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Courting Alex
''Courting Alex'' is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from January 23 to March 29, 2006, and was a vehicle for Jenna Elfman of ''Dharma & Greg'' fame. The series was based on the British sitcom ''According to Bex''. Elfman portrays Alex Rose, a successful, single attorney who works with her father Bill (Dabney Coleman) at his law firm. Alex struggles with dating while looking for love in a big city. Her father wants her to settle down with her coworker Stephen (Josh Stamberg), a star lawyer at the firm who is smitten with her. She prefers Scott (Josh Randall), the tavern owner she meets in the first episode, of whom her father doesn't approve. Alex relies on the advice of her assistant Molly ( Jillian Bach) and British neighbor Julian (Hugh Bonneville). Comedian Wayne Federman had a recurring role as office sycophant, Johnson. Cast *Jenna Elfman....Alex Rose *Dabney Coleman....Bill Rose *Hugh Bonneville....Juilan *Josh Randall....Scott *Josh Stamberg....Stephen * Jillian Bach ... [...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] |
Dharma & Greg
''Dharma & Greg'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1997, until April 30, 2002, for 119 episodes over five seasons. The show starred Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as Dharma and Greg Montgomery, a couple who married on their first date despite being polar opposites. The series was co-produced by Chuck Lorre Productions, More-Medavoy Productions and 4 to 6 Foot Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The show's theme song was written and performed by composer Dennis C. Brown. Created by executive producers Dottie Dartland and Chuck Lorre, the comedy took much of its inspiration from culture-clash "fish out of water" situations. The show earned eight Golden Globe nominations, six Emmy Award nominations, and six Satellite Award nominations. Elfman earned a Golden Globe in 1999 for Best Actress. Show summary Free-spirited yoga instructor/dog trainer Dharma Finkelstein and straight-laced lawyer Greg Montg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Hughes (director)
Terry Hughes is a British film and television director and producer. He won the 1976 BAFTA Award for Best Entertainment Programme for ''The Two Ronnies'', the 1985 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Variety or Music Program for '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'', and the 1987 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for ''The Golden Girls''. He directed 108 episodes of ''The Golden Girls'' between 1985 and 1990. Career Hughes has produced or directed BBC TV variety shows such as Val Doonican, Harry Secombe and Kenneth Williams and series such as ''Ripping Yarns''. He is probably best known in the UK for being the producer and director of ''The Two Ronnies'' from 1971 to 1976. He earned six consecutive BAFTA nominations for his work on this show, winning once in 1976. In 1985, as part of his work in America, Hughes won an Emmy for ''Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program'' for directing the televised ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aury Wallington
Aury Wallington is an American novelist and TV writer. She has written extensively for TV, and her latest book is based upon science fiction series ''Heroes''. The novel, titled '' Heroes: Saving Charlie'', is the first in what will be a series of ''Heroes'' books which have been written with the full cooperation of ''Heroes'' creator Tim Kring. Aury currently created the NBC.com series '' Dial *'' starring AnnaLynne McCord. She is also writing for the new live-action Cartoon Network TV show ''Tower Prep''. Biography Wallington grew up in Pennsylvania and always wanted to be a writer but was not sure how to go about it. She graduated from Tufts University and moved to New Orleans because one of her favourite writers, Ellen Gilchrist, was from there and Wallington thought that she would soak up some inspiration from living there too. Instead, she spent her nights bartending and her days writing really bad poetry and collecting rejection slips. After a stint in New York a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard R
Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' Leo,'' and the suffix ''hardu'' ("brave" or "hardy"). The name has come to mean "lion strength", "lion-strong", or "lion-hearted". Leonard was the name of a Saint in the Middle Ages period, known as the patron saint of prisoners. Leonard is also an Irish origin surname, from the Gaelic ''O'Leannain'' also found as O'Leonard, but often was anglicised to just Leonard, consisting of the prefix ''O'' ("descendant of") and the suffix ''Leannan'' ("lover"). The oldest public records of the surname appear in 1272 in Huntingdonshire, England, and in 1479 in Ulm, Germany. Variations The name has variants in other languages: * Leen, Leendert, Lenard (Dutch) * Lehnertz, Lehnert (Luxembourgish) * Len (English) * :hu:Lénárd (Hungarian) * Lenart ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Spitzer
Justin Spitzer is an American television and film writer, producer, and series creator whose credits include ''Scrubs'' and ''Courting Alex''. He worked as a writing assistant on '' Queer as Folk'' (U.S. version) and ''Grounded for Life'' prior to serving as a writer on ''The Office'' (U.S. version) for seven years. He is the creator of, and an executive producer on, the NBC sitcom '' Superstore,'' and served as the series' showrunner for its first three seasons. Career Spitzer was an assistant on ''Grounded for Life,'' and on fourteen episodes of '' Queer as Folk.'' In 2013 he wrote a pilot based on ''The Money Pit'' that was put into development by NBC but ultimately never aired. He is the creator, showrunner and executive producer for the NBC sitcom ''Superstore''. On January 23, 2020, NBC ordered a pilot for Spitzer's comedy ''American Auto'' for Kapital Entertainment and Universal Television. In August 2021, Spitzer had signed a new four-year overall deal with Universal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asaad Kelada
Asaad Kelada ( ar, أسعد قلادة; born May 11, 1940) is an American television director of many American television sitcoms. Early life Kelada was born in Cairo, Egypt and he studied drama under Youssef Chahine at the American University in Cairo. In 1961, he immigrated to the United States and studied directing at the Yale School of Drama. Career After directing stage plays and teaching drama in the 1960s and 1970s, he received his first opportunity directing television in 1976 with an episode of the sitcom ''Rhoda'', "Rhoda Questions Her Life and Flies to Paris". Since that time he has directed episodes of several well-known sitcoms including ''Benson'', ''WKRP in Cincinnati'', '' The Facts of Life'', ''Family Ties'', and '' Who's the Boss?'', for which he directed 117 episodes and also was a producer on 51 episodes. Kelada spoke with '' DGA Magazine'' and said that good casting is essential to the success of a comedy, because "you cannot make the actor be funny". He s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Conn
Eileen Conn is an American television producer and television writer. Her credits include '' Get a Life'', ''Mad About You'', '' Dream On'', ''NewsRadio'', ''Just Shoot Me!'', '' DAG'' (also co-creator), ''Courting Alex'' and serving as executive producer for ''Shake It Up'' (in which her husband has appeared) alongside Rob Lotterstein Rob Lotterstein is an American screenwriter and producer. He has written and produced for numerous television sitcoms including ''Boy Meets World'', ''Suddenly Susan'', '' Ellen'' and ''Will & Grace'', as well as serving as creator and executive ... and ''Made in Japan''. In 1993, Conn married actor-comedian Larry Miller, with whom she has two children. References External links * American television producers American women television producers American television writers Living people American women television writers Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American screenwriter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Cendrowski
Mark Cendrowski is an American film and television director. He is best known as the director of most episodes of ''The Big Bang Theory''. Cendrowski is a 1981 graduate of the University of Michigan and a 1977 graduate of Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods, Michigan. He has worked on a number of series, including directing many episodes of ''Yes, Dear'', '' Still Standing'', ''According to Jim'', ''Rules of Engagement'', and is the primary director of ''The Big Bang Theory''. He has also directed episodes of ''Wizards of Waverly Place'', ''The King of Queens'', ''A.N.T. Farm'', ''Hannah Montana'', ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'', ''The Hughleys'', ''Malcolm & Eddie'', ''Men at Work'', ''Sullivan & Son'', '' Dads'', ''The Carmichael Show'' and '' Superior Donuts'', among others. Cendrowski received his first-ever Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the final episode of the eleventh season of ''The Big Bang Theory'', "The Bow Tie Asymmetry", w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Fryman
Pamela Gail Fryman (born 1959) is an American sitcom director and producer. She directed all but twelve episodes of the television series ''How I Met Your Mother''. Early life Fryman was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Career Fryman got her first job on ''The John Davidson Show'' as an assistant to the talent coordinator, and went on to be a booth production assistant and secretary on '' Santa Barbara'', eventually moving up to assistant director (AD), and director. In 1993, producer Peter Noah, with whom she had worked on the game show '' Dream House'', gave Fryman a chance to direct an episode of the short-lived sitcom ''Café Americain''. These would be the first stepping stones toward a long and successful career. Before her directing career blossomed, Fryman pursued stage directing. On the set of ''Frasier'', rehearsal resembled a play staging, which is exactly what creator and executive producer David Lee had in mind when he hired her. Fryman directed 34 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikka Costa
Domenica "Nikka" Costa (born 4 June 1972) is an American singer whose music combines elements of pop, soul, and blues. She also had a career as a child singer starting in the early 1980s. She is the daughter of music producer Don Costa. Early life Nikka Costa was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her father, Don Costa, was a producer and musician. During her childhood, Costa was surrounded by famous musicians and traveled around the world with her father. At age five, Costa recorded a single with Hawaiian singer Don Ho. Italian producers, Danny B. Besquet and Tony Renis, were working with her father on the album ''Don Costa Plays the Beatles'' when they had a brainstorm to produce an album with Nikka singing, while her father played acoustic guitar. The album was well received in Europe and Costa became known as a child star. At age 9, Costa sang with Frank Sinatra in an appearance on the lawn of the White House. Costa's career as a recording artist under her own name started in 1981, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of Practice
''Out of Practice'' is an American sitcom television series that was produced by Paramount Television and originally broadcast on sister company CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 29, 2006. With producers Joe Keenan and Christopher Lloyd (''Frasiers producers) at the helm, the show was about a family of five doctors who had little in common and usually did not get along. CBS officially cancelled it on May 17, 2006, at its upfront presentation. Plot Ben Barnes is the youngest son and central character. As a marriage counselor and the only non-physician, the rest of his family sees him as a lesser doctor. His wife left him in the pilot episode. Ben's father, Stewart Barnes, is a gastroenterologist who is happy to be free from the influence of his ex-wife, Lydia Barnes (Stockard Channing in her third sitcom starring role following ''Stockard Channing in Just Friends'' and '' The Stockard Channing Show''), a status-conscious cardiologist and mother of their three children. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |