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Bunim-Murray Productions
Bunim/Murray Productions is an entertainment production company based out of Glendale, California, and is considered a pioneer in the reality television genre. It is best known for ''The Real World'', ''Road Rules'', ''Bad Girls Club''. Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray co-founded Bunim/Murray after agent Mark Itkin of the William Morris Agency put the two together to develop a scripted soap opera for MTV. When that was too expensive, they decided to try an unscripted soap and ''The Real World'' was born. "We knew within 20 minutes of shooting that we had a show," Bunim said. The company has expanded into music management, managing the pop punk/emo band A Cursive Memory. In March 2010, the company was acquired by Banijay Entertainment (former name of Banijay Group). The company's initial success was on the creation of ''The Real World''. Attempts at scripted series, including ''Jam Bay'', a show that would have co-produced with Universal Television for ABC, never went past th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a same management being substantially controlled by same entity/group are called sister companies. The subsidiary can be a company (usually with limited liability) and may be a government- or state-owned enterprise. They are a common feature of modern business life, and most multinational corporations organize their operations in this way. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, or Citigroup; as well as more focused companies such as IBM, Xerox, and Microsoft. These, and others, organize their businesses into national and functional subsidiaries, often with multiple levels of subsidiaries. Details Subsidiaries are separate, distinct legal entities f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Cursive Memory
A Cursive Memory was an American rock band, from Southern California who released an EP and two albums in the period 2006 to 2012. Biography The band originally formed under the name 'Sincerely Me' in 2003 after members Colin Baylen (guitar/vocals) and Shaun Profeta (drums) met at a birthday party. Mark Borst-Smith (bass/keyboards) and Brian Bolen (guitar) completed the fourpiece. They started off playing covers of some of their favorite bands, such as blink-182 and Jimmy Eat World, but eventually grew to write their own original songs and adopted the name A Cursive Memory. Over the course of the next few years, the band built up a small local fan base and self-released their first EP, ''A Cursive Memory'', which was recorded in Bolen's home studio. It featured the original version of The Piano Song. In 2005 the band self-released the ''Lights, Camera, Action'' EP that included Profeta contributing a significant amount of vocals and a new version of The Piano Song. Although they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Mundo Real
''El Mundo Real'' (Spanish for ''The Real World'') is the Mexican/Latin American version of MTV's reality television series ''The Real World''. The series is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions and MTV Studios, being part of the new distribution deal for the franchise with Facebook Watch, which includes the revival of the American series, together with the Thailand-based season. The series was announced on October 8, 2018, and the series debuted on June 13, 2019. The series was primarily filmed in Mexico City, Mexico. It's not the first time the franchise (not including spin-off ''The Challenge'') has filmed in Mexico, as the American version's twenty-second season took place in the country just ten years prior to this version's debut. Set primarily in Mexico City, the show features 7 strangers living together in a house located in a centric neighborhood of the city where their lives were taped between March and May 2019, with the show debuting weeks later. Casting calls for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Forget The Lyrics! (American Game Show)
''Don't Forget the Lyrics!'' is an American television game show in which contestants compete to win $1 million by correctly recalling song lyrics from a variety of genres. The program originally aired on Fox from July 11, 2007 to June 19, 2009, hosted by Wayne Brady and produced by RDF USA, part of RDF Media. The premiere of the show prompted NBC to move up the premiere of their similar game show, '' The Singing Bee''. On January 25, 2010, 20th Television announced the debut of a new syndicated version with Sugar Ray lead singer Mark McGrath as host. The show premiered in daytime syndication and in primetime on VH1 on Monday, September 20, 2010. It premiered in primetime on MyNetworkTV on October 5, 2010. On March 24, 2011, the show was canceled along with '' Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?'' due to low ratings. On April 28, 2021, Fox announced that it had ordered a revival of ''Don't Forget the Lyrics!'' with actress and comedian Niecy Nash as host. It premiered on May 23, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |