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Mr. Sunshine (2011 TV Series)
''Mr. Sunshine'' is an American television sitcom that aired from February 9 to April 6, 2011, as a mid-season replacement. The single-camera comedy was co-created by Matthew Perry, who also starred in the series. ABC cancelled the series on May 13, 2011, due to low ratings. Premise Ben Donovan (Perry) is the operations manager for the Sunshine Center, a second-tier arena in San Diego, who has to deal with the unusual demands of his job and his unpredictable boss (Allison Janney). Cast and characters Main cast *Matthew Perry as Ben Donovan – manager of the Sunshine Center *Allison Janney as Crystal Cohen – Ben's unpredictable boss *Andrea Anders as Alice – Ben's former "friend with benefits" now dating Alonzo *James Lesure as Alonzo Pope – former NBA star, Ben's happy-go-lucky co-worker and Alice's boyfriend *Nate Torrence as Roman Cohen – Crystal's lovable but weird son. He has a crush on Heather Recurring cast *Portia Doubleday as Heather – Ben's assistant, whom ev ... [...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] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize and final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristram Shapeero
Tristram Shapeero is a British television director. He has directed many comedy series, initially in the United Kingdom and later in the United States. Early life Shapeero was born in Somerset and spent his childhood in Bath, where he attended St. Stephen's School and Beechen Cliff School. Career Shapeero started his career as a show runner on Channel 4's '' Norbert Smith: A Life'' and then worked on ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?''. He went to New York in 1991 to direct a few television comedy episodes; while in New York he met his future wife, Erica. After moving back to the UK, he continued to direct television comedy., directing British comedies that include all episodes of '' Pulling'', every other episode of ''Green Wing'', and Series 2 and 3 of ''Peep Show''. He also directed episodes of shows such as ''Brass Eye'', '' I'm Alan Partridge'', and ''Absolutely Fabulous''. He has been nominated for a BAFTA eight times – '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'' and '' Brass Eye Special'' (tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Babbit
Jamie Merill Babbit (born November 16, 1970) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films ''But I'm a Cheerleader'', ''The Quiet'' and ''Itty Bitty Titty Committee''. She has also directed episodes of television programs including ''Russian Doll (TV series), Russian Doll'', ''Gilmore Girls'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', ''United States of Tara'', ''Looking (TV series), Looking'', ''Nip/Tuck'', ''The L Word'', ''Silicon Valley (TV series), Silicon Valley'', ''The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'', and ''A_League_of_Their_Own_(2022_TV_series), A League of Their Own''. Early life and education Babbit was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland with her father, a lawyer and law school professor, and her mother who ran a treatment program for teenagers with drug and alcohol problems, before her death in 2006. The program was called New Directions, and it provided inspiration for the fictional "reparative therapy" (conversion therapy) ... [...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] |
Elliot Hegarty
Elliot Hegarty is a film and television director working in Britain and the United States. His film and TV credits include Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis for Apple TV which won 7 Emmys in 2021, the highly-acclaimed Cheaters (American TV series), Cheaters for BBC1, two film adaptations of David Walliams' books - The Midnight Gang with Alan Davies and Haydn Gwynne and Grandpa's Great Escape with Tom Courtenay and Jennifer Saunders. He also directed ''Lizzie and Sarah'' by Julia Davis, ''Lovesick (TV series), Lovesick'' on Netflix, ''Star Stories'', ''The Kevin Bishop Show'', ''FM (British TV series), FM'', ''Moving Wallpaper'', ''Great Night Out'' and Jack Whitehall's TV series - ''Bad Education (TV series), Bad Education''. In the US Elliot has directed over 35 episodes of TV across a broad range of Network comedies such as ''Black-ish'', ''The Real O'Neals'', ''Mr. Sunshine (2011 TV series), Mr. Sunshine'', ''The Middle (TV series), The Middle'', ''Suburgatory,'' Selfie, Troph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnet Kellman
Barnet Kellman (born November 9, 1947) is an American television and film director, television producer and film actor. Biography Barnet Kellman (born November 9, 1947) is an American theatre, television and film director, television producer and film actor, and educator, best known for the premiere productions of new American plays, and for the pilots of long-running television series such as Murphy Brown and Mad About You. He is the recipient of two Emmy Awards and a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. He is the co-founder and director of USC Comedy at the School of Cinematic Arts, and holds the school's Robin Williams Endowed Chair in Comedy. Early life and education Kellman was born in New York City, and raised in suburban Long Island. His father, was Joseph A. G. Kellman, an attorney, and his mother was Verona Kellman (née Kramer). He attended the Colgate University, Phi Beta Kappa and graduated cum laude in 1969. He attended Yale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Carlson
Matthew Carlson (birth name Matt James Carlson; born February 10, 1951) is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for his work on the series ''Malcolm in the Middle'' and ''The Wonder Years''. He was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the latter series. Carlson's other television credits include ''Townies'', ''God, the Devil and Bob'', ''Camp Wilder'', '' The Boys Are Back'', ''Men Behaving Badly'' (creating all the aforementioned series), ''Big Day'', ''Samantha Who?'', ''Sons of Tucson'', '' Mr. Sunshine'' and ''Alexa & Katie''. Carlson also wrote the screenplay for the 1994 film ''Wagons East'' starring John Candy and Richard Lewis. In his latest work, he wrote the Disney+ The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and deligh ...'s origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Gilliland
Eric Raymond Gilliland is an American television producer, writer, actor and whistler. Early life Gilliland was born and raised in Glenview, Illinois, United States. He graduated from Glenbrook South High School in 1980 and from Northwestern University School of Communication in 1984. Television Film Music Gilliland is an accomplished whistler. His whistling has appeared on Sam Winch's ''The Lullabadeer'', a number of Sumack albums, and on the soundtrack for an episode of '' Penn & Teller: Bullshit!''. He also provided whistling accompaniment to Martha Plimpton's performance of Thunder Road on NPR's Studio 360 ''Studio 360'' was an American weekly public radio program about the arts and culture hosted by novelist Kurt Andersen and produced by Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and ''Slate'' in New York City. The program's stated goal was to "Get inside the c .... References External links * screen writers colony profileYouTube channel of "vlogs" {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilliland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Gordon
Bryan Gordon is an American film and television director, writer and producer who is primarily known for directing comedy television shows. Early life Gordon was born and raised in Dover, Delaware. He graduated from Dover High School. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1969. He is Jewish. Career After college, Gordon moved to New York City and started his career as a comedy writer on the ABC late night variety show '' Fridays'' in the early 1980s. He became an independent filmmaker, writing and directing the Academy Award-winning short film '' Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall'' (1987). His other film directing credits include his full-length directorial debut '' Career Opportunities'' (1991), written by John Hughes and starring Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly and ''Pie in the Sky'' (1996) starring Josh Charles, Anne Heche and John Goodman. Gordon has directed episodes on such TV series as ''Grace and Frankie'', ''The Office'', '' Weeds'', ''Studio 60 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall Einhorn
Randall Einhorn (born December 7, 1963) is an American television cinematographer, director, and producer, best known for his work on ''The Office'', '' Wilfred'', ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'', and '' Survivor''. Early life and career Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Einhorn graduated from Finneytown High School in 1982. Einhorn began his career in the late 1990s, working sporadically as director and cinematographer on several different projects including ''Fear Factor'', ''Eco-Challenge'', and '' Survivor'', for which Einhorn was nominated for two Emmy Awards''.'' Einhorn is best known for his work as cinematographer and occasional director on ''The Office''. He also directed '' The Accountants'', a ten-part webisode spin-off of ''The Office'' which appeared online between the second and third seasons. In tribute to Randall's contribution to the series, the Season 6 episode of ''The Office'', '' The Cover-Up,'' was dedicated to Larry Einhorn, Randall's father, who died on Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
