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Love Monkey
''Love Monkey'' is an American comedy-drama television series set in New York City starring Tom Cavanagh. The series was created by Michael Rauch, based on the book of the same name, by Kyle Smith. It was a co-production of Paramount Television and Sony Pictures Television. The first episode aired on January 17, 2006, on CBS, attracting an audience of about 8.6 million viewers. By its third episode on February 7, viewership was down to 6.2 million, and CBS pulled it from the schedule.CBS Breaks Up with 'Love Monkey' from zap2it.com CBS later made one episode available online via its short-lived Innertube website. At the end of March 2006, |
Comedy Drama
Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, illness, betrayal, grief, etc.) are handled with realism and subtlety, while preserving a humorous tenor. The term "dramedy" began to be used in the television industry in the 1980s. Modern television comedy dramas tend to have more humour integrated into the story than the comic relief common in drama series, but usually contain a lower joke rate than sitcom, sitcoms. History In Theatre of ancient Greece, Greek theatre, plays were considered comedies or tragedies (i.e. drama): the former being light stories with a happy ending, and the latter serious stories with a sad ending. This concept even influenced Theatre of ancient Rome, Roman theatre and theatre of the Hellenistic period. Theatre of that era is thought to have long-lasting infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After playing in several small independent bands throughout the late 80s and into the early 90s, Folds came to prominence as the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five from 1993 to 2000, and again during their reunion from 2011 to 2013. He has recorded a number of solo albums, most recently '' Sleigher'' (2024). He has also collaborated with musicians such as Regina Spektor, "Weird Al" Yankovic and yMusic, and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with actor William Shatner and authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. He was the artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from 2019 until 2025. Folds has frequently performed arrangements of his music with uncommon instrumentation for rock and pop music, including symphony orchestras and a cappella groups. In addition to contributin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LeAnn Rimes
Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (born August 28, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She originally rose to success as a country music artist at the age of 13 and has since crossed over into pop, contemporary Christian, and other musical genres. Rimes has placed more than 40 singles on international charts since 1996. She has sold more than 48 million records worldwide, with 20.8 million album sales in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. ''Billboard'' ranked her at number 17 in terms of sales success in the 1990–1999 decade. Born in Mississippi and raised in Texas, Rimes demonstrated a unique singing ability from a young age. Through her parents' efforts, Rimes began performing in various musical theater and local music contests. Working with her father Wilbur as producer and manager, Rimes released two independent albums as a preteen. After signing with Curb Records in 1996, she released the single "Blue", which became a top-10 hit on the Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimee Mann
Aimee Elizabeth Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter. Over the course of four decades, she has released ten studio albums as a solo artist. She is noted for her sardonic and literate lyrics about dark subjects, often describing underdog characters. Her work with the producer Jon Brion in the 1990s was influential on American alternative rock. Mann was born in Richmond, Virginia, and studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In the 1980s, after playing with the the Young Snakes, Young Snakes and Ministry (band), Ministry, she co-founded the New wave music, new wave band 'Til Tuesday and wrote their top-ten single "Voices Carry" (1985). 'Til Tuesday released three albums and disbanded in 1990 when Mann left to pursue a solo career. Mann's first two solo albums, ''Whatever (Aimee Mann album), Whatever'' (1993) and ''I'm with Stupid (album), I'm with Stupid'' (1995), earned positive reviews but low sales, placing Mann in conflict with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Hot 100
The ''Billboard'' Hot 100, also known as simply the Hot 100, is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), online streaming, and radio airplay in the U.S. A new chart is compiled and released online to the public by ''Billboard''s website on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday, when the printed magazine first reaches newsstands. The weekly tracking period for sales is currently Friday–Thursday, after being changed in July 2015. It was initially Monday–Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay is readily available on a real-time basis, unlike sales figures and streaming, but is also tracked on the same Friday–Thursday cycle, effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021. Previously, radio was tracked Monday–Sunday and, before Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivana Miličević
Ivana Miličević (; born April 26, 1974) is a Croatian-American actress and model based in the United States, best known for her starring roles in the Cinemax action-drama series ''Banshee (TV series), Banshee'' (2013–2016) and The CW science fiction drama series ''The 100 (TV series), The 100'' (2018–2020). Miličević had roles in films such as ''Vanilla Sky'' (2001), ''Down with Love'' (2003), ''Love Actually'' (2003), ''Just like Heaven (2005 film), Just like Heaven'' (2005), ''Casino Royale (2006 film), Casino Royale'' (2006), ''Running Scared (2006 film), Running Scared'' (2006), ''What's Your Number?'' (2011), and ''Catfight (film), Catfight'' (2016). She guest starred in numerous television series, including ''Seinfeld'' (1997), ''Felicity (TV series), Felicity'' (1998–1999), ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (2002), ''Friends'' (2003), ''Charmed'' (2003), ''One on One (American TV series), One on One'' (2004), ''American Dad!'' (2006–2008), ''Ugly Betty'' (2007), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Greer
Judith Therese Evans (born July 20, 1975), known professionally as Judy Greer, is an American actress. She is primarily known as a character actress who has appeared in Judy Greer filmography, a wide variety of films. She rose to prominence for her supporting roles in the films ''Jawbreaker (film), Jawbreaker'' (1999), ''What Women Want'' (2000), ''13 Going on 30'' (2004), ''Elizabethtown (film), Elizabethtown'' (2005), ''27 Dresses'' (2008), and ''Love & Other Drugs'' (2010). Greer expanded into multiple genres with roles in films, such as ''The Wedding Planner'' (2001), ''Adaptation (film), Adaptation'' (2002), ''The Village (2004 film), The Village'' (2004), ''The Descendants'' (2011), ''Jeff, Who Lives at Home'' (2011), ''Carrie (2013 film), Carrie'' (2013), ''Men, Women & Children (film), Men, Women & Children'' (2014), ''Grandma (2015 film), Grandma'' (2015), ''Lemon (2017 film), Lemon'' (2017), ''Where'd You Go, Bernadette (film), Where'd You Go, Bernadette'' (2019), ''Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures
Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or simply Universal), is an American filmmaking, film production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered at the 10 Universal City Plaza, Universal Studios complex in Universal City, California, and is the flagship studio of Universal Studios, Inc., Universal Studios, the film studio arm of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers (producer), Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States and the fifth oldest globally after Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus and Nordisk Film, and is one of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studios. Universal's most commercially successful film franchises include ''Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park'', and ''Despicable Me''. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M3 (Canadian TV Channel)
CTV Life Channel is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by BCE Inc. through its Bell Media subsidiary. The channel primarily broadcasts factual and reality programming on lifestyle topics such as cooking, home improvement and real estate, along with scripted drama series. The channel was established in 1998 as MuchMoreMusic, a spin-off of the youth-oriented MuchMusic, by its owner CHUM Limited, the owner of Citytv, targeting an older demographic with adult contemporary and classic music videos, along with music news programs, concert specials, and pop culture programming (usually sourced from the U.S. network VH1, which shared a similar positioning). Under Bell ownership, and following the lead of its parent network, the channel adopted a general entertainment format and began to heavily downplay music programming outside non-peak hours (similar to Much at the time). On September 1, 2016, M3 was relaunched as the new version of Gusto, acquired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
