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Revenge (TV Series)
''Revenge'' is an American Drama (film and television), drama television series created by Mike Kelley (writer), Mike Kelley and starring Madeleine Stowe and Emily VanCamp, which debuted on September 21, 2011, on American Broadcasting Company, ABC. The plot is inspired by Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel ''The Count of Monte Cristo''. During its first season, it aired on Wednesdays at 10:00 pm (Eastern Time Zone, Eastern), and later aired on Sundays at 9:00 pm for seasons two through four. The series was picked up for a full season by the ABC television network after garnering a 3.3 Nielsen rating in the 18–49 age advertising demographic for its pilot episode, and regularly winning its time slot against every other television network (CBS, Fox, The CW, and NBC) in the 18–34 demo. Stowe was nominated for the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, while the series was nominated for Favorite New TV Drama at the 38th People's Choice Awards, 2012 People' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by ''horse opera'', a derogatory term for low-budget Western (genre), Westerns. According to some dictionaries, for something to be adequately described as a soap opera, it need not be long-running; but some authors define the word in a way that excludes short-running serial dramas from their definition. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first Broadcasting, broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running soap opera. The longest-running television soap opera is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in 1960. According to Albert Moran, one of the defining features that make a television program a soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Sloane
Barry Sloane (born Barry Paul Sloan;''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005''; at ancestry.com 10 February 1981) is an English actor. He has appeared in numerous television shows, and in the RTS Royal Television Society Programme Awards and BAFTA Award–winning television films '' Pleasureland'' and '' The Mark of Cain''. In 2010, Sloane made his West End debut in Jez Butterworth's ''Jerusalem (play)''. It was described as "the greatest British play of the 1stcentury" Sloane began his acting career in British television, appearing in series such as ''DCI Banks'', '' Pleasureland'', and '' The Mark of Cain''. In July 2012, he was cast as Aiden Mathis in the hit ABC drama series ''Revenge''. In February 2014, he joined the cast of the Steven Spielberg - produced science fiction drama series ''The Whispers''. In 2024, Sloane was cast as Destruction, also known as The Prodigal, in the second season of Netflix's '' The Sandman''. In 2025, he joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an international border with the Mexico, Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With almost 40million residents across an area of , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, largest state by population and List of U.S. states and territories by area, third-largest by area. Prior to European colonization of the Americas, European colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America. European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization by the Spanish Empire. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, following Mexican War of Independence, its successful war for independence, but Mexican Cession, was ceded to the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Pusheck
Cynthia Pusheck (born 1964) is an American film and television cinematographer. She co-founded and co-chairs the ASC Vision committee that supports people from under-represented groups who hope to build a career in cinematography. She was the first woman to serve as vice-president of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). Early life Cynthia Pusheck was born in the Chicago area, and was raised in Rockford, Illinois. She attended Columbia College Chicago before moving to Los Angeles. Cinematography As a camera assistant, Pusheck specialised in underwater cinematography under the guidance of Peter Romano. She worked on ''Free Willy'', '' White Squall'', '' Flipper'', ''Waterworld'', ''Alien Resurrection'', '' Speed 2: Cruise Control'', ''Baywatch'' and ''Sphere''. She was the camera operator on the underwater sequences in ''Magnolia'', ''Men of Honor'', ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' and ''A Nightmare on Elm Street''. She took a job as a camera operator on '' CSI: Miami'' in 2003, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Thomas
This is a list of the characters in the TV series ''Baywatch'' and '' Baywatch: Hawaii''. Cast timeline ;Cast notes ''Baywatch'' (1989–1990; 1991–1999) ; Mitchell "Mitch" Buchannon (David Hasselhoff, ''Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier'', seasons 1–9) :The head lifeguard, promoted to lieutenant in the pilot movie, and later to captain in season 8. He shares a son, Hobie, with his former wife, Gayle (Wendie Malick), who lives in Ohio. In later seasons, he is romantically involved with Stephanie, and briefly marries Neely. Hasselhoff also reprises his role as Mitch in the spin-off ''Baywatch Nights'', season 1 of ''Baywatch: Hawaii'' (where he is presumably killed in a boat explosion) and the reunion movie '' Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding'' (where it is revealed he survived and was in a coma). The role was originally offered to Tom Selleck who declined. Hasselhoff was hesitant in accepting the part (describing the show as "''Knight Rider'' in a bathing suit") but was eventually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Harberts
Aaron Harberts (born January 20, 1973) is an American television writer and producer. He was a co-showrunner of CBS's '' Star Trek: Discovery'' with Gretchen J. Berg until their departure in June 2018. Harberts and Berg have been writing/producing partners since they met as students at Northwestern University. In 2019, Aaron Harberts and Gretchen Berg teamed up again as writers and executive producers for ''Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist'' on NBC. Career Harberts and Berg's first staff writing job was on the ninth season of ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' in 1998. When ''90210'' finished after its tenth season they were offered a producing role on '' Roswell'' which was then starting its second season. At the end of ''Roswells production they started work on '' Wonderfalls'' where they met Bryan Fuller who would later hire them to work on ''Pushing Daisies'' and ''Star Trek: Discovery''. They also wrote for and/or served as executive producers on ''Mercy'', '' Off the Map'', '' GCB'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretchen J
Gretchen (, ; literal translation: "Little Grete" or "Little Greta") is a female given name of German origin that, stand-alone, is most prevalent in the United States. Its popularity increased because a major character in Goethe's '' Faust'' (1808) has this name. In German, the ' ("question by Gretchen"), derived from Faust, is an idiom for a direct question that aims at the core of a problem and that should reveal the intentions and mindset of the questioned. The question is usually inconvenient to the questioned since he or she shall confess to something crucial he or she was intentionally or unintentionally vague about before. In German-speaking countries, Gretchen is not frequent as a stand-alone given name, but as a colloquial diminutive or pet name of Grete (Greta), which itself is a short form of Margarete (Margaret). People * Gretchen (singer) (born 1959), Brazilian singer * Gretchen Abaniel (born 1985), Filipino professional boxer * Gretchen Albrecht (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunil Nayar
Sunil Nayar is an Indian American television writer and producer, most notable for his work on '' CSI: Miami''. For its third season onward, Nayar has been appointed main-showrunner and executive producer of the ABC television series ''Revenge''. He currently oversees two CBS Television Studios/Warner Bros. Television co-productions ''The Red Line'' and ''All Rise''. TV work includes * '' Oz'' ** "Next Stop, Valhalla" (2002) ** "Wheel of Fortune" (2002) ** "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil" (2003) ** "Sonata da Oz" (2003) ** "A Day in the Death..." (2003) * '' CSI: Miami'': ** "Complications" (2004) ** " Innocent" (2004) ** " Murder in a Flash" (2004) ** " Speed Kills" (2004) ** "Shootout" (2005) ** " Money Plane" (2005) ** "Vengeance" (2005) ** " Blood in the Water" (2005) ** " Under Suspicion" (2005) ** " Silencer" (2006) ** " Rampage" (2006) ** " Rio" (2006) ** " Curse of the Coffin" (2006) ** " Triple Threat" (2007) ** " Born to Kill" (2007) ** " Inside Out" (2007) ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Noyce
Phillip Roger Noyce (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian film and television director. Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama ('' Newsfront'', '' Rabbit-Proof Fence'', '' The Quiet American''); thrillers ('' Dead Calm'', '' Sliver'', '' The Bone Collector''); and action films ('' Blind Fury'', '' The Saint'', ''Salt''). He has also directed the Jack Ryan adaptations '' Patriot Games'' (1992) and '' Clear and Present Danger'' (1994), as well as the 2014 adaptation of Lois Lowry's '' The Giver''. Noyce has worked at various times with such actors as Val Kilmer, Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Michael Caine, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Rutger Hauer and three films with Thora Birch over 25 years. He has also directed, written and executive-produced television programmes in both Australia and North America, including '' The Cowra Breakout'', ''Vietnam'', ''Revenge'', ''Roots'', and Netflix's '' What/If ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyck Godfrey
Wyck Godfrey is an American film and television producer. He is best known for co-founding the production company Temple Hill Entertainment with Marty Bowen in 2006. He was also named President of Paramount Motion Pictures Group in 2017, but returned to Temple Hill in 2020. Early life Godfrey was raised Christian. He graduated from Science Hill High School in Johnson City, Tennessee, earned a degree in English literature from Princeton University, and later moved to New York City to intern at New Line Cinema. Career In February 2006, Godfrey and Marty Bowen established the production company Temple Hill Entertainment and produced '' The Nativity Story'' as their first film. He produced the five films in ''The Twilight Saga'' series from 2008 to 2012, and produced the 2014 young adult novel adaptation ''The Fault in Our Stars ''The Fault in Our Stars'' is a novel by John Green. It is his fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall. It was published on January 10, 2012. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Satine
Elena Satine ( ka, ელენა სატინი; born November 24, 1987) is a Georgian-American actress and singer. On television, she has been featured as a series regular on the Starz period drama '' Magic City'' (2012–2013), the ABC drama ''Revenge'' (2014–2015), and the Netflix space Western ''Cowboy Bebop'' (2021). She has also made appearances on superhero-themed series, portraying Mera on ''Smallville'' (2010), Lorelei on '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (2014), and Sonya Simonson / Dreamer on '' The Gifted'' (2017). Early life Satine was born in Tbilisi, capital of what was then the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (current Georgia). Her mother was an opera singer and her father worked in the textile industry. At the age of five, Satine and her family moved to Sochi, and she became a part of the Georgian pop group Nergebi, a Mickey Mouse Club-like ensemble of child performers. She toured with Nergebi throughout Eastern Europe, including an appearance on childre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
