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Spiral (Haven)
The first season of the American television series '' Haven'' premiered on July 9, 2010, and concluded on October 8, 2010, on Syfy. The show aired on Fridays at 10:00 pm ET. The season consisted of 13 episodes. The show starred Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, Eric Balfour and Nicholas Campbell. Storylines Audrey Parker In the beginning of season one, Audrey is dispatched to Haven, Maine, to investigate the death of an escaped federal prisoner named Jonas Lester, a former Haven resident. On her first day in town, she nearly runs her Ford Taurus off a cliff, but is rescued by Detective Nathan Wuornos, who ends up assisting in her investigation. She meets Havenites Conrad Brauer and Duke Crocker, as well as journalists Vince and Dave Teagues, before discovering that Lester was thrown to his death by a local woman named Marion Caldwell. Incredibly, Audrey finds that Marion killed the man using her paranormal abilities. The Teagues show Audrey an old newspaper clipping with a photo of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syfy
Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. Launched on September 24, 1992, the channel broadcasts programming relating to the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres. As of January 2016, Syfy is available to 92.4 million households in America. History In 1989, in Boca Raton, Florida, communications attorneys and cable TV entrepreneurs Mitchell Rubenstein and his wife and business partner Laurie Silvers devised the concept for the Sci-Fi Channel, and signed up 8 of the top 10 cable TV operators as well as licensing exclusive rights to the British TV series ''Doctor Who'' (which shifted over from PBS to Sci-Fi Channel), ''Dark Shadows'', and the cult series ''The Prisoner''. In 1992, the channel was sold by Rubenstein and Silvers to USA Networks, then a joint venture between Para ... [...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] |
Michael Rohl
Michael Rohl is a Canadian TV director and producer. He is of Volga German and Ukrainian descent. He has worked on ''Shadowhunters'', '' Smallville'', '' Supernatural'', '' Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'', '' Andromeda'', ''Kyle XY'', and ''Reaper'' as well as many other programs. He and ex-wife, writer Jan Derbyshire, have a daughter, actress Kacey Rohl. Partial filmography * '' The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star'' (2021) * '' The Princess Switch: Switched Again'' (2020) * ''The Princess Switch'' (2018) * ''Shadowhunters'' (TV series) (2017-2019) * ''When Calls the Heart'' (2015-2021) * ''Helix'' (TV series) (2013) * '' Primeval: New World'' (TV series) (2012) * '' Continuum'' (2012) * '' Haven'' (TV series) (2010) * '' Defying Gravity'' (2009) * ''Impact'' TV miniseries (2009) * ''Angela's Eyes'' (TV series) (2007) * ''Reaper'' (2007) * '' Supernatural'' (2007) * '' Smallville'' (2006–2011) * ''Kyle XY ''Kyle XY'' is an American science fiction television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ardai
Charles Ardai (born 1969) is an American entrepreneur, businessperson, and writer of award winning crime fiction and mysteries. He is founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a line of pulp-style paperback crime novels. He is also an early employee of D. E. Shaw & Co. and remains a managing director of the firm. He was the former chairman of Schrödinger, Inc. Early life A New York native and the son of two Holocaust survivors, Ardai told NPR in a May 2008 interview that the stories his parents told him as a child "were the most grim and frightening that you can imagine" and gave him the impression "there was a darker circle around a very small bit of light," something that enabled him to relate to his own characters' sufferings. While in high school, Ardai enjoyed reading pulp fiction and worked as an intern at Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. After graduating from Hunter College High School in 1987, he attended Columbia University, where he graduated ''summa cum lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Rose (director)
Lee Rose is an American director, producer and writer of film and television. Rose began her professional career in 1993 producing and writing the television film ''It's Nothing Personal''. Throughout the 1990s, she also worked on the films ''Deconstructing Sarah'', ''A Mother's Prayer'', ''An Unexpected Family'', and ''An Unexpected Life''. She made her directorial debut with the 1998 film, ''The Color of Courage'', starring Linda Hamilton and Lynn Whitfield. Her TV film credits continued into the 2000s, including ''The Truth About Jane'', ''A Girl Thing'', ''What Girls Learn'', ''An Unexpected Love'', ''Jack (2004 film), Jack'', and ''A Taste of Romance''. In 2004, Rose began directing episodic television. Her credits include ''Soul Food (TV series), Soul Food'', ''Weeds (TV series), Weeds'', ''Related'', ''Cashmere Mafia'', ''Lincoln Heights (TV series), Lincoln Heights'', ''Lost Girl (TV series), Lost Girl'', ''Greek (TV series), Greek'', ''XIII: The Series'', ''The Glades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Society
A secret society is a club or an organization whose activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla warfare insurgencies, that hide their activities and memberships but maintain a public presence. Definitions The exact qualifications for labeling a group a secret society are disputed, but definitions generally rely on the degree to which the organization insists on secrecy, and might involve the retention and transmission of secret knowledge, the denial of membership or knowledge of the group, the creation of personal bonds between members of the organization, and the use of secret rites or rituals which solidify members of the group. Anthropologically and historically, secret societies have been deeply interlinked with the concept of the Männerbund, the all-male "warrior-band" or "warrior-society" of pre-modern cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Rosenthal
Richard L. Rosenthal, Jr. (born June 15, 1949) is an American film instructor and director, known for directing '' Halloween II'' and '' Halloween: Resurrection''. Early life, family and education Rosenthal was born in New York City, the son of Hinda (née Gould) and entrepreneur Richard L. Rosenthal, Sr. Career Rosenthal started his career by directing '' Halloween II'' and returned to the series 21 years later, helming '' Halloween: Resurrection''. In between he has directed films such as ''American Dreamer'' (1984), ''Russkies'' (1987), ''Distant Thunder'' (1988) and ''Just a Little Harmless Sex'' (1998). He also directed dozens of episodic television shows, and was co-executive producer of the landmark Warner Bros. TV series ''Life Goes On'' for ABC from 1989-1991. Personal life Rosenthal met his wife, actress Nancy Stephens, while filming ''Halloween II''. Select filmography as a director Film * '' Halloween II'' (1981) * '' Bad Boys'' (1983) * '' American Dreame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shapeshifting
In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shape-shifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through an inherently superhuman ability, divine intervention, demonic manipulation, Magic (paranormal), sorcery, Incantation, spells or having inherited the ability. The idea of shape-shifting is in the oldest forms of totemism and shamanism, as well as the oldest existent literature and Epic poetry, epic poems such as the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' and the ''Iliad''. The concept remains a common literary device in modern fantasy, children's literature and popular culture. Folklore and mythology Popular shape-shifting creatures in folklore are werewolf, werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadians, Canadian, and Native Americans in the United States, Native American/early American origin), Ichchadhari naag and naagin (shape-shifting cobra), ichchadhari naag and ichchadhari naagin (shape-shifting cobras) of India, the huli jing of East Asia (including the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jose Molina (writer)
Jose Molina, born in 1971 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a screenwriter. He wrote the episodes "Trash" and "Ariel" for the American cult TV show '' Firefly'', and multiple episodes for '' Dark Angel''. Molina attended Yale University (Pierson College, class of 1993), where he successfully applied for a student internship with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences by submitting a spec script for '' Star Trek: The Next Generation''. Molina has also worked on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', earning the 2006 American Latino Media Arts Award for "Outstanding Script for a Television Drama or Comedy" for the episode "Alien". More recently, he has written the episodes "Famous Last Words" and "Suicide Squeeze" for the television series '' Castle'', on which he served as Co-Executive Producer, a title Molina carried into the first season of the Syfy original series '' Haven''. Molina followed his stint in genre cable with a return to in-network genre, becoming one of the head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lieberman
Robert Lieberman (born July 16, 1947) is an American motion picture and television director. Personal life Lieberman was married from June 27, 1990 to June 7, 2001 to actress Marilu Henner; the divorced couple has two children, Nicholas Morgan and Joseph Marlon. He also has two children, Erin and Lorne Lieberman, from his first marriage. Lieberman married former model Victoria Peters in 2010. Career Lieberman was the founder of the commercial production company Harmony Pictures and has, himself, directed close to two thousand commercials. He has received many Clio nominations and has won 29. Lieberman in 1980 was the first winner of the DGA Award for Best Commercial Director. He was nominated another three times for the DGA Award and in 1996 won his second award. He also directed one film with Akshay Kumar called Speedy Singhs starring Camilla Belle and Vinay Virmani. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow People
A shadow person (also known as a shadow figure or black mass) is the perception of a patch of shadow as a living, humanoid figure, and interpreted as the presence of a spirit or other entity by believers in the paranormal or supernatural. History and folklore A number of religions, legends, and belief systems describe supernatural entities such as shades of the underworld, and various shadowy creatures have long been a staple of folklore and ghost stories, such as the Islamic Jinn and the Choctaw Nalusa Chito. The ''Coast to Coast AM'' late night radio talk show helped popularize modern beliefs in shadow people. The first time the topic of shadow people was discussed at length on the show was April 12, 2001, when host Art Bell interviewed a man purporting to be a Native American elder, Thunder Strikes, who is also known as Harley "SwiftDeer" Reagan. During the show, listeners were encouraged to submit drawings of shadow people that they had seen and a large number of thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Girotti
Ken Girotti is a Canadian television director who was nominated for a 2006 Gemini Award in the category "Best Direction in a Dramatic Series" for the TV series ''ReGenesis''. Career He directed episode 9 of the first season of ''Supernatural''. He directed episodes 3 and 4 of the second season of ''Vikings'' in 2014. He was a producer on the series ''Anne with an E''. For ''Pure'' he was a season second two director and also served as a second season executive director in 2018. He directed an episode of the drug trafficking drama ''Pure'' in 2019. He was a director and consulting producer for ''Fortunate Son''. As director Girotti has directed one, two or more episodes of: * ''Vikings'' * ''Killjoys'' * ''Being Erica'' * '' Haven'' * ''Supernatural'' * ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' * '' Rescue Me'' * ''Stargate SG-1'' * ''Soul Food'' * '' The Outer Limits'' * '' First Wave'' * '' La Femme Nikita'' * '' Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal'' * ''Orphan Black'' * ''Marvel' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
