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Tristan Duffy
The fifth season of the American horror anthology television series ''American Horror Story'', subtitled ''Hotel'', is centered around the mysterious Hotel Cortez in Los Angeles, the scene of disturbing and paranormal events, overseen by its enigmatic staff. The location is loosely based on the Cecil Hotel, marked by deaths and tragedies. The ensemble cast includes Wes Bentley, Chloë Sevigny, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Matt Bomer, Denis O'Hare, Cheyenne Jackson, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, and Lady Gaga, with all returning from previous seasons, except newcomers Jackson and Gaga. ''Hotel'' marks the first season to not feature cast mainstays Jessica Lange, Emma Roberts and Frances Conroy. Breaking from the anthological format, the season is connected to '' Murder House'' and ''Coven''. Created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for the cable network FX, the series is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. ''Hotel'' broadcast between October 7, 2015, to January 13, 2016, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Murphy (producer)
Ryan Patrick Murphy (born November 9, 1965) is an American television writer, director, and producer. He has created and produced a number of television series including ''Nip/Tuck'' (2003–2010), ''Glee (TV series), Glee'' (2009–2015), ''American Horror Story'' (2011–present), ''American Crime Story'' (2016–present), ''Pose (TV series), Pose'' (2018–2021), ''9-1-1 (TV series), 9-1-1'' (2018–present), ''9-1-1: Lone Star'' (2020–2025), ''Ratched (TV series), Ratched'' (2020), ''American Horror Stories'' (2021–present), ''Monster (American TV series), Monster'' (2022–present), ''Doctor Odyssey'' (2024–present), and ''9-1-1: Nashville'' (2025–present). Murphy has also directed the Running with Scissors (film), 2006 film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' memoir ''Running with Scissors (memoir), Running with Scissors'', the Eat Pray Love, 2010 film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir ''Eat Pray Love (book), Eat, Pray, Love'', the The Normal Heart (film), 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Hotel (Los Angeles)
The Cecil Hotel is an affordable housing complex in Downtown Los Angeles. It opened on December 20, 1924, as a hotel, but declined during the Great Depression and subsequent decades. In 2011, the hotel was renamed the Stay On Main. The 14-floor hotel has 700 guest rooms and a checkered history, with many suicides and accidental or unnatural deaths occurring there. Renovations started in 2017 were halted by the COVID-19 pandemic in California, COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the hotel's temporary closure. On December 13, 2021, the Cecil Hotel was reinaugurated as an affordable housing complex. A 2023 ''Los Angeles Times'' article described and photographed the run-down conditions inside the Cecil Hotel, which included black mold and vermin infestations, water leakages, graffiti, vandalism, and unsanitary communal amenities. Many of its low-income residents, including former Skid Row, Los Angeles, Skid Row homeless persons, require ongoing medical, mental health and substance abu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Globe Award For Best Miniseries Or Television Film
The Golden Globe Award for Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film is one of the annual Golden Globe Awards given to the best miniseries or made-for-television film. Winners and nominees 1970s Best Television Film 1980s Best Miniseries or Television Film 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Programs with multiple awards ;2 awards * '' American Crime Story'' Programs with multiple nominations ;4 nominations * '' Fargo'' ;3 nominations * '' American Crime Story'' ;2 nominations * '' American Crime'' * ''American Horror Story'' * ''Monster'' * '' Top of the Lake'' Total awards by network * HBO – 20 * ABC – 7 * CBS – 5 * PBS – 4 * FX – 3 * NBC – 3 * Netflix – 3 * Amazon Prime Video – 1 * Showtime – 1 * Sundance Channel – 1 * TNT – 1 See also * Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series * Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie This is a list of the winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstandin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Globe Award For Best Actress – Miniseries Or Television Film
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film or Best Actress – Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television is a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role on a miniseries or motion picture made for television for the calendar year. The award was first presented at the 39th Golden Globe Awards on January 30, 1982, to Jane Seymour (actress), Jane Seymour, for her performance in ''East of Eden (miniseries), East of Eden'' (1981). Performances by actresses in a miniseries or television film were originally awarded in the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, Best Actress – Television Series Drama category, before the creation of this category. Since its inception, the award has been given to 34 actresses. Jodie Foster is the current recipient of the award, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Limited Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series represents excellence in the category of limited series that are two or more episodes, with a total running time of at least 150 minutes. Criteria The program must tell a complete, non-recurring story, and not have an ongoing storyline or main characters in subsequent seasons. Background The category began as the Outstanding Drama/Comedy – Limited Episodes in 1973. Prior to that year, limited series and miniseries were entered in the same category as continuing series for Outstanding Series – Drama. According to a 1972 newspaper article in the ''Los Angeles Times'', this change might be due to the then recent entry of a number of British produced limited series that were competing with American produced continuing series in the same pre-existing category. The category was renamed Outstanding Limited Series in 1974, and later Outstanding Miniseries in 1986. In 1991, the Outstanding Miniseries category was me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
68th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in US prime time television programming from June 1, 2015, until May 31, 2016, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony was held on Sunday, September 18, 2016, at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and was broadcast in the U.S. by ABC. The ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. It was preceded by the 68th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which took place over two nights, September 10 and 11, at the Microsoft Theater. The nominations were announced by Anthony Anderson and Lauren Graham on July 14, 2016. The crime anthology limited series '' The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story'' was the most nominated program at the ceremony with 13, and 22 overall, although ''Game of Thrones'' received the most overall nominations that year with 23 as the most nominated drama series. With five awards, '' The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story'' won the most awards of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century Fox Television
20th Television, Inc. (formerly known as TCF Television Productions, Inc., 20th Century-Fox Television and 20th Century Fox Television) is the television studio arm of 20th Century Studios, owned by Disney Television Studios, a division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company. Productions from this company are distributed on/in home video, home media formats by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment through the 20th Century Home Entertainment banner. 20th Television was part of the majority of 21st Century Fox's assets acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, acquired by Disney in 2019. The company's current name was adopted in 2020 when Disney dropped the "Fox" word from the names of the acquired 21st Century Fox assets to avoid brand confusion with Fox Corporation. 20th Television has since become American Broadcasting Company, ABC's flagship television production arm with the closure of ABC Signature on October 1, 2024. Divisions 20th Televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cable Television In The United States
Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948. By 1989, 53 million American households received cable television subscriptions, with 60 percent of all U.S. households doing so in 1992. A 2021 Pew Research Center survey found that the percentage of American adults that reported having a cable television or satellite television subscription fell from 76% in 2015 to 56% in 2021. Most cable viewers in the U.S. reside in the suburbs and tend to be middle class; cable television is less common in low income, urban, and rural areas. According to reports released by the Federal Communications Commission, traditional cable television subscriptions in the US peaked around the year 2000, at 68.5 million total subscriptions. Since then, cable subscriptions have been in slow decline, dropping to 54.4 million subscribers by December 2013. Some telephone service providers have started offering television, reaching to 11.3 million video subscribers as of December 2013. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Falchuk
Bradley Douglas Falchuk (born March 1, 1971) is an American television writer, director, and producer. He is best known for co-creating the television series ''Glee'', ''American Horror Story'', '' Scream Queens'', and '' Pose'' with Ryan Murphy. He was also a writer and executive producer for '' Nip/Tuck'' and is married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Early life Falchuk was born in Massachusetts to Jewish parents. His mother is Nancy Falchuk, the national president of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America from 2007 to 2011. In high school, he tried to stand out from his classmates by wearing a tie to school each day. He also played baseball, basketball and lacrosse. He said, "I was always trying to look smart because I didn't feel smart"; he actually had undiagnosed dyslexia. He graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1993. He received his master's in screenwriting from AFI Conservatory. Career Beginnings and ''Glee'' Falchuk's career in television be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coven
A coven () is a group or gathering of witches. The word "coven" (from Anglo-Norman ''covent, cuvent'', from Old French ''covent'', from Latin ''conventum'' = convention) remained largely unused in English until 1921 when Margaret Murray promoted the idea that all witches across Europe met in groups of thirteen which they called "covens".Murray, Margaret (1921). ''The Witch Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology''. Modern paganism In Wicca and other similar forms of modern pagan witchcraft, such as Stregheria and Feri, a coven is a gathering or community of witches, like an affinity group, engagement group, or small covenant group. It is composed of a group of practitioners who gather together for rituals such as Drawing Down the Moon, or celebrating the Sabbats. The place at which they generally meet is called a covenstead. The number of people involved may vary. Although some consider thirteen to be ideal (probably in deference to Murray's theories), any group o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder House
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Murder House or The Murder House may refer to: Fiction Books *''The Murder House'', by Alice Muriel Williamson *'' The Murder House'', by James Patterson *'' The Murder House Trilogy'', by Franklin W Dixon ** ''Murder House'' (The Hardy Boys), final book of the trilogy Film and TV *'' American Horror Story: Murder House'' ** "Murder House" (''American Horror Story'') Games * ''Murder House'' (video game) Places *"Murder House", a villa outside the walls of Housesteads Roman Fort, where two skeletons were found beneath an apparently newly-laid floor when excavated * Rosenheim Mansion, a historic building in 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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Conroy
Frances Hardman Conroy (born March 15, 1953) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ruth Fisher on the television series '' Six Feet Under'' (2001–2005), for which she won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and received four Primetime Emmy Awards nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She is also known for playing the older version of Moira O'Hara in season one of the television anthology series ''American Horror Story'', which garnered Conroy her first Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television nomination, and as well a Primetime Emmy Awards nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Conroy subsequently portrayed The Angel of Death, Myrtle Snow, Gloria Mott, Mama Polk, Bebe Babbitt, and Belle Noir on seven further seasons of the show: '' Asylum'', ''Coven'', ''Freak Show'', '' Roanoke'', ''Cult'', ''Apocalypse'', and ''Double Feature'', respectively; this makes Conroy, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
