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Crashbox
''Crashbox'' is an educational children's television series co-created by Eamon Harrington and John Watkin for HBO Family that ran from 1999 to 2000 in the United States. It was HBO's second attempt (their first being ''Braingames'' 15 years earlier) at a show focused on educational skits. ''Crashbox'' was one of the original programs for the relaunch of the HBO Family channel in February 1999. Although it has never been released on physical media like DVD or VHS, it is still rerun on HBO Family and is found on various streaming services. Production ''Crashbox'' was created by Planet Grande Pictures (consisting of Eamon Harrington and John Watkin) and is animated by Cuppa Coffee Studios, headed by Adam Shaheen. Planet Grande Pictures engaged Cuppa Coffee Studios 8 months to complete 13 hours of programming.Eichhorn, P: "Cuppa Coffee brews up a special blend of animation Take One Magazine, Summer, 1999, No. 24 Premise The show takes place in the insides of a game computer w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edie McClurg
Edith Marie McClurg (born July 23, 1945) is an American actress and comedian. She has played supporting roles in the films ''Carrie'' (1976), ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986), and ''Elvira: Mistress of the Dark'' (1988), and bit parts in ''Cheech and Chong's Next Movie'' (1980), ''Mr. Mom'' (1983), '' Back to School'' (1986), ''Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' (1987), ''A River Runs Through It'' (1992), '' Natural Born Killers'' (1994), and ''Flubber'' (1997). On television, McClurg regularly performed on ''The David Letterman Show'', before playing Bonnie Brindle in ''Small Wonder'' (1985–1987) and Mrs. Patty Poole on ''The Hogan Family'' (1986–1991). As a one-off character, she has appeared in ''Alice'', ''Mr. Belvedere'', ''The Golden Girls'', ''Roseanne'', ''Full House'', ''Seinfeld'', ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', ''Hannah Montana'', '' Crashbox'' and ''Portlandia''. Since 1977, she has also appeared in numerous commercials. As a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuppa Coffee Animation
Cuppa Coffee Studios (formerly known as Cuppa Coffee Animation) is a Canadian production company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Cuppa Coffee was founded by Adam Shaheen in 1992. It specializes in both stop-motion animation and 2D animation, winning over 150 international awards. Cuppa Coffee is currently developing live-action content through Cuppa Coffee USA. History By late 1992, Adam Shaheen had worked on several editorial assignments, book jackets and CD covers, but he wanted to create a unique animation style mixing photographic, collage and illustration techniques. In December, he founded Cuppa Coffee Animation with Bruce Alcock, and Steve Hillman joined the company shortly after. Cuppa Coffee's first projects were network IDs and show opens for MuchMusic and a commercial for Fruity Pebbles. In March 1993, Cuppa Coffee was featured on Citytv's ''MediaTelevision'' program; the interview expanded a campaign for Molson's Black Ice which exhibited their unique mixed-media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuppa Coffee Studios
Cuppa Coffee Studios (formerly known as Cuppa Coffee Animation) is a Canadian production company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Cuppa Coffee was founded by Adam Shaheen in 1992. It specializes in both stop-motion animation and 2D animation, winning over 150 international awards. Cuppa Coffee is currently developing live-action content through Cuppa Coffee USA. History By late 1992, Adam Shaheen had worked on several editorial assignments, book jackets and CD covers, but he wanted to create a unique animation style mixing photographic, collage and illustration techniques. In December, he founded Cuppa Coffee Animation with Bruce Alcock, and Steve Hillman joined the company shortly after. Cuppa Coffee's first projects were network IDs and show opens for MuchMusic and a commercial for Fruity Pebbles. In March 1993, Cuppa Coffee was featured on Citytv's ''MediaTelevision'' program; the interview expanded a campaign for Molson's Black Ice which exhibited their unique mixed-media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Eagles
Greg Eagles (born October 28, 1970) is an American actor. He voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's '' Grim & Evil'' and its spin-off ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy''. He also voiced Captain Bob and Sketch Pad on HBO's Canadian-American children's television series ''Crashbox'', Brother 6 and Rokutaro in '' Afro Samurai'', Aku Aku in the ''Crash Bandicoot'' video game franchise, and several characters in the ''Metal Gear Solid'' games. Career Eagles began his acting career in 1993, he made his professional acting debut in the television film ''Blindsided'', were he played a detective. His other live acting credits include '' How to Live with Your Parents'', '' L.A Heat'', '' NYPD Blue'', ''Pair of Kings'', '' Sister, Sister'', '' Snowfall'', ''Teeth and Blood'', '' The Burning Zone'', ''The Hepburn Effect'' and '' The Riches''. He also works extensively as a voice actor, he has provided numerous characters voices in various animated films, anime, television shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HBO Family
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based at Warner Bros. Discovery's corporate headquarters inside 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan's West Side district. Programming featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional comedy and concert specials, and periodic interstitial programs (consisting of short films and making-of documentaries). HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating subscription television service in the United States. HBO pioneered modern pay television upon its launch on November 8, 1972: it was the first television service to be directly transmitted and distributed to individual cable television systems, and was the conceptual blu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Electric Company
''The Electric Company'' is an American educational children's television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW, now known as Sesame Workshop). It was co-created by Paul Dooley, Joan Ganz Cooney, and Lloyd Morrisett. The series aired on PBS for 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971, to April 15, 1977. The program continued in reruns until October 4, 1985. ''The Electric Company'' later reran on Noggin, a channel co-founded by the CTW, from 1999 to 2003. Noggin also produced a compilation special for the show. The Workshop produced the show at Reeves Teletape Studios in Manhattan. ''The Electric Company'' employed sketch comedy and various other devices to provide an entertaining program to help elementary school children develop their grammar and reading skills. Since it was intended for children who had graduated from CTW's flagship program, ''Sesame Street'', the humor was more mature than what was seen there. The show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braingames (1983 TV Series)
''Braingames'' is an American educational program shown on HBO in the mid-1980s. It was a half-hour program consisting of brain-teasing animated skits (either stop-motion or cartoon) designed to make the viewers think. It was HBO's first attempt at a show focused on educational skits, predating Crashbox by 15 years. Episodes The series pilot was aired in 1983 (featuring a female Sphinx in the intro), with another five episodes (this time with a gentleman with an egg for a head) made in 1984-1985 with new games and a few brought back from the pilot. After that, an episode called "The Best of Braingames" was made which had five of the best Braingames games from episodes 1, 3, and 4, plus a special episode of "The Riddler" (see below) where Chuck Roast read off the winners of a contest for "The Absitively Posolutely Worst Riddles in America". Every episode in the series ends with a sad and crying voice saying, "Braingames...is now...over." On the "Best of" episode, an equally sad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Shaheen (producer)
Adam Shaheen (born 13 October 1964) is a British-Canadian artist, animator, television producer and screenwriter. He is the founder and owner of Cuppa Coffee Studios where he developed and produced original programming. He was the executive producer of Cuppa Coffee's award-winning broadcast design and commercial studio. Cuppa Coffee The studio won awards for its film and title work - namely ''Jane the Virgin'', ''Sesame Street'', '' Much Music'', MTV, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Comedy Central. David Cronenberg's '' Existenz'', '' Cosmopolis'', ''Spider'', ''Eastern Promises,'' '' A Dangerous Method'' and '' Maps to the Stars'', and over 50 awards from the Broadcast Design Association and Promax. Shaheen's credits include shows and movies like ''Crashbox,'' '' JoJo's Circus'' Season 1 and 2, ''Celebrity Deathmatch'' Season 3, 4 and 5 '', Starveillance'', ''Bruno'', ''Bruno and the Banana Bunch'', ''Tigga and Togga'', ''Little People'', '' The Wrong Coast'', '' Henry's World'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Wells
Jack Westelman (April 7, 1941 – November 28, 2013), known as Danny Wells, was a Canadian actor. He was best known for his role as Charlie, the bartender on ''The Jeffersons'', as well as his role as Luigi in the live-action/animated series '' The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!''. Early life and career Wells was born in Montreal, Canada to Eli Westelman (died April 4, 1996) and Eunice Trottenberg (died September 20, 1987) on April 7, 1941. His acting career spanned more than 4 decades, beginning in 1972 on the comedy television show ''Love, American Style''. In 1975 Wells made his film debut in ''The Strongest Man in the World''. He then went on to appear in a string of successful movies including '' Private Benjamin'' (1980) starring Goldie Hawn and Eileen Brennan, '' The Woman in Red'' (1984) starring Gene Wilder, ''Magnolia'' (1999), and '' The Last Kiss'' (2006) where he played the Uncle of Michael Weston's character Izzy. Over his prolific career, Wells did most of his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike McShane
Michael McShane is an American actor, singer, and improvisational comedian. He appeared on the original British television show '' Whose Line Is It Anyway?'' (1988–97) and went on to appear in films such as '' Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)'', '' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' (1991), '' Richie Rich'' (1994), and ''Office Space'' (1999). McShane has also been involved in several Disney productions, including '' Tom and Huck'' (1995), the television series '' Brotherly Love'' (1995–97), and '' Tower of Terror'' (1997). He also voiced the Revolting Slob in the Canadian-American variety television series '' Crashbox''. McShane voiced Marlon, Caracticus P. Doom and various other characters in Cosgrove Hall Films's '' Avenger Penguins'' (1993–94), Gareb in '' Todd McFarlane's Spawn'' (1997–99), and Quosmir in '' Dave The Barbarian'' (2004–05). Career McShane studied drama at San Joaquin Delta College and San Francisco State University, performing with Faultline T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lurie
Peter Lurie is an American voice actor, sports anchor and television personality who has worked in television shows, movies, and dubbed anime, since the mid-1990s. He is most well known for his role as the voice of Vulcan Raven in the ''Metal Gear'' video game series, Marvel Comics supervillain Sabretooth and Paxton Fettel of '' F.E.A.R. series''. He currently works as an HRTV, TVG Network anchor, and as an in-house host for Hoosier Park, and for Indiana Grand Racetrack as well. Biography 1980s Early in his career, Lurie worked as a tour guide at Universal Studios Hollywood. The owner of the recording studio heard Lurie giving a tour, and recommended he try out voice acting. Six months later, Lurie got his first job as a sound engineer for ABC's Wild World of Kids. During this time, he also continued to develop music with a band he co-founded called “Fourth Car Foreign”. The group existed for 10 years, but was not a commercial success. 1990s Lurie was avid about horse r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Baird
Maggie May Baird (born ) is an American actress, screenwriter, and former theater troupe teacher. Baird grew up in Colorado performing music, and studied theater and dance at the University of Utah, before moving to New York City, where she performed on Broadway. She made her television debut in 1981 in the soap opera '' Another World'' and her film debut in the 1989 feature '' An Innocent Man''. Baird continued to act in television and film after moving to Los Angeles in 1991, and became a member and teacher at The Groundlings, a troupe and Improvisational theatre school. She acted in 2000s television series such as ''Bones'', ''The X-Files'' and '' Six Feet Under'', and provided the voices of Samara in the video game series ''Mass Effect'', and various characters in the '' Saints Row'' game series. In 2009, Baird released her debut studio album, ''We Sail''. Baird married Patrick O'Connell in 1995, with whom she has two children: musicians Finneas O'Connell and Billie Eilish. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
