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Indebted (TV Series)
''Indebted'' is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from February 6 to April 16, 2020. The series was created by Dan Levy and co-executive produced with Doug Robinson, Andy Ackerman and David Guarascio for Sony Pictures Television. In June 2020, the series was canceled after one season. Plot The series follows a couple, Dave and Rebecca, who are ready to start a new life after years of parenting. That is, until Dave's parents show up unannounced and broke, leaving Dave with no choice but to open the door to the people who gave him everything, which eventually leads to a clash of parental chaos among families. Cast Main * Adam Pally as Dave Klein, Rebecca's husband. * Abby Elliott as Rebecca Klein, Dave's wife. * Jessy Hodges as Joanna Klein, Dave's lesbian sister and owner of a pet-grooming shop. * Steven Weber as Stew Klein, Dave's father, and a retired TV pitchman. * Fran Drescher as Debbie Klein, Dave's loving but extremely overbearing mother. Recurring * Ander ... [...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] |
Lilan Bowden
Alice Lilan Bowden (born September 1, 1985) is an American actress, filmmaker, and comedian. She is best known for her roles as Rebecca "Bex" Mack in ''Andi Mack'' and Amber Kang in the Netflix series '' Murderville''. Life and career Lilan Bowden was born to a Taiwanese mother and white father. She attended Castro Valley High School where she had joined an improv club and graduated in 2002. Bowden attended University of California, Irvine where she continued to perform in comedy. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles and joined the Upright Citizens Brigade. She also began writing videos with her writing partner Wilder Smith, featured on ''Funny or Die'' during this time. Bowden began auditioning for roles which was made difficult due to her mixed race heritage. "The roles you get as a minority usually cluster in certain category...I felt like every year I was going out and testing for at least one pilot where I was the sassy, ethnic best friend...I still think that we have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The two met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. They started performing with the name Indigo Girls as students at Emory University, performing weekly at The Dugout, a bar in Emory Village. They released a self-produced, full-length record album entitled ''Strange Fire'' in 1987, and contracted with a major record company in 1988. After releasing nine albums with major record labels from 1987 through 2007, they have now resumed self-producing albums with their own IG Recordings company. Outside of working on Indigo Girls–related projects, Ray has released solo albums and founded a non-profit organization that promotes independent musicians, while Saliers is an entrepreneur in the restaurant industry as well as a professional author; she also collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homophobia
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitude (psychology), attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual. It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear and may also be related to religious beliefs. Negative attitudes towards transgender and transsexual people are known as transphobia.* *"European Parliament resolution on homophobia in Europe" Texts adopted Wednesday, 18 January 2006 – Strasbourg Final edition- "Homophobia in Europe" at "A" point * * Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and Violence against LGBT people, violence on the basis of sexual orientations that are non-heterosexual. Recognized types of homophobia include ''institutionalized'' homophobia, e.g. religious homophobia and state-sponsored homophobia, and ''internalized'' homophobia, experienced by people who have same-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Dean Seaton
Eric Dean Seaton is an American television director, producer and graphic novelist. Eric Dean Seaton was born in Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. .... After graduating from the Ohio State University, Seaton moved to California and quickly climbed the assistant director ladder on television shows such as “Living Single” and “That’s So Raven.” In 2004, Seaton made his professional directing debut on Disney Channel's “That’s So Raven.” Filmography References External links * *Eric Dean Seaton Interview with Super Hero Speak African-American television directors American television directors Television producers from Ohio Living people Ohio State University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Savage
Frederick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series ''The Wonder Years'' (1988 to 1993). He has earned several awards and nominations, such as People's Choice Awards and Young Artist Awards. He is also known for playing the Grandson in ''The Princess Bride'', and voiced the title protagonist in ''Oswald''. Savage has worked as a director, and in 2005 later starred in the television sitcom ''Crumbs''. Savage returned to acting in the television series '' The Grinder'', as well as the Netflix series ''Friends from College''. Early life and education Savage was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Joanne and Lewis Savage, who was an industrial real estate broker and consultant. Savage grew up in Glencoe, Illinois, before moving to California. His younger brother is actor Ben Savage and his younger sister is actress/musician Kala Savage. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venmo
Venmo is an American mobile payment service founded in 2009 and owned by PayPal since 2013. Venmo was aimed at friends and family who wish to split bills, e.g. for movies, dinner, rent, or event tickets etc. Account holders can transfer funds to others via a mobile phone app; both the sender and receiver must live in the United States. On Venmo, a little social network, users can observe how others who are sending money to one another interact with amusing emoticons. In 2021 the company handled $230 billion in transactions and generated $850 million in revenue. By default, Venmo publishes every peer-to-peer transaction (excluding the amount), a feature shown by researchers to reveal sensitive details about users' lives in some situations. In 2018, the company settled with the Federal Trade Commission about several privacy and security violations related to this and other features, and made changes to the corresponding settings. However, Venmo continued to attract criticism for e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Wauchope
Audrey Wauchope is an American TV director, producer and writer. She is the long term collaborative partner of fellow producer and writer Rachel Specter. Career Wauchope began her writing career when she was 29 when she and her writing partner Rachel Specter were hired to the staff of ''One Tree Hill''. In 2017, after the show had ended, spurred on by the Me Too Movement and accusations of sexual harassment committed by fellow The CW executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, Wauchope tweeted a thread about sexual harassment and misconduct she and Specter experienced on their first writing job. While she did not name him or the show in the thread, it was confirmed that she was referring to the creator and showrunner of ''One Tree Hill'', Mark Schwann. Her allegations encouraged many other writers and actresses on both ''One Tree Hill'' and Schwann's then-current show, '' The Royals'' to speak out about sexual harassment they had experienced from Schwann. Wauchope & Specter joined ''Cra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Specter
Rachel Specter is an American writer, producer and actress. She was a producer and writer of ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'' (2015–2019). She began her career as an actress but has since has written for the TV series like ''One Tree Hill'' and ''Cougar Town'', and produced ''Hyperlinked'' (2017) and '' Indebted'' (2020). Life and career Specter was born in Tampa, Florida. She graduated from the University of Florida, with honors. She played the role of Courtney in ''The House Bunny'', and guest-starred in episodes of '' How I Met Your Mother'', ''Gilmore Girls'', '' What I Like About You'', and ''Entourage''. She has also appeared on ''Attack of the Show!'', ''The Feed'', and the web series ''Long Distance Relationship''. Before concentrating on behind the scenes work, Specter appeared as one of the actresses for the Sunsilk Color Showdown ad campaign. She was also known for a series of ads for RGX from Right Guard, Procter & Gamble's mid-2000s competitor against Axe, along with ads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phill Lewis
Phillip David Lewis (born February 14, 1968) is an American actor, comedian and director who is best known for his role as hotel manager Mr. Moseby on the Disney Channel series ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody'' and its spin-off, ''The Suite Life on Deck''. Lewis has also appeared in series such as ''Lizzie McGuire'', ''Friends'', ''The Wayans Bros.'', ''Yes, Dear'', '' Scrubs'' and ''How I Met Your Mother''. Early life Lewis was born on February 14, 1968, in Uganda to American parents.Phill Lewis Biography (1968–) Accessed December 12, 2012.Photos, Bio and News for Phill Lewis TVGuide.com. Accessed December 12, 2012. His father, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Mintz
Daniel Alexander Mintz (born September 25, 1981) is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his role as Bob's oldest daughter Tina Belcher on the animated show ''Bob's Burgers''. As a comedian, he is known for his extremely deadpan delivery, keeping his eyes fixed straight ahead and never looking toward the camera or audience due to natural stage fright. Early life and education Born to a Jewish family, Mintz grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote for ''The Harvard Lampoon''. Career He landed his first writing job at Comedy Central's ''Crank Yankers'', then worked on ''Last Call with Carson Daly''. He has written for ''The Andy Milonakis Show'', ''Human Giant'', ''Lucky Louie'', ''Important Things with Demetri Martin'', ''Jon Benjamin Has a Van'', ''Nick Swardson's Pretend Time'', ''Nathan For You'', ''The Awesomes'' and ''Mulaney''. His writing credits also include the ''Bob's Burgers'' episode titled "The Equestrana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Mancuso
Gail Mancuso (born July 14, 1958) is an American film and television director. Early life and career Mancuso grew up in Melrose Park, Illinois. She is married to Brian Downs, a doctor, and divides her time between her homes in Valencia, California and River Forest, Illinois. Mancuso began her career as an usher of the set of several television talk shows. Later, became a script supervisor for the Showtime comedy ''Brothers''. In 1989, she began serving as associate director for '' Roseanne''. After one of the show's directors left in 1991, she had the chance to become one of the main directors and continued until the show's eighth season. She went on to direct episodes of many television series like ''Friends'', ''Dharma and Greg'' and ''Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place''. In 2007, Mancuso began working on the CBS sitcom ''Rules of Engagement''. She has also directed episodes of '' 30 Rock'' and '' Scrubs''. In 2008, she won a Gracie Award for her work on '' 30 Rock''. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
