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Electus
Electus was a production company founded by Ben Silverman in 2009. It was financed by IAC. The company had development deals with NBC, ABC, MTV, VH1, Facebook, Yahoo!, and AOL. In 2018, IAC sold Electus to Propagate Content. History and partners Electus was founded by Ben Silverman, former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and chief executive officer of Reveille, and financed by Barry Diller’s IAC in 2009. As part of its inception, IAC partnered Electus with CollegeHumor, the comedy portal that had developed series both on the web and TV. In January 2010, Electus partnered with Jason Bateman and Will Arnett to launch a sponsor-driven advertising and digital production company, DumbDumb, which launched branded campaigns including one for Orbit Gum, and an online talk show on behalf of Denny's called "Always Open". In August 2010, Electus announced a production and distribution deal with 5x5 Media, headed by Craig Armstrong, Rick Ringbakk and Tod Mesirow, whose combined produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Silverman
Benjamin Noah Silverman (born August 15, 1970) is an American media executive. He is the co-CEO and chairman of the entertainment production company Propagate. From 2007–2009, Silverman served as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. He is also an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning executive producer of such shows as ''The Office'', ''Jane The Virgin'', ''Ugly Betty'', ''Marco Polo'', ''The Tudors'' and ''The Biggest Loser''. Silverman also produced CW's praised '' No Tomorrow'' and Apple's first reality television show '' Planet of the Apps''. On July 10, 2014, The Banff World Media Festival presented Silverman with the ''Award of Excellence in Digital Innovation''. As of the fourth quarter 2016, Silverman's most recently released feature film ''Hands of Stone'' starring Edgar Ramirez, Robert De Niro and Usher, and was released theatrically in North America on August 26, 2016 through The Weinstein Company. Life and career Silverman was born in Pittsfield, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CollegeHumor
CollegeHumor is an Internet comedy company based in Los Angeles. Aside from producing content for release on YouTube, it was also a former humor website owned by InterActiveCorp ( IAC) until January 2020, when IAC withdrew funding and the website shut down. Since then, CollegeHumor has continued to release content on YouTube and its streaming service, Dropout. The site featured daily original humor videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. Created by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen in 1999, CollegeHumor is operated by CH Media, which also operates Dorkly.com and Dropout.tv, and formerly operated Drawfee.com. CH Media is also a partner of the website BustedTees, an online clothing website. Many of its staff also operated the sister website ''Dorkly'', centering on fandoms and video game parodies in the vein of CollegeHumor before the site ceased publication of new articles in Ja ... [...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] |
Facebook
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name comes from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities and, since 2006, anyone over 13 years old. As of July 2022, Facebook claimed 2.93 billion monthly active users, and ranked third worldwide among the most visited websites as of July 2022. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. Facebook can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivity, such as personal computers, tablets and smartphones. After registering, users can create a profile revealing information about themselves. They can post text, photos and multimedia which are shared with any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DiGa
Diga is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is part of the Misraq Welega Zone and it is part of former Diga Leka woreda. Demographics The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 66,689, of whom 33,896 were men and 32,793 were women; 8,377 or 12.56% of its population are urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants observed Protestantism, with 50.28% reporting that as their religion, while 36.53% observed Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 11.87% were Moslem Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Gateley
Liz Gateley is an American television producer. She currently serves as head of programming at Lifetime Television. She is also a founding partner and co-owner, along with Tony DiSanto, of DiGa, a studio and production company hybrid. In what Gateley describes as her "dream job", she is responsible for leading the development of new weekly and daily series for the channel including both scripted and reality projects. Gateley is known for creating the hit reality series ''Laguna Beach'', inspired by her childhood growing up in Palos Verdes, California. It was the first thing she pitched at MTV back in 2003, the summer in which she started, and she went on to serve as executive producer of that series. Her next creation was ''8th & Ocean'', which also went on to become a hit series for MTV. Since then, she has developed a diverse slate of hits series for the network, which most recently included ''Teen Mom'' and ''16 and Pregnant'', on which she also served as executive producer. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony DiSanto
Tony may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tony (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Gregory Tony (born 1978), American law enforcement officer * Motu Tony (born 1981), New Zealand international rugby league footballer * Tony (footballer, born 1983), full name Tony Heleno da Costa Pinho, Brazilian football defensive midfielder * Tony (footballer, born 1986), full name Antônio de Moura Carvalho, Brazilian football attacking midfielder * Tony (footballer, born 1989), full name Tony Ewerton Ramos da Silva, Brazilian football right-back Film, theater and television * Tony Awards, a Broadway theatre honor * ''Tony'' (1982 film), a Kannada film * ''Tony'' (2009 film), a British horror film directed by Gerard Johnson * ''Tony'' (2013 film), an Indian Kannada thriller film * "Tony" (''Skins'' series 1), an episode of British comedy-drama ''Skins'' * "Tony" (''Skins'' series 2), an episode of ''Skins'' Music * Tony T., stage name of British s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
''Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution'' (retitled ''Jamie's American Food Revolution'' in the United Kingdom) is a television show on ABC from March 2010 until summer 2011. The show was produced by British chef Jamie Oliver and Ryan Seacrest, following Oliver as he attempted to reform the US school lunch programs, help American society fight obesity and change their eating habits in order to live healthier and longer lives. Premise The show premiered on ABC on March 21, 2010, in the UK on Channel 4 on September 13, 2010, in Greece on Fox Life Greece in November 2010 and in Italy on Raisat Gambero Rosso Channel in January 2011. Oliver, a celebrity chef and health campaigner in the United Kingdom, used a grassroots campaign in the US to curb obesity. In the first season, his efforts were focused in Huntington, West Virginia, statistically one of the unhealthiest cities in the country. In an early trailer for the show, Oliver challenged a group of first grade schoolchildren to identify ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Edition
A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or many humans, and sometimes various companion animals. It is a fully or semi sheltered space and can have both interior and exterior aspects to it. Homes provide sheltered spaces, for instance rooms, where domestic activity can be performed such as sleeping, preparing food, eating and hygiene as well as providing spaces for work and leisure such as remote working, studying and playing. Physical forms of homes can be static such as a house or an apartment, mobile such as a houseboat, trailer or yurt or digital such as virtual space. The aspect of ‘home’ can be considered across scales; from the micro scale showcasing the most intimate spaces of the individual dwelling and direct surrounding area to the macro scale of the geographic area such as town, village, city, country or planet. The concept of ‘home’ has been researched and theorized across disciplines – topics ranging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazing Race
''The Amazing Race'' is an adventure reality game show franchise in which teams of two people race around the world in competition with other teams. The ''Race'' is split into legs, with teams tasked to deduce clues, navigate themselves in foreign areas, interact with locals, and perform physical and mental challenges that often highlight aspects of a location's culture, history, or economy. Over the course of the ''Race'', teams travel by airplanes, helicopters, trucks, bicycles, taxicabs, cars, trains, buses, boats and by foot. Teams are progressively eliminated at the end of most legs for being the last to arrive at designated Pit Stops, until only three remain. The first team to arrive at the finish line is awarded the grand prize. Created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster, the original series has aired in the United States since 2001 and has earned thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, ten of them for "Outstanding Reality-Competition Program". Emmy-award-winning New Zeala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Survivor (U
Survivor(s) may refer to: Actual survivors * *Last survivors of historical events Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Survivors, characters in the 1997 ''KKnD'' video-game series * ''The Survivors'', or the ''New Survivors Foundation'', a fictional cult from Robert Muchamore's a 2006 novel '' Divine Madness'' Films * ''Survivor'' (1987 film), a film written by Bima Stagg * ''Survivor'' (2008 film), a film featuring Cyril Nri * ''Survivor'' (2014 film), a film featuring Danielle Chuchran and Kevin Sorbo * ''Survivor'' (film), a 2015 British spy-thriller starring Milla Jovovich and Pierce Brosnan * ''Survivors'' (2015 film), a British horror * ''Survivors'' (2018 film), a Sierra Leonean documentary * ''Survivors'' (2022 film), a Nigerian comedy * ''The Survivors'' (1983 film) * ''The Survivor'' (2016 film), a short about the 2014 APS Massacre Games * ''Survivor'' (1982 video game), a 1982 shooter game * ''Survivor'' (1987 video game), a 1987 8-bit actio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Arnett
William Emerson Arnett (; born May 4, 1970) is a Canadian actor, comedian and producer. He is best known for his roles as Gob Bluth in the Fox/Netflix series ''Arrested Development'' (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and as the titular character in the Netflix series ''BoJack Horseman'' (2014–2020). He has appeared in films such as ''Let's Go to Prison'' (2006), ''Blades of Glory'' (2007), ''Semi-Pro'' (2008), ''G-Force'' (2009), ''Jonah Hex'' (2010), ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (2014) and its sequel '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'' (2016), and ''Show Dogs'' (2018). His deep baritone voice has landed him numerous voice acting jobs, including ''Danny Phantom'' (2004–2007), '' Ice Age: The Meltdown'' (2006), ''Ratatouille'' (2007), ''Horton Hears a Who!'' (2008), '' Monsters vs. Aliens'' (2009), ''Despicable Me'' (2010), ''The Nut Job'' (2014), ''Teen Titans Go! To the Movies'' (2018), '' Dolittle'' (2020), '' Rumble'' (2021), '' Chip 'n Dale: Rescue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
