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Rodney (TV Series)
''Rodney'' is an American television sitcom starring stand-up comic and country music singer Rodney Carrington that aired on ABC from September 21, 2004, to June 6, 2006. Executive producer Ric Swartzlander, Don Reo, and Damon Wayans were the creators of the series. Premise The show's story revolves around the character Rodney Hamilton (Rodney Carrington) who wishes to leave his horrible job in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to become a stand-up comedian. Rodney's daily life revolves around his family – his wife Trina ( Jennifer Aspen) and his sons Jack ( Oliver Davis) and Bo (Matthew Josten). He also spends a lot of time with his best friend Barry Martin ( Nick Searcy) who constantly tries to escape his wife Genie, and with his crazy sister-in-law Charlie ( Amy Pietz). One recurring character is Trina's father, Carl (Mac Davis), who is constantly lending or giving the family money, much to Rodney's dismay. Another recurring character is police officer Gerald Bob ( Jon Reep), who has a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Studios
ABC Signature is an American television production studio that is a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios, a division of Walt Disney Television, which is part of the Disney General Entertainment Content division of The Walt Disney Company. The studio is the production arm of the ABC television network, and originally started in 1950 as the television unit of Walt Disney Productions, which was later renamed Walt Disney Television as a separate company from Walt Disney Television Animation, in 1983, and launched a subsidiary, the first incarnation of Touchstone Television, established in 1985 (later became part of ABC in 1999, and merged Walt Disney Network Television into Touchstone Television in 2003) and renamed ABC Studios in 2007. It adopted its current identity on August 10, 2020, after a merger between ABC Studios and the original ABC Signature Studios. Background Walt Disney Productions (television unit) In the 1930s, Walt Disney initially had no interest in tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Joe
Steve Joe is a Chinese-American television producer and writer. He began his career as a staff writer on the sitcom ''Veronica's Closet'' in 1997, later becoming a story editor on ''Mad About You'' going on to write the episode "Win a Free Car" in 1999. His producing and writing credits include ''The Tracy Morgan Show'', '' Rodney'', ''That '70s Show'', '' Notes from the Underbelly'', '' True Jackson, VP'', ''Hot in Cleveland'', ''Oh, Grow Up'', '' Tucker'' and '' That '80s Show''. Much of his work prior to the second season of ''True Jackson, VP'' was with fellow writer and producer Greg Schaffer Greg Schaffer is an American television producer and writer. His producing and writing credits include ''Mad About You''; ''The Tracy Morgan Show''; '' Rodney''; ''That '70s Show''; '' Notes from the Underbelly''; '' True Jackson, VP''; ''Oh, Gr ...; they parted ways in 2009. References External links * American television producers American television writers American male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 American 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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s American 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 complic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wal-Mart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company was founded by Sam Walton in nearby Rogers, Arkansas in 1962 and incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law on October 31, 1969. It also owns and operates Sam's Club retail warehouses. Walmart has 10,586 stores and clubs in 24 countries, operating under 46 different names. The company operates under the name Walmart in the United States and Canada, as Walmart de México y Centroamérica in Mexico and Central America, and as Flipkart Wholesale in India. It has wholly owned operations in Chile, Canada, and South Africa. Since August 2018, Walmart held only a minority stake in Walmart Brasil, which was renamed Grupo Big in August 2019, with 20 percent of the company's shares, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. History Early years; 1930–1987 ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday-to-Friday from 1940. Wilkerson used caustic articles and gossip to generate publicity and got noticed by the studio bosses in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it is the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. The Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programing—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2022, the Seven Network is the highest-rated television network in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Headquarters Seven's admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC1 (British And Irish TV Channel)
ABC1 was a television channel owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company, available to the viewers in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. ABC1 used the branding of the Disney-owned American network, ABC. The channel had general entertainment programming with programming from the US parent channel, apart from the weekend morning programming block Playhouse Disney, which was aimed at children and also aired on Disney Channel in the United States of America. History ABC1 channel initially launched exclusively on the British digital terrestrial television platform Freeview on 27 September 2004 but it only broadcast daily from 6am to 6pm with the expectations to eventually broadcast 24/7 by 2010. The channel didn't air commercials for the first few months to build up viewers. In December 2004, it was expanded on Telewest's digital cable service, and on 14 December on the NTL digital cable service. In March 2005, ABC1 took its first a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Sacks
David Sacks is an American television writer and producer. Biography He attended Harvard College, graduating with a degree in Government. While there he began his comedy writing career as an editor of the school's humor magazine, ''The Harvard Lampoon''. Upon graduating, Sacks moved to Los Angeles and began writing for television. His writing and producing credits include seasons five and six on ''The Simpsons'', for which he won an Emmy Award, ''3rd Rock from the Sun'', for which he received a Golden Globe Award, ''Malcolm in the Middle'', ''The Tick'', ''Pound Puppies'', ''Regular Show'' on Cartoon Network, ''Murphy Brown'', and created and executive produced '' Lewis Black's The Root of All Evil'' for Comedy Central. In 2013, Sacks produced a weekly podcast Spiritual Tools for An Outrageous World available on iTunes and Stitcher.com. He executive produced and cowrote Nickelodeon's '' Pig Goat Banana Cricket'' with series co-creator Johnny Ryan, and was executive producing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley Jensen
Shelley Jensen is an American television director and producer. He has directed episodes for a number of notable television series including ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', ''Friends'', ''Amen'', '' What I Like About You'', ''The Drew Carey Show'', '' Webster'', ''The Suite Life on Deck'', ''Sonny with a Chance'', ''I'm in the Band'', ''Good Luck Charlie'', ''Austin & Ally'' and other series. Jensen won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1996 for his directing work on Disney Channel's ''Adventures in Wonderland'' winning alongside David Grossman and Gary Halvorson Gary S. Halvorson is an American director of television shows, series and film, best known for directing and producing the show, ''Friends''. Directing He was trained as a classical pianist at but is primarily noted as the director of situation .... IMDb < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Mancuso
Gail Mancuso (born July 14, 1958) is an American film and television director. Early life and career Mancuso grew up in Melrose Park, Illinois. She is married to Brian Downs, a doctor, and divides her time between her homes in Valencia, California and River Forest, Illinois. Mancuso began her career as an usher of the set of several television talk shows. Later, became a script supervisor for the Showtime comedy '' Brothers''. In 1989, she began serving as associate director for ''Roseanne''. After one of the show's directors left in 1991, she had the chance to become one of the main directors and continued until the show's eighth season. She went on to direct episodes of many television series like ''Friends'', '' Dharma and Greg'' and '' Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place''. In 2007, Mancuso began working on the CBS sitcom ''Rules of Engagement''. She has also directed episodes of ''30 Rock'' and '' Scrubs''. In 2008, she won a Gracie Award for her work on ''30 Rock''. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Whitesell
John Patrick Whitesell is an American television and film director. He has directed numerous films such as '' Calendar Girl'', ''Big Momma's House 2'' and '' Holidate''. He started his career as a film director in 1993. Early life and education Whitesell is the son of Patricia and John Patrick "Jack" Whitesell. He has five brothers Sean Whitesell, Christopher Whitesell, Thomas, Patrick Whitesell, and James Whitesell.Deadline: "Sean Whitesell Dies: Television Writer-Producer And Brother Of WME’s Patrick Whitesell Was 52" by Ross A. Lincoln December 31, 2015 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
