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The Irrational
''The Irrational'' is an American crime drama television series created by Arika Mittman. It is loosely based on the life of Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist and professor at Duke University, and his 2008 non-fiction book '' Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions''. The show features Jesse L. Martin in the role of Alec Mercer, a behavioral scientist who, like Ariely, lends his expertise to governments, law enforcement, and corporations to solve complex issues. Co-stars include Molly Kunz as Pheobe, Alec's grad student, and Maahra Hill as Special Agent Marisa Clark. Season one of ''The Irrational'' premiered on September25, 2023, on NBC and season two began airing a year later, on October8, 2024. With the series' premiere attracting over 3.8 million viewers, it received mixed reviews from critics and a 5.1/10 rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In May 2025, the series was canceled after two seasons. Premise Professor Alec Mercer is a professor of behavioral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Police Procedural
The police procedural, police show, or police crime drama is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasises the investigative procedure of police officers, police detectives, or law enforcement agency, law enforcement agencies as the protagonists, as contrasted with other genres that focus on non-police investigators such as private investigators (PIs). As its name implies, the defining element of a police procedural is the attempt to accurately depict law enforcement and its procedures, including police-related topics such as forensic science, Autopsy, autopsies, gathering Evidence (law), evidence, search warrants, interrogation, and adherence to legal restrictions and procedures. While many police procedurals conceal the criminal's identity until the crime is solved in the Climax (narrative), narrative climax (the so-called whodunit), others reveal the perpetrator's identity to the audience early in the narrative, making it an inverted detective story. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mark Goffman
Mark Goffman is an American television writer and producer. He currently serves as an executive producer for the Netflix series ''The Umbrella Academy''. Prior to that, Goffman worked as the showrunner and an executive producer for CBS's ''Bull''. Early life Goffman began writing professionally in Brussels, for the magazine ''Commerce in Belgium''. He went on to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to receive a masters in public policy. He has written speeches for state and federally elected officials and has consulted to the United States Department of State and the White House. Goffman has a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Emory University and served as a Masters Thesis Advisor, Fiction Writing Program, at Johns Hopkins University. Career Goffman began his TV writing career in 2002 as a staff writer on ''The West Wing'', where he wrote for several seasons. In 2006, he joined NBC’s ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', where he was a producer and ran the writers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cherie Nowlan
Cherie Nowlan (born Singleton, New South Wales, Australia)THE DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS CHERIE NOWLAN, INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS , Wednesday, 4 July 2007, Filmmaker Magazine.com is an Australian film director, film and television director, best known for the 2007 film ''Clubland (2007 film), Clubland'' (a.k.a. ''Introducing the Dwights'')RGM Artists ''Cherie Nowlan''. Retrieved 14 March 2015. and the 1997 film ''Thank God He Met Lizzie'', starring Cate Blanchett and Frances O'Connor, her feature film directorial debut. Career ...
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Jon Huertas
Jonathan William Scott Hofstedt (born October 23, 1969) is an American actor. Known professionally as Jon Huertas, he is best known for his role as witch hunter Brad Alcerro in ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'', Sergeant Antonio 'Poke' Espera in HBO's ''Generation Kill'', Joe Negroni in the film '' Why Do Fools Fall in Love'', homicide detective Javier Esposito in ''Castle'' and Miguel Rivas in ''This Is Us''. Early life Huertas was born in New York City to a Puerto Rican father and an American mother. He was raised by his grandparents. By ten years of age, he began taking part in school plays, which was his first inspiration to pursue acting. Huertas graduated John Handley High School in Winchester, Virginia, in 1987 at the age of 17. After spending a year attending college, he enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1987 and served for eight years as an aircraft nuclear/conventional weapons specialist. He participated in Operation Just Cause and Operation Desert Storm. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Doug Aarniokoski
Douglas Aarniokoski (born August 25, 1965) is an American television director and producer. He is well known for his work on the CBS series '' Star Trek: Discovery'', '' Star Trek: Short Treks'', '' Star Trek: Picard'', '' Criminal Minds'', '' S.W.A.T.'', and The CW superhero drama '' Arrow''. He has also worked on FOX supernatural series '' Sleepy Hollow''. Career Aarniokoski got his start as a production assistant on '' Rambo 3''. He continued as production assistant on '' Turner & Hooch'' and as a personal assistant to Tom Cruise on his 1990 film '' Days of Thunder''. He then worked on the 1992 horror feature '' Doctor Mordrid'', as the first assistant director. He went on to serve as assistant director on several other films such as '' From Dusk till Dawn'', '' Living Out Loud'', ''The Faculty'', and '' Spy Kids''. Later he began serving as a second unit director for features such as '' The Medallion'', '' Once Upon a Time in Mexico'', and '' Resident Evil: Extinctio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Showalter (director)
John F. Showalter is an American television director and editor. He is well known for his work on ''Without a Trace'', ''The Mentalist'' and ''Supernatural''. Career Showalter's directing credits include ''Ghost Whisperer'', ''House'', ''Criminal Minds'', ''Without a Trace'', ''Supernatural'', ''The Mentalist'', ''Supergirl'', and ''The Flash, a''s well as editing episodes of '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'', ''Gideon's Crossing ''Gideon's Crossing'' is an American medical drama starring Andre Braugher. The series is loosely based on the experience of real-life physician Jerome Groopman and his book '' The Measure of Our Days''. It premiered on October 10, 2000, and r ...'', '' Glory Days'', '' Timeless,'' and '' The 100''. TV Guide.com References < ...
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Sarah Wayne Callies
Sarah Wayne Callies is an American actress. She is known for starring as Sara Tancredi in Fox's ''Prison Break'', Lori Grimes in AMC's '' The Walking Dead'', and more recently, as Birdie Nicolletti in ABC's '' The Company You Keep''. She has also starred as Katie Bowman in USA Network's ''Colony'' and Robin Perry in NBC's '' Council of Dads'' and has had film roles in '' Whisper'' (2007), '' Black Gold'' (2011), and '' The Show'' (2017). Early life and education Her parents Valerie Wayne and David E. Callies were both professors at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Callies moved to Honolulu, Hawaii with her family when she was one year old. Throughout her youth, she expressed an interest in acting through participating in various school plays at the independent Punahou School. After graduating from high school, Callies entered Dartmouth College where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama in 1999, with a minor in women's studies and a senior fellowship in Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Holly Dale
Holly Dale (born December 23, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and television director. Over the course of her career, Dale has worked in the Canadian film and television industry as a director, producer, writer, and editor. Although she has completed solo projects, the majority of Dale's work has been in collaboration with her former classmate, Janis Cole. ''The Thin Line'' (1977), '' P4W: Prison for Women'' (1981), and ''Hookers on Davie'' (1984) are some of their most recognized projects. Dale's work has been featured in festivals around the world including North America, Europe, and Australia. She has also received award nominations and wins, including a Gemini Award in 1982 for the Best Theatrical Documentary for ''P4W: Prison for Women''. Early life and education Dale was raised in a low-income household in Toronto, Ontario. However, she decided to leave home as a teenager due to ongoing family conflict. During this time, she worked in non-therapeutic massage parlors in do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Futon Critic
''The Futon Critic'' is a website that provides articles and information regarding prime time programming on broadcast and cable networks in the United States. The site publishes reviews of prime time programming and interviews of people in the television industry, as well as republishing Nielsen ratings data reports, and press releases provided by television networks and streaming television platforms. ''The Futon Critic'' was founded by Brian Ford Sullivan in 1997. History Brian Ford Sullivan, CEO of Futon Media, registered ''The Futon Critic'' on January 14, 1997. From its founding, the site has published reviews on prime time programming, as well as interviews its staff conducted with members of the television industry. The site also contains sections of articles dedicated to republishing press releases, network schedules and Nielsen ratings data, which have been cited by articles on websites such as '' The Huffington Post'' and TV by the Numbers. Its publications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Writers Guild Of America West
The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. It was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, including the Screen Writers Guild. It has around 20,000 members. The WGAW and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), though independent entities, jointly brand themselves together as the Writers Guild of America (WGA), and cooperate on activities such as launching coordinated strike actions and administering the Writers Guild of America Awards. The WGAE is an affiliate of the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds. Governance The WGAW is governed by its membership. Elections for a board of directors are held annually by secret mail-in ballot. Half of the board is elected each year to a two-year term of office, and a board member may not serve more than four consecutive terms. In 2022 the officers are: * President: Meredith Stiehm * Vice President: Michele Mulroney * Secretary-Treasure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jordan Rosenberg
Jordan Rosenberg (born in Chicago, Illinois) is an American television producer and writer. Rosenberg is also credited in the sound department and as the assistant director of the 2002 film ''American Jedi'', a parody of ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' and '' American Pie''. Career After graduating from the University of Michigan earning joint degrees from the university's Film and Dramatic Writing programs, Rosenberg was awarded Michigan's Hopwood Award in Screenwriting. He then went on to work in the Drama Development departments at ABC and ABC Studios, then known as ''Touchstone'', assisting in the launch of a number of the American Broadcasting Company's new television series for 2004, including '' Lost'', ''Desperate Housewives'' and ''Grey's Anatomy'' and afterwards spent a year in the ABC Writers Fellowship program. He then went on to become a member of the '' Lost'' crew, and wrote the season 3 episode "Par Avion" as well as the new media cross-over ''The Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ernest Dickerson
Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American director, cinematographer, and screenwriter of film, television, and music videos. As a cinematographer, Dickerson is known for his frequent collaborations with Spike Lee ever since they were classmates at the Tisch School of the Arts and worked together on Lee's 1983 master's degree thesis student film, '' Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads'', which ultimately won a Student Academy Award. Dickerson went on to shoot the Lee-directed films '' She's Gotta Have It'' (1986), ''School Daze'' (1988), '' Do the Right Thing'' (1989), '' Mo' Better Blues'' (1990), ''Jungle Fever'' (1991), and ''Malcolm X'' (1992). As a director, Dickerson is known for crime thriller and horror films such as ''Juice'' (1992), '' Demon Knight'' (1995), '' Bulletproof'' (1996), '' Bones'' (2001) and '' Never Die Alone'' (2004). He has also directed several episodes of acclaimed television series, including ''Once Upon a Time'', ''The Wire'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
