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Eleventh Hour (American TV Series)
''Eleventh Hour'' is an American science-based drama television series, which is based on the 2006 British series of the same name. The series was a joint venture between Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Granada America and Warner Bros. Television. The series ran on CBS for one season from October 9, 2008 to April 2, 2009. Plot ''Eleventh Hour'' follows Dr. Jacob Hood (Rufus Sewell), a brilliant biophysicist and Special Science Adviser for the FBI who is brought in to investigate crimes of a scientific nature that other agents may be unable to solve. Hood is the government's last line of defense, and it is his mission to keep scientific advances out of the hands of those with nefarious intentions. Special Agent Rachel Young (Marley Shelton), of the FBI's executive protection detail, is assigned to protect Hood. Both Dr. Hood and Special Agent Young are assisted by Special Agent Felix Lee ( Omar Benson Miller), towards the end of the series. Cast and characters *Rufus Sewell as D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Biophysics
Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. Biophysical research shares significant overlap with biochemistry, molecular biology, physical chemistry, physiology, nanotechnology, bioengineering, computational biology, biomechanics, developmental biology and systems biology. The term ''biophysics'' was originally introduced by Karl Pearson in 1892. Roland Glaser. Biophysics: An Introduction'. Springer; 23 April 2012. . The term ''biophysics'' is also regularly used in academia to indicate the study of the physical quantities (e.g. electric current, temperature, stress, entropy) in biological systems. Other biological sciences also perform research on the biophysical properties of living organisms including molecular biology, cell biology, chemical biology, and bioche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Gomez (director)
Nick Gomez (born April 13, 1963) is an American film director and writer. He has directed for a number of television and film. His first feature-length film was the 1992 movie ''Laws of Gravity'', which won awards at both the Berlin International Film Festival and the Valencia International Film Festival. Gomez's next film was the 1995 crime drama ''New Jersey Drive'', which was screened and competed for a Grand Jury Prize during that year's Sundance Film Festival. Life and career Gomez was born to an American advertising copywriter mother, Adeline, and Chilean artist, Andres Monreal, in Providence, Rhode Island. Realizing he was not going anywhere fast with his life, he obtained his GED, moved to New York and attended State University of New York at Purchase with an interest in sound design, music, and movies. It was there he met a group of filmmakers, producers, and actors that he would work with for the next decade; producer Bob Gosse, director Hal Hartley, actors Edie Falc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Golan
Fred Golan is an American television writer and producer. Golan is best known for his work on series such as ''Silo'', '' Justified'', and '' Sneaky Pete'', on all of which he served as a writer and executive producer. Notable other work includes ''Boomtown'', '' Roswell'', and '' The Big Easy''. In 2013, Fred Golan was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America,Neimeyer, Mark. "Poe and Popular Culture", collected in ''The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe''. Cambridge University Press, 2002. . p. 206. for an "Edgar Allan Poe Award" for writing Justified, Season 3 episode "Slaughterhouse." Notable television work ''The Big Easy'' *''That Voodoo That You Do'' (1.11) *''Long and Short'' (1.15) (with Anne Kenney) *''Vamps Like Us'' (1.20) *''Heavenly Body'' (2.2) *''A Perfect Day for Buffalo Fish'' (2.7) ''Roswell'' *''Harvest'' (2.6) ''Boomtown'' *''Crash'' (1.8) *''Blackout'' (1.17) *''Wannabe'' (2.3) ''Justified'' *''The Hammer'' (1.10) (with Chris Prove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Ferland
Guy Ferland (born February 18, 1966) is an American film and television director. Career After Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film '' Notorious'' inspired him to become a filmmaker, Ferland went on to study cinema production at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema and Television, graduating in 1988, and received an internship working as a researcher at Creative Artists Agency. He landed a job as film director Joel Schumacher's assistant three days after receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree and until 1994 he worked with Schumacher on '' Cousins'', '' Flatliners'', '' If Looks Could Kill'', '' Dying Young'', '' Falling Down'' and '' The Client'', receiving an associate producer credit in the last. He then moved on to write and direct his first own film, '' The Babysitter'', in 1995 and in 1997 directed '' Telling Lies in America'', which was commended for Excellence in Filmmaking by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. After directing and producing '' De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Bormanis
Andre Bormanis (born February 13, 1959) is an American television producer, screenwriter, and author of the book ''Star Trek: Science Logs''. Bormanis is most notable for his involvement in the long-running ''Star Trek'' franchise, and was the science consultant on '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', '' Star Trek: Voyager'' and '' Star Trek: Enterprise''. He also wrote a number of episodes of the ''Star Trek: Voyager'' series and became a writer and producer on the ''Enterprise'' series, as well as acting as a science/technical advisor on two of the ''Next Generation'' films. He was also a writer and producer of the CBS science fiction drama '' Threshold''; the CBS drama series '' Eleventh Hour''; a writer for '' Tron: Uprising''; and the director of scientific research for '' Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey''. In 2017, Bormanis became a science consultant and a writer-producer on '' The Orville''. Television and film career ''Star Trek'' Bormanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Gaviola
Karen Gaviola is an American television producer and director. She was the winner of the 2007 NAACP Image Award for directing the episode " The Whole Truth" of the ABC hit series '' Lost''. Gaviola was also nominated for the 2013 WIN (Women's Image Network) Award for best directing of the "Georgia on My Mind" episode of the Shonda Rhimes series '' Private Practice''. Life and career Karen is a second-generation Filipina American. She is a graduate of Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles) and Harvard College. Gaviola has directed over 140 TV episodes, including the shows ''Lucifer'', '' Shadow and Bone'', ''Empire'', ''Sons of Anarchy'', ''The Blacklist'', '' Hawaii Five-0'', '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''Grimm'', ''Criminal Minds'' and '' Chicago Fire''. More recently, she has worked as a co-executive producer/director on a number of projects including ''Lucifer'', '' Hawaii Five-0'', '' Magnum P.I.'' and '' Love Is'' for Oprah Winfrey. Her latest project is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autistic
Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by differences or difficulties in social communication and interaction, a preference for predictability and routine, sensory processing differences, Special interest (autism), focused interests, and repetitive behaviors, which may include stimming. Formal Diagnosis of autism, diagnosis requires significant challenges in multiple domains of life, with characteristics that are atypical or more pronounced than expected for one's age and sociocultural context.(World Health Organization: International Classification of Diseases version 11 (ICD-11)): https://icd.who.int/browse/2024-01/mms/en#437815624 Motor coordination difficulties are common but not required for diagnosis. Autism is a spectrum disorder, resulting in wide variations in presentation and support needs, such as that between speaking and Nonverbal autism, non-speaking populations. Increased estimates of Epidemiology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ildy Modrovich
Ildy Modrovich is an American screenwriter and television showrunner. Her most prominent past credits include ''CSI: Miami'', for which she has written twenty-two episodes, ''Forever (2014 TV series), Forever'' and ''Californication (TV series), Californication.'' Modrovich wrote, produced and was the co-showrunner for the series ''Lucifer (TV series), Lucifer'' which aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox for the first three seasons and was then picked up by Netflix for a fourth, fifth and sixth season. Lucifer's sixth season premiered its final 10 episodes on Netflix September 10, 2021. Modrovich was also the lead singer of the Los Angeles–based rock band The Heavy Woolies. References External links * American women singers American television producers American television writers Living people American women television writers Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) American women television producers 21st-century American wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry McDonough
Terry McDonough is a British television director. He has been active since 1985. He moved on to directing episodes of ''Peak Practice'', '' Eleventh Hour'', '' Where the Heart Is'', '' Sweet Medicine'', ''The Royal'', '' Wire in the Blood'', '' The Street'' and ''Vincent''. In 2008, he began directing episodes of American television series namely ''Breaking Bad'', ''The Gates'', ''No Ordinary Family'', ''Tower Prep,'' '' Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior'' and the mystery miniseries ''Clue''. In January 2014, he was announced as the director of the BBC docudrama ''An Adventure in Space and Time'', which depicts the creation of the iconic British science-fiction series ''Doctor Who''. In 2015 and 2016, he directed four episodes of the first season of ''The Expanse'', including the pilot episode and the season finale. He directed the 2024 film '' Damaged'' starring Samuel L. Jackson and Vincent Cassel Vincent Cassel (; ; born 23 November 1966) is a French actor. He has ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Johnson
Clark Johnson (born September 10, 1954) is an American-Canadian actor and director who has worked in both television and film. He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson in ''Night Heat'' (1985–1988), Clark Roberts in ''E.N.G.'' (1989–1994), Meldrick Lewis in '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1999) and Augustus Haynes in ''The Wire'' (2008). He is an Emmy Award and two-time Genie Award nominee. Early years Johnson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to an Afro-Caribbean father from Trinidad and Tobago and a white mother. The family later moved to Canada. He has three siblings including jazz singer Molly Johnson and actress and singer Taborah Johnson. Johnson attended Eastern Michigan University on a partial athletic scholarship for American football, but he was expelled after he was caught stealing food from the school cafeteria. He attended several other universities including the University of Ottawa and Loyola College/Concordia University, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to Trade union, labor unions, the latter of which led to the Los Angeles Times bombing, bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
