, she has an addiction, caused by guilt from the death of her partner while with the NYPD, and is in severe debt. Ashley Johnson as Special Agent Patterson, head of the FBI Forensic Science Unit, ukweli Roach as Dr. Robert Borden, real name Nigel Thornton, an FBI psychiatrist who helps Jane in retrieving and understanding her past memories. He is later revealed to be a mole for Sandstorm within the FBI, after being cornered by the FBI, he kills himself to avoid capture. Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Bethany Mayfair, Assistant Director In Charge of the FBIs New York Field Office, Mayfair is directly in charge of Kurt and his team, for whom Mayfair acts as an ally and mentor. After Mayfair is framed for murder due to evidence Jane was manipulated into planting, archie Panjabi as Nas Kamal, head of Zero Division, a secret department of the NSA. Luke Mitchell as Ian Roman Kruger, Remi/Janes brother and a member of Sandstorm, Jane wiped his memory after he turned against Shepherd, and he is now in FBI custody. Michelle Hurd as Ellen Shepherd Briggs, Remis and Romans adoptive mother and leader of the terrorist group Sandstorm and she was a major general with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and has been manipulating Wellers life since he was a teenager. Johnny Whitworth as Markos, a man connected to Janes past. He was killed by an unknown sniper - later revealed to be Oscar - in Janes safe house
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Chicago Fire (TV series)
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Chicago Fire is an American action-drama television series created by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas with Dick Wolf as executive producer. It is the first installment of Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise, the series premiered on NBC on October 10,2012. No job is more stressful, dangerous or exhilarating than those of the Firefighters, Rescue Squad and these are the courageous men and women who forge headfirst into danger when everyone else is running the other way and whose actions make the difference between life and death. Jesse Spencer as Lieutenant Matthew Casey, Truck 81, Casey is the lieutenant in charge of Truck 81. A skilled handyman and carpenter, he freelances as a contractor when off-duty. Despite his reticence and aloof demeanor, he is protective of the firefighters under him and commands their loyalty. Taylor Kinney as Lieutenant Kelly Severide, Rescue Squad 3, Severide is the other lieutenant at Firehouse 51 and is in charge of Squad 3. In contrast to Casey, he is charismatic and portrayed to be something of a ladies man and he and Casey have been friends since their days at the CFD Academy but their friendship is strained after a mutual colleague dies on the job. His father is Captain Benny Severide, a friend of Chief Boden and Henry Mills. Monica Raymund as Paramedic in Charge/Firefighter Candidate Gabriela Gabby Dawson, Ambulance 61/Truck 81, Dawson is one of the few women in 51 and is usually treated as a sister by the men. She was the Paramedic in Charge of Ambulance 61 but switched to Truck 81 after passing the CFD Academy and her transfer proves to be a turning point in her relationship with Casey, who is now technically her boss, but they still care deeply for one another. Her older brother Antonio was a Chicago PD detective and is a Chief Investigator, lauren German as Paramedic Leslie Elizabeth Shay, Ambulance 61, An experienced paramedic, Shay was the designated ambulance driver and well-liked by the mostly male crew of 51. She and Kelly Severide share an apartment as roommates and are best friends, popular with her co-workers, she was openly gay, often cracking self-deprecating jokes about it. She was killed in the season 3 premiere, continuing from the season 2 finale cliffhanger, mollys has also featured on Chicago P. D. and Chicago Med as a favorite hideout of cops and medical personnel. Teri Reeves as Doctor Hallie Thomas and they broke up due to differing views and her hectic schedule and his irregular hours prevented them from spending much time together, although they remained friends. She was murdered in a fire as part of a cover-up after she discovers one of her colleagues at her clinic was selling medication to drug dealers. Eamonn Walker as Chief Wallace Boden, Battalion 25 and he oversees the firefighters and paramedics of Truck 81, Squad 3 and Ambulance 61 at Firehouse 51. A long-time veteran of the CFD he is protective of the men and women who serve under him
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Chicago Med
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Chicago Med is an American medical drama television series created by Dick Wolf and Matt Olmstead, and is the third installment of Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise. The series premiered on NBC on November 17,2015, set in Chicago, Chicago Med is the third series in Dick Wolfs Chicago franchise. It focuses on the department at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center and on its doctors. It sometimes crosses over characters from Chicago Fire and Chicago P. D. Nick Gehlfuss as Dr. Will Halstead, a plastic surgeon and the EDs first-year attending physician from Chicago. Yaya DaCosta as April Sexton, an ED nurse and she is a first generation Brazilian-American and has a younger brother, Noah, who is a med student at the hospital. Shes also a friend of Kelly Severide. After she graduated medical school, she changed her mind about being a pathologist and is now a resident in psychiatry. Colin Donnell as Dr. Connor Rhodes, a trauma surgery fellow from Chicago, Brian Tee as LCDR Dr. S. Epatha Merkerson as Sharon Goodwin, Chief of Services of Gaffney Chicago Medical Center. She worked as an OR nurse, oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel Charles, the chief of the psychiatry department, who is usually tasked with helping the other doctors deal with the psychological nuances of medicine or difficult patients. Hes a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, marlyne Barrett as Maggie Lockwood, the EDs charge nurse who isnt afraid to speak her mind when it comes to schooling the residents. Julie Berman as Dr. Samantha Sam Zanetti, a trauma surgeon Deron J. Powell as Tate Jenkins. Peter Mark Kendall as Joey Thomas, a lab tech and Sarahs boyfriend Roland Buck III as Noah Sexton, clarke originally was a firefighter before returning to med school. He and Natalie have a relationship that ends once Natalie realizes her late husband did not approve of Clarkes feelings for Natalie. Ato Essandoh as Dr. Isidore Latham, the attending surgeon whom Connor works for following Dr. Downeys death, Dr. Latham has an autism spectrum disorder that sometimes makes him difficult for the other staff to work alongside. Mekia Cox as Dr. Robyn Charles, an epidemiologist and Daniels daughter with whom he has a strained relationship and she later begins dating Dr. Rhodes, which causes tension between the two male doctors. Eddie Jemison as Dr. Stanley Stohl, the chief of medicine derisively referred to as The Troll by the due to his condescending and publicity-courting ways. It features Kelly Severide, Gabriela Dawson, Sylvie Brett, Jessica Chilton, Christopher Herrmann, Joe Cruz and Mouch from Fire as well as Jay Halstead, on August 21,2015, Andrew Dettman stepped down as showrunner due to creative differences following his appointment in June
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Chicago P.D. (TV series)
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Chicago P. D. is an American police procedural drama television series created by Dick Wolf and Matt Olmstead as the second installment of Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise. The series premiered on NBC as a replacement on January 8,2014. The show follows the uniformed officers and the Intelligence Unit of the 21st District of the Chicago Police Department as they pursue the perpetrators of the citys major street offenses. District 21 of the Chicago Police Department is made up of two different groups. There are the cops who patrol the beat and go head to head with the citys street crimes. And theres the Intelligence Unit, the team that combats the citys major offenses – organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders, Jason Beghe as Sergeant Henry Hank Voight, the enigmatic head of the Chicago P. D. s Intelligence Unit. Antonio Dawson for trying to have Casey silenced by force, but was released from prison. As a result, many of Caseys colleagues disliked him and Caseys superior Chief Boden has a working relationship with him. It is eventually revealed in the Chicago Fire episode Let Her Go that his dirty cop alter ego was part of an operation to catch criminals. Prior to taking command of Intelligence, Voight worked in the Gang Unit and his father Richard was a former CPD officer who was killed in the line of duty. Voight is a widower, his wife, Camille, died of some years prior. His son, Justin, served in the Army and was killed in the last episode of Season 3 while trying to help a friend, Hank took on Erin Lindsay when she was 15 and now sees her as his daughter. Jon Seda as Detective Antonio Dawson, an Intelligence Unit detective who previously arrested Voight for harassment and he and his ex-wife Laura have two children, Diego and Eva. His younger sister is paramedic Gabriela Dawson, in Season 4 he is offered a job at the States Attorneys Office as Lead Investigator, which he accepts. Sophia Bush as Detective Erin Lindsay, a tough Intelligence Unit detective, because of this, she is closer with Voight than the other members of the unit. She has a half-brother, Teddy Courtney, who was taken by a ring at age thirteen and was found turning tricks in New York City 10 years later. She is in a relationship with her partner Jay Halstead, Jesse Lee Soffer as Detective Jay Halstead, a brash Intelligence Unit detective who is Detective Lindsays partner. A former Army Ranger, he is confident in his abilities and sometimes comes across as cocky and his brother is Dr. Will Halstead, who is a main character in Chicago Med
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Dateline NBC
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Dateline NBC, or simply Dateline, is a weekly American television newsmagazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC. It was previously the networks flagship news magazine, but now mainly on true crime stories with only occasional editions that focus on other topics. Two-hour feature-length editions sometimes air on any given scheduled evening, often to fill holes in the schedule on the programs respective nights due to program cancellations. Dateline is historically notable for its longevity on the network, the program debuted on March 31,1992, initially airing only on Tuesdays, with Stone Phillips and Jane Pauley serving as its co-anchors. Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric joined the program when the previously separate newsmagazine Now with Tom Brokaw, gradually, the program expanded with the addition of a third night in 1994 and a fourth night in 1997, peaking at five nights of airings each week in mid-1999 and 2000. Editions first began to be removed in the spring of 2001, Dateline was the first multi-night franchise that established brand power by stripping editions, a strategy by NBCs entertainment division to place the program in the same time slot every week. It was considered to be a singular program rather than multiple weekly programs, in its prime, from 1995 to 1999, Dateline provided significant breaking news coverage. The program featured sensationalized news stories and drew in viewers with stories aired in multiple installments, by 1999, any one individual Dateline edition placed in Nielsens top 10 most-watched television programs among total viewers during most weeks. NBC capitalized on its relationship with CNBC and MSNBC by airing repackaged stories seen on past Dateline broadcasts on the retrospective series Headliners and Legends and Time, the program first originated from NBC Studio 3K, using the same set that was used at the time for NBC Nightly News. When Today moved to its current facility, NBC Studio 1A, in 1994, Dateline took over Studio 3B and received its own brand-new dedicated set. Past contributing anchors were Bryant Gumbel, who left NBC in 1997, Maria Shriver, who left NBC in 2004, and Katie Couric, on June 24,2005, Ann Curry co-anchored Dateline for the first time and became permanent host shortly thereafter. Dateline began broadcasting in high definition for the first time on July 21,2008, Dateline previously shared the multi-level Studio 1A with Today. However, in 2013, the program moved back to Studio 3K, lester Holt replaced Ann Curry as host of Dateline with the start of the 20th season on September 23,2011, shortly after Curry became permanent co-host of Today. The program did not disclose the fact that the accident was staged, acting on a tip from someone involved with the Dateline crash test, investigators with FaAA searched through 22 junkyards in Indiana before finding the charred wreckage of the GM pickups. It was also revealed that the Dateline report had been dishonest about the fuel tanks rupturing. GM subsequently filed a lawsuit against NBC after conducting an extensive investigation. The General Motors lawsuit and the subsequent settlement were arguably the most devastating blows for NBC in a series of reputation damaging incidents during the 1990s, within NBC, Michael Gartner, who resigned under pressure shortly after the incident, was the source for much of the blame. Michele Gillen, the correspondent involved in the segment, was transferred to NBCs Miami owned-and-operated station WTVJ, in August 2007, Dateline reporter Michelle Madigan attempted to secretly record hackers admitting to crimes at that years DEF CON in Las Vegas, Nevada
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Hollywood Game Night
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Hollywood Game Night is an American television game show hosted by Jane Lynch currently airing on NBC. The program premiered on July 11,2013 and follows two contestants who take part in a game night with celebrities, with the winning contestant taking home up to $25,000 in cash prizes. On May 15,2016, NBC renewed the series for a fifth season, two teams of four players each play a series of games. The celebrities play for a chance to win $10,000 for a charity of their choice, the non-celebrity player is designated captain of the team. Five games are played on each episode, within each game, teams attempt to score points for their team, with one point awarded for each correct response in rounds one and two, and two points per correct answer in rounds three and four. The fifth and final game awards five points per correct answer, if both contestants are tied prior to the fifth and final game, then the contestant who won the last game goes first. The contestant with the most points at the end of play wins the game, when both contestants are tied at the end of the game, the contestant who wins more games will advance to the bonus round. In season four, the contestant who misspells a celebrity name loses, games vary in complexity and subject. Other games require teams to identify the brand of products based upon pictures of the product or to match pictures to audio clues played for the team. Games where a time limit is involved are typically played for 90 seconds, in the bonus round, Celebrity Name Game, the winning contestant chooses one of the six celebrities as their partner. The chosen celebrity begins describing a different celebrity as best they can, for every celebrity the winning contestant identifies correctly, the contestant earns $1,000 and the celebrity receives $1,000 for his or her charity. If the contestant guesses 10 celebrities correctly within 90 seconds, the winnings are increased to $25,000. Not to be confused with Celebrity Name Game, a television game show of the same name hosted by Craig Ferguson. On August 1,2011, NBC announced that they were developing the series, the projects name was changed to Hollywood Game Night when it was ordered to series on December 18,2012. In February 2013, it was announced that Jane Lynch would host the show, created by actor/producer Sean Hayes and producer Todd Milliner, the show was inspired by real-life cocktail party-style game nights held by Hayes and Milliner. And he said Lets put it on TV, and NBC said, OK. Before I knew it, I was hosting it, and we rented this mansion that is, ostensibly, mine, on August 20,2013, NBC renewed Hollywood Game Night for a ten-episode second season that began airing on January 20,2014. The season was extended, with the eleventh episode airing on April 17
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Law & Order, Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often ripped from the headlines or loosely based on crimes that have received media attention. Created and produced by Dick Wolf, the series premiered on NBC on September 20,1999, the show began its 18th season on September 21,2016, and has aired 404 original episodes as of April 5,2017. As the series progressed, additional supporting characters were added as allies of the detectives in the New York County Manhattan District Attorneys office, certain episodes will go into detail about detectives personal lives and how they may or may not tie into the crimes dealt with during the show. Typical episodes follow the detectives and their colleagues as they investigate and prosecute sexually based offenses, on February 1,2016, the series was renewed for an eighteenth season. The season premiered on Wednesday, September 21,2016 at 9 p. m. on NBC, the crime inspired Dick Wolf to write the story for the season one episode of Law & Order titled Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die. Even after writing the episode, however, the continued to haunt Wolf. The original title of the show was Sex Crimes, reflecting the nature of the crimes depicted on the show. Initially there was concern among the producers that, should Sex Crimes fail, additionally, Ted Kotcheff wanted to create a new series that was not dependent upon the original series for success. Wolf felt, however, that it was important and commercially desirable to have Law & Order in the title, the first episode, Payback, premiered on NBC on September 20,1999. Executive producer Neal Baer left Law & Order, SVU as show-runner at the end of twelve, after eleven years on the show. Baer was replaced by former Law & Order, Criminal Intent executive producer/showrunner Warren Leight, in March 2015 it was announced that Warren Leight signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television, that will allow him to work on SVU one more season, its seventeenth. Leight joined the show in season thirteen and it was announced on March 10,2016 that original Law & Order veteran producer Rick Eid would take Leights place as showrunner/executive producer starting in season 18. Creator Dick Wolf commented to The Hollywood Reporter, Im extremely pleased that Rick had decided to rejoin the family and hope that he will be here for years to come. Many exterior scenes of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit are filmed on location in New York City, Wolfs home town, as the NYPD encounters varied law enforcement challenges on a daily basis, the backdrop provides the writers a supply of ideal locations from which to choose. When searching for a place to film the interiors of the show, the show moved into the studio space at Chelsea Piers that had been occupied by the original Law & Order series until its cancellation in May 2010. Fort Lee, New Jersey served as the location for Detective Elliot Stablers residence in Queens. The show originally aired on Monday nights at 9,00 p. m. ET for the first nine episodes, from September 20 through November 29,1999
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Running Wild with Bear Grylls
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Running Wild with Bear Grylls is a survival skills reality television series starring Bear Grylls. In each episode, Grylls brings a different celebrity along on his adventures, the crew consists of host Bear Grylls, a story producer, two camera cinematographers, two field recordists, and a mountain guide. Celebrities such as Zac Efron, Channing Tatum, and Ben Stiller made appearances on the first season of the show, in season 2, Kate Winslet, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Hudson, Michelle Rodriguez, James Marsden, on December 6,2015, Grylls announced that the series was renewed for a third season which premiered on August 1,2016. The show is based on the same survivalist concept as the rest of Grylls shows, such as Man vs Wild, the journeys include skydiving into the Catskill Mountains and climbing the cliffs in Utah. Season one began July 28,2014 and ended September 8,2014, for three weeks it was the highest rated unscripted new show of the summer. A second season was announced on March 26,2015 and began airing in July 2015, official website Running Wild with Bear Grylls at the Internet Movie Database
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Shades of Blue (TV series)
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Shades of Blue is an American crime drama television series created by Adi Hasak and premiered on January 7,2016. On February 5,2016, NBC renewed Shades of Blue for a 13-episode second season, on March 17,2017, the series was renewed for a third season. Jennifer Lopez as Detective Harlee Santos, an officer with the NYPD 64th Precinct in Brooklyn. She is the mother to 17-year-old Cristina, Cristinas father was abusive. She joined Lt. Wozniaks crew after he helped cover up her frame job, after getting arrested by the FBI in an anti-corruption investigation, she becomes a reluctant informant against Wozniak in exchange for immunity. Ray Liotta as Lieutenant Matt Wozniak, the commander of the 64th Precinct. He is a 25-year veteran of the force, and before that spent six years in the United States Marine Corps and he is very close to Harlee, whom he considers a daughter, and Harlees own daughter, Cristina. He is bisexual, married to Linda and having an affair with Donnie before Donnie was killed by Loman in self-defense in One Last Lie and his own daughter was said to have been clinically depressed and committed suicide at the age of 19. Drea de Matteo as Detective Tess Nazario Warren Kole as Special Agent Robert Stahl and his obsession with Harlee goes beyond work, as he secretly installs cameras in her home and hires prostitutes who must agree to be called Harlee. Hampton Fluker as Detective Marcus Tufo Vincent Laresca as Detective Carlos Espada Sarah Jeffery as Cristina Santos, Harlees 17-year-old daughter, Gino Anthony Pesi as Assistant District Attorney James Nava, the 64th Precincts new ADA who becomes romantically involved with Harlee. Santino Fontana as Detective David Saperstein, a member of Wozniaks crew and he was critically injured at the end of the episode Fall of Man by Wozniak and was killed, in the guise of a bomb threat, by Wozniak in the next episode Undiscovered Country. Michael Esper as Lieutenant Donnie Pomp, a member of NYPD Internal Affairs and Lieutenant Wozniaks ex-co-conspirator and ex-lover. Pomp was killed by Loman in self-defense after trying to kill Loman and was cremated by an angry Wozniak, who was convinced that he played him and he was abusive to Harlee up to the point that he almost killed her and Cristina. He was killed at the end of the episode One Last Lie when he tries to rape Harlee, anna Gunn as Councilwoman Julia Ayres, a New York City mayoral candidate. She was a member of Wozniaks crew prior to her promotion to NYPD Captain, during season 2, she becomes the subject of an FBI investigation. In February 2014, NBC gave a 13-episode straight-to-series order, a teaser trailer was made available on June 3,2015, containing statements by Lopez, Ray Liotta, and Drea de Matteo. Lopez was given the role in 2014. On February 26,2015, Liotta, de Matteo, Vincent Laresca and Warren Kole were cast as Lt. Matt Wozniak, tony Espada and Agent Robert Staal, respectively
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Taken (TV series)
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Taken is a Franco-American drama series based on the Taken film trilogy. The series acts as a modern day origin story, clive Standen stars as a younger version of Bryan Mills, the character played by Liam Neeson in the trilogy. The series was commissioned with a straight-to-series-order in September 2015, the series premiered on February 27,2017, on NBC. Former Green Beret Bryan Mills must overcome a personal tragedy, in order to get revenge while starting his career as an intelligence operative. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the series a rating of 35% based on 26 reviews. On Metacritic, the series has a score of 46 out of 100, based on 22 critics, Taken at the Internet Movie Database
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The Voice (U.S. TV series)
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The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find currently unsigned singing talent contested by aspiring singers, age 13 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text. They receive US$100,000 and a deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists performances and they also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the panel include Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Shakira, Usher, Gwen Stefani, Pharrell Williams, Miley Cyrus. The Voice began airing on April 26,2011, as a spring TV season program, the show proved to be a hit for NBC and was subsequently expanded into the fall cycle when season three premiered on September 10,2012. The series premiered its twelfth season on February 27,2017, on October 18,2016, NBC renewed the series through its thirteenth season. An adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice of Holland, NBC announced the show under the name The Voice of America in December 2010, in each season, the winner receives $100,000 and a record deal with Universal Republic Records, Universal Music Group. Each season begins with the Blind Auditions, where coaches form their team of artists whom they mentor through the remainder of the season. At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the coach who turned around. In the Battle Rounds, each coach pairs two of his or her team members to perform together, then one to advance in the competition. In each season, coaches are assisted by celebrity mentors that are different each season, a new element was added in season three, coaches were given two steals, allowing each coach to select two individuals who were eliminated during a battle round by another coach. The Knockout Rounds were also introduced in season three, a pair of artists within a team are selected to sing individual performances in succession. They are not told until a few prior to their performances who their partner is. The artists get to choose their own songs in round, although they continue to get help. At the conclusion of the performances, coaches would decide which one of each pair gets to advance to the next round, just like in the battle rounds, the coaches can steal one eliminated artist from another coach starting with season five. The Battles, Round 2 were introduced to replace the Knockout Rounds in season six, similar to the Knockout Rounds, each singer is paired randomly within their team
