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Naked Josh
''Naked Josh'' is a Canadian comedy television series, which aired on Showcase from 2004 to 2006. It was created and written by Alex Epstein and Laura Kosterski. The show starred David Julian Hirsh as Josh Gould, a university professor in Montreal who, although he teaches a sexual anthropology course, struggles to understand the ever-shifting rules and expectations of the dating scene. It premiered in the 2004–2005 television season with eight half-hour episodes, and aired for a total of three seasons. The show's first season briefly aired on the Oxygen Network in the United States. The series received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Comedy Series at the 21st Gemini Awards in 2006."Gemini Hit List". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', November 4, 2006. Cast and characters *David Julian Hirsh as Josh Gould * Sarah Smyth as Natalie Bouchard * Patricia McKenzie as Jennifer Chopra * James A. Woods as Steve * Susan Glover as Sarah * Andrew Tarbet as Eric Kosciusko * Ruth Chiang as Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Comedy
Television comedy is a category of broadcasting that has been present since the early days of entertainment media. While there are several genres of comedy, some of the first ones aired were variety shows. One of the first Television in the United States, United States television programs was the comedy-variety show ''Texaco Star Theater'', which was most prominent in the years that it featured Milton Berle - from 1948 to 1956. The range of television comedy has become broader, with the addition of sitcoms, improvisational comedy, and stand-up comedy, while also adding comedic aspects into other television genres, including Drama (film and television), drama and News broadcasting, news. Television comedy provides opportunities for viewers to relate the content in these shows to society. Some audience members may have similar views about certain comedic aspects of shows, while others will take different perspectives. This also relates to developing new social norms, sometimes acting a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Glover
Susan Irene Glover (born January 14, 1957) is a Canadian actress, best known for playing Sarah in ''Naked Josh''. She is also known for voicing Mrs. Wood in ''Arthur (TV series), Arthur'', Izabella Dehavalot in ''Amazon Jack'', Mrs. Schuman in ''Spaced Out'', Mrs. Larkin in later episodes of ''What's with Andy?, What's With Andy?'' (2003–2007), Tubby's mom in ''The Little Lulu Show'', Lucille in ''Samurai Pizza Cats'', General Jinjur in the 1986 anime ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986 TV series), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and Miss Dalee in ''My Goldfish is Evil''. She also played Ms. Noelle Atoll on the television series ''Radio Active (TV series), Radio Active'' and has made appearances in several films, specials, and television programmes. Career Prior to film acting, Glover began her career doing improvisational theatre with companies such as Albert Nerenberg's Theatre Shmeatre, Acme Harpoon Co., and La Ligue National d'Improvisation. She has since appeared in theatres a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Canadian Television Series Endings
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Canadian Television Series Debuts
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Canadian Sitcoms
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Hill (writer)
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Karen Hill may refer to: * Karen Friedman Hill (born 1946), wife of American mobster Henry Hill * Karen Hill (television writer) (active 2004), Canadian television writer See also * Karen Hills, a hill range in eastern Burma * Hill (surname) Hill is a surname of English origin, meaning "a person who lived on a hill". It is the 36th most common surname in England and 37th most common in the United States. A B * Baron Hill (other), multiple people * Basil Alexander Hill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert David Sheridan
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt MacLennan
Matt MacLennan is a television writer/producer in both comedy/drama. Matt has also written for film and video games like '' Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist'' by Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', '' .... Filmography Television Film External links * TV Writer PodcastTV EH? Podcast Canadian male television writers Canadian television producers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Canada-screenwriter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Southam
Tim Southam (born October 1, 1961) is a Canadian television and film director. Career Tim Southam’s directing work includes Canadian films and international series. His 1994 dance film ''Satie and Suzanne'', which he also wrote, evokes Erik Satie's relationship with the painter Suzanne Valadon. The programme was nominated for a Grammy for best long-form video in 1997. His 1997 feature documentary, ''Drowning in Dreams'', which tracks several men’s obsession with a shipwreck lying at the bottom of Lake Superior, was screened at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for a Genie Award. In 1998 Southam directed the CBC/ SRC film ''L'histoire de l'oie'', known in English as ''The Tale of Teeka'', which was adapted by Michel Marc Bouchard from his celebrated play of the same name, winning among other awards several Prix Gémeaux and The Banff Rockie. In 2002 he directed the film ''The Bay of Love and Sorrows'' based on a 1998 novel by David Adams Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Donovan (director)
Jim Donovan (born 1964 in Quebec) is a Canadian TV director and film director. He wrote and directed ''3 saisons'', which won several international awards, including Best Feature at the 2010 Beverly Hills Film Festival, Best Director at the 2009 Mexico International Film Festival, and Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2008 Whistler Film Festival. Background He received a 2005 Directors Guild of Canada nomination for ''Pure'', his first feature film. He relocated from Montreal to Toronto in early 2010, and founded Undertow Entertainment in 2011. In 2013 Donovan was presented with a Canadian Screen Award for best director for his work on the television series ''Flashpoint''. In 2014 Donovan was nominated for a Directors Guild of Canada award for Best Drama Television Series, for the program ''Cracked; Ghost Dance''. Partial filmography Films *''2 Mayhem 3'', 1996 *''Agent Provocateur'', 1997 *''Pure Pure may refer to: Computing * A pure function * A pure virtual function * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Carrière
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people *Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, Byzan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
