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Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip
''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'' is an American comedy-drama television series created and primarily written by Aaron Sorkin. The series was about the production of a live comedy series, similar to ''Saturday Night Live''. Produced by Warner Bros. Television, ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'' ran on NBC for 22 episodes, from September 18, 2006, to June 28, 2007. On May 14, 2007, NBC cancelled the series after one season. It is the only one of the four television shows created by Sorkin not to air for more than one season. Plot The series takes place behind the scenes of a live sketch comedy show (also called ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'' or ''Studio 60'') on the fictional television network NBS (National Broadcasting System), whose format is similar to that of NBC's ''Saturday Night Live''. National Broadcasting System is owned by the TMG Corporation. The show-within-a-show is run by executive producers Matt Albie (Matthew Perry) and Danny Tripp (Bradley Whitford). Matt ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy-drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical hour-long legal or medical drama, but exhibit far fewer jokes-per-minute as in a typical half-hour sitcom. In the United States Examples from United States television include: ''M*A*S*H'', ''Moonlighting'', ''The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'', '' Northern Exposure'', '' Ally McBeal'', ''Sex and the City'', '' Desperate Housewives'' and '' Scrubs''. The term "dramedy" was coined to describe the late 1980s wave of shows, including ''The Wonder Years'', ''Hooperman'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' and ''Frank's Place''. See also *List of comedy drama television series *Black comedy *Dramatic structure * Melodrama *Seriousness *Tragicomedy *Psychological drama References Comedy drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Albie
This article contains summaries of characters appearing on the TV series ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip''. Cast List of cast members, left to right (as seen in the image): *Timothy Busfield (Cal Shanley) *Nathan Corddry (Tom Jeter) *Sarah Paulson (Harriet Hayes) *D.L. Hughley (Simon Stiles) *Steven Weber (actor), Steven Weber (Jack Rudolph (character), Jack Rudolph) *Matthew Perry (Matt Albie) *Amanda Peet (Jordan McDeere) *Bradley Whitford (Danny Tripp) Major roles (Bradley Whitford) is a producer who takes over show-running duties with Matt Albie, his long-time friend, and who worked on the show four years prior, before leaving with Matt over disagreements with network executives. In the pilot, it is revealed that he has a history of alcoholism and drug problems, specifically with cocaine, and recently suffered a relapse after 11 years of sobriety. Danny has to complete 18 months of clean drug tests to obtain completion bonds as a film director; while this information was con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cal Shanley
This article contains summaries of characters appearing on the TV series ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip''. Cast List of cast members, left to right (as seen in the image): *Timothy Busfield (Cal Shanley) *Nathan Corddry (Tom Jeter) *Sarah Paulson (Harriet Hayes) *D.L. Hughley (Simon Stiles) *Steven Weber ( Jack Rudolph) *Matthew Perry (Matt Albie) *Amanda Peet (Jordan McDeere) *Bradley Whitford (Danny Tripp) Major roles (Bradley Whitford) is a producer who takes over show-running duties with Matt Albie, his long-time friend, and who worked on the show four years prior, before leaving with Matt over disagreements with network executives. In the pilot, it is revealed that he has a history of alcoholism and drug problems, specifically with cocaine, and recently suffered a relapse after 11 years of sobriety. Danny has to complete 18 months of clean drug tests to obtain completion bonds as a film director; while this information was confidential, Jordan McDeere discovers this via a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Rudolph (character)
This article contains summaries of characters appearing on the TV series ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip''. Cast List of cast members, left to right (as seen in the image): * Timothy Busfield (Cal Shanley This article contains summaries of characters appearing on the TV series ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip''. Cast List of cast members, left to right (as seen in the image): * Timothy Busfield ( Cal Shanley) *Nathan Corddry ( Tom Jeter) *Sarah Pa ...) *Nathan Corddry (Tom Jeter) *Sarah Paulson (Harriet Hayes) *D.L. Hughley (Simon Stiles) *Steven Weber (actor), Steven Weber (Jack Rudolph (character), Jack Rudolph) *Matthew Perry (Matt Albie) *Amanda Peet (Jordan McDeere) *Bradley Whitford (Danny Tripp) Major roles (Bradley Whitford) is a producer who takes over show-running duties with Matt Albie, his long-time friend, and who worked on the show four years prior, before leaving with Matt over disagreements with network executives. In the pilot, it is revealed that he has a hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Stiles
This article contains summaries of characters appearing on the TV series ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip''. Cast List of cast members, left to right (as seen in the image): *Timothy Busfield (Cal Shanley) *Nathan Corddry (Tom Jeter) *Sarah Paulson (Harriet Hayes) *D.L. Hughley (Simon Stiles) *Steven Weber ( Jack Rudolph) *Matthew Perry (Matt Albie) *Amanda Peet (Jordan McDeere) *Bradley Whitford (Danny Tripp) Major roles (Bradley Whitford) is a producer who takes over show-running duties with Matt Albie, his long-time friend, and who worked on the show four years prior, before leaving with Matt over disagreements with network executives. In the pilot, it is revealed that he has a history of alcoholism and drug problems, specifically with cocaine, and recently suffered a relapse after 11 years of sobriety. Danny has to complete 18 months of clean drug tests to obtain completion bonds as a film director; while this information was confidential, Jordan McDeere discovers this via a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Jeter
This article contains summaries of characters appearing on the TV series ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip''. Cast List of cast members, left to right (as seen in the image): *Timothy Busfield (Cal Shanley) *Nathan Corddry (Tom Jeter) *Sarah Paulson (Harriet Hayes) *D.L. Hughley (Simon Stiles) *Steven Weber ( Jack Rudolph) *Matthew Perry (Matt Albie) *Amanda Peet (Jordan McDeere) *Bradley Whitford (Danny Tripp) Major roles (Bradley Whitford) is a producer who takes over show-running duties with Matt Albie, his long-time friend, and who worked on the show four years prior, before leaving with Matt over disagreements with network executives. In the pilot, it is revealed that he has a history of alcoholism and drug problems, specifically with cocaine, and recently suffered a relapse after 11 years of sobriety. Danny has to complete 18 months of clean drug tests to obtain completion bonds as a film director; while this information was confidential, Jordan McDeere discovers this via a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The West Wing
''The West Wing'' is an American serial (radio and television), serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006. The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White House, where the Oval Office and offices of presidential senior personnel are located, during the fictitious Democratic Party (United States), Democratic administration of President Josiah Bartlet. ''The West Wing'' was produced by Warner Bros. Television and featured an List of The West Wing characters, ensemble cast, including Martin Sheen, John Spencer (actor), John Spencer, Allison Janney, Rob Lowe, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Janel Moloney, Dulé Hill, and Stockard Channing. For the first four seasons, there were three executive producers: Sorkin (lead writer of the first four seasons), Thomas Schlamme (primary director), and John Wells (TV producer), John Wells. After Sorkin left the series, Wells assume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (; born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth; July 24, 1968)Kristin Chenoweth Biography '' The Biography Channel'' , accessed December 1, 2014; according to her autobiography, she was named Kristi Dawn Chenoweth upon her adoption five days after her birth. is an American actress and singer, with credits in , film, and television. In 1999, she won a |
GeoCities
Yahoo! GeoCities was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest. GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and was named Beverly Hills Internet briefly before being renamed GeoCities. On January 28, 1999, it was acquired by Yahoo!, at which time it was supposedly the third-most visited website on the World Wide Web. In its original form, site users selected a "city" in which to list the hyperlinks to their web pages. The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content – for example, computer-related sites were placed in "SiliconValley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood"; hence the name of the site. Soon after its acquisition by Yahoo!, this practice was abandoned in favor of using the Yahoo! member names in the URLs. In April 2009, the company announced that it would end the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Hayes
Hannah Harriet Hayes is a fictional character on the US television series ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', played by Sarah Paulson. The character is loosely based on actress Kristin Chenoweth (who had dated ''Studio 60'' creator Aaron Sorkin and starred in Sorkin's previous series, ''The West Wing,'' after Sorkin had left it); there is an opinion that she is also at least partially based on former ''Saturday Night Live'' comedian Victoria Jackson. Personal history Hayes describes much of her personal history to '' Vanity Fair'' journalist Martha O'Dell in " The Long Lead Story". Hayes was born in Brighton, Michigan to a father who worked in a paper processing plant and a mother who was a secretary in a doctor's office. She has six brothers, all older and none of them religious. It was her mother, a devout Baptist, who introduced Harriet —who uses her middle name because a Hannah Hayes was already on the rolls of the Screen Actors Guild — to Christianity, taking her to ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan McDeere
Jordan McDeere is a fictional character on the United States television series ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', played by Amanda Peet. Personal history Jordan is the president of the fictional National Broadcasting System, a great achievement for a woman of her age. Her employment record includes two years in Business Affairs at Atlantic Records, two as Vice President in charge of production at United Artists and four years at NBS. She got her B.A. in American Studies at Amherst College and a J.D. at Yale Law School after twelve years of Catholic school. She's from Charlottesville, Virginia originally. When she was 25, Jordan was married for nine months to Ryan Mulrooney, whose idea of "fun" involved taking his wife to sex clubs. She divorced him and used to pay him alimony; Mulrooney is working on an upcoming self-published book: ''Confessions of a Network Husband: My Life With Jordan McDeere''. In 1999 Jordan terminated a pregnancy. In "West Coast Delay" she tries to get Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showrunner
A showrunner (or colloquially a helmer) is the top-level executive producer of a television series production who has creative and management authority through combining the responsibilities of employer and, in comedy or dramas, typically also the head writer, script and story editor. They consult with network and studio bosses and lead the artistic vision of the show, including the writers room, editing department, as well as select the set design, staff, cast members, and each actor's wardrobe and hairstyle. In many instances, the showrunner also created the show, and subsequent seasons could feature different showrunners. While the director has creative control over a film's production, and the executive producer's role is limited to investing, in television shows, the showrunner outranks the episodic directors. History In a January 1990 submission to the United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Adminis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
