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The Middle Season 2
The second season of the television comedy series ''The Middle (TV series), The Middle'' aired between September 22, 2010 and May 25, 2011, on American Broadcasting Company, ABC in the United States. It was produced by Blackie and Blondie Productions and Warner Bros. Television with series creators DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler as executive producers. The show features Frances "Frankie" Heck (Patricia Heaton), a working-class, Midwestern woman married to Mike Heck (Neil Flynn) who resides in the small fictional town of Orson, Indiana. They are the parents of three children, Axl (Charlie McDermott), Sue (Eden Sher), and Brick (Atticus Shaffer). Cast Main cast * Patricia Heaton as Frankie Heck * Neil Flynn as Mike Heck * Charlie McDermott as Axl Heck * Eden Sher as Sue Heck * Atticus Shaffer as Brick Heck * Chris Kattan as Bob Recurring cast * Brock Ciarlelli as Brad, Sue's ex-boyfriend He appears in the following episodes. The Diaper Incident & Super Sunday. * Blaine Saunders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Heaton
Patricia Helen Heaton (born March 4, 1958) is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for her work on sitcoms, having played Debra Barone on '' Everybody Loves Raymond'' (1996–2005) as well as Frances "Frankie" Heck on '' The Middle'' (2009–2018). Heaton is a three-time Emmy Award winner – twice winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', and a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program as host of ''Patricia Heaton Parties'' (2015–2016). Early life Patricia Heaton was born in Bay Village, Ohio, the daughter of Patricia (née Hurd) and Chuck Heaton, who was a sportswriter for ''The Plain Dealer''. When she was 12, her mother died of an aneurysm. The fourth of five children, Heaton was raised as a devout Catholic. Heaton has three sisters, Sharon (now a Dominican nun, and presently assistant registrar at Aquinas College in Nashville), Alice, and Frances, and one brother, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cullum
John Cullum (born circa 1930) is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in many stage musicals and dramas, including '' Shenandoah'' (1975) and '' On the Twentieth Century'' (1978), winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for each. In 1966 he gained his first Tony nomination as the lead in '' On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'', in which he introduced the title song, and more recently received Tony nominations for ''Urinetown The Musical'' (2002) ( Best Actor in a Musical) and as Best Featured Actor in the revival of ''110 in the Shade'' (2007). Some of his other notable roles included tavern owner Holling Vincoeur in the television drama series ''Northern Exposure'', gaining an Emmy Award nomination (Best Supporting Actor in a Drama). He was featured in fifteen episodes of the NBC television series '' ER'' as Mark Greene's father. He also played the farmer, Jim Dahlberg, in the landmark television drama '' The Day After''. He has made multiple g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Davidson (director)
Adam Davidson (born August 13, 1964) is an American actor and television director from Los Angeles, California. Life and career Davidson graduated from Kenyon College in 1986. and from Columbia University School of the Arts in 1994. Davidson has appeared in the following films, ''The Day Trippers'', ''A Match Made in Heaven'', ''Návrat ztraceného ráje'' (a.k.a. Return to Paradise Lost), ''Way Past Cool'', ''Nature Boy'' and ''Pop Life''. In addition to acting, Davidson has also directed for several television programs which include: ''Community'', ''Lost'', '' Deadwood'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', '' Six Feet Under'' and ''Fringe''. He is the son of acclaimed American theatre producer and director Gordon Davidson, who was Jewish. Accolades His debut film as a director, ''The Lunch Date'', won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject and the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Director filmography *'' La Brea'' (6 episodes, 2021-) **1.03 "The Hunt" **1.06 "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnet Kellman
Barnet Kellman (born November 9, 1947) is an American television and film director, television producer and film actor. Biography Barnet Kellman (born November 9, 1947) is an American theatre, television and film director, television producer and film actor, and educator, best known for the premiere productions of new American plays, and for the pilots of long-running television series such as Murphy Brown and Mad About You. He is the recipient of two Emmy Awards and a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. He is the co-founder and director of USC Comedy at the School of Cinematic Arts, and holds the school's Robin Williams Endowed Chair in Comedy. Early life and education Kellman was born in New York City, and raised in suburban Long Island. His father, was Joseph A. G. Kellman, an attorney, and his mother was Verona Kellman (née Kramer). He attended the Colgate University, Phi Beta Kappa and graduated cum laude in 1969. He attended Yale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Hegarty
Elliot Hegarty is a film and television director working in Britain and the United States. His film and TV credits include Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis for Apple TV which won 7 Emmys in 2021, the highly-acclaimed Cheaters for BBC1, two film adaptations of David Walliams' books - The Midnight Gang with Alan Davies and Haydn Gwynne and Grandpa's Great Escape with Tom Courtenay and Jennifer Saunders. He also directed ''Lizzie and Sarah'' by Julia Davis, '' Lovesick'' on Netflix, '' Star Stories'', '' The Kevin Bishop Show'', '' FM'', '' Moving Wallpaper'', ''Great Night Out'' and Jack Whitehall's TV series - '' Bad Education''. In the US Elliot has directed over 35 episodes of TV across a broad range of Network comedies such as ''Black-ish'', '' The Real O'Neals'', '' Mr. Sunshine'', '' The Middle'', ''Suburgatory,'' Selfie, Trophy Wife, Family Tools and Mixology. His two feature film credits are The Bad Education Movie and the 2000 film '' County Kilburn'' starring Ciará ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Babbit
Jamie Merill Babbit (born November 16, 1970) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films '' But I'm a Cheerleader'', ''The Quiet'' and ''Itty Bitty Titty Committee''. She has also directed episodes of television programs including ''Russian Doll'', ''Gilmore Girls'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', ''United States of Tara'', ''Looking'', ''Nip/Tuck'', ''The L Word'', ''Silicon Valley'', '' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'', and ''A League of Their Own''. Early life and education Babbit was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She grew up in Cleveland with her father, a lawyer and law school professor, and her mother who ran a treatment program for teenagers with drug and alcohol problems, before her death in 2006. The program was called New Directions, and it provided inspiration for the fictional "reparative therapy" (conversion therapy) camp "True Directions" in ''But I'm a Cheerleader''. Babbit began acting at the Cleveland Play House at the age of seven, later mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lazarus
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer * Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people * Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Reid (screenwriter)
Alex Reid (born September 25, 1965) is an American television producer and screenwriter. Life and career Alex Reid is an Emmy-winning writer and director. He received a degree in electrical engineering at Clemson University. He started as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco but after moving to Los Angeles he transitioned to writing for television in the late ’90s. While writing on ''Malcolm in the Middle'', he won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for his episode, “Bowling.” Also, while working on ''Malcolm in the Middle'', Reid began his directing career. Besides ''Malcolm'', he’s directed episodes of '' The Middle'', ''The Mindy Project'', ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'', ''Life in Pieces'', ''Odd Mom Out'', '' Up All Night'', ''The Michael J. Fox Show'', ''Life in Pieces'', ''Young Sheldon ''Young Sheldon'' is an American coming-of-age sitcom television series created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro for CBS. The series, set in the late 1980s and early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Shallat-Chemel
Lee Shallat Chemel (born June 15, 1943, in Los Angeles, California), sometimes credited as Lee Shallat, is an American film and television director and television producer. She began her professional directorial career at the South Coast Repertory theatre in Costa Mesa, California, while working at the same time as the head of the theatre's conservatory program. She also directed at the ShakespeareSummerfest Orange County (originally the Grove Shakespeare Festival in Garden Grove, California and the Matrix Theatre in Hollywood. After a meeting with producer Gary David Goldberg, she made her television directorial debut in 1984 on the NBC television show ''Family Ties''. Her career has included directing a multitude of shows including: ''Diff'rent Strokes'', ''Murphy Brown'', ''Mad About You'', ''Suddenly Susan'', '' Becker'', '' Sydney'', ''George Lopez'', ''That's So Raven'', ''Arrested Development'', and '' The Middle'', among other series. She has been nominated for three Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV By The Numbers
TV by the Numbers was a website devoted to collecting and analyzing television ratings data in the United States that operated from 2007 to 2020. It was a part of Nexstar Media Group's Zap2it television news/listings site. History An Internet and statistical analyst, Robert Seidman had previously worked for IBM and Charles Schwab, and published an online newsletter about the Internet and AOL before founding TV by the Numbers; Bill Gorman had been an AOL executive until 1998, and had read Seidman's column. Friends since the early 1990s when they met near Washington, D.C., both were fond of television, as Gorman loved numbers and Seidman enjoyed statistics relating to it; the subject of television ratings data entered into one of their conversations. Gorman was dismayed at being unable to find other blogs devoted solely to television data, and after a Google search confirmed this, he and Seidman thought of the idea for a website devoted solely to the subject. In Gorman's words, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Whittingham
Ken Whittingham is an American television director. Some of his directing credits include ''American Housewife'', ''Gilmore Girls'', '' Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'', ''Ugly Betty'', '' Still Standing'', ''Community'', ''Yes, Dear'', ''30 Rock'', '' Californication'', ''Parks and Recreation'', '' The Middle'', ''The Mindy Project'', '' Parenthood'', ''The Bernie Mac Show'', '' Scrubs'', ''2 Broke Girls'', ''Everybody Hates Chris'', ''Modern Family'', ''The King of Queens'', ''Rules of Engagement'', ''The Office'', ''My Name Is Earl'', '' Entourage'', ''Suburgatory'' (also a producer), '' Bless This Mess'' '' Single Parents'', ''American Housewife'', ''Kenan'', '' Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!'' and '' The Upshaws''. Whittingham has won five NAACP Image Award The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendey Stanzler
Wendey Stanzler is an American film editor and television director. She was co-editor and associate producer of Michael Moore's documentary ''Roger & Me'', in 1989. She also co-edited Moore's only fiction film, ''Canadian Bacon'' (1993). Stanzler was hired as an editor for ''Sex and the City'' and went on to become a guest director during the final season of the series. Stanzler has also edited for the series, '' Ed'' and ''Now and Again'' and the romantic comedy film Gray Matters (2007), directed by Sue Kramer, starring Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh and Bridget Moynahan. She has directed several episodes of ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''Desperate Housewives'', '' The Middle'' and ''Ugly Betty'', all on ABC as well as ''The Vampire Diaries'', ''Pretty Little Liars'', ''Parks and Recreation'' among other series. Stanzler was producer and director on the first season of the CW series '' 90210'' in 2008–2009. In 2011, she directed the pilot episode of the ABC Family series '' The Nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
