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Alex, Inc.
''Alex, Inc.'' is an American sitcom created by Matt Tarses that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from March 28 to May 16, 2018. Based on Gimlet Media, Gimlet Media, Inc.'s ''StartUp (podcast), StartUp'', the series stars Zach Braff, Tiya Sircar, Hillary Anne Matthews, Elisha Henig, Audyssie James and Michael Imperioli. Premise The series follows Alex Schuman, a radio journalist, husband, and father of two, who decides to quit his job and start his own company. Cast and characters Main * Zach Braff as Alex Schuman, a radio journalist, Rooni's husband, and father of Ben and Soraya, who has left his old job to start his own podcast company * Tiya Sircar as Arunima “Rooni” Schuman, a lawyer, Alex's wife, and mother of Ben and Soraya * Hillary Anne Matthews as Deirdre, a producer at Alex's old job who left with him for his new company * Elisha Henig as Ben Schuman, Alex and Rooni's son * Audyssie James as Soraya Schuman, Alex and Rooni's daughter * Michael Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitcom
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. A situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the program's production format. The effect of a live studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. Critics disagree over the utility of the term "sitcom" in classifying shows that have come into existence since the turn of the century. Many contemporary American sitcoms use the single-camera setup and do not feature a laugh track, thus often resembling the dramedy shows of the 1980s and 1990s rather t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High-definition Television
High-definition television (HD or HDTV) describes a television system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. The term has been used since 1936; in more recent times, it refers to the generation following standard-definition television (SDTV), often abbreviated to HDTV or HD-TV. It is the current de facto standard video format used in most broadcasts: terrestrial broadcast television, cable television, satellite television and Blu-ray Discs. Formats HDTV may be transmitted in various formats: * 720p (1280 horizontal pixels × 720 lines): 921,600 pixels * 1080i (1920×1080) interlaced scan: 1,036,800 pixels (~1.04 MP). * 1080p (1920×1080) progressive scan: 2,073,600 pixels (~2.07 MP). ** Some countries also use a non-standard CEA resolution, such as 1440×1080i: 777,600 pixels (~0.78 MP) per field or 1,555,200 pixels (~1.56 MP) per frame When transmitted at two megapixels per frame, HDTV provides about five times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Perine
Kelly Perine (born March 23, 1969) is an American television actor, writer, director, producer, and comedian. Perine attended Lake Forest Academy near Chicago, Illinois, where he studied stage acting. He spent his undergraduate years at Pomona College in Claremont, California majoring in film studies, where he graduated in 1991. After graduating, he studied at the University of California, Irvine where he received his master's degree in Drama seven years later. Career Perine is a veteran of over 25 years in Hollywood. Much of his work have been sitcoms or otherwise comedic in nature. Perine had regular roles in '' Between Brothers'' as weatherman Dustin "Dusty" Q. Canyon, Kelly Peterson on the fifth and final season of ''The Parent 'Hood'', and used car salesman Duane Odell Knox in '' One on One'' from seasons 1 to 4, not returning for season 5. He starred in the MyNetworkTV comedy '' Under One Roof'' (2008−09), where he played Winston Hill opposite Flavor Flav. His film work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa McCarthy
Vanessa McCarthy is an American television producer and writer. Her television writing credits include ''Friends'', '' Abby'', ''Modern Family'' and also producing and writing for ''Joey'' and ''Hot in Cleveland''. She was a head writer and executive producer for the sitcom ''Rules of Engagement''. Awards In 2004, she won The Robert Meltzer Writers Guild of America Award for her work on the animated sitcom ''Father of the Pride ''Father of the Pride'' is a 2004–2005 American adult animated sitcom created by Jeffrey Katzenberg for DreamWorks Animation that was part of a short-lived trend of CGI series in prime-time network television (after '' Game Over''). The ser ...'', as a part of the writing team. References External links * Living people American television producers American women television producers American television writers American women television writers Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Robert Melt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashleigh Murray
Ashleigh Monique Murray (born January 18, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She portrayed Josie McCoy, the lead singer of the band Josie and the Pussycats, on the CW television series '' Riverdale''. Murray reprised this role in the '' Riverdale'' spin-off series ''Katy Keene'', which premiered on The CW in 2020. Career In 2016, Murray was cast as a series regular in The CW's teen drama '' Riverdale'', portraying Josie McCoy, "a gorgeous, snooty and ambitious girl who is the lead singer for the popular band Josie and the Pussycats". The show premiered in 2017, and Murray was a cast member until 2019. In February 2019, it was announced that Murray would reprise her role as Josie McCoy as part of the main cast of the ''Riverdale'' spin-off pilot, ''Katy Keene''. In May 2019, The CW ordered ''Katy Keene'' to series. Murray starred, and played the title role, in the Netflix movie '' Deidra & Laney Rob a Train'' in 2017. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Pendleton
Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor. He is known as a prolific character actor on the stage and screen who has appeared in films including ''Catch-22'' (1970); '' What's Up, Doc?'' (1972); ''The Front Page'' (1974); ''The Muppet Movie'' (1979), ''Short Circuit'' (1986); ''Mr. and Mrs. Bridge'' (1990); ''My Cousin Vinny'' (1992); '' Amistad'' (1997); '' A Beautiful Mind'' (2001), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination; and '' Finding Nemo'' (2003). Pendleton received a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play for the Broadway revival of ''The Little Foxes'' in 1981. He has received two Drama Desk Award nominations and the recipient of a Special Drama Desk Award in 2007. He also received a Obie Award for Best Director for the 2011 off-Broadway revival of '' Three Sisters''. Recent Broadway credits include ''Choir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Sacca
Christopher Sacca (born May 12, 1975) is an American venture investor, company advisor, entrepreneur, and lawyer. He is the proprietor of Lowercase Capital, a venture capital fund in the United States that has invested in seed and early-stage technology companies such as Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Twilio, and Kickstarter, investments that resulted in his placement as No. 2 on '' Forbes''' Midas List: Top Tech Investors for 2017. Sacca held several positions at Google Inc., where he led the alternative access and wireless divisions and worked on mergers and acquisitions. Between 2015 and 2017, he appeared as a "Guest Shark" on ABC's ''Shark Tank''. In early 2017, Sacca announced that he was retiring from venture investing.In 2021, Sacca announced that he was back into venture investing with a focus on Climate issues. Early life and education Chris Sacca was born on May 12, 1975, and raised in Lockport, a suburb of Buffalo. His father was an attorney, while his mother was a pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Bush
Sophia Anna Bush Hughes (born July 8, 1982) is an American actress. She starred as Brooke Davis in The WB/ CW drama series ''One Tree Hill'' (2003–2012), and as Erin Lindsay in the NBC police procedural drama series ''Chicago P.D.'' (2014–2017). She was a producer for and starred in the lead role of Dr. Samantha "Sam" Griffith in the medical drama '' Good Sam'' (2022). Bush has also appeared in films, including ''John Tucker Must Die'' (2006), '' The Hitcher'' (2007), ''The Narrows'' (2008), '' Chalet Girl'' (2011), ''Marshall'' (2017), ''Acts of Violence'' (2018), and ''Incredibles 2'' (2018). She is also known for her philanthropy work and social activism, including her work for the Time's Up movement and DoSomething.org. Early life and education Bush was born in Pasadena, California, the only child of Maureen Searson and Charles William Bush. Her mother runs a photography studio, and her father is an advertising and beauty photographer. She graduated from Westridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Put Pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie), in United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended television series, an early step in the series development, much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity. A successful pilot may be used as the series premiere, the first aired episode of a new show, but sometimes a series' pilot may be aired as a later episode or never aired at all. Some series are commissioned straight-to-series without a pilot. On some occasions, pilots that were not ordered to series may also be broadcast as a standalone television film or special. A "backdoor pilot" is an episode of an existing series that heavily features supporting characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single-camera
The single-camera setup, or single-camera mode of production, also known as portable single camera, is a method of filmmaking and video production. The single-camera setup originally developed during the birth of the classical Hollywood cinema in the 1910s and has remained the standard mode of production for cinema. In television production, both single-camera and multiple-camera methods are commonly used. Description In this setup, each of the various shots and camera angles are taken using the same camera, or multiple cameras pointed in one direction, which are moved and reset to get each shot or new angle. If a scene cuts back and forth between actor A and actor B, the director will first point the camera toward A and run part or all of the scene from this angle, then move the camera to point at B, relight, and then run the scene through from this angle. Choices can then be made during the post-production editing process for when in the scene to use each shot, and when to cut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex, Inc
''Alex, Inc.'' is an American sitcom created by Matt Tarses that aired on ABC from March 28 to May 16, 2018. Based on Gimlet Media, Inc.'s '' StartUp'', the series stars Zach Braff, Tiya Sircar, Hillary Anne Matthews, Elisha Henig, Audyssie James and Michael Imperioli. Premise The series follows Alex Schuman, a radio journalist, husband, and father of two, who decides to quit his job and start his own company. Cast and characters Main * Zach Braff as Alex Schuman, a radio journalist, Rooni's husband, and father of Ben and Soraya, who has left his old job to start his own podcast company * Tiya Sircar as Arunima “Rooni” Schuman, a lawyer, Alex's wife, and mother of Ben and Soraya * Hillary Anne Matthews as Deirdre, a producer at Alex's old job who left with him for his new company * Elisha Henig as Ben Schuman, Alex and Rooni's son * Audyssie James as Soraya Schuman, Alex and Rooni's daughter * Michael Imperioli as Eddie, Alex's cousin and an investor in the new c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
