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Stephanie Laing
Stephanie Laing is an American filmmaker known primarily for her work in television. She has worked on shows such as '' Tracey Takes On...'', '' Tracey Ullman's Visible Panty Lines'', '' Vice Principals'', ''Divorce'', '' Veep'', and '' Eastbound & Down''. She has also directed episodes of TV shows like '' I'm Sorry'', '' Veep'', '' Detroiters'', '' Mixed-ish'', '' Physical'', and '' Interior Chinatown''. Her feature-length directorial debut, '' Irreplaceable You'', was released worldwide by Netflix Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple lang ... on February 16, 2018. References External links * Living people American television directors American women film directors Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Takes On
''Tracey Takes On...'' is an American sketch comedy series starring Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons on HBO and was commissioned following the success of the 1993 comedy special ''Tracey Ullman Takes on New York''. Each episode focuses on a specific subject which Ullman and her cast of characters take on through a series of sketches and monologues. Unlike her previous The Tracey Ullman Show, eponymous Fox show, ''Tracey Takes On...'' was filmed Single-camera setup, single-camera on location without a studio audience. The show also focuses on a steady rotation of nearly 20 characters, unlike ''The Tracey Ullman Show'' which featured upwards of 100, the majority of which only appeared once. "I wanted to do a show where you could get familiar with the characters, where I could express a point of view, where we could get controversial [...] I also didn't want to do a series where I had to do 22 or 26 episodes a year. I have two children and have a husband, and there are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Ullman's Visible Panty Lines
''Tracey Ullman's Visible Panty Lines'' is American talk show and reality television series hosted by Tracey Ullman. The show focuses on fashion and individual style. Each episode consists of makeovers and celebrity guests. Celebrities reveal what's in their wardrobe and present childhood mementos. The show was inspired by Ullman's online fashion boutique Purple Skirt. The series was originally set to air on 13 September 2001, but due to the September 11 attacks the show was bumped to September 20. On the morning of September 11, Tracey made a live appearance on NBC's Today to promote the show just hours before the attacks began. Background After the conclusion of her HBO sketch comedy series, '' Tracey Takes On...'' (1996–99), Tracey Ullman decided to take a step back from television, citing exhaustion from years of having to wear heavy prosthetic makeup for many of her television characters. In 1999, she signed on for Woody Allen's film ''Small Time Crooks'', as well as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice Principals
''Vice Principals'' is an American dark comedy television series starring Danny McBride, Walton Goggins, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Dale Dickey, Georgia King, Sheaun McKinney, Busy Philipps and Shea Whigham. The co-creators were Danny McBride and Jody Hill. The series was ordered by HBO in May 2014 with an 18-episode pickup, and the series was split into two seasons for a designed finite run. The series began to shoot in 2015 and wrapped in mid-2016, and premiered on July 17, 2016. The second and final season premiered on September 17, 2017, and concluded on November 12, 2017. Synopsis ''Vice Principals'' focuses on Neal Gamby (Danny McBride), the ill-tempered, dogmatic, and disliked vice principal of North Jackson High School, and his ambitions of being promoted to the principal's chair when the principal is due to step down. However, when the current principal (Bill Murray) retires, he reveals that he trusts neither Gamby nor his scheming and seemingly sociopathic co-vice pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divorce (TV Series)
''Divorce'' (styled as ''Divorce.'') is an American comedy-drama television series created by Sharon Horgan, set in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church as a middle-aged divorcing couple. The series premiered on HBO on October 9, 2016. The pilot episode was written by Horgan and directed by Jesse Peretz. On November 14, 2016, HBO renewed the show for a second season, which premiered on January 14, 2018. On November 2, 2018, HBO renewed the show for a third season, which was later announced on its premiere date to be the final season. Cast Main *Sarah Jessica Parker as Frances Dufresne, a married woman who has an affair which precipitates her divorce *Thomas Haden Church as Robert Dufresne, Frances' hapless husband who discovers the affair and divorces her *Molly Shannon as Diane, Frances' high-strung friend *Talia Balsam as Dallas Holt, Frances' close friend *Tracy Letts as Nick, Diane's husband (seasons 1–2; guest season 3) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veep
''Veep'' is an American political satire comedy television series that aired on HBO from April 22, 2012, to May 12, 2019. The series was created by Armando Iannucci. The series follows Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the fictional Vice President of the United States, and her team as they attempt to make their mark and leave a legacy but often instead become mired in day-to-day political games. ''Veep'' received critical acclaim and won several major awards, including seven consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, winning that award for its fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons. Its second, fourth, and sixth seasons won the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series, and its third season won the Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. Louis-Dreyfus's performance won her six consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastbound & Down
''Eastbound & Down'' is an American sports comedy television series that was broadcast on HBO, and created by Ben Best, Jody Hill and Danny McBride. It stars McBride as Kenny Powers, a former professional baseball pitcher who, after a career downturn in the major leagues, is forced to return to his hometown middle school in Shelby, North Carolina, as a substitute physical education teacher. Producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay received an order for six episodes for the first season from HBO. The series was produced by Ferrell's production company, Gary Sanchez Productions. The show premiered February 15, 2009. Its second season, consisting of seven episodes, began on September 26, 2010. On October 27, HBO announced it was renewing the show for a third season. At PaleyFest 2011, it was announced that the third season, which premiered on February 19, 2012, would be the last. In July 2012, HBO picked up the comedy series for a fourth season of eight episodes. On June 6, 2013, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Sorry (TV Series)
''I'm Sorry'' (stylized as ''i'm sorry.'') is an American sitcom television series written by and starring Andrea Savage; it premiered July 12, 2017, on TruTV. On August 17, 2017, truTV renewed the series for a second season. On June 18, 2019, the series was renewed for a third season that was scheduled to return in 2020. However, on August 25, 2020, that decision was reversed when TruTV canceled the series after two seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Synopsis The show is a situation comedy centering on writer Andrea Warren as she navigates motherhood, marriage, her career, and her social life in suburban L.A. Cast Main * Andrea Savage as Andrea Warren *Tom Everett Scott as Mike Harris *Olive Petrucci as Amelia Harris-Warren Recurring * Kathy Baker as Sharon *Nelson Franklin as David *Judy Greer as Maureen * Jason Mantzoukas as Kyle *Martin Mull as Martin * Lyndon Smith as Miss Shelly * Gary Anthony Williams as Brian *Steve Zissis as Sandy * Scott Aukerman as Rob Episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroiters (TV Series)
''Detroiters'' is an American sitcom created by Sam Richardson (actor), Sam Richardson, Tim Robinson (comedian), Tim Robinson, Zach Kanin, and Joe Kelly. The series, filmed Filming location, on location in Detroit, starred native Michiganders Richardson and Robinson. The series premiered on Comedy Central on February 7, 2017 and ran for two seasons. On December 11, 2018, Comedy Central canceled the series. Best friends and next-door neighbors Sam Duvet (Richardson) and Tim Cramblin (Robinson) work together as creatives at Tim's family's advertising agency in Detroit (which Tim took over after his father stepped down), producing low-budget TV commercials for local businesses. Cast Main *Sam Richardson (actor), Sam Richardson as Sam Duvet *Tim Robinson (comedian), Tim Robinson as Tim Cramblin Recurring *Shawntay Dalon as Chrissy Cramblin, Tim's wife and Sam's sister; she works on an automotive assembly line *Pat Vern Harris as Sheila Portnadi, the secretary at Cramblin Advertisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixed-ish
''Mixed-ish'' (stylized as ''ish'') is an American single-camera sitcom created by Kenya Barris, Peter Saji and Tracee Ellis Ross that aired on ABC from September 24, 2019, to May 18, 2021. The series is a prequel to '' Black-ish'', and the second series to be spun off from the parent series after the Freeform series '' Grown-ish''. In May 2020, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on January 26, 2021. In May 2021, the series was canceled after two seasons. Premise Loosely based on the early life of Dr. Rania Barris (co-creator Kenya Barris' ex-wife), ''Mixed-ish'' chronicles Rainbow Johnson's childhood years as she recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the 1980s. The family faces dilemmas over whether to assimilate or stay true to themselves when Rainbow's parents move from a hippie commune to the suburbs in 1985. Cast Main * Tika Sumpter as Alicia Johnson, Bow's mother who works hard as a lawyer at her father-in-law's practice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physical (TV Series)
''Physical'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Annie Weisman. The series premiered on Apple TV+ on June 18, 2021. In August 2021, the series was renewed for a second season ahead of its first season finale, which premiered on June 3, 2022. In August 2022, the series was renewed for a third season. In May 2023, it was announced that the third season would be the final season and would premiere on August 2, 2023. Premise Set in 1980s San Diego, ''Physical'' is a dark comedy following Sheila Rubin (Rose Byrne) through her journey of self-discovery via aerobics. Cast and characters Main * Rose Byrne as Sheila D. Rubin, a housewife struggling between her straining marriage, lifelong battle with bulimia, and newfound obsession with aerobics * Rory Scovel as Danny Rubin, Sheila's eco-conscious and liberal husband * Paul Sparks as John Breem, a conservative Mormon mall owner who begins an affair with Sheila * Della Saba as Bunny Kazam, an aerobics instructor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interior Chinatown (TV Series)
''Interior Chinatown'' (stylized onscreen as ''INT. CHINATOWN'') is an American action comedy-drama television series created by showrunner Charles Yu, based on his 2020 novel of the same name. His novel won the National Book Award the year it was published. The series stars Jimmy O. Yang as a waiter in Chinatown who discovers that he is merely a background character in a fictional police procedural. Produced by 20th Television, the series premiered on Hulu on November 19, 2024. Premise Unbeknownst to him, Willis Wu is a background character in the fictional police procedural ''Black and White''. When he chooses to investigate the disappearance of his brother twelve years earlier, he starts to uncover family secrets and the machinations behind his fictionalized version of Chinatown. Cast Main * Jimmy O. Yang as Willis Wu, a waiter at the Golden Palace, a Chinese restaurant. He feels trapped and wants to see the larger world. * Ronny Chieng as Fatty Choi, Willis's best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irreplaceable You
''Irreplaceable You'' is a 2018 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephanie Laing and written by Bess Wohl. The film stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Michiel Huisman. It was released by Netflix on February 16, 2018. Plot Abbie and Sam have been best friends since childhood and are engaged to be married. Their lives come crashing down when Abbie is given a terminal cancer diagnosis. Faced with the prospect of an uncertain timeline, Abbie begins a search for a new love to take care of Sam. Along the way, Abbie makes unlikely friendships with three patients whose one thing in common is that they focus on living while they are dying. Abbie dies at the end without having lived up to her potential, yet manages to come to terms with her situation and with those she is leaving behind. Cast * Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Abbie ** Celeste O'Connor as Teen Abbie *** Alyssa Cheatham as Young Abbie * Michiel Huisman as Sam ** Sawyer Barth as Teen Sam *** Zachary Hernandez as Young Sam * Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
