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Chris Grundy
Chris Grundy () co-hosts the Travel Channel's show ''50/50'', in which random strangers are offered the chance to join the hosts on a 50-hour trip that is worth $50,000. In order to do so, they must drop everything and that day. Grundy was previously host of the American television show '' Cool Tools'', which ran on the DIY Network. The program introduced new tools and centered on Grundy's humorous presentation style. Grundy also hosted DIY Networks "Blog Cabin". The features and materials, inside & outside, are chosen by viewers via online voting. Grundy and other DIY hosts then renovate a cabin with the most popular features. Once the cabin is finished a lucky viewer wins it in a sweepstakes. While he currently works as a television host, Grundy has also made notable appearances as a character actor on shows such as ''Andy Barker, P.I.'' and '' Help Me Help You''. Grundy started his career as a performer in improv comedy groups in the Denver, Colorado, area such as Chicken Lips, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travel Channel
Travel Channel (stylized as Trvl Channel since 2018) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, which had previously owned the channel from 1997 to 2007. The channel is headquartered in New York, New York, United States with offices in Silver Spring, Maryland and Knoxville, Tennessee. It features documentaries, reality, and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has included shows on African animal safaris, tours of grand hotels and resorts, visits to significant cities and towns around the world, programming about various foods around the world, and programming about ghosts and the paranormal in notable buildings. As of February 2015, Travel Channel is available to approximately 91.5 million households (comprising 78.6% of households with television) in the United States. History The Travel Channel was launched on February 1, 1987; it was founded by TWA Marketing Services (a su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cool Tools
Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of '' Wired'' magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the ''Whole Earth Review''. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture. Life Kelly was born in Pennsylvania in 1952, and graduated from Westfield High School, Westfield, New Jersey, in 1970. Through his father, an executive for ''Time'' who used systems analysis in his work, Kelly developed an early interest in cybernetics. He attended the University of Rhode Island for one year, studying geology. Kelly has traveled extensively, backpacking in Asia. While travelling in the Middle East, he had a conversion experience and became a born-again Christian. He was raised Catholic. He lives in Pacifica, California, a small coastal town just south of San Francisco. He is married to the biochemist Gia-Miin Fuh and has three children: Kaileen, Ting, and Tywen. He regrets not having a fourth child. Among Kelly's pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DIY Network
Magnolia Network is an American basic cable network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and Chip and Joanna Gaines. It broadcasts personality-based lifestyle programs related to topics such as home construction, Home renovation, renovation, and cuisine. The channel first launched on September 30, 1999 as DIY Network, a spin-off of HGTV focusing on instructional programming related to "do it yourself" activities such as home improvement. DIY Network later focused on reality television#Professional activities, reality series following personalities involved in home construction, renovation, and related businesses. This format persisted with its re-launch as Magnolia Network in 2022, which is curated by Chip and Joanna Gaines of the HGTV series ''Fixer Upper (TV series), Fixer Upper''. History DIY was the second network to be launched by the E. W. Scripps Company, following the success of HGTV, with the network's first two years adapting HGTV's program library into programs for certain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Barker, P
Andy may refer to: People *Andy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Horace Andy (born 1951), Jamaican roots reggae songwriter and singer born Horace Hinds *Katja Andy (1907–2013), German-American pianist and piano professor *Andy (singer) (born 1958), stage name of Iranian-Armenian singer Andranik Madadian Music * ''Andy'' (1976 album), an album by Andy Williams * ''Andy'' (2001 album), an album by Andy Williams * ''Andy'' (Raleigh Ritchie album), a 2020 album by Raleigh Ritchie * "Andy" (song), a 1986 song by Les Rita Mitsouko Other uses * ''Andy'' (film), a 1965 film *Andy (goose) (1987–1991), a sneaker-wearing goose born without webbed feet *Andy (typeface), a monotype font *Andy, West Virginia, US, a former unincorporated community See also *Andi (other) Andi or ANDI may refer to: People and fictional characters * Andy (given name), including people and fictional characters with the name Andi * Andi people, an ethnic group of Dag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Help Me Help You (TV Series)
''Help Me Help You'' is an American sitcom television series created by Jennifer Konner and Alexandra Rushfield that premiered on ABC on September 26, 2006 to December 12, 2006. It was a comedy about a collection of eccentric individuals in group psychotherapy with a respected therapist, who may quite possibly have more problems than his patients. The series was pulled from the schedule on December 14, 2006, and ABC canceled the series after one season on May 15, 2007. Cast Main *Ted Danson as Dr. Bill Hoffman, a brilliant therapist with a huge ego and a failed marriage. *Jere Burns as Michael, a high-powered executive with anger issues, in court-ordered therapy. *Darlene Hunt as Darlene, a woman with constant need of approval, secretly in an affair with Michael but obsessed with Dr. Hoffman. *Charlie Finn as Dave, a man who tried to kill himself in his office because no one likes him. *Suzy Nakamura as Inger, a deeply lonely woman with a complete lack of social skills. *Jim Rash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denver, Colorado
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the ''Mile High City'' because its official elevation is exactly one mile () above sea level. The 105th meridian we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impulse Theater
Impulse or Impulsive may refer to: Science * Impulse (physics), in mechanics, the change of momentum of an object; the integral of a force with respect to time * Impulse noise (other) * Specific impulse, the change in momentum per unit mass of propellant of a propulsion system * Impulse function, a mathematical function of an infinitely high amplitude and infinitesimal duration * Impulse response, a system's output when presented with the impulse function in Electrical Engineering * Impulse (psychology), a wish or urge, particularly a sudden one * Impulsion, a thrust of a horse Film and television * ''Impulse'' (1954 film), a thriller film starring Arthur Kennedy * ''Impulse'' (1974 film), a thriller film starring William Shatner * ''Impulse'' (1984 film), a science fiction film starring Meg Tilly and Tim Matheson * ''Impulse'' (1990 film), a thriller film starring Theresa Russell * ''Impulse'' (2008 film), a thriller film starring Angus Macfadyen * ''Impuls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second City
The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise and is the oldest ongoing improvisational theater troupe to be continually based in Chicago, with training programs and live theatres in Toronto and Los Angeles. The Second City Theatre opened on December 16, 1959, and has since become one of the most influential and prolific comedy theatres in the English-speaking world. In February 2021, ZMC, a private equity investment firm based in Manhattan, purchased the Second City. The Second City has produced television programs in both Canada and the United States, including '' SCTV'', ''Second City Presents'', and '' Next Comedy Legend''. Since its debut, The Second City has consistently been a starting point for many comedians, award-winning actors, directors, and others in show business, including Del Close, Alan Alda, Alan Arkin, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, John Candy, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Colin M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Throttle (film)
''Throttle'' (also known as ''No Way Up'') is a 2005 American thriller film directed by James Seale and starring Grayson McCouch. Other cast members include Adrian Paul and Amy Locane. It was filmed entirely in Denver, Colorado. Plot Financial analyst Tom Weaver (Grayson McCouch) is a troubled man. He has recently broken off a potential affair with a co-worker named Rebecca. He is also arguing with himself if he wants to continue with a shady ten million dollar business deal with his boss. He has also discovered identical motel keys in his wife, Molly's purse and his boss's car, leading him to believe that she is having an affair. He confronts her about it and she denies this. He lies to her about where he is going and heads to his building to complete the deal to hopefully get himself rich. Under heavy levels of stress, Tom shouts at the kind old security guard, Eddie, before going into the building. At midnight, Tom goes five levels down in the building's underground parking g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Brown
Samantha Elizabeth Brown (born March 31, 1970) is an American television host, notable for her work as the host of several Travel Channel shows including ''Girl Meets Hawaii'', ''Great Vacation Homes'', ''Great Hotels'', '' Passport to Europe'', '' Passport to Latin America'', ''Great Weekends'', ''Green Getaways'', ''Passport to China'', and ''Samantha Brown's Asia''. As of 2012 Samantha Brown has made her own travel luggage called Samantha Brown: Travel America. She has visited 62 countries. In January 2018, she began hosting ''Samantha Brown's Places to Love'' on PBS. It is shown on PBS stations nationwide and is on the PBS website and app. She is currently a resident of Brooklyn, New York. Early life Brown was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1970, but her family soon moved to New Castle, New Hampshire, where she grew up and graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire. She performed with Music and Drama Company with award-winning designer Brian Sidney Bembridge; took 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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