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Jono Grant (Canadian Musician)
Jonothan Jonas Grant (born September 13, 1969) is a Canadian composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who was nominated for a Genie Award for "Achievement in Music/Original Score" on his first film score ''Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1999 film), Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang'' in 1999. He was also nominated for a Gemini award in the category of "Best Original Music Score for an Animated Program or Series" in 2006 for the first episode of ''Captain Flamingo'', an animated series created by Breakthrough Films and Television. Grant has created scores for many television series and films from his personal studio Victory Drive Music located in Toronto's Leslieville. Career In the mid 1990s, Grant worked as a composer, producer, arranger, and performer with several bands including the eccentric jazz/lounge outfit Jaymz Bee and the Royal Jelly Orchestra. He produced their first three albums for Bertelsmann Music Group, BMG and co-wrote the debut album with lyricis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Jono may refer to: Places *Jōno Station (JR Kyushu), a railway station in Kokura Minami-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan *Jōno Station (Kitakyushu Monorail), a Monorail station in Japan Fictional characters *Jono (Star Trek), Jono (''Star Trek'') *Jono (Hollyoaks), Jono (''Hollyoaks'') People with the name *Jono Bacon (born 1979) *Jono Beech (born 1990), Australian rules footballer *Jono Boult (born 1985), New Zealand cricketer *Jono Broome, British paracanoeist who has competed since the late 2000s *Jono Carroll (born 1992), Irish boxer *Jono Dorr (born 1990), American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer *Jono Gibbes (born 1977), current director of rugby at La Rochelle *Jono Grant (Canadian musician) (born 1969), Canadian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist *Jono Hickey (born 1991), New Zealand sportsman who currently represents in cricket and rugby union *Jono Howard, Canadian-born writer who works primarily on animated children's shows *Jono Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Much Music
Much is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by BCE Inc. through its Bell Media subsidiary that airs programming aimed at teenagers and young adults. It is headquartered at 299 Queen Street West in what was once called the MuchMusic World Headquarters. This channel was originally launched on August 31, 1984 as MuchMusic, under the ownership of CHUM Limited, the owner of Citytv Toronto, though "Much" has been the branding most commonly seen on-air since 1997. In 2006, Bell Globemedia acquired MuchMusic and its parent CHUM Limited, but regulatory limits in media ownership forced CHUM to sell off the Citytv stations to avoid conflicts with CTV stations in the same markets. CTVglobemedia retained the ownership of MuchMusic along with CP24 and the small market A-Channel stations. Much was acquired yet again by Bell Media in 2011. This channel originally focused on music programming, including blocks of music videos and original series focusing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girlstuff/Boystuff
''Girlstuff/Boystuff'' is an animated series for children created by Ruth Beni. In Canada, it aired on YTV. In the United States, it aired on Noggin during its nighttime block, The N. Overview The show is about six teenage friends; three girls (Hanna, Reanne and Talia) and three boys (Jason, Ben and Simon), who talk about the differences between girls and boys, examining topics such as hobbies, food, music and fashion. Characters * Hanna: She is the fashion queen in the group. She is spoiled and loves shopping. She is bossy in some way and is always trying to change others' fashion statement or style and tries to make it like her own. * Reanne: She does her bit for the environment and is a free spirit. She loves animals and thinks everyone has a good side. She wants to save the earth by cleaning parks, volunteering in nature groups and gets her friends involved in some way. * Talia: She is the youngest in the group, but her outfits make her look older. She has a say what yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life With Derek
''Life with Derek'' is a Canadian television teen sitcom that aired on Family Channel (English) and VRAK.TV (French) in Canada and on Disney Channel in the United States. The series premiered on Family on September 18, 2005, and ran for four seasons, ending its run on March 25, 2009. Reruns currently air on Family Channel and previously aired on multiplex sister channel Family Chrgd. The series stars Michael Seater as the titular character and Ashley Leggat as his step-sister Casey. These are the two oldest children in a stepfamily. It ended having aired 70 episodes, and was followed by one spin-off television film, entitled '' Vacation with Derek'', which was filmed in northern Ontario in fall 2009, and it aired on Family Channel on June 25, 2010. On May 12, 2020, Shaftesbury Films announced that a spinoff television film, titled ''Life with Luca'' and set 15 years after the original series, was in development. The spin-off feature film premiered in February 2023. Plot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Screech Owls
''The Screech Owls'' is a series of juvenile fiction novels by Canadian author Roy MacGregor. There are currently 27 titles in the series, all published by McClelland & Stewart. Summary The series centers around a fictional hockey team, however it incorporates actual events and locations, such as the Quebec Peewee Invitational in Quebec, Canada. and the 1998 Winter Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and Salt Lake City, United States, respectively. There does not appear to be a clear time line of events in the series. Although MacGregor often refers back to events that occurred in previous books in the series, the static ages of the players and the seemingly never-ending hockey season contradict any definite time line. The books themselves, all of which are told from the point of view of team captain, Travis Lindsay, provide light action and mystery for the young reader. Terrorists, murderers, kidnappers, ghosts and other improbable anomalies befall the pretee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decode Entertainment
WildBrain Studios is the in-house television studio arm of Canadian entertainment company WildBrain based in Vancouver, British Columbia, which was established in 2016 as DHX Studios. History In January 2016, DHX Media announced that they would be building a 60,000 square-foot studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, that would focus on both animated and live-action productions. The production teams of the former Studio B Productions, which DHX Media acquired in 2007 and Nerd Corps Entertainment, which DHX acquired in 2014 were relocated to the new building later in the year. The studio consists of two production teams: the former Nerd Corps team, which focuses on the production of CGI animated shows, and the former Studio B team, which focuses on the production of 2D animated shows (including those animated with Adobe Animate). As of 2019, the Vancouver studio is the only one remaining in the division, as the other studios were either sold off or closed. Filmography Anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Channel (Canadian TV Network)
Family Channel (commonly or simply known as Family) is a Canadian English-language specialty channel owned by WildBrain Television Inc., a subsidiary of WildBrain. The network primarily airs children's television series, teen dramas, as well as other programming targeting a family audience. Despite having its own headquarters in the Brookfield Place (Toronto), Brookfield Place office in Financial District, Toronto, Financial District, the channel is transmitted from Corus Quay. Launched on September 1, 1988, it was originally a joint venture between the owners of the premium television services First Choice (now Crave (TV network) and Superchannel (later Movie Central); due to the split of Western International Communications, the network became a joint venture between Astral Media and Corus Entertainment. By 2001, Astral had acquired full ownership of the network; after the 2013 acquisition of Astral by Bell Media, the network and its sister channels were divested to WildBrain ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Free Roscoe
''Radio Free Roscoe'' is a teen drama, teen comedy-drama television series. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, and produced by DHX Media, Decode Entertainment. It first aired on August 1, 2003, on Family Channel (Canadian TV network), Family Channel in Canada. It has also been dubbed in French (as required for Government of Canada, Canadian federally funded TV shows) in the province of Quebec and aired on Vrak. The show was later aired on U.S. network Noggin (brand), Noggin's teen block, The N, where the show received funding for a second season. The series ended on May 27, 2005, because The N decided to stop funding the show, and Family, along with Decode Entertainment, could not fill the gap in the production budget. The show was shown on Family until 2007, when it was replaced. In early 2008, The N began rebroadcasting reruns. As of 2019, episodes could still be found on the Canadian station WildBrainTV. The pilot was first filmed in New Jersey, with an entirely diffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Undergrads
''Undergrads'' (stylized as ''underGRADS'') is an adult animated sitcom centered on the lives of four college undergraduate freshmen. Originally broadcast on MTV in 2001, only 13 episodes were created. It has since been shown on Teletoon's Adult Block in Canada, and Trouble in the United Kingdom. History The show was created by Pete Williams, who dropped out of New York University at the age of 19 during his sophomore year to work on the show in 1997 after winning an MTV animation contest. Williams performs most of the voices on the show. The series was produced by David McGrath. Unsuccessful revival and ''Undergrads: The Movie'' After an unsuccessful revival attempt in 2004, Williams in 2018 announced a Kickstarter campaign for funding a feature-length series finale called ''Undergrads: The Movie''. As of August 2023 the film is currently in development from Brain Power Studio, and is likely set for a 2025 release. Overview The show depicts a typical freshman college expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice-T
Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), known professionally as Ice-T (or Ice T), is an American rapper and actor. He is active in both hip hop music, hip hop and heavy metal music, heavy metal. Ice-T began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album ''Rhyme Pays''. The following year, he founded the record label Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the "") and released another album, ''Power (Ice-T album), Power'' (1988), which is Ice-T's only album to be certified Music recording certification, platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA. His next three albums, ''The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!'' (1989), ''O.G. Original Gangster'' (1991) and ''Home Invasion (album), Home Invasion'' (1993), were also critically acclaimed and commercially successful, and were all certified gold in the US. Ice-T co-founded the heavy me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress who has worked in film, television and theatre. After graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Richardson began her career in 1979 and made her West End theatre, West End debut in the 1981 play ''Moving'', before being nominated for the 1987 Olivier Award for Best Actress for ''A Lie of the Mind''. Richardson has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Damage (1992 film), Damage'' and the Academy Award for Best Actress for ''Tom & Viv''. A seven-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ''Damage''. She has also been nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, winning twice for ''Enchanted April (1992 film), Enchanted April'' and the TV film ''Fatherland (1994 film), Fatherland''. Her other films include ''Empire of the Sun (film), Empire of the Sun'', ''The Crying Game'', ''Sleepy Hollow (film), Sleepy Hollow'', ''The Hours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Busey
William Gary Busey (; born June 29, 1944) is an American actor. He portrayed Buddy Holly in ''The Buddy Holly Story'' (1978), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. His other starring roles include ''A Star Is Born (1976 film), A Star Is Born'' (1976), ''D.C. Cab'' (1983), ''Silver Bullet (film), Silver Bullet'' (1985), ''Eye of the Tiger (film), Eye of the Tiger'' (1986), ''Lethal Weapon'' (1987), ''Hider in the House (film), Hider in the House'' (1989), ''Predator 2'' (1990), ''Point Break'' (1991), ''Under Siege'' (1992), ''The Firm (1993 film), The Firm'' (1993), ''Drop Zone (film), Drop Zone'' (1994), ''Black Sheep (1996 film), Black Sheep'' (1996) and ''Lost Highway (film), Lost Highway'' (1997). Early life William Gary Busey was born in Goose Creek, Texas#History, Goose Creek, Texas. While he was in fourth grade, Busey moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he later attended Bell Junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
