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Nashville (2012 TV Series)
''Nashville'' is an American Musical film, musical Drama (film and television), drama television series created by Callie Khouri, who also served as an executive producer of the series along with Steve Buchanan. Other executive producers included Dee Johnson (TV producer), Dee Johnson through season four, Connie Britton through season five, and Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick from season five on. The series chronicles the lives of various fictitious country music singers in Nashville, Tennessee, starring Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes, a legendary country music superstar, whose stardom begins fading, and Hayden Panettiere as rising younger star Juliette Barnes. ''Nashville'' debuted on American Broadcasting Company, ABC on October 10, 2012, and aired on the network until May 25, 2016. In June 2016, ABC canceled the series after four seasons. Later that month, it was renewed by CMT (American TV channel), CMT and began airing on the channel on December 15, 2016. The fifth season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the Character (arts), characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate "production numbers". The musical film was a natural development of the musical theater, stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology. Typically, the biggest difference between film and stage musicals is the use of lavish background scenery and locations that would be impractical in a theater. Musical films characteristically contain elements reminiscent of theater; performers often treat their song and dance numbers as if a live audience were watching. In a sense, the viewer becomes the diegesis, diegetic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it. With the Sound film, advent of sound in the late 1920s, musicals gained popularity with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubrey Peeples
Aubrey Shea Peeples (born November 27, 1993) is an American actor and singer. They are best known for portraying Layla Grant in the ABC drama series ''Nashville.'' They also led Carrie Brownstein's pilot ''Search & Destroy'' for Hulu based on her band Sleater-Kinney. Peeples played the lead role in the musical film '' Jem and the Holograms'' (2015). Their directorial and screenwriting debut, ''Decadeless'', premiered at the Portland Oregon Women's Film Festival in 2019. Early life Aubrey Shea Peeples was born and raised in Lake Mary, Florida, by parents Wendy and Ashley, and has a younger sister named Ally. Growing up, Peeples performed with the Orlando Repertory Theatre for ten years. They graduated from Lake Mary Preparatory School, where they were valedictorian of the class of 2012. Peeples was accepted to Harvard University but deferred entry twice, the second time to accept their role on ''Nashville''. Career Peeples has guest-starred in '' Drop Dead Diva'', ''Burn Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News (United States), ABC News. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the "Big Three (American television), Big Three" American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bedford Falls Company
Bedford Falls Productions or The Bedford Falls Company is an American production company founded in 1985 by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick. Under the banner, they created television shows like ''Thirtysomething'' and ''Once and Again'', produced television shows '' Legends of the Fall'', ''Blood Diamond'' and ''My So-Called Life'' and the Academy Award-winning films ''Shakespeare in Love'' and ''Traffic''. In honor of the '' It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946), the Bedford Falls Company was named after the fictional town, and an overhead view of a facsimile of the Bailey household appears in the production logo, which also features a couple people singing the last line of "Buffalo Gals" (a song featured in the movie), "...and dance by the light of the moon." Credits * ''Sawdust'' (Unsold TV pilot, 1987) * ''Thirtysomething'' (TV series, 1987) * ''Extreme Close-Up'' (TV film, 1990) * ''My So-Called Life'' (TV series, 1994) * '' Legends of the Fall'' (Film, 1994) * '' Relativity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Ole Opry
The ''Grand Ole Opry'' is a regular live country music, country-music Radio broadcasting, radio broadcast originating from Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, on WSM (AM), WSM, held between two and five nights per week, depending on the time of year. It was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as the ''WSM Barn Dance'', taking its current name in 1927. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (a joint venture between NBCUniversal, Atairos and majority shareholder Ryman Hospitality Properties), it is the longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. history. Dedicated to honoring country music and its history, the Opry showcases a mix of famous singers and contemporary Record chart, chart-toppers performing country, Bluegrass music, bluegrass, Americana (music), Americana, folk music, folk, and gospel music, gospel music as well as comedy, comedic performances and Sketch comedy, skits. It attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionsgate Television
Lionsgate Television is the television division of the American production company Lionsgate Studios. History The company was established in July 1997 as Lions Gate Television, Inc. with the establishment of Lionsgate Films. In June 1998, it acquired documentary/reality production company Termite Art Productions but that company was itself acquired by Erik Nelson in September 2004 and renamed Creative Differences. The company acquired Mandalay Television in September 1997, before acquiring a minority investment in Mandalay Entertainment outright before splitting in 2002. Lionsgate sold off its shares in Mandalay Television in April 1999. In March 1999, Lions Gate Television, Inc. became an incorporated entity. In January 2003, Lionsgate and New Line Television set up a partnership to provide twenty motion pictures designed for television. On July 12, 2006, Lionsgate expanded into television syndication when the company acquired television distribution company Debmar–M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Studios
ABC Signature was a production arm of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), which is a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios, a sub-division of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of The Walt Disney Company. The studio's banner was also used by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment for its distribution of the studio's shows on home video starting in 2008. Established in 1950 as the television unit of the company under the name Walt Disney Productions, it was renamed Walt Disney Network Television in 1983 and was merged with a separate studio known as the first incarnation of Touchstone Television, which was established in 1985. Disney rebranded the studio as ABC Studios in 2007 in an in-house push to drop secondary brands. It was then renamed to ABC Signature on August 10, 2020, after it merged with another separate studio, ABC Signature Studios. It was dissolved on October 1, 2024 and folded into 20th Television, which had been Acquisition of 21st Centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single-camera Setup
In filmmaking, television production and video production, the single-camera setup or single-camera mode of production (also known as portable single crew, portable single camera or single-cam) is a method in which all of the various shots and camera angles are taken using the same camera. The single-camera setup originally developed during the birth of the Classical Hollywood cinema in the 1910s and has remained the standard mode of production for cinema. In television production, both single-camera and multiple-camera setup, multiple-camera methods are commonly used. Description In this setup, all of the various shots and camera angles are taken using the same camera, or multiple cameras pointed in one direction, which are moved and reset to get a new angle. If a scene cuts back and forth between actor A and actor B, the director will first point the camera toward A and run part or all of the scene from this angle, then move the camera to point at B, relight, and then run the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savannah Dooley
Savannah Dooley (born August 31, 1985) is an American screenwriter and television producer, best known as the co-creator of the television series '' Huge''. Early life Dooley was born in Manhattan, New York, to Winnie Holzman, a writer, and Paul Dooley, an actor. Dooley has said that her mother's work on '' My So Called Life'', "doing some groundbreaking stuff with gay teenagers," helped her to come out as queer herself to her parents. She attended Bennington College, where she studied screenwriting and video production, and graduated in 2007. In 2007, Dooley co-wrote ''Fred Phelps The Musical'', which was presented in a workshop starring Randy Blair and Max Jenkins with lyricist Kaley McMahon and director Ryan Mekenian. Career Dooley was still in college when television producer Robin Schiff, a family friend, asked Dooley in 2007 to script a television film for ABC Family based on Sasha Paley's novel ''Huge'', about a group of teenagers at a weight-loss camp. Schiff had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Tigelaar
Rachel Elizabeth Tigelaar (born October 4, 1975) is an American television writer, Television producer, producer, and author. She has worked on the series ''Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series), Brothers & Sisters'', ''American Dreams'', ''Once and Again'', ''Once Upon a Time (TV series), Once Upon a Time'', ''Revenge (TV series), Revenge'', ''Bates Motel (TV series), Bates Motel'', ''Casual (TV series), Casual'' and is well known for creating and executive producing The CW Television Network, The CW series ''Life Unexpected''. Early life Tigelaar was born in Washington, D.C.. She was adopted as a child, something that influenced her work on ''Life Unexpected''. She grew up in Dallas, Texas, and Guilford, Connecticut, and graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in scriptwriting and politics. Career 2000–06: Early writing Tigelaar, in 2000, was an assistant on the series ''Dawson's Creek'' and co-wrote her first episode with Holly Henderson, the third-season episode, "Show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall Herskovitz
Marshall Schreiber Herskovitz (born February 23, 1952) is an American film director, writer, and producer, and currently the President Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America. Among his productions are ''Traffic'', '' The Last Samurai'', '' Blood Diamond'', and '' I Am Sam''. Herskovitz has directed two feature films, '' Jack the Bear'' and '' Dangerous Beauty''. Herskovitz was a creator and executive producer of the television shows '' thirtysomething'', '' My So-Called Life'', and '' Once and Again'', and also wrote and directed several episodes of all three series. Life and career Herskovitz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Frieda (née Schreiber) and Alexander Herskovitz. His family is Jewish. He was married to screenwriter Susan Shilliday from 1981 to 1993. They have two daughters. Herskovitz married Landry Major in 2015. Herskovitz has long been "one of the film industry's most active and passionate environmentalists." He serves on the advisory boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Zwick
Edward M. Zwick (born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker. He has worked primarily in the comedy drama and epic historical film genres and was awarded an Academy Award, as well as a BAFTA Award, for his work producing ''Shakespeare in Love'' (1998). He made his film debut with the comedy '' About Last Night'' (1986), followed by '' Glory'' (1989), '' Legends of the Fall'' (1994), '' Courage Under Fire'' (1996), '' The Siege'' (1998), ''The Last Samurai'' (2003), ''Blood Diamond'' (2006), and '' Defiance'' (2008). His later films include '' Love & Other Drugs'' (2010), '' Pawn Sacrifice'' (2014), and '' Jack Reacher: Never Go Back'' (2016). He is also the co-creator of the ABC family drama series ''thirtysomething'' from 1987 to 1991 and ''Once and Again'' from 1999 to 2002. Early life and education Zwick was born on October 8, 1952, into a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Ruth Ellen (''née'' Reich) and Allen Zwick. He attended New Trier High School, receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
