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Tonko Soljan
Tonko Soljan is a Croatian American film and television producer known best for the PBS acquired documentary film '' Beyond Our Differences'' and the broadly distributed feature film '' Adrift in Manhattan'' starring Heather Graham, William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese and Victor Rasuk. Soljan is also a key player in the launch of Discovery Channel's series ''Storm Chasers'' and MTV's ''Teen Mom''. Additionally Soljan has independently produced for clients including Paramount Pictures, Original Media, City Lights Media Group, Magnolia Pictures, HDNet, Dogmatic, Departure Films, and many networks including as NBC, AMC, Discovery Channel, TruTV, MTV, Fuel TV, FitTV, Food Network, A&E, History Channel, Bravo, ABC, CMT, Lifetime, and numerous others. Soljan is the executive vice president of business affairs for ITV America, and formerly executive in charge and vice president of business affairs for production powerhouse Leftfield Pictures, the company behind the hit series ...
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Beyond Our Differences
''Beyond Our Differences'' is a 2008 documentary film. A production of New York documentary film company Entropy Films, ''Beyond Our Differences'' has been featured at film festivals including the Non-Violence International Film Festival, Global Peace Film Festival, West Hollywood International Film Festival, and many others. Entropy Films sold the 74 minute film to PBS and PBS International in late 2008 for worldwide distribution. The film features interviews with the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Professor Robert Thurman, Congressman Brian Baird, Former President of Iran Mohammad Khatami, Peter Gabriel, Paulo Coelho, Karen Armstrong, Ela Gandhi, Klaus Schwab, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Ambassador Andrew Young, Marianne Williamson, and many other politicians, kings, queens, heads of state, and social activists. ''Beyond Our Differences'' was produced by Peter Bisanz, Tonko Soljan, Vladimir Trushchenkov and Catherine Tatge. It aired December 26, 2008 on the Bill Moyers ...
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FitTV
FitTV was an American pay television channel, owned by Discovery Communications. The channel focused on fitness and exercise-related programming. FitTV offered programming with such fitness celebrities as Cathe Friedrich, Sharon Mann, Gilad Janklowicz, Marilu Henner, Tamilee Webb and others. On February 1, 2011, it merged with Discovery Health Channel to become Discovery Fit & Health, now known as Discovery Life. History Establishment International Family Entertainment (IFE) introduced a continuous preview of the ''Cable Health Club'' on August 20, 1993. Beginning August 31 of that year, the channel would be available in a half-hour continuous programming format to cable system operators for free. In October, the channel moved to 24-hour programming. Jake Steinfeld, who had starred on the network's ''Big Brother Jake'', hosted its first program and was a constant presence on the channel in its early years. The original formatting of an hour on Cable Health Club included a 20-min ...
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American Television Producers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ...
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American Film Producers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ...
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American Restoration
''American Restoration'' is an American reality television series airing on the History channel. Produced by Leftfield Pictures, the first six seasons were recorded in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicled the daily activities at ''Rick's Restorations'', an antique restoration shop, with its owner Rick Dale, his staff, and teenage son, as they restore various vintage items to their original condition. For season 7, History rebooted the program with a new concept and cast, with the series now following five American restoration shops. The show is the first spin-off of ''Pawn Stars'', in which Dale has appeared several times as an on-camera expert and restored various items."Meet the Experts"
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Counting Cars
''Counting Cars'' is an American reality television series shown on History and produced by Leftfield Pictures. The series, which is the third spinoff of ''Pawn Stars'', is filmed in Las Vegas, where it chronicles the daily activities at Count's Kustoms, an automobile restoration and customization company owned and operated by Danny Koker a.k.a. The Count, who previously appeared as a recurring expert on ''Pawn Stars''. In a format similar to another ''Pawn Stars'' spinoff, ''American Restoration'', the series follows Koker and his staff as they restore and modify classic automobiles and motorcycles. ''Counting Cars'' debuted on August 13, 2012. Production history ''Counting Cars'' is an American reality-television series, shown on History, and produced by Leftfield Pictures. The series is the third spinoff of the TV series ''Pawn Stars'', following ''American Restoration'' and '' Cajun Pawn Stars''. It is filmed in Las Vegas, where it chronicles the daily activities at Count' ...
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Pawn Stars
''Pawn Stars'' is an American reality television series shown on History and produced by Leftfield Pictures. The series is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the daily activities at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, a 24-hour family business opened in 1989 and originally operated by patriarch Richard "Old Man" Harrison, his son Rick Harrison, Rick's son Corey "Big Hoss" Harrison, and Corey's childhood friend, Austin "Chumlee" Russell. The series, which became the network's highest rated show,Childers, Linda (July 7, 2011)"Rick Harrison of 'Pawn Stars' spills success secrets" CNN Money. and the No. 2 reality show behind ''Jersey Shore'', debuted on July 26, 2009. The series depicts the staff's interactions with customers, who bring in a variety of artifacts to sell or pawn, shown haggling over the price, and discussing its historical background, with narration provided by either the Harrisons or Chumlee. The series also follows the interpersonal conf ...
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Lifetime (TV Network)
Lifetime is an American basic cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A&E Networks, which is jointly owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company. It features programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles. , it is received by 93.8 million households in America. History Predecessors There were two television channels that preceded Lifetime in its current incarnation. Daytime, originally called BETA, was launched in March 1982 by Hearst-ABC Video Services.(June 15, 1983Hearst-ABC, Viacom in Pact. New York Times.Lifetime Entertainment Services History
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Country Music Television
Country Music Television (CMT) is an American pay TV network owned by Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global. Launched on March 5, 1983, as Country Music Television, CMT was the first nationally available channel devoted to country music and country music videos, with its programming also including concerts, specials, and biographies of country music stars. Over time, the network's programming expanded to incorporate original lifestyle and reality programming while downplaying its focus on country music. As of January 2018, approximately 92 million U.S. homes (or 76.9% of the Nielsen-estimated 119.2 million television households ) receive CMT. The channel's headquarters are located in One Astor Plaza in New York City, and has additional offices in Nashville, Tennessee. History Early years (1983–1991) CMTV, an initialism for Country Music Television, was founded by Glenn D. Daniels, the owner of Video World Productions in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Danie ...
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ...
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Bravo (U
Bravo(s) or The Bravo(s) may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Groups and labels *Bravo (band), a Russian rock band *Bravo (Spanish group), represented Spain at Eurovision 1984 *Bravo Music, an American concert band music publishing company Albums * ''Bravo'' (5566 album) or the title song, 2008 * ''Bravo'' (Dr. Sin album), 2007 * ''Bravo!'' (EP), by Up10tion, or the title song, 2015 *''Bravo!'', by Friska Viljor, 2006 *''Bravo!'', by Tube, 1997 Literature *''The Bravo'', an 1831 novel by James Fenimore Cooper * ''Bravo'' (magazine), a European German-language teen magazine * ''Bravo'' (Romanian magazine), a teen magazine Television *Bravo (American TV network), a cable television network * Bravo (British TV channel), a digital television channel 1985–2011 *Bravo (Canada), now CTV Drama Channel, a specialty arts television channel *Bravo (New Zealand), a free-to-air channel * ''Bravo!'' (TV series), a 1975–1976 Brazilian telenovela * ''Bravo TV'' (TV series), a 1985†...
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History (U
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ...
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