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High Potential
''High Potential'' is an American crime drama television series created by Drew Goddard for ABC. It is based on the 2021 French and Belgian television series '' HPI''. The series stars Kaitlin Olson as Morgan Gillory, an intellectually gifted cleaning woman who becomes a police consultant. Also starring are Daniel Sunjata as Morgan's partner Adam Karadec and Judy Reyes as Selena Soto, the head of their department. The series premiered on September 17, 2024. In January 2025, the series was renewed for a second season. Premise The show centers on Morgan Gillory, a single mother with three children who works as a cleaning lady for the Los Angeles Police Department. She is also a high potential intellectual ("HPI"), with an IQ of 160. After solving a case using her unconventional mind, she becomes a consultant for the LAPD's Major Crimes division, where she is paired with no-nonsense detective Adam Karadec. A subplot involves Morgan using the LAPD's help and resources to find out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intellectual Giftedness
Intellectual giftedness is an intelligence, intellectual ability significantly higher than average and is also known as high potential. It is a characteristic of children, variously defined, that motivates differences in school programming. It is thought to persist as a trait into adult life, with various consequences studied in longitudinal studies of giftedness over the last century. These consequences sometimes include stigmatizing and social exclusion. There is no generally agreed definition of giftedness for either children or adults, but most school placement decisions and most longitudinal studies over the course of individual lives have followed people with Intelligence quotient, IQs in the top 2.5 percent of the population—that is, IQs IQ classification#Giftedness, above 130. Definitions of giftedness also vary across cultures. The various definitions of intellectual giftedness include either general high ability or specific abilities. For example, by some definitions, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Potential (TV Series)
''High Potential'' is an American crime drama television series created by Drew Goddard for ABC. It is based on the 2021 French and Belgian television series '' HPI''. The series stars Kaitlin Olson as Morgan Gillory, an intellectually gifted cleaning woman who becomes a police consultant. Also starring are Daniel Sunjata as Morgan's partner Adam Karadec and Judy Reyes as Selena Soto, the head of their department. The series premiered on September 17, 2024. In January 2025, the series was renewed for a second season. Premise The show centers on Morgan Gillory, a single mother with three children who works as a cleaning lady for the Los Angeles Police Department. She is also a high potential intellectual ("HPI"), with an IQ of 160. After solving a case using her unconventional mind, she becomes a consultant for the LAPD's Major Crimes division, where she is paired with no-nonsense detective Adam Karadec. A subplot involves Morgan using the LAPD's help and resources to find out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Getzinger
Jennifer Getzinger (born September 26, 1967) is an American director and script supervisor of film and television. For much of her career she worked as a script supervisor on a number of notable films including '' The Prophecy'' (1995), '' Phantoms'' (1998), '' Clay Pigeons'' (1998), '' Requiem for a Dream'' (2000), and '' The Devil Wears Prada'' (2006). She was also script supervisor for the television series '' Strangers with Candy'', '' Sex and the City'', '' The Comeback'', ''The Sopranos'', and '' Mad Men'', making her episodic directorial debut on the latter series. She has been nominated for three Directors Guild of America Awards for directing the ''Mad Men'' episodes "The Gypsy and the Hobo" (season 3, episode 11; 2009), "The Suitcase" (season 4, episode 7; 2010), and "A Little Kiss" (season 5, episodes 1 & 2; 2012). Her other television directing credits include '' Hung'', '' The Killing'', '' Orange is the New Black'', '' Agent Carter'', '' How to Get Away with Murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Dean Seaton
Eric Dean Seaton is an American television director, producer and graphic novelist. Seaton was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Ohio State University, he moved to California and quickly climbed the assistant director ladder on television shows such as Fox's ''Living Single'' and Disney Channel's ''That's So Raven''. In 2004, Seaton made his professional directorial debut on ''That's So Raven''. Since then, he has directed episodes for several other series, including ''Cory in the House'', ''True Jackson, VP'', ''Sonny with a Chance'', ''Good Luck Charlie'', ''The Suite Life on Deck'', '' I'm in the Band'', '' Shake It Up'', '' Imagination Movers'', '' How to Rock'', '' Jessie'', '' A.N.T. Farm'', ''Austin & Ally'', '' Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn'', '' Bella and the Bulldogs'', ''The Thundermans'', ''Raven's Home'', ''Knight Squad'', ''The Flash'', and ''Supergirl Supergirl is the name of several fictional superheroines appearing in American comic books published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Berman
Andrew Mark Berman (born February 24, 1968) is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and comedian. He is best known for his role as Dib Membrane in ''Invader Zim'', Dennis in '' The Jamie Foxx Show'' (1996-1997), Chuck in '' The Wonder Years'' (1991-1993), as well as directing, writing, and producing ''Psych'' (2006-2014). Early life Berman was born Andrew Mark Berman in Chicago, Illinois, on February 24, 1968. He is the brother of Lauren Berman Rawitz, herself a theatre and television actress whose credits include appearances on ''Mr. Belvedere'' and ''The Young and the Restless.'' Career Berman's film debut was in '' Shadows and Fog'' as a student. Berman's first notable appearance was in 19 episodes of the hit drama '' The Wonder Years'' from 1991-1993, where he played Chuck Coleman, a fidgety and nervous student. He appeared as Ernie in '' Rookie of the Year''. In the comedy sitcom '' The Jamie Foxx Show'' he appeared in 12 episodes as Dennis, the doorbell guy. Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Corn
Robert L. Corn (born August 12, 1955) is an American television producer and director best known for Girls Club (TV series), Girls Club (2002), The District (2000), The Resident (TV series), The Resident (2018), Grey's Anatomy (2005), Chicago Hope (1994), Weird Science (film), Weird Science (1985) and 48 Hours (film), 48 hours (1982). Corn has produced 61 out of 62 episodes of medical drama series ''Grey's Anatomy'', of which he has also directed thirty. Previously, he was also a producer and director of several episodes of the 1990s medical drama ''Chicago Hope''. Anabella Garcia, the daughter of the director says “The show when we started was very chaotic. But that’s the beauty of it.” He has been nominated five times for the Emmy Awards, Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Drama Series: ''Chicago Hope'' (1995, 1996, 1997) and ''Grey's Anatomy'' (2006, 2007). Corn lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two children. Filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Roday Rodriguez
James Roday Rodriguez (born James David Rodriguez; April 4, 1976) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Shawn Spencer, a hyper-observant consultant detective and fake psychic, in USA Network series ''Psych'' and the subsequent ''Psych'' film series, also writing and producing for ''Psych''. He also starred in ''A Million Little Things'' which debuted in 2018, playing Javier "Gary" Mendez. Early life Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, Texas, as James David Rodriguez. He attended Taft High School in San Antonio. His father, James "Jim" Rodriguez, is of Mexican descent, and his mother, Deborah Collins, is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Rodriguez's father is a retired Air Force master sergeant. At New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing, Rodriguez studied theatre and earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts. Career At the age of 22, he selected the professional name James Roday. In a July 2020 interview, Rodriguez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Daisy von Scherler Mayer, sometimes credited as Daisy Mayer (born September 14, 1966), is an American film and television director. Early life Mayer is the daughter of actress Sasha Von Scherler (born Alexandra-Xenia Elizabeth Anne Marie Fiesola von Schoeler, 1934–2000) and Paul Avila Mayer (1928–2009). She was a grandchild of American screenwriter Edwin Justus Mayer. Career After contributing to the New York Shakespeare Festival as a teen, von Scherler Mayer graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in theater and history. Her experience with theater served as a foundation for her career as a director, where she applied her understanding of stage acting to her work for the screen. Upon graduating from Wesleyan, von Scherler Mayer directed contemporary interpretations of classic plays such as Euripides' ''Electra (Euripides), Electra'', and William Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' and ''Two Gentlemen of Verona.'' Von Scherler Mayer's feature-film directing debut was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Chatmon
Pete Chatmon (born June 1, 1977 in New York City) is an American director. Early life Chatmon was born in New York City. A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Career Chatmon's work has been shown at over 25 film festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival. His short films include: ''3D'', ''Chameleon'', and ''Confessions of Cool''. He is best known for writing, producing, and directing the independent feature film ''Premium'', starring Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, Hill Harper, Eva Pigford, Frankie Faison, and William Sadler. ''Premium'', nominated for a 2007 Best Independent Feature, Black Reel Award, has also earned the Honorary Mention Audience Award at the 2006 Urbanworld Film Festival as well as a New Visions, Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Bahamas International Film Festival. Chatmon's next film is a documentary on the 761st Tank Battalion, narrated by Andre Braugher. He is developing several feature-length screenplays includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Webb
Marc Preston Webb (born August 31, 1974) is an American filmmaker and music video director. He made his feature film directorial debut in 2009 with the romantic comedy '' (500) Days of Summer.'' He then directed ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (2012) and '' The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014), which later were dubbed the "Webb-Verse" by Marvel Studios in 2021. He also directed the 2017 dramas '' Gifted'' and '' The Only Living Boy in New York'' and the Disney live-action remake of ''Snow White'' (2025). His next planned film is '' Day Drinker''. Early life Webb was born on 31 August 1974 in Bloomington, Indiana, the son of Margaret Ruth (née Stocker), a scientist, and Norman Lott Webb, who works in math education at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. When he was eighteen months old, Marc's family moved to Madison and he grew up there. He graduated from Madison West High School in the city in 1992. He attended Colorado College and then the University of Wisconsin in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Futon Critic
''The Futon Critic'' is a website that provides articles and information regarding prime time programming on broadcast and cable networks in the United States. The site publishes reviews of prime time programming and interviews of people in the television industry, as well as republishing Nielsen ratings data reports, and press releases provided by television networks and streaming television platforms. ''The Futon Critic'' was founded by Brian Ford Sullivan in 1997. History Brian Ford Sullivan, CEO of Futon Media, registered ''The Futon Critic'' on January 14, 1997. From its founding, the site has published reviews on prime time programming, as well as interviews its staff conducted with members of the television industry. The site also contains sections of articles dedicated to republishing press releases, network schedules and Nielsen ratings data, which have been cited by articles on websites such as '' The Huffington Post'' and TV by the Numbers. Its publications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
