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Silent Treatment (Whitney)
'' Whitney'' is an American television sitcom starring and created by Whitney Cummings for NBC, who also serves as one of the writers and executive producers. The program ran in the United States from September 22, 2011 to March 27, 2013. The series follows Cummings as an opinionated self-employed photographer and her live-in boyfriend of three years as they deal with trying to keep their relationship growing even if they're not married, with help from their friends. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (2011–12) The first episode was available via NBC.com The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an Television in the United States, American English-language Commercial broadcasting, commercial television network, broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Enterta .../NBC On-Demand on September 15. The second was available via Yahoo! on September 27. Season 2 (2012–13) References External links * * {{DEFAULTS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney (TV Series)
''Whitney'' is an American television sitcom that ran on NBC from September 22, 2011, to March 27, 2013. The series originally aired in the 9:30 pm (E/P)/8:30 pm (C) Thursday night timeslot. The show stars Whitney Cummings and is based on her real-life experience and her comedy routines. On September 25, 2011, the pilot of ''Whitney'' was multipurposed on various Universal Television networks, including Oxygen, E!, Style, and Bravo. On May 9, 2013, ''Whitney'' was canceled by NBC after two seasons. Synopsis The series follows Whitney Cummings, as she portrays a fictionalized version of herself, and her very supportive live-in boyfriend, Alex. Even though the two have decided that they will not commit to marriage, she does question how committed they are in their 3-year relationship and tries to go as far to prove a point. She begins to fear what she sees as "relationship boredom" and worries what will happen next that could possibly end their relationship. Because of what she s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Savage
Frederick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series ''The Wonder Years'' (1988 to 1993). He has earned several awards and nominations, such as People's Choice Awards and Young Artist Awards. He is also known for playing the Grandson in ''The Princess Bride'', and voiced the title protagonist in ''Oswald''. Savage has worked as a director, and in 2005 later starred in the television sitcom ''Crumbs''. Savage returned to acting in the television series '' The Grinder'', as well as the Netflix series ''Friends from College''. Early life and education Savage was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Joanne and Lewis Savage, who was an industrial real estate broker and consultant. Savage grew up in Glencoe, Illinois, before moving to California. His younger brother is actor Ben Savage and his younger sister is actress/musician Kala Savage. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wil Calhoun
Wil Calhoun is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for his work on the sitcom '' Friends'' for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 1999. In 2002, Calhoun along with Dan Schneider created the series '' What I Like About You'' starring Amanda Bynes and Jennie Garth. His other television credits include ''Jesse'', '' Sons & Daughters'', '' Caroline in the City'', ''Kath & Kim'' and ''Gary Unmarried''. In 1990, he guest starred twice on the action series ''MacGyver'', before pursuing a career behind the camera. He is still currently best friends with Richard Dean Anderson Richard Dean Anderson (born January 23, 1950) is a retired American actor and producer. He began his television career in 1976, playing Jeff Webber in the American soap opera series '' General Hospital'', and then rose to prominence as the lead ..., who played Angus MacGyver. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Calhoun, Wil American television producers Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Zuckerman
Stephen Edward "Steve" Zuckerman (born November 7, 1947) is an American television and theater director. He began his career in the theater. After being trained at the University of Michigan and the Yale School of Drama, he went on to be the Associate Artistic Director of the IRT Theater where he directed celebrated productions of Odets "Clash By Night" and Ibsen's "Brand" among many others. He was Director of Play Development at the Circle in the Square Theater and the Associate Artistic Director of the WPA Theater where he directed the premiere of "Nuts" which moved directly to Broadway and received two Tony Nominations and two Drama Desk Nominations. Since 1987, he has amassed a number television credits including ''Full House'', ''The Golden Girls'', '' Murphy Brown'', ''Empty Nest'', ''Friends'', ''The Drew Carey Show'', ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', ''Zoey 101'', ''According to Jim'', ''Melissa & Joey'', ''Anger Management Anger management is a psycho-therapeutic program f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Zicklin
Eric Zicklin is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for his work on the sitcoms '' Something So Right'' ,''Frasier'' and ''Dharma & Greg''. His other television credits include '' Stark Raving Mad'', '' Center of the Universe'', '' Twenty Good Years'', ''Yes, Dear'' and ''Hot in Cleveland''. In 1995, in one of his first television jobs as a writer he won a Primetime Emmy Award for the Michael Moore series ''TV Nation ''TV Nation'' is a satirical news magazine television series written, co-produced, directed and hosted by Michael Moore that was co-funded and originally broadcast by NBC in the United States and BBC2 in the United Kingdom. The show blended hum ...'', as a part of the writing team. In 2001, he was nominated for another Emmy for his work on ''Frasier''. He is married to fellow television producer/writer Dottie Dartland Zicklin. References External links * 1967 births American television producers American television writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahoo!
Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications. It provides a web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including My Yahoo!, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo! Native. Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. However, usage declined in the late 2000s as some services discontinued and it lost market share to Facebook and Google. History Founding In January 1994, Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web". The site was a human-edited web directory, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Diane Raphael
June Diane Raphael ( ; born January 4, 1980) is an American actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She has starred in TV comedy programs ''Burning Love'', Adult Swim's '' NTSF:SD:SUV::'', and ''Grace and Frankie''. Notable film work includes supporting roles in '' Year One'' and '' Unfinished Business'', as well as her 2013 Sundance film ''Ass Backwards'', which she co-wrote and starred in with her creative partner Casey Wilson. She is self-credited as the inventor of podcasts, and currently co-hosts both ''How Did This Get Made?'' alongside Jason Mantzoukas and her husband Paul Scheer, and ''The Deep Dive'' with Jessica St. Clair. Early life Raphael was born and raised in Rockville Centre, New York, to Diane and John Raphael, where she graduated from South Side High School in 1998. She is of Irish descent, and was raised Catholic. She has two older sisters, Lauren and Deanna. Raphael attended New York University (NYU), where she studied acting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Draper
Donald Francis Draper, born Richard “Dick” Whitman, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the AMC television series ''Mad Men'' (2007–2015), portrayed by Jon Hamm. Up to the Season 3 finale, Draper was creative director of fictional Manhattan advertising firm Sterling Cooper. He then became a founding partner at a new firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, after he and his superiors left their previous agency in advance of an unwanted acquisition. The agency later merged with a rival firm, Cutler Gleason & Chaough, to become Sterling Cooper & Partners while pursuing a contract from Chevrolet. The character of Don Draper is partially inspired by Draper Daniels, a creative director at Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago in the 1950s, who worked on the Marlboro Man campaign; and by Bill Backer, an advertising executive at McCann Erickson who created the " I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" ad in 1971. Character biography Early life Donald Francis Draper is r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Trainer
David Trainer is an American television director. He is perhaps best known for directing every episode of the Fox sitcom ''That '70s Show'' (except the pilot, which was directed by Terry Hughes) and directed all the episodes of the Netflix sitcom ''The Ranch''. He also directed the first two seasons of the television show ''Boy Meets World'' (also a supervising producer), the 4th and final season of ''the John Larroquette Show'' and over 60 episodes of ''Designing Women''. Among many others, his directing credits also include several episodes of '' FM'', ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'', ''Grace Under Fire'', ''Cybill'', ''Anything But Love'', ''My Boys'', ''Hot in Cleveland'' and ''Mike & Molly''. He also wrote episodes for the soap opera ''Ryan's Hope'' in 1977 and the sitcom ''Misery Loves Company'' which he co-created with Michael Jacobs and Bob Young in 1995. Awards Trainer was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on ''Designing Women ''Designing W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayes MacArthur
Hayes MacArthur (born April 16, 1977) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He starred in the TBS comedy series ''Angie Tribeca''. Early life MacArthur was born in Chicago to Bruce and Shelley MacArthur. His stepfather is businessman William F. Farley. His younger brother is fellow actor and writer Scott MacArthur. MacArthur attended Deerfield Academy and received a B.A. in Government from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he was quarterback on the football team. He has studied at the Groundlings Theater Company and Atlantic Theater Company. Acting career MacArthur took first place at the 2003 Rebels of Comedy Competition. He has appeared on such TV shows as ''Mad TV'', Comedy Central's ''Premium Blend'', ''Pushing Daisies'', and ''Medium''. In 2005, MacArthur co-wrote, produced and starred in a 16-minute short film, ''The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and His Little Friend'', with Jason Winer. The short was produced as a pilot for TV in 2006. He also ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on ''The Frost Report''. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show '' Monty Python's Flying Circus.'' Along with his Python co-stars Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include '' Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' (1975), ''Life of Brian'' (1979) and ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Meaning of Life'' (1983). In the mid-1970s, Cleese and first wife Connie Booth co-wrote the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'', in which he starred as hotel owner Basil Fawlty, for which he won the 1980 British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance. In 2000 the show topped the British Film Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsy Thomas
Betsy Thomas (born 1966) is an American television writer and producer living in Los Angeles, California with her husband, writer and actor Adrian Wenner. Thomas is best known as the creator of the sitcom ''My Boys'' that debuted on the cable television network TBS November 28, 2006. She is a writer and executive producer on the show. She also created and executive-produced the short-lived sitcom ''Run of the House'', which aired from September 2003 to May 2004 on The WB. Thomas was also one of the producers of NBC's sitcom, ''Whitney''. In 2019, Thomas joined other WGA members in firing her agents as part of the Guild's stand against the ATA after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement on a new "Code of Conduct" that addressed the practice of packaging. Thomas was raised in Franklin, Michigan Franklin is a village in Southfield Township, Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,150 at the 2010 census. The community is known for l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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