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Christopher Lloyd (screenwriter)
Christopher Lloyd (born June 18, 1960) is an American television producer and screenwriter. Lloyd is the co-creator and executive producer of the ABC mockumentary family sitcom ''Modern Family'', which he co-created and produced with Steven Levitan. Lloyd has had an extensive career on many series, primarily ''Frasier''. Lloyd has won 12 Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on ''Modern Family'' and ''Frasier''. He holds the record for Primetime Emmy awards as either a comedy or drama series producer. Career Lloyd began screenwriting with the first four seasons of '' The Golden Girls''. He then wrote for the comedy ''Wings''; then ''Frasier'', where he became its showrunner. While he was executive producer, ''Frasier'' won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for five consecutive years, the first time any series had done so. Lloyd left ''Frasier'' after its seventh season, then returned to helm its final (eleventh) season. He then produced the series ''Out of P ...
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Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ...
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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 ...
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Vic Rauseo
Vic Rauseo is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for his work on the television series ''Frasier'', for which he received three Primetime Emmy Awards in 1994, 1995 and 1996 as a part of the producing and writing team. Rauseo began his professional career as stage manager on the game show, ''Family Feud'' in 1976. As a television producer and writer his credits include ''Welcome Back, Kotter'', '' Alice'', '' Life With Lucy'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D. ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' is an American medical sitcom that ran for four seasons on ABC from September 19, 1989, to March 24, 1993, totaling 97 episodes. Created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley, the show stars Neil Patrick Harris in the ...'' and '' Temporarily Yours'', his last television credit. All of the aforementioned work was with his wife, fellow television producer and writer Linda Morris. Both Rauseo and Morris are alums of Kean University. References External links * Am ...
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Linda Morris
Linda Morris is an American television producer and writer. She is best known for her work on the television series ''Frasier'', for which she received three Primetime Emmy Awards in 1994, 1995 and 1996 as a part of the producing and writing team. Morris' other television credits include ''Welcome Back, Kotter'', '' Alice'', '' Life With Lucy'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' and '' Temporarily Yours'', her last television credit. All of the aforementioned work was with her husband, fellow television producer and writer Vic Rauseo Vic Rauseo is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for his work on the television series ''Frasier'', for which he received three Primetime Emmy Awards in 1994, 1995 and 1996 as a part of the producing and writing team. .... Both Morris and Rauseo are alums of Kean University. References External links * American television producers American women television producers American television writers Emmy Award wi ...
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Anne Flett-Giordano
Anne Flett-Giordano (née Flett; born 1965) is an American television producer and screenwriter, known for her work on ''Kate & Allie'', ''Frasier'', '' Desperate Housewives'', ''Hot in Cleveland'' and '' Mom.'' On ''Hot in Cleveland'', the fictional medical condition A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that a ... "Flett-Giordano Syndrome" was named after her. She is also the author of the murder mystery / social satire “Marry, Kiss, Kill” References External links * American television producers American women television producers American television writers Emmy Award winners Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American women television writers 1965 births 21st-century American women {{US-screen-writer-stub ...
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Jack Burditt
Jack Burditt is an American producer and screenwriter who has worked on television shows like ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'', ''Frasier'', ''30 Rock'', '' Last Man Standing'', ''Modern Family'', and ''The Mindy Project''. He won two Emmy awards for his work on ''Frasier'' and three as an Executive Producer on ''30 Rock''. Biography Burditt is the son of the late writer and producer George Burditt and Joyce Burditt. He has one brother, Paul, and one sister, Ellen. He worked as a writer on ''30 Rock'' and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season. Burditt created the comedy '' Last Man Standing'', which premiered in fall 2011 on ABC. The show was moved to Fox in its seventh season. Filmography * ''The Santa Clauses'' (2022) * ''Modern Family'' (2017–2020) * ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' (2015–2019) * ''The Mindy Project'' (2013–2017) * '' Last Man Standing '' (2011–2021) * ...
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Rob Greenberg
Rob Greenberg is an American writer. Credits Writing Television *''The Moodys'' (written by) *''Spellbound'' (2004/I) (TV) (writer) *''Harry's Girl'' (2003) (TV) (writer) *''Spellbound'' (2003) (TV) (writer) *''Bad Haircut'' (2001) (TV) (writer) *''Frasier'' Film *''Meet Dave'' (2008) (written by) *'' Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' (2009) (additional screenplay material) *'' Overboard'' (2018) (written by) *'' The Valet'' (2022) (written by) Directing Television *''The Moodys'' *''My Boys'' *''How I Met Your Mother'' *'' Scrubs'' *'' Happy Endings'' *''Worst Week'' *'' Mike Birbiglia's Secret Public Journal'' (2008 special) Film *'' Overboard'' (2018) Awards and nominations Nominated for 4 Emmy Awards and 2 Writers Guild of America Award The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949. ...
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Joe Keenan (writer)
Joe Keenan (born July 14, 1958) is an American screenwriter, television producer and novelist. Early life Keenan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into an Irish American Catholic family. He has a twin brother, John, and two other siblings, Ronald and Geraldine. He grew up in the blue collar neighborhood of Cambridgeport. Keenan attended Boston College High School and Columbia College. Early career In 1991 '' Cheers'' creators James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles, having read Keenan's novel ''Blue Heaven,'' invited Keenan to create a new sitcom for their production company. The resulting pilot, ''Gloria Vane'', starring JoBeth Williams, was not picked up by a network, but it led to a writing post on ''Frasier''. In 1992, his first play, ''The Times'', a musical that charts the course of a seventeen-year marriage between Liz, an actress, and Ted, a writer, won the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1993, the ly ...
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Moon Dance (Frasier)
The third season of ''Frasier'' originally aired from September 19, 1995, to May 21, 1996, on NBC, consisting a total of 24 episodes. This season was mostly directed by Philip Charles MacKenzie (17 episodes). It also featured the episode, "Moon Dance", the first episode in the series to be directed by Kelsey Grammer. Reception The season ranked 12th in the season ratings with an average viewership of 13 million households, making it the 7th highest ranking show on the network. Cast Main * Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane * Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon * David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane * Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle * John Mahoney as Martin Crane Special guest * Mercedes Ruehl as Kate Costas *Griffin Dunne as Bob *Donald O'Connor as Harlow Stafford *Tony Shalhoub as Manu Special appearance by *Dan Butler as Bulldog *Shelley Long as Diane Chambers Recurring *Edward Hibbert as Gil Chesterton Guest *Patrick Kerr as Noel Shempsky *Trevor Einhorn as Frederick *John Carroll Lynch as Frank ...
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I Hate Frasier Crane (Frasier Episode)
The first season of ''Frasier'' originally aired from September 16, 1993, to May 19, 1994, on NBC, consisting of a total of 24 episodes. This premiere season was mostly directed by James Burrows (15 episodes), alongside Andy Ackerman (6 episodes). The other 2 directors were co-creator David Lee (2 episodes) and Rick Beren (1 episode). Cast Main * Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane * Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon * David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane * Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle * John Mahoney as Martin Crane Special guest *Amanda Donohoe as Catherine * John Glover as Ned Miller * Bebe Neuwirth as Lilith *Mako as Sam Tanaka Special appearance by * Dr. Joyce Brothers as herself Recurring *Dan Butler as Bulldog Guest *Kathleen Noone as Aunt Patrice *Harriet Sansom Harris as Bebe Glazer *Claire Stansfield as Kristina *Patrick Kerr as Noel Shempsky *Edward Hibbert as Gil Chesterton The main character of the American television sitcom ''Frasier'' is Frasier Crane. Other regular character ...
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Fox Broadcasting Company
The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps as FOX, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by Fox Corporation and headquartered in New York City, with master control operations and additional offices at the Fox Network Center in Los Angeles and the Fox Media Center in Tempe. Launched as a competitor to the Big Three television networks ( ABC, CBS, and NBC) on October 9, 1986, Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network. It was the highest- rated free-to-air network in the 18–49 demographic from 2004 to 2012 and again in 2020, and was the most-watched American television network in total viewership during the 2007–08 season. Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, but these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U.S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U.S.-based Fox affiliate, either ...
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Back To You (TV Series)
''Back to You'' is an American sitcom which aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox from September 19, 2007, to May 14, 2008. The creators and executive producers were Christopher Lloyd (screenwriter), Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, and the director was James Burrows. The series starred Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton as squabbling anchors of a news program. Plot Chuck Darling (Kelsey Grammer, Grammer) and Kelly Carr (Patricia Heaton, Heaton) were co-anchors of Pittsburgh news program WURG News 9 that had great on-screen chemistry, despite constant quarreling off-screen. However, Chuck left to take a job elsewhere. After an embarrassing comment he makes results in his dismissal from a large market LA newscast, Chuck returns to Pittsburgh after 10 years to become an anchor on the newscast he originally left. Chuck also learns that he is the father of Carr's 10-year-old daughter. Their daughter, Gracie, turns 11 years old in the episode, "Something's Up There". Character ...
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