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Ugly Betty
''Ugly Betty'' is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 28, 2006, to April 14, 2010. It is based on the Colombian telenovela ''Yo soy Betty, la fea'', created by Fernando Gaitán. The series follows Betty Suarez, a smart and well-meaning young woman from Queens, New York, who lacks fashion sense but secures a job at a high-end fashion magazine, ''Mode''. As she navigates a glamorous but cutthroat industry, Betty challenges stereotypes and expectations while advancing her career and maintaining close ties to her family. The series was produced by Salma Hayek’s production company Ventanarosa, along with Silent H Productions, Reveille Productions, and ABC Studios. The pilot episode was filmed in New York City, but production moved to Los Angeles for the first two seasons before returning to New York for the final two. The show stars America Ferrera as Betty, alongside Eric Mabius, Vane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Christopher Gorham
Christopher David Gorham (born August 14, 1974) is an American actor. He is best known for his work on television, particularly for playing Henry Grubstick on the ABC comedy-drama series ''Ugly Betty'', Auggie Anderson on the action-drama series ''Covert Affairs'', Bob Barnard on the dark comedy-drama series ''Insatiable (TV series), Insatiable'', Harrison John on The WB’s teen comedy-drama series ''Popular (TV series), Popular'', Henry Dunn in the limited slasher series ''Harper's Island'', and Trevor Elliott on the legal drama series ''The Lincoln Lawyer (TV series), The Lincoln Lawyer''. Gorham was also part of the main cast of several TV shows that were cancelled either during or after their first season, such as the science fiction series ''Odyssey 5'' and ''Jake 2.0'', the medical drama series ''Medical Investigation'', and the sitcom ''Out of Practice''. In film, he was the voice of Barry Allen, Barry Allen / The Flash in the DC Animated Movie Universe beginning with ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ventanarosa
Ventanarosa ( being ) is an American film and television production company formally founded by Salma Hayek in 1999 and run by Hayek and her production partner, Jose Tamez. Siobhan Flynn serves as its Head of Development and Production. History In 1999, Ventanarosa released its first feature film, El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, based on the Gabriel García Márquez novel of the same name. The film was Mexico's official submission to the Best Foreign Film category at the Academy Awards and was directed by Arturo Ripstein. In 2001, Ventanarosa released the Showtime original movie In the Time of the Butterflies, an adaptation of Julia Alvarez's novel by the same title, about the real life story of Minerva Mirabel and her sisters’ fight against the Rafael Trujillo regime. The film starred Hayek, Marc Anthony, Edward James Olmos, and Demián Bichir. Hayek and Anthony both received ALMA Award nominations for the film; Hayek took home the award for Outstanding Actor/Actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvercup Studios
Silvercup Studios is one of the largest film and television production facilities in New York City. The studio is located in Long Island City, Queens, with another facility in the Port Morris neighborhood of the Bronx. The studio complex has been operating since 1983 in the former Silvercup Bakery building. It was founded by brothers Alan and Stuart Suna. History Silvercup bakery For many decades of the 20th century, Long Island City was a center for commercial bakeries. During the 1920s building boom on Long Island, the Gordon Baking Company of Detroit made plans to open a factory at 42-25 21st Street to produce its Silvercup brand of bread. After the award of a $1 million contract for its construction in 1929, the building was completed the following year. At its peak, the facility reportedly provided about one third of the bread consumed in the metropolitan area of New York, and supplied New York City's schools. It closed in 1975 as a result of an industrial dispute wit ... [...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] |
Pilot (Ugly Betty)
"Pilot" is the first episode and the series premiere of the American comedy-drama series ''Ugly Betty''. It first aired on September 28, 2006 on the ABC network in the United States. This is also the most watched episode of the season and the series with more than 16 million viewers. Plot Betty Suarez, an unglamorous woman in her 20s, starts work for a fashion magazine called ''MODE'', and in the process is introduced to the harsh treatment she will have to deal with from her more beautiful co-workers. She also meets with her boss, Daniel Meade, who was just named the new editor in chief by his father, Bradford Meade. Daniel succeeds the revered Fey Sommers, who was killed in a suspicious car accident. The announcement of Daniel being named editor-in-chief does not sit well with Wilhelmina Slater, the magazine's creative editor who has been vying for the position herself. Daniel is not keen about having Betty working with him because she is homely, so he plots to have her qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn DeKeyser
Dawn DeKeyser is an American television writer and producer. She is credited on a number of prime time TV series including ''Ugly Betty'', ''NewsRadio'', ''The Geena Davis Show'', '' Conrad Bloom'', ''Ink'', ''Becker'' and ''Samantha Who?''. She has written television pilots for NBC, ABC Studios, Lionsgate and DreamWorks Television, has won numerous scriptwriting awards and was granted an ABC/Disney Writers Fellowship early in her career. FreshYarn.com DeKeyser was born at the Misawa Air Base
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Jose Tamez
Jose Tamez is director of development for Salma Hayek's Ventanarosa Productions.Rush, George; Molloy, Joanna & Ogunnaike, Lola (2000)Salma's Revolutionary Change, ''New York Daily News'', August 1, 2000, retrieved 2011-08-03 For Disney’s American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network, he developed and is executive producing the English-language adaptation of the Colombian television telenovela ''Ugly Betty'', starring America Ferrara. He is also producing (with Hayek, Rick Schwartz, and Edward Borges) ''La Banda (film), La Banda'', a Spanish-language romantic comedy, starring Hayek, and written by Issa Lopez. For Viacom’s Showtime (TV network), Showtime network, he produced the highly acclaimed ''The Maldonado Miracle'', starring Salma Hayek. He also produced the television adaptation of Julia Alvarez’ novel, ''In the Time of the Butterflies'', starring Salma Hayek. Previously, Tamez was a top executive at Televisa Editorial. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Tamez, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Silverman
Benjamin Noah Silverman (born August 15, 1970) is an American media executive. He is the co-CEO and chairman of the entertainment production company Propagate. From 2007–2009, Silverman served as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. He is also an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning executive producer of such shows as ''The Office'', ''Jane The Virgin'', ''Ugly Betty'', ''Marco Polo'', ''The Tudors'' and ''The Biggest Loser''. Silverman also produced CW's praised '' No Tomorrow'' and Apple's first reality television show ''Planet of the Apps''. On July 10, 2014, The Banff World Media Festival presented Silverman with the ''Award of Excellence in Digital Innovation''. As of the fourth quarter 2016, Silverman's most recently released feature film ''Hands of Stone'' starring Edgar Ramirez, Robert De Niro and Usher, and was released theatrically in North America on August 26, 2016 through The Weinstein Company. Life and career Silverman was born in Pittsfield, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Goldstick
Oliver Goldstick (born January 9, 1961) is an American television screenwriter and producer. Most notably, Goldstick was the creator and executive producer of '' Inconceivable'', a short-lived medical drama. He is credited as executive producer or co-executive producer of ''Pretty Little Liars'', ''Ravenswood'', '' Lipstick Jungle'' and ''The Court.'' He has been a writer and producer on several television series, including ''Ugly Betty'', ''Desperate Housewives'', ''Everwood'', ''Caroline in the City'', ''American Dreams'' and ''Popular.'' As a writer, he has worked on a number of series that also include '' State of Mind'', '' Partners'', ''Windfall'' and ''Down the Shore''. He wrote the play with music ''Dinah Was'', about the life of Dinah Washington. The play ran Off-Broadway in 1998. His play 'Wild Boy' explores the challenges of autism Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by differences or difficul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salma Hayek
Salma Valgarma Hayek Pinault ( , ; ; born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress and film producer. She began her career in Mexico with starring roles in the telenovela ''Teresa (1989 TV series), Teresa'' (1989–1991) as well as the romantic drama ''Midaq Alley (film), Midaq Alley'' (1995). She soon established herself in Hollywood with appearances in films such as ''Desperado (film), Desperado'' (1995), ''From Dusk till Dawn'' (1996), ''Wild Wild West'' (1999), and ''Dogma (film), Dogma'' (1999). Hayek's portrayal of painter Frida Kahlo in the biopic ''Frida (2002 film), Frida'' (2002), which she also produced, made her the first Mexican actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In subsequent years, Hayek focused more on producing while starring in the action-centered pictures ''Once Upon a Time in Mexico'' (2003), ''After the Sunset'' (2004) and ''Bandidas'' (2006). She achieved further commercial success with the comedies ''Grown Ups (fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
