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Killer Instinct (TV Series)
''Killer Instinct'' is an American crime drama television series filmed in Vancouver that originally aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Network. The pilot episode aired on September 23, 2005, and the final episode aired on December 2, 2005. Fox ordered 13 episodes, only nine of which were broadcast in the United States; the remaining four premiered in the UK on Channel 5 (British TV channel), Five, then on Universal HD. The series has also been broadcast in France, New Zealand, Croatia, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, and Poland. Premise Johnny Messner (actor), Johnny Messner plays Detective Jack Hale of the San Francisco Police Department. Hale has a history of causing tension in whatever department to which he is assigned, as much for his abrasive nature towards co-workers as the direct and sometimes unsettling manner in which he conducts investigations. Hale's reputation is also worsened by the infamy of his father, a self-confessed serial killer currently ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Reid
Adam Greydon Reid is a Canadian actor, writer, producer and director. Biography Reid attended Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's film program and won the 'Norman Jewison Filmmaker's Award' for his graduating short, ''Token for your Thoughts'', which also won a 'Gold Plaque Award' at Chicago's Intercom: The International Communications Film & Video Competition. While directing commercials, music videos and shorts, Reid toured with the Canadian comedy troupe The Komic Kazes; this led his first film role, in the 1996 Kids in the Hall's feature, '' Brain Candy''. In 2000, a 90-second theatrical spot for Toyota in which he stars as a pretentious and insecure commercial director, won a 'Gold Lion' at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. Reid appeared in films, M.O.W.s and television series, including Disney's '' My Date with the President's Daughter''(1998), Lifetime's '' This Time Around'' (2003), CBC's '' The Newsroom'', '' Ham & Cheese'' (2004), ''The Buck Calder Exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 American Television Series Debuts
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is det ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s American Police Procedural Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Matheson
Tim Matheson (born Timothy Lewis Matthieson; December 31, 1947) is an American actor and director. Some of his best-known acting roles include the title character of the 1960s animated ''Jonny Quest (TV series), Jonny Quest'' TV series, Eric "Otter" Stratton in the 1978 comedy film ''Animal House, National Lampoon's Animal House'', and the recurring role of Vice President John Hoynes in the 2000s National Broadcasting Company, NBC drama ''The West Wing'', which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. Early life Matheson was born in Glendale, California, the son of Clifford Matthieson, a training pilot, and Sally Matthieson. Matheson served a tour of duty in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. Career At age 13, Matheson appeared as Roddy Miller in Robert Young (actor), Robert Young's Columbia Broadcasting Company, CBS nostalgia comedy series ''Window on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Grismer
Chris Grismer is a Canadian director and producer of film, television and music videos, now residing in Los Angeles. His debut feature film, ''Clutch (film), Clutch'', premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, before going into commercial release in 2000.Nick Miliokas, "Story behind `Clutch' is stranger than fiction". ''Saskatoon Star-Phoenix'', November 15, 2000. His television credits include ''Designated Survivor (TV series), Designated Survivor'', ''Killjoys'', ''The Vampire Diaries'', ''The Originals (TV series), The Originals'', ''The Nine Lives of Chloe King'', ''Playmakers'', ''This Is Wonderland'', ''Queer as Folk (American TV series), Queer As Folk'', ''Pretty Little Liars'', ''Deputy (TV series), Deputy'', ''Prodigal Son (TV series), Prodigal Son'' and ''Quantum Leap (2022 TV series), Quantum Leap''. As a music video director, he has directed videos for Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Metric (band), Metric, Stars (Canadian band), Stars, Death from Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Misiano
Vincent Misiano is an American television director. He has directed episodes of 45 different series, including Chicago PD, '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', ''The Blacklist'', ''The West Wing'', ''Prison Break'', ''Medium'' and ''Third Watch''. He was elected to three terms as National Vice-president of the Directors Guild of America. Career Misiano began his directing career working in advertising . His first episodic directing assignment CAME W ITH A 1995 episode of ''Law and Order''. Two more episodes of L&O led to two episodes of ''Ally McBeal'' in 1998. He became a regular director for the short-lived CBS drama ''Now and Again'', directing seven first-season episodes over 1999 and 2000. He directed a first-season episode of ''That's Life'' in 2000. Later in 2000 he directed two episodes of ''Level 9''. In 2001 he directed an episode of the ''X-Files'' spin-off ''The Lone Gunmen''. 2002 saw a significant increase in demand for his work. He directed single episodes of ''The Educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Grossman
Michael N. Grossman is an American film and television director. He has directed a number of episodes from dozens of different television series, including ''Grey's Anatomy'' and the backdoor pilot ("The Other Side of This Life") of its spin-off, '' Private Practice''. His other directorial work includes the series ''Charmed'', ''Zoey 101'', ''Angel'', ''The Invisible Man'', '' Arli$$'', ''Firefly'', '' Star Trek: Enterprise'', '' Earth 2'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Gilmore Girls'', '' Drop Dead Diva'', '' Manhattan, AZ'', '' One Tree Hill'', ''Las Vegas'', '' Eureka'', '' Dirty Sexy Money'', ''Nashville'' and ''Pretty Little Liars''. Yahoo! TV Prior to working in television, Grossman was an assistant director on the films '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John T
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Grant Craig
Charles Grant Craig (sometimes credited as Charlie Craig) is an American television producer and writer. He worked on the third season of supernatural drama series ''The X-Files''. The season was nominated for the Emmy Award for outstanding drama series. Career Craig joined the crew of ''The X-Files'' as a supervising producer and writer for the third season in 1995. ''The X-Files'' was created by Chris Carter and focuses on a pair of FBI agents investigating cases with links to the paranormal. At the 1996 ceremony, the production team was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for their work on the third season. Craig left the crew after working on only eight episodes. He wrote the episode "Oubliette". Some of Craig's other television credits include '' Booker'', '' The Hat Squad'', '' The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', '' Renegade'', ''Invasion'', '' Eureka'', and ''Pretty Little Liars ''Pretty Little Liars'' is an American Mystery fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Straiton
David Straiton is a Canadian television director. Career His directorial debut was a special of the Nickelodeon series '' Weinerville''. Some of his other television credits include: ''The Secret World of Alex Mack'', '' Dark Angel'', '' Fastlane'', '' The Immortal'', '' Jake 2.0'', '' Heroes'', '' Dollhouse'', '' Star Trek: Enterprise'', '' Standoff'', ''Life'', ''Charmed'', '' Sex, Love & Secrets'', '' House M.D.'', ''Mercy'', '' Detroit 1-8-7'', ''Angel'', ''Las Vegas'', '' Defying Gravity'', ''Chaos'', '' The Cape'', '' White Collar'', '' Nikita'', '' The Firm'', '' The Finder'', ''Fringe'', '' Bates Motel'', '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', '' Magnum P.I.'', ''MacGyver Angus "Mac" MacGyver is the title character and the protagonist in the TV series ''MacGyver''. He is played by Richard Dean Anderson in the MacGyver (1985 TV series), 1985 original series. Lucas Till portrays a younger version of MacGyver in Mac ...'', '' Stargirl'' and '' The Good Doctor''. References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
