Utica (Rome)
''Rome'', a dramatic television series created by John Milius, William J. MacDonald and Bruno Heller, premiered on 28 August 2005 on the HBO Network in the United States and ended on 25 March 2007, after 2 seasons and a total of 22 episodes. ''Rome'' is a historical drama depicting the period of history surrounding the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire; a change driven by civil warfare between radical '' populares'' and conservative ''optimates'', the decay of political institutions, and the actions of ambitious men and women. The first and second seasons of ''Rome'' were released on DVD in the U.S. in 2006 and 2007, respectively; and Blu-ray The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and capable of st ... versions were released in 2011. A complete series ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rome (TV Series)
''Rome'' is a historical drama television series created by John Milius, William J. MacDonald, and Bruno Heller. The series is set in the 1st century BC, during Ancient Rome's transition from Republic to Empire. The series features a sprawling cast of characters, many based on real figures from historical records, but the lead protagonists are ultimately two soldiers named Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, who find their lives intertwined with key historical events. An international co-production between Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, the series was filmed in various locations, but most notably in the Cinecittà studios in Rome, Italy. The show, consisting of two seasons for a total of 22 episodes, aired on HBO, and BBC Two from 28 August 2005 to 25 March 2007, and was later released on DVD and Blu-ray. ''Rome'' received largely positive reviews and had a high number of viewers. It received substantial media attention from the start, becoming a ratings succ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Julian Farino
Julian Farino (born 12 December 1965) is an English film and television producer and director. He was the sports editor of ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and directed much of the first three seasons of the HBO series '' Entourage''. Farino was born and raised in London and educated at Cambridge University. He began directing film documentaries at Granada Television in England, making a sequence of observational films about drag queens, young classical musicians, children's entertainers and boxers. ''They Call Us Nutters'' was a portrait of life on a ward of Ashworth Maximum Security Hospital, and ''A Winter's Tale'' described life in the coldest inhabited place on earth, Oymyakon in Eastern Siberia. In 2000 he directed '' 7Up 2000'', a continuation of the multi-award winning documentary series, featuring 7-year-olds from all over Britain - a project that continued with ''14 Up in 2007''. His film drama in the UK includes an adaptation of Charles Dickens's ''Our Mutual Frien ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Todd Ellis Kessler
Todd Ellis Kessler is an American television producer and writer. He has worked in both capacities on varied series including ''The Practice'', ''Crossing Jordan'', ''Kevin Hill'', ''The Unit'' and ''The Good Wife''. He has been nominated for daytime and primetime Emmy Awards and a Writers Guild of America Award. Career Kessler began writing for television with the NBC science fiction series '' Sleepwalkers'' in 1997. He served as an executive story editor for the series single season. Later in 1997 Kessler next became a writer for the second season of the ABC legal drama ''The Practice''. He wrote the episodes "The Means" and "Axe Murderer". In 1999 Kessler obtained his first production work on the science fictions series '' Strange World''. The show was created by Howard Gordon and Tim Kring. Kessler was credited as a co-producer and also worked as a writer on the short-lived series. Later in 1999 Kessler returned to ''The Practice'' as a co-producer and writer for the show's f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adam Davidson (director)
Adam Davidson (born August 13, 1964) is an American actor and television director from Los Angeles, California. Life and career Davidson graduated from Kenyon College in 1986. and from Columbia University School of the Arts in 1994. Davidson has appeared in the following films, '' The Day Trippers'', ''A Match Made in Heaven'', ''Návrat ztraceného ráje'' (a.k.a. Return to Paradise Lost), ''Way Past Cool'', ''Nature Boy'' and ''Pop Life''. In addition to acting, Davidson has also directed for several television programs which include: ''Community'', ''Lost'', '' Deadwood'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', '' Six Feet Under'' and ''Fringe''. He is the son of acclaimed American theatre producer and director Gordon Davidson, who was Jewish. Accolades His debut film as a director, ''The Lunch Date'', won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject and the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Director filmography *'' La Brea'' (6 episodes, 2021-) **1.03 "The Hunt" **1.06 "The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Scott Buck
Scott Randall Buck is an American television writer. Buck has written for several television series including '' Six Feet Under'', ''Rome'', Showtime's ''Dexter'', ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', ''Coach'', ''Inhumans'', '' The Oblongs'' and '' Iron Fist''. Career Buck began his career as a sitcom writer. He joined the staff of HBO's '' Six Feet Under'' as a writer and supervising producer in 2002 for the show's second season. He wrote the second season episode "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year". He remained a supervising producer for the third season in 2003 and wrote two further episodes "You Never Know" and "Everyone Leaves". He was promoted to co-executive producer for the fourth season in 2004. He wrote two more episodes "That's My Dog" and "Bomb Shelter". He was nominated for both an individual WGA award, as well as WGA awards for Best Writing Staff. He received a Peabody Award for his work on ''Six Feet Under''. He remained a co-executive producer for the fifth and f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mikael Salomon
Mikael Salomon (born 24 February 1945) is a Danish cinematographer, director and producer of film and television. After a long cinematography career in Danish cinema, he transitioned to the Hollywood film industry in the late 1980s earning two Academy Award nominations. He is also a television director whose credits include dozens of series, films and miniseries including '' Band of Brothers, Salem's Lot, Rome,'' and ''The Andromeda Strain''. His awards and nominations include a Primetime Emmy Award and a Directors Guild of America Award. Life and career Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Salomon photographed dozens of films in his native country, earning awards including the Robert Award and Bodil Awards. In the late 1980s, he relocated to Hollywood and shot his first mainstream American film with ''Torch Song Trilogy'', a 1988 comedy-drama starring Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, and Matthew Broderick. The following year, he shot the James Cameron-helmed science fiction film ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adrian Hodges
Adrian Hodges (born 4 February 1957) is an English television and film writer. He has won a BAFTA Award. Life and career He began his career in journalism for ''Screen International'' magazine "Profile: Adrian Hodges" and his debut was the 1991 television drama ''Tell Me That You Love Me'', followed by screenplays for '' The Bridge'' (1992) and '' [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alan Taylor (director)
Alan Taylor (born January 13, 1959) is an American television director, film director, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his work on television series such as ''The Sopranos'', ''Sex and the City'', ''Mad Men'', and '' Game of Thrones''. He also directed films such as '' Palookaville'', '' Thor: The Dark World'', ''Terminator Genisys'', and ''The Many Saints of Newark''. In 2007 Taylor won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for ''The Sopranos'' episode " Kennedy and Heidi". In 2008 and 2018 he was also nominated in the same category for the ''Mad Men'' episode "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and the ''Game of Thrones'' episode " Beyond the Wall", respectively. Early life Taylor's father, James J. Taylor, was a private in the U.S. army translating for Voice of America, stationed in Yokohama, who subsequently held numerous jobs before becoming a videographer in Washington, D.C. Taylor's mother, Mimi Cazort, was ''curator eme ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexandra Cunningham
Alexandra Cunningham (born 1972/73) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and television producer. Biography From 1998 through 2000, she attended the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School. Her plays include ''The Theory of Three'' and ''No. 11 (Blue and White)''. Cunningham is most known as a writer and producer for ABC Studios' dramedy ''Desperate Housewives'' (2004-2010), having written more episodes of the show than any other writer besides showrunner Marc Cherry. Prior to ''Desperate Housewives'', Cunningham produced and wrote for the action series '' Fastlane'' (2002-2003), and wrote episodes of ''NYPD Blue'' (2001), '' Pasadena'' (2002), and ''Rome'' (2005). She was a developer, executive producer, and writer for the U.S. version of ''Prime Suspect''. She was also a writer for several episodes of ''Chance'' (2016-2017), starring Hugh Laurie as neuropsychiatrist Dr. Chance, which aired on Hulu for two seasons. Most recently, she crea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jeremy Podeswa
Jeremy Podeswa (born 1962) is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for directing the films '' The Five Senses'' (1999) and ''Fugitive Pieces'' (2007). He has also worked as director on the television shows '' Six Feet Under'', ''Nip/Tuck'', ''The Tudors'', ''Queer as Folk'', and the HBO World War II miniseries '' The Pacific''. He has also written several films. In 2014, he directed episodes five and six of the fifth season of the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the latter episode. He returned the next season, directing the season premiere and the second episode. He also directed the season premiere as well as the season finale of the seventh season. In 2021, he directed episodes of the TV series adaptation of '' The Mosquito Coast'' and the miniseries ''Station Eleven''. Biography Jeremy Podeswa was born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. He is Jewish, and his Po ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Steve Shill
Stephen A Shill (born 1957) is a British television and film director, actor, screenwriter and television producer. Early life Shill was born in 1957 in Buckinghamshire, England. He attended Keswick Grammar School in Keswick, Cumbria, England in the 1970s. Career He studied Fine Art at Leeds University, was a member of Impact Theatre Co-operative, and, after they disbanded, made theatre work under his own name. After completing the BBC Drama Director's Course he began his television directing career with episodes of ''EastEnders'' and '' Casualty'' for the BBC. Shill created the idea for Granada TV's ''Ted and Alice'' starring Dawn French. He moved to the United States and worked on many successful shows produced by premium cable network HBO, including ''The Sopranos'', ''The Wire'', ''Rome'', ''Carnivàle'', '' Deadwood'' and ''Big Love''. He directed the pilot episode of Showtime's ''The Tudors'' and served as a regular director and executive producer throughout the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Frankel
David Frankel (born April 2, 1959) is an American filmmaker. Most known as the director of 2006 film, '' The Devil Wears Prada'', he is an executive producer and the director of the first and fourth episodes of the Netflix miniseries ''Inventing Anna'' (2022). Biography Frankel was born to a Jewish family in New York City. He is the son of Tobia Simone (née Brown) and Max Frankel, a former executive editor of ''The New York Times'' and columnist. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his 1996 short film '' Dear Diary'' and an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the pilot episode of ''Entourage'' (2004), and has since directed the studio films '' The Devil Wears Prada'' (2006), ''Marley & Me'' (2008), and '' Hope Springs'' (2012). His birdwatching comedy ''The Big Year'', starring Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, JoBeth Williams, and Jack Black, was released in October 2011. As of 2008, he lives in Coconut Grove, Florida. Filmography Feature ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |