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Night Heat
''Night Heat'' is a Canadian police crime drama series that aired on both CTV in Canada and CBS in the United States. Original episodes were broadcast from 1985 to 1989. ''Night Heat'' was the first Canadian original drama series that was also aired on a United States television network during its original broadcast. It was also the first original, first-run drama series to be aired during a late night time slot on a television network in the United States. During its original run it was the highest-rated Canadian-produced original series in Canada. The show won the Gemini Award for Best Drama Series in both 1986 and 1987. The show stars Scott Hylands and Jeff Wincott as police detectives Kevin O'Brien and Frank Giambone who work the graveyard shift in an unnamed northeastern North American metropolis. The series follows their nightly police beat as it is chronicled by journalist Tom Kirkwood (Allan Royal) in his newspaper column titled "Night Heat". Synopsis Allan Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Procedural
The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on either a private detective, an amateur investigator or the characters who are the targets of investigations. While many police procedurals conceal the criminal's identity until the crime is solved in the Climax (narrative), narrative climax (the so-called whodunit), others reveal the perpetrator's identity to the audience early in the narrative, making it an inverted detective story. Whatever the plot style, the defining element of a police procedural is the attempt to accurately depict the profession of law enforcement, including such police-related topics as forensic science, autopsy, autopsies, gathering Evidence (law), evidence, search warrants, interrogation and adherence to legal restrictions and procedure. Early history The roots of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graveyard Shift
The shift plan, rota or roster (esp. British) is the central component of a shift schedule in shift work. The schedule includes considerations of shift overlap, shift change times and alignment with the clock, vacation, training, shift differentials, holidays, etc. The shift plan determines the sequence of work (W) and free (F) days within a shift system. Notation A notation used often identifies day (D), swing (S) and night (N) shifts for the W days and O (off) for rest days. ; W: work days :; D: day shift, 1st shift, early shift :: This shift often occurs from either 06:00 or 07:00 to either 14:00 or 15:00 for eight-hour shifts, and from 06:00 to 18:00 for twelve-hour shifts. :; S: swing shift, 2nd shift, late shift, afternoon shift :: This shift often occurs from either 14:00 or 15:00 to either 22:00 or 23:00 for eight-hour shifts, and is not used with twelve-hour shifts. :; N: night shift, 3rd shift, graveyard shift :: This shift often occurs from either 22:00 or 23:00 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narcotics
The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek ναρκῶ ''narkō'', "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well as derivatives of many of the compounds found within raw opium latex. The primary three are morphine, codeine, and thebaine (while thebaine itself is only very mildly psychoactive, it is a crucial precursor in the vast majority of semi-synthetic opioids, such as oxycodone or hydrocodone). Legally speaking, the term "narcotic" may be imprecisely defined and typically has negative connotations. When used in a legal context in the U.S., a narcotic drug is totally prohibited, such as heroin, or one that is used in violation of legal regulation (in this word sense, equal to any controlled substance or illicit drug). In the medical community, the term is more precisely defined and ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City Police Department
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, the largest and one of the oldest in the United States. The NYPD headquarters is at 1 Police Plaza, located on Park Row in Lower Manhattan near City Hall. The NYPD's regulations are compiled in title 38 of the '' New York City Rules''. The NYC Transit Police and NYC Housing Authority Police Department were fully integrated into the NYPD in 1995. Dedicated units of the NYPD include the Emergency Service Unit, K9, harbor patrol, highway patrol, air support, bomb squad, counter-terrorism, criminal intelligence, anti-organized crime, narcotics, mounted patrol, public transportation, and public housing units. The NYPD employs over 50,000 people, including more than 35,000 uniformed officers. According to the official CompStat database, the NYPD responded to nearl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura McKinlay Robinson
Laura McKinlay Robinson (born 1957/1958) is a Canadian actress, author, game designer, singer, speaker, and television producer. She co-invented multiple board games, beginning with '' Balderdash'' (1984), which has sold millions of copies internationally, and was the basis for a television game show (2004–2005). As an actress, she had a major recurring role on the television series '' Night Heat'' (1985–1988), and starred in the television series ''Veronica Clare'' (1991), among lesser roles on stage, movies, and television. She co-produced the television game show ''Celebrity Name Game'' (2014-2017), which was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show. It was based on ''Identity Crisis'', another board game she co-invented. As a writer, she co-wrote or contributed stories to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series books ''Count Your Blessings'' (2009), ''O Canada'' (2011), ''Hooked on Hockey'' (2012), and ''Miraculous Messages from Heaven'' (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Grover
Deborah Grover is a Canadian actress, best known for her regular roles as prosecuting attorney Elaine Jeffers in '' Night Heat'' and Nora in '' Jann''. She is a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Guest Performance in a Drama Series, receiving nods at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for her role as Josephine Barry in '' Anne with an E'', and at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020 for her performance as Donna in ''Mary Kills People''.Kelly Townsend"CSAs ’20: Schitt’s Creek breaks awards record with 26 noms" ''Playback'', February 18, 2020. Her other roles have included the films ''Agnes of God'', '' The Gate'', '' The Christmas Wife'', ''Under the Piano'', '' When Innocence Is Lost'', ''Rated X'', '' The Uncles'', '' The Shipping News'', '' Where the Truth Lies'', '' Six Figures'', '' Fatman'' and ''Alice, Darling'', and the television series '' Our Hero'', '' Happy Town'', '' How to Be Indie'', ''Sensitive Skin Sensitive skin is a skin condition in which skin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Johnson
Clark Johnson (born September 10, 1954), is an American-Canadian actor and director who has worked in both television and film. He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson in ''Night Heat'' (1985–1988), Clark Roberts in ''E.N.G.'' (1989–1994), Meldrick Lewis in ''Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1999) and Augustus Haynes in ''The Wire'' (2008). Early years Johnson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The family eventually moved to Canada. He has three siblings including jazz singer Molly Johnson and actress and singer Taborah Johnson. Johnson attended Eastern Michigan University on a partial athletic scholarship for American football, but he was expelled after he was caught stealing food from the school cafeteria. He attended several other universities including the University of Ottawa and Loyola College (Montreal), Loyola College/Concordia University, where he played Canadian football, before ending up at the Ontario College of Art as a film major. He was dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Rosato
Antonio Rosato (26 December 1954 – 10 January 2017) was an Italian-Canadian actor and comedian, who appeared in television and films. He was best known as a cast member on both '' SCTV'' and ''Saturday Night Live'', and for voicing Luigi in ''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'' and ''Super Mario World''. Early life and career beginnings Rosato was born in Naples, Italy, and came to Canada at age four. He was raised in Halifax, Ottawa, and Toronto. He graduated from Oakwood Collegiate Institute. He planned to study chiropractic medicine, but dropped out of the University of Toronto after he began doing improv comedy at The Second City. Career Rosato first gained attention when he and Robin Duke joined the cast of the first incarnation of '' SCTV'' in its final season during the fall of 1980. His most well-known character on the program was the notoriously drunk TV chef Marcello Sebastiani. Rosato then moved with Duke to the cast of ''Saturday Night Live'' for the 1981– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Crewson
Wendy Jane Crewson (born May 9, 1956) is a Canadian actress and producer. She began her career appearing on Canadian television, before her breakthrough role in 1991 dramatic film '' The Doctor''. Crewson has appeared in many Hollywood films, including '' The Good Son'' (1993), ''The Santa Clause'' (1994) and its sequels '' The Santa Clause 2'' (2002) and '' The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause'' (2006), as well as ''Air Force One'' (1997), '' Bicentennial Man'' (1999), '' What Lies Beneath'' (2000), '' The 6th Day'' (2000), '' The Covenant'' (2006) and '' Eight Below'' (2006). She also starred in a number of independent movies, such as '' Better Than Chocolate'' (1999), ''Suddenly Naked'' (2001), ''Perfect Pie'' (2002), ''Away from Her'' (2006), '' Into the Forest'' (2015) and ''Room'' (2015). Crewson has won six Gemini Awards, two Canadian Screen Awards and ACTRA Award for her performances on television. She played leading roles in a number of television films, include playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Hogan (actress)
Susan Hogan (born 1948) is a Canadian film, television and stage actress."Hogan seeks salvation in wrinkles and lines". '' The Globe and Mail'', April 2, 1977. Background Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, she chose to pursue acting as a career after being cast as Abigail in her high school production of ''The Crucible''."Susan Hogan is aiming for an about-face". '' The Globe and Mail'', February 7, 1979. She attended the National Theatre School of Canada beginning in 1966. After graduating, she began appearing in theatre productions in Toronto and at the Stratford Festival, although due to her blonde, green-eyed beauty she became typecast in ingenue roles until breaking through to wider notice as Stas in a 1978 production of Pam Gems's play ''Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi''. Career In 1979, '' The Globe and Mail'' theatre critic Bryan Johnson named Hogan one of the year's best actresses for her performance in John Murrell's ''Waiting for the Parade''. In 1981, she injured he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Chorus
A Greek chorus, or simply chorus ( grc-gre, χορός, chorós), in the context of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, and modern works inspired by them, is a homogeneous, non-individualised group of performers, who comment with a collective voice on the dramatic action. The chorus consisted of between 12 and 50 players, who variously danced, sang or spoke their lines in unison, and sometimes wore masks. Etymology Historian H. D. F. Kitto argues that the term ''chorus'' gives us hints about its function in the plays of ancient Greece: "The Greek verb ''choreuo'', 'I am a member of the chorus', has the sense 'I am dancing'. The word ''ode'' means not something recited or declaimed, but 'a song'. The 'orchestra', in which a chorus had its being, is literally a 'dancing floor'." From this, it can be inferred that the chorus danced and sang poetry. Dramatic function Plays of the ancient Greek theatre always included a chorus that offered a variety of background and summary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat (police)
In police terminology, a beat is the territory that a police officer is assigned to patrol. Beats are used to effectively divide available officers across a law enforcement agency's jurisdiction, ensuring organized police presence across a wide area. "Beat" often refers to specifically foot patrols or bicycle patrols, though "beat" can also be used to simply describe a designated area patrolled by a police officer through any means, such as an officer in a police car or police aircraft. "Police beat" is also used by news media to refer to reports on local crimes and police incidents, often crime reports detailing recent incidents and arrests handled by local law enforcement. Overview Beat policing divides available police officers and resources across an agency's jurisdiction, ensuring timely responses to calls for service and effective crime prevention by dispersing police across wide areas. Beat policing promotes close relationships between police and the community within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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