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W.I.O.U.
''WIOU'' is an American Drama (film and television), drama television series, which aired on CBS from October 24, 1990 until March 20, 1991. The show is set in the news department of a fictional television station whose actual callsign is WNDY, but which is nicknamed WIOU by its staff because of the station's perennial financial struggles. According to television researchers Tim Brooks (television historian), Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, 14 episodes were produced but only 13 aired. Summary The show stars John Shea as news director Hank Zaret. The cast also includes Mariette Hartley as executive producer Liz McVay; Harris Yulin and Helen Shaver, as news anchors Neal Frazier and Kelby Robinson; Phil Morris (actor), Phil Morris, as aggressive reporter Eddie Bock; Jayne Brook, as reporter Ann Hudson; Kate McNeil, as reporter Taylor Young; Dick Van Patten, as aging weatherman Floyd Graham; and Wallace Langham, as news intern Willis Teitelbaum. Cast *John Shea as Hank Zaret *Helen Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammy Ader
Tammy Ader-Green is an American television writer, director, and producer. She is best known as the creator and executive producer, with Whoopi Goldberg, of the television show ''Strong Medicine'' on the Lifetime (TV network), Lifetime network. Her other production credits include ''Dawson's Creek'' and ''The Wonder Years''. Green received a Gracie Allen Award from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television (now the Alliance for Women in Media) for Outstanding Producing and Best Dramatic Series (for ''Strong Medicine'') and the SHINE Award for Best Drama (for ''Strong Medicine'') in 2003. Green began her writing career as a student at Rush Medical College after attending Brandeis University as an undergraduate. After leaving medical school to pursue writing full-time, she spent most of her career living and working in the Los Angeles, California area. Green is married to Dr. Gary Green, an emergency medicine physician, and lives in Baltimore, Maryland with their son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama (film And Television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Brazil
Scott Brazil (May 12, 1955 – April 17, 2006) was an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American television producer and director. Early years Brazil was born in Sacramento County, California. His childhood home was in Sacramento's South Land Park Hills neighborhood. He was a graduate of the University of Southern California where he earned a bachelor of science degree from the Annenberg School of Journalism. Career Brazil started his career as an Associate Producer on '' The White Shadow'' from 1979-1981. ''Hill Street Blues'' Brazil began working on ''Hill Street Blues'' as an associate producer from 1981-1982. He worked as a producer from 1982-1983, and was the supervising producer from 1983-1986. He won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series in 1983 and 1984 and a Golden Globe Award in 1983 for his work on ''Hill Street Blues''. He was also nominated for Emmys for that series in both 1985 and 1986 and Golden Globes in 1984 and 1985. He worked in various capacities on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Carson (director)
David Carson is a British director of television and film. Career Carson's first work in directing was in the British theatre scene and on British television. He directed an episode of the British soap opera ''Coronation Street''. Carson sought to move to the United States in order to work in the American film scene, and prior to travelling, his agent arranged an interview for him with the producers of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation''. However, he had never heard of ''Star Trek'', and at his agent's suggestion, he rented some videos in order to conduct research. Once in the United States, he met with Rick Berman and David Livingston and was hired to direct the episode " The Enemy". The producers liked the different British style of directing and scene blocking that Carson brought to the set, as it was a style that the show hadn't previously used. He was subsequently brought back for another episode, but when he arrived for the first of eight days of preparation he was told th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Seidelman
Arthur Allan Seidelman is an American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer, and actor. Career Born in New York City, he received his B.A. from Whittier College and an M.A. in Theatre from UCLA. He subsequently studied with Sanford Meisner, who became a lifelong friend and mentor. Seidelman made his screen directorial debut with ''Hercules in New York'', a 1969 comedy-action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Additional credits include '' The Caller'', ''Walking Across Egypt'', ''Puerto Vallarta Squeeze'', '' The Sisters'', '' The Awakening of Spring'', and ''Children of Rage'' which was screened for major international bodies around the world, including the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the United Nations. He has directed over fifty motion pictures and one hundred stage productions. His most recent film is the 2014 adaptation of the play ''Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks'' starring Gena Rowlands. Most of Seidelman's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Tinker
Mark Tinker (born January 16, 1951) is an American television producer and director. Tinker was an executive producer and regular director on the HBO series '' Deadwood''. Prior to ''Deadwood'', Tinker served as a director/producer on ''NYPD Blue'', which was co-created by ''Deadwood'' writer David Milch. Tinker has also directed episodes of '' The White Shadow'', '' St. Elsewhere'', '' Capital News'', ''Civil Wars'', ''Chicago Hope'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''Private Practice'', ''Scandal'', ''Chicago P.D.'', ''Magnum P.I.'', and ''American Gods''. Early life Tinker was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Ruth Prince (née Byerly) (1927–2004) and former NBC chairman Grant Tinker (1926–2016), and the brother of John Tinker, with whom he worked on '' St. Elsewhere''. His stepmother was Mary Tyler Moore, who was married to Grant Tinker from 1962 until 1981. Tinker graduated from Syracuse University in 1973. Career Tinker joined the crew of the HBO western dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Weill
Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film '' Girlfriends'' (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance. In 2019, ''Girlfriends'' was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". '' It's My Turn'' (1980 for Columbia Pictures)—with Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin—won her the Donatello, or International Oscar for best new director. Earlier work includes 30 films for ''Sesame Street'', freelancing as a camerawoman, and numerous documentaries, notably '' The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir'', a documentary about the first women's delegation to China in 1973, headed by Shirley MacLaine, nominated for an Academy Award and released theatrically and on PBS. Early life and education In 1947, We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Copyright Office
The United States Copyright Office (USCO), a part of the Library of Congress, is a United States government body that maintains records of copyright registration, including a copyright catalog. It is used by copyright title searchers who are attempting to clear a chain of title for copyrighted works. The head of the Copyright Office is the Register of Copyrights. Shira Perlmutter, who took office on October 26, 2020,and currently serves as Register. The Copyright Office is housed on the fourth floor of the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress, at 101 Independence Avenue SE, in Washington, DC. History The United States Constitution gives Congress the power to enact laws establishing a system of copyright in the United States. The first federal copyright law, called the Copyright Act of 1790, was enacted in May 1790 (with the first work being registered within two weeks). Originally, claims were recorded by Clerks of U.S. district courts. In 1870, copy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intern
An internship is a period of work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of time. Once confined to medical graduates, internship is used practice for a wide range of placements in businesses, non-profit organizations and government agencies. They are typically undertaken by students and graduates looking to gain relevant skills and experience in a particular field. Employers benefit from these placements because they often recruit employees from their best interns, who have known capabilities, thus saving time and money in the long run. Internships are usually arranged by third-party organizations that recruit interns on behalf of industry groups. Rules vary from country to country about when interns should be regarded as employees. The system can be open to exploitation by unscrupulous employers. Internships for professional careers are similar in some ways. Similar to internships, apprenticeships transition students from vocational school into the workforce. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Brooks (television Historian)
Tim Brooks (born April 18, 1942) is an American television and radio historian, author and retired television executive. "Brooks will exit Lifetime Networks at the end of the year, capping a 30-year career as a television research exec. He has been with Lifetime since 2000, most recently serving as executive VP of research." He is credited with having helped launch the Sci Fi Channel in 1992 as well as other USA Network projects and channels. "Tim Brooks retired at the end of 2007 as Executive Vice President of Research for Lifetime Television. ... was Senior Vice President, Research for USA Networks, ... While there he helped structure the programming plan for the launch of the Sci-Fi Channel in 1992 ... Regarded as one of television's leading historians, Brooks has had a parallel career as a writer on television and record industry history." "The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like that, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1998 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's original logo was a pair of mirrored letter Bs back to back, while its current logo is two Bs stacked to form an elaborate gate. The firm's early editors were Stanley Kauffmann and Bernard Shir-Cliff. History Following Fawcett Publications' controversial 1950 introduction of Gold Medal paperback originals rather than reprints, Lion Books, Avon and Ace also decided to publish originals. In 1952, Ian Ballantine, a founder of Bantam Books, announced that he would "offer trade publishers a plan for simultaneous publishing of original titles in two editions, a hardcover 'regular' edition for bookstore sale, and a paper-cover, 'newsstand' size, low-priced edition for mass market sale." When the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
