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Men Behaving Badly (American TV Series)
''Men Behaving Badly'' is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 18, 1996, to December 17, 1997. It is based on the earlier British sitcom of the same name. Synopsis Set in Indianapolis, Indiana, the show starred Rob Schneider, Ron Eldard, and Justine Bateman. Kevin (Eldard) and Jamie (Schneider) were college buddies sharing an apartment and living out a second childhood, much to the chagrin of Kevin's girlfriend Sarah (Bateman). Brenda (Dina Spybey) was an upstairs neighbor that Jamie flirted with. Eldard and Bateman left after the first season amid rumors that they clashed with Schneider and the show's producers. They were replaced by Ken Marino and Jenica Bergere, and Spybey was promoted from recurring to series regular. Cast * Rob Schneider as Jamie Coleman * Ron Eldard as Kevin Murphy (season 1) * Justine Bateman as Sarah Stretten (season 1) * Dina Spybey as Brenda Mikowski * Julia Campbell as Cherie Miller (season 1) * Ken Marino as Steve ... [...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 rathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Spybey
Dina Spybey (born August 29, 1965) also known as Dina Waters and Dina Spybey-Waters is an American actress. She has appeared in more than 20 films, including ''John Q.'', '' subUrbia'' and ''The Haunted Mansion''. She is perhaps best known for her role as Tracy Montrose Blair on the first season of '' Six Feet Under''. She played "young Elise Eliot" in '' The First Wives Club'' and a ghost named Emma in Disney's film The Haunted Mansion. Career Spybey attended undergraduate studies at Ohio State and then received her M.F.A. from Rutgers University at the Mason Gross School of the Arts. She was the character Dottie in ''Greg the Bunny'', appeared in '' Remember WENN'', and also played a stripper colleague of Demi Moore's in ''Striptease''. She played a supporting role in her husband Mark Waters' film '' Just Like Heaven'' (2005). Spybey portrayed a ghost named Emma in the 2003 Disney movie The Haunted Mansion. She had a small role in Waters' '' Freaky Friday''. She also appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reid Harrison
Reid Harrison is an American screenwriter and television producer. He has written for television shows such as '' The PJs'', '' George and Leo'', '' Men Behaving Badly'', '' Brother's Keeper'', '' Gary & Mike'', ''George of the Jungle'', '' Pinky and the Brain'', '' Duckman'', '' Drawn Together'', '' The Mullets'', ''3 South'', '' Angelo Rules'', '' Sonic Boom'', '' Danger Mouse'' and '' The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti''. He was supervising producer on the Netflix show, '' Disenchantment''. He was also story editor for ''The Simpsons'' and wrote the season eight episode "The Springfield Files" and the season nineteen episode "Papa Don't Leech". Reid graduated from the College of William & Mary The College of William & Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, abbreviated as William & Mary, W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William I ... in 1982. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Payne (writer)
William Donald Payne (May 5, 1964 – March 26, 2013) was an American writer and producer. He wrote several episodes of ''The Simpsons'' after 2000, many of these with John Frink, whom he met while studying at the University of California, Los Angeles. The duo began their careers writing for the short-lived sitcom ''Hope and Gloria''. Payne later moved into writing feature films, including ''My Super Ex-Girlfriend'' (2006), and co-wrote '' Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer'' (2007), ''Thor'' (2011) and its sequel '' Thor: The Dark World'' (2013). Payne died from heart failure caused by bone cancer in March 2013. Early life Payne was born William Donald Payne on May 5, 1964 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He attended New Hanover High School, graduating in 1982; he had been class president. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then transferred to and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also received a master's degree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frink
John Frink (born May 5, 1959) is an American television writer and producer. He has written several episodes of the American animated sitcom ''The Simpsons'', many of which he co-wrote with his former writing partner Don Payne. Frink and Payne started their career in television writing for the short-lived sitcom '' Hope and Gloria''. They wrote their first episode of ''The Simpsons'' in 2000, and Frink still works on the show as a writer and executive producer. Early life and career Frink was born in 1959 in Whitesboro, New York. A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, he holds a degree in creative writing. Frink began his career as a writer for several sitcoms together with his writing partner at the time, Don Payne. The two met at UCLA, where Frink was the boss of the Media Laboratory in which Payne worked. Payne has said to the website TheFutonCritic.com that "one day we were both trying to write individually so I said, 'why don't we pool our resources an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Cherones
Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie '' Deep Impact'' * Tom Buchanan, the main antagonist from the 1925 novel ''The Great Gatsby'' * Tom Cat, a character from the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons * Tom Lucitor, a character from the American animated series '' Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' * Tom Natsworthy, from the science fantasy novel '' Mortal Engines'' * Tom Nook, a character in ''Animal Crossing'' video game series * Tom Servo, a robot character from the ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' television series * Tom Sloane, a non-adult character from the animated sitcom '' Daria'' * Talking Tom, the protagonist from the ''Talking Tom & Friends'' franchise * Tom, a character from the '' Deltora Quest'' books by Emily Rodda * Tom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Freiberger
Bill Freiberger is a writer and producer for such shows as ''The Simpsons'', ''Drawn Together'', ''The PJs'', and ''Sonic Boom''. TV series' episodes written by Freiberger *'' Get a Life'' **"Roots" **"Paper Boy 2000" *'' Charlie Hoover'' **"Anniversary" *'' Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (live action)'' **"It's a Totally Wonderful Life" *''Herman's Head'' **"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Dying" **"Guns 'n' Neurosis" **"Twisted Sister" **"Sperm 'n' Herman" **"The Waterton-gate Break-In" **"The One Wherein They Go on the Love Boat" **"Cat's in the Cradle" **"Love and the Single Parent" **"When Hermy Met Crawford's Daughter" **"When Hairy Met Hermy" **"When Hermy Met Maureen McCormick" **"When Hermie Met Crawford's Girlfriend" *''Hardball'' **"My Name is Hard B" **"The Butt Winnick Story" *'' Thunder Alley'' **"Workin' Man's Blues" *''Men Behaving Badly'' (a.k.a. ''It's a Man's World'') **"I Am What I Am" **"Sarah's Vestigial Organ" *''The Simpsons'' **"She of Little Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Zinberg
Michael Allan Zinberg (born March 22, 1944), is an American television director, producer and writer. Early life and education Zinberg was born in Bexar County, Texas to Dorothy Zinberg (née Rissien) and William Zinberg. Zinberg graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, TX. In 1977, received a B.S. in radio-television-film from Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Career Zinberg moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1968, with his first job as an usher at CBS Television City. He worked his way up to become a production assistant and then a writer, eventually working as an Associate Producer on the James Garner TV show '' Nichols.'' In 1972, Zinberg joined the MTM Productions television production company that was founded by Mary Tyler Moore's husband, Grant Tinker. While at MTM Productions he wrote, produced and directed ''The Bob Newhart Show'' for six seasons, as well as ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show,'' among other popular T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Melman
Jeffrey L. Melman (born May 18, 1947) is an American television director and producer. Melman has directed for several present-day network television series. More recently Melman has directed episodes of ABC's '' Grey's Anatomy'', '' Private Practice'' and ''Desperate Housewives''. Melman previously directed on many hit sitcoms which include ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', '' Everybody Loves Raymond'', ''That's My Bush!'', '' The King of Queens'', '' Two and a Half Men'' and ''Frasier''. Melman was also a producer on '' Oliver Beene'', ''Laverne & Shirley'', and '' Night Court''. at .com Filmography *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Burrows
James Edward Burrows (born December 30, 1940), sometimes known as Jim "Jimmy" Burrows, is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s.Stated in interview on '' Inside the Actors Studio'' Burrows has directed over 50 television pilots and co-created the long-running television series ''Cheers''. He has also formed 3 Sisters Entertainment, a joint venture with NBC that is known for '' Will & Grace'' as well as the CBS Productions show '' Caroline in the City''. In 2016, Burrows directed his 1,000th TV episode, on NBC's ''Crowded''. Early life Burrows was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, California, the son of Ruth (Levinson) and Abe Burrows, a well-known composer, director and writer. James has one sister, Laurie Burrows Grad. When James was still a young child, his family moved to New York where James attended New York’s High School of Music & Art. Burrows is a graduate of Oberlin College and the graduate program of the Yal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DVD Region Code
DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back only DVDs encoded to their region (plus those without any region code). The American DVD Copy Control Association also requires that DVD player manufacturers incorporate the regional-playback control (RPC) system. However, region-free DVD players, which ignore region coding, are also commercially available, and many DVD players can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs. DVDs may use one code, multiple codes (multi-region), or all codes (region free). Region codes and countries Any combination of regions can be applied to a single disc. For example, a DVD designated Region 2/4 is suitable for playback in Europe, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wonderful World Of Disney
The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, ''The Wonderful World of Disney'', was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 to the present. The program moved among the Big Three television networks in its first four decades, but has aired on ABC since 1997 and Disney+ since 2020. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1990, a 36-year span with only a two-year hiatus in 1984–85. The series was broadcast on Sunday for 25 of those years. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's purchase of the network in 1996. From 1997 to 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Since then, ABC has continued the series as an occasional special presentation from 2008 onward, the most rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
