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Shut Eye (TV Series)
''Shut Eye'' is an American drama streaming television series created by Leslie Bohem, airing on the streaming service Hulu. It was given a straight-to-series 10-episode order. All ten episodes became available on December 7, 2016. A second season was ordered on March 20, 2017 which was released on December 6, 2017. The series originally was led by David Hudgins as showrunner during season one before he was replaced by John Shiban for season two. On January 30, 2018, the series was canceled after two seasons. Premise The series centers around the life of failed magician Charlie Haverford (Jeffrey Donovan), who now works as a psychic and suddenly starts to have real visions. Cast and characters Main * Jeffrey Donovan as Charlie Haverford * KaDee Strickland as Linda Haverford, Charlie's wife * Angus Sampson as Fonso Marks - Rita's son * David Zayas as Eduardo Bernal * Susan Misner as Dr. Nora White, a neuroscientist * Emmanuelle Chriqui as Gina, a hypnotist * Isabella Rossellini a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's '' Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaming Television
Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, as streaming media delivered over the Internet. Streaming television stands in contrast to dedicated terrestrial television delivered by over-the-air aerial systems, cable television, and/or satellite television systems. History Up until the 1990s, it was not thought possible that a television programme could be squeezed into the limited telecommunication bandwidth of a copper telephone cable to provide a streaming service of acceptable quality, as the required bandwidth of a digital television signal was around 200Mbit/s, which was 2,000 times greater than the bandwidth of a speech signal over a copper telephone wire. Streaming services were only made possible as a result of two major technological developments: MPEG ( motion-compensated DCT) video compression and asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) data transmission. The first worldwide live-streaming event was a radio live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Morris (director)
Michael Morris (born 1974) is an English television director and producer. From 1999 to 2002, he was Director of The Old Vic theatre in London. He was an Executive Producer and Director of ABC television drama '' Brothers & Sisters'', working on that series throughout its five-season run (2006–2011). He has also directed episodes of '' Political Animals'' and the USA Network series ''In Plain Sight'' starring his wife, actress Mary McCormack. He directed the miniseries '' The Slap'' for NBC. He was Director and Executive Producer for ''Bloodline'' on Netflix, and has directed many episodes of ''Kingdom'' (Audience Network, DirecTV), as well as AMC's '' Halt and Catch Fire'' and ''Preacher'', Netflix's ''House of Cards'', ''13 Reasons Why'', Hulu's ''Shut Eye'' and many others. Personal life Morris has been married to actress Mary McCormack Mary Catherine McCormack (born February 8, 1969) is an American actress. She has had leading roles as Justine Appleton in the series '' M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Daisy von Scherler Mayer, sometimes credited as Daisy Mayer (born September 14, 1966), is an American film and television director. Life and career Mayer is the daughter of actress Sasha von Scherler (1934–2000) and Paul Avila Mayer (1928–2009). Through her father, she was a grandchild of American screenwriter Edwin Justus Mayer, and through her mother, she was a grandchild of Prussian aristocrat Baron Walram Voystingus Albert Alexander von Schoeler. After contributing to the New York Shakespeare Festival as a teen, von Scherler Mayer graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in theater and history. Her experience with theater served as a foundation for her career as a director, where she applied her understanding of stage acting to her work for the screen. Upon graduating from Wesleyan, von Scherler Mayer directed contemporary interpretations of classic plays such as Euripides' ''Electra (Euripides), Electra'', William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'', and ... [...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/Concordia University, where he played Canadian football, before ending up at the Ontario College of Art as a film major. He was drafted by the Toronto Arg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Trim (television Producer)
Michael Trim is a cinematographer, director, and producer. He is best known for his works on '' Weeds'', ''Parks and Recreation'', and ''Orange Is the New Black''. In 2010, Trim won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Half-Hour Series for episode "A Modest Proposal" of the television series '' Weeds''. Early life Michael graduated from Juniata College in central Pennsylvania in 1976, and returned there to speak in 2011. He returned again to deliver the commencement address for the class of 2019 and receive an honorary doctorate for his achievements.I am a member of that graduating class Career Trim worked as director of photography for: *4 episodes of ''30 Rock''. *13 episodes of ''Cavemen''. *50 episodes of '' Weeds''. *34 episodes of ''Parks and Recreation''. He has worked in some producer capacity for: *36 episodes of '' Weeds''. *The entire first season of ''Orange Is the New Black'' (13 episodes) and part of the second season. Trim has directed: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Zisk
Craig Zisk is an American film director, director and Television producer, producer. Biography Zisk grew up in Dallas, where he graduated from the St. Mark's School of Texas. His family was American Jews, Jewish. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Zisk directed his first television series, ''Brooklyn Bridge (TV series), Brooklyn Bridge'', at the age of 26. His first feature film was ''The English Teacher (film), The English Teacher'', starring Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Nathan Lane, Michael Angarano and Lily Collins. Zisk has executive-produced several series including ''Weeds (TV series), Weeds'', ''United States of Tara'' and ''The Larry Sanders Show''. He has also directed over 50 series, including ''The Big C (TV series), The Big C'', ''Nurse Jackie'', ''Entourage (U.S. TV series), Entourage'', ''The Office (U.S. TV series), The Office'', ''Alias (TV series), Alias'', ''Smash (U.S. TV series), Smash'', ''Parks and Recreation'', ''Shameless (U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Johan Renck
Bo Johan Renck (born 5 December 1966) is a Swedish people, Swedish director of music videos, TV and film. He was originally a singer-songwriter from 1991 to 2001, using the stage name, moniker Stakka Bo, and had an international hit with his single "Here We Go (Stakka Bo song), Here We Go" in 1993. Renck later became a music-video and television director, winning an Emmy Award in 2019 for his work on the mini-series ''Chernobyl (miniseries), Chernobyl''. Early life Renck was born on 5 December 1966 in Uppsala, Sweden, the son of medical doctor and professor Hans Renck and nurse Marina Kylberg. Hans taught at several universities around the world, so the Renck family moved around and lived in Miami, Uppsala, Malmö, Tromsø and Kuwait. He graduated from Stockholm School of Economics with a degree in business. Career Music While at university, he dated singer and ex-model Camilla Henemark of Army of Lovers, who introduced him to the Swedish music business. He started out as one half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aasif Mandvi
Aasif Hakim Mandviwala (born March 5, 1966), known professionally as Aasif Mandvi (, ), is a British-American actor, comedian and author. He was a correspondent on ''The Daily Show'' from 2006 to 2017. Mandvi's other television work includes the HBO comedy series '' The Brink'' and the CBS/Paramount+ psychological drama ''Evil''. His film roles include playing Mr. Aziz in ''Spider-Man 2'' and Commander Zhao in ''The Last Airbender'', and his stage work includes appearing on Broadway as Ali Hakim in ''Oklahoma!''. Early life Mandvi was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India, to a Dawoodi Bohra Muslim family. His family moved to England, settling, when he was a year old, in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford. His father, Hakim, who had originally come to work in textiles research at Bradford University, later ran a corner shop, while his mother, Fatima, was a nurse. Mandvi attended the independent Woodhouse Grove School, and he identifies himself as a "working-class kid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zak Santiago
Zak Santiago (born January 3, 1981) is a Canadian actor and DJ. Early life Santiago was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Career Santiago has appeared in many television shows, including ''Young Blades'', ''Smallville'', ''Robson Arms'', '' Flight 93'', ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'', ''Shut Eye'', and ''The L Word''. In December 2009, Santiago played the Ten of Clubs in the Syfy miniseries '' Alice''. In 2013, he played Dominguez in the movie ''The Five People you Meet in Heaven''. He also plays Ramon, the dance instructor, restaurant owner, DJ, and wedding officiant in the '' Signed, Sealed, Delivered'' series. He also appeared in the episode "My Room" in season 1 of ''Dead Like Me'', where he played an angry man who decided to kill the tattoo artist who had botched his tattoo. He had a lead role in ''The Assistants'' on The N in early 2009. He also appeared in the 2008 movie, '' The Eye'', starring Jessica Alba Jessica Marie Alba ( ; born April 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Harris
Mary Ellen "Mel" Harris is an American actress best known for her role as Hope Murdoch Steadman in the ABC drama series ''Thirtysomething'' (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination in 1990. Early life and education Harris was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the daughter to Mary Michael "Mike", a high-school science teacher, and Warren Harris, football coach at Bethlehem High School and Princeton University. Harris grew up in North Brunswick, New Jersey and graduated from New Brunswick High School in 1974. Career In 1985, shortly before her 1986 acting debut, Harris appeared as a regular contestant on the Dick Clark-hosted syndicated game show ''The $100,000 Pyramid'', credited as Mel Kennedyher third husband's surname. She returned to the game show in 1991, as a celebrity on the John Davidson-hosted show, with a clip of her win in 1985 shown in a flashback. Television Harris made her television debut in 1986, with a small role as a character's girl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layla Alizada
Layla Alizada ( fa, لیلا علیزاده; born August 10, 1977) is a Canadian actress, who is best known for appearing in guest roles in some well-known American television shows, including ''The Muppets'' and ''Jane the Virgin,'' as well as recurring roles in '' Days of Our Lives'' and ''Shut Eye''. She's been married to Noel Fisher since 2017. Career Alizada began acting in 1995, at the age of 18, appearing in an episode of ''Strange Luck'' ("Hat Trick"). Since her debut, she has been offered many guest star roles in a number of American television series, such as '' Days of Our Lives'', where she portrayed Kelly, and ''Jane the Virgin'', portraying Regina. She has taken part in several noticeable TV shows, including ''The Muppets'' and Jane the Virgin. Alizada played Meena, a refugee from Afghanistan in the television movie, "Chasing Freedom" (2004). In "Chasing Freedom," Alizada's character, who has destroyed her identification to escape the Taliban, is unable to prove s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
