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List Of Littlest Pet Shop Episodes
''Littlest Pet Shop'' is a 2012 animated television series developed by Tim Cahill and Julie McNally-Cahill. The series is based on Hasbro's ''Littlest Pet Shop'' toy line, and features Blythe Baxter (voiced by Ashleigh Ball, with the character based on the doll of the same name) as the main protagonist, as well as other characters who reside in Downtown City, a city modeled after New York City. Along with Blythe is her father, Roger Baxter (voiced by Michael Kopsa), and her employer Mrs. Anna Twombly (voiced by Kathleen Barr) at the nearby pet store, Littlest Pet Shop. Away from home, she maintains several friends at her local high school. As well as the human cast are her seven animal companions, who reside within Littlest Pet Shop during the day, that Blythe unexpectedly gains the ability to communicate with. The series is produced by Hasbro Studios in the United States and animated by DHX Media's animation studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The series is directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Littlest Pet Shop (2012 TV Series)
''Littlest Pet Shop'' is a Flash-animated musical television series produced by DHX Media and Hasbro Studios for Discovery Family. The series is based on the Littlest Pet Shop and Blythe toyline by Hasbro. It centers on Blythe Baxter, a girl who, after moving into an apartment in a city named Downtown City, gains the ability to communicate with animals. Located below her apartment is the eponymous pet store where Blythe works and talks to a group of pets who regularly reside at a daycare in the shop. Worried that a corrupt rival business might drive their shop out of business, it is up to Blythe to drive business into the store with her pet fashion designs. The series first aired on The Hub on November 10, 2012 (which was renamed Discovery Family on October 13, 2014). The completion of a single episode took roughly one year with several in production at once. Although it mostly received praise from reviewers for its writing and characters, it was criticized for its embedded m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Programs Broadcast By Hub Network
This is a list of television programs broadcast by the U.S. cable television channel Discovery Family. Current programming This is a list of television programs currently broadcast by Discovery Family. Acquired programming Animated series Programming from Discovery Repeats of ended series Animated series Live-action series Specials Former programming This is a list of programs that have formerly aired on Discovery Kids (1996–2010), The Hub Network (2010–2014), and Discovery Family (2014–present). Original programming Animated series Reality series Comedy series Drama series Game shows Variety series Documentary series Preschool series Short series Acquired programming Animated series Live-action series Programming from Discovery Former specials Former programming blocks See also * List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network * List of programs broadcast by Cartoonito * List of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precognition
Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future. There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real effect, and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience. Precognition violates the principle of causality, that an effect cannot occur before its cause. Precognition has been widely believed in throughout history. Despite the lack of scientific evidence, many people believe it to be real; it is still widely reported and remains a topic of research and discussion within the parapsychology community. Precognitive phenomena Precognition is sometimes treated as an example of the wider phenomenon of prescience or foreknowledge, to understand by any means what is likely to happen in the future. It is distinct from premonition, which is a vaguer feeling of some impending disaster. Related activities such as predictive prophecy and fortune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merriwether Williams
Merriwether St. John Williams (born March 28, 1968) is an American television writer, former Nickelodeon executive and actress, who has worked on television shows such as ''Happy Tree Friends'', ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'', ''Camp Lazlo'', and ''Adventure Time''. Career After leaving the executive ranks at Nickelodeon, she wrote outlines for ''SpongeBob SquarePants''#Exposed, Banks 2004, p. 10 and a couple episodes of ''The Angry Beavers''. In 2003, she developed and became the show-runner and head writer of the short-lived Showtime (TV network), Showtime animated sitcom ''Free for All (TV series), Free For All''. In 2005, she became the head of story for ''Camp Lazlo'' at Cartoon Network. More recently, Williams has written several episodes for ''Adventure Time'', ''Littlest Pet Shop (2012 TV series), Littlest Pet Shop'', ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'', and ''Pig Goat Banana Cricket''. She has also written an episode for ''Johnny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stand-up Comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke, one-liners, stories, observations or a shtick that may incorporate Theatrical property, props, comedy music, music, Magic (illusion), magic tricks or ventriloquism. It can be performed almost anywhere, including comedy clubs, comedy festivals, bars, nightclubs, colleges or theatres. History Stand-up as a Western world, Western art form has its roots in the Stump speech (minstrelsy), stump speech of American minstrel shows, which featured an actor in blackface delivering nonsensical monologue to the audience. While the intention of stump speeches was to mock African-Americans, they also occasionally contained political and social satire. The minstrel show would later influence theatrical traditions of the late 19th and early 20th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insult Comedy
Insult comedy is a comedy genre in which the act consists mainly of offensive insults usually directed at the audience or other performers. Typical targets for insult include people in the show's audience, the town hosting the performance, or the subject of a roast. An insult comedian often maintains a competitive and interactive relationship with their audience. The style has been described as "festive abuse". The style can be distinguished from an act based on satire, or political humor. Insult comedy is often used to deflect or silence hecklers even when the rest of the show is not focused on it. Notable performers * Fred Allen, especially towards his longtime friend Jack Benny * Dave Attell * Frankie Boyle *Mr_Funny * Roy Chubby Brown * Lenny Bruce * Bill Burr * George Carlin * Jimmy Carr * Dave Chappelle * Louis C.K. * Andrew Dice Clay * Yucko the Clown * Billy Crystal as his fictional character Buddy Young, Jr. * Whitney Cummings * Greg Davies * Rodney Dangerfield * Phyl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retail Chain
A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management and standardized business practices. They have come to dominate the retail and dining markets and many service categories, in many parts of the world. A franchise retail establishment is one form of chain store. In 2005, the world's largest retail chain, Walmart, became the world's largest corporation based on gross sales. History In 1792, Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna established W.H. Smith as a news vending business in London that would become a national concern in the mid-19th century under the management of their grandson William Henry Smith. The world's oldest national retail chain, the firm took advantage of the railway boom during the Industrial Revolution by opening news-stands at railway stations beginning in 1848. The firm, now called WHSmith, had more than 1,400 locations as of 2017. In the U.S., chain stores likely began with J. Stiner & Company, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery Communications
Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City. Established in 1985, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as the namesake Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and TLC. In 2018, the company acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, adding networks such as Food Network, HGTV, and Travel Channel to its portfolio. Since the purchase, Discovery described itself as serving members of "passionate" audiences, and also placed a larger focus on streaming services built around its properties. Discovery owned or had interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, in addition to its other major regional operations such as Eurosport (a pan-European group of sports channels, most prominently the rightsholder of the Olympic Games throughout most of Europe), GolfTV (an international golf-focused streaming service, which is the international digital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Son Of The Bronx
Son of the Bronx was a website that compiled Nielsen ratings data for cable channels in the United States. Founded by former VH1 intern Douglas Pucci (nickname "Son of the Bronx") on the Blogger service, it specialized in publishing detailed listings of ratings for various major cable channels, as well as multiple sports television networks. From its inception in 2011, the site was referenced by numerous sources, using its data for selected cable ratings reports and comparisons of top-performing programs by websites such as TV by the Numbers and The Futon Critic. The site shut down on May 22, 2014, following reports of copyright infringement. History Son of the Bronx was founded by former VH1 intern Douglas Pucci, whose nickname gave the site its name. From 2011, Pucci published Nielsen ratings data for major cable channels such as Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and the Hub Network, as well as multiple sports television networks. Many of the site's ratings, specifically those for A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Series Premiere
A series premiere is the first aired installment of an episodic entertainment series, most often a television series. In the United States, many series premieres are aired in the fall time or, for mid-season replacements, either in the spring or late winter. As distinguished from a pilot A television series' first episode often originates as a pilot, a standalone episode that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its creation, the pilot is meant to be the testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. As such, "Pilot" is overwhelmingly the most common title used for a series premiere. Sometimes a series' pilot may be aired as a later episode or never aired at all. For the Canadian supernatural drama ''Lost Girl'', the pilot that sold the series to Showcase, "Vexed", was used as the eighth episode of the first series. In the case of ''Firefly'', the original pilot ("Serenity") was intended to serve as the series premiere but was rejected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumbwaiter (elevator)
A dumbwaiter is a small freight elevator or lift intended to carry food. Dumbwaiters found within modern structures, including both commercial, public and private buildings, are often connected between multiple floors. When installed in restaurants, schools, hospitals, retirement homes or in private homes, the lifts generally terminate in a kitchen. Limited Preview, ''Google Books'', accessed August 26, 2008. The term seems to have been popularized in the United States in the 1840s, after the model of earlier "dumbwaiters" now known as serving trays and lazy Susans. Quinion, Michael. ''World Wide Words'':Lazy Susan. 24 Apr 2010. Accessed 11 Aug 2013. The mechanical dumbwaiter was invented by George W. Cannon, a New York City inventor. He first filed for the patent of a brake system (US Patent no. 260776) that could be used for a dumbwaiter on January 6, 1883. Limited Preview, ''Google Books', accessed October 30, 2012. He later filed for the patent on the mechanical dumbwaiter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie McNally Cahill
Julie Annabelle McNally Cahill (née McNally; born March 5, 1966) is an American producer, writer and animator who co-created the Cartoon Network series ''My Gym Partner's a Monkey'' with her husband Tim Cahill. She, along with her husband, have co-created and are story editors for the 2012 ''Littlest Pet Shop'' series. She and her husband also worked at Warner Bros. on shows like ''The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries'', '' Histeria'', '' Detention'', ''Animaniacs'', ''Baby Looney Tunes'', '' Mucha Lucha'', and ''Krypto the Superdog''. Screenwriting Television * series head writer denoted in bold * ''The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries'' (1997-1998) * ''Histeria!'' (1998-2000) * '' Detention'' (1999-2000) * ''Baby Looney Tunes'' (2002) * ''Tutenstein'' (2004) * ''¡Mucha Lucha!'' (2004-2005) * ''Krypto the Superdog'' (2005) * ''My Gym Partner's a Monkey'' (2005-2008) * ''Sherm!'' (2006) * ''The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange'' (2012-2013) * ''Littlest Pet Shop'' (2012-2016) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
