Max Headroom is an American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 31,1987,to May 5,1988. The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks,and features the character and media personality Max Headroom. The story is based on the Channel 4 British TV film produced by Chrysalis,Max Headroom:20 Minutes into the Future.
The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22,1999,to May 14,2006. The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White House,where the Oval Office and offices of presidential senior personnel are located,during the fictitious Democratic administration of President Josiah Bartlet.
Jane Alexander is an American actress and author. She is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards,a Tony Award,and nominations for four Academy Awards,and three Golden Globe Awards. From 1993 to 1997,Alexander served as the chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Delta Burke is an American actress,producer,and author. From 1986 to 1991,she starred as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women,for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Andre Keith Braugher is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Detective Frank Pembleton in the police drama series Homicide:Life on the Street (1993–1999),used car salesman Owen Thoreau Jr. in the comedy-drama series Men of a Certain Age (2009–2011),and Captain Raymond Holt in the police comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2021).
Columbia Pictures Television,Inc. was launched on May 6,1974,by Columbia Pictures as an American television production and distribution studio. It is the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems (SG) and the third name of Pioneer Telefilms. For 26 years,the company was active from 1974 until New Year's Day 2001,when it was folded into Columbia TriStar Television,a merger between Columbia Pictures Television and TriStar Television. A separate entity of CPT continues to exist on paper as an intellectual property holder,and under the moniker CPT Holdings to hold the copyright for the TV show The Young and the Restless,as well as old incarnations from the company's television library such as What's Happening!!
David Hume Kennerly is an American photographer. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of photographs of the Vietnam War,Cambodia,East Pakistani refugees near Calcutta,and the Ali-Frazier fight in Madison Square Garden. He has photographed every American president since Lyndon B Johnson. He is the first presidential scholar at the University of Arizona.
Gerald William Abrams is an American television producer who has produced many TV movies starting in the mid-1970s.
James Hawes is a British television director. He has worked in British television drama since the mid-1990s,and has also produced documentaries for British and American television networks. His work has ranged across high-end period pieces and prime-time adventure drama,including the re-launch of Doctor Who and Enid,a biopic starring Helena Bonham Carter about the celebrated children's author Enid Blyton,which won Hawes a BAFTA nomination as Best Director at the 2010 ceremony.
Edgar J. Scherick was an American television executive and producer of television miniseries,made-for-television films,and theatrical motion pictures.
Terry Carter is an American actor and filmmaker,known for his roles as Sgt. Joe Broadhurst on the TV series McCloud and as Colonel Tigh on the original Battlestar Galactica.
Elister Larry Wilmore is an American comedian,writer,producer,and actor. He served as the "Senior Black Correspondent" on The Daily Show from 2006 to 2014,and hosted The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore in 2015 and 2016. He is also the creator of the sitcom The Bernie Mac Show. He served as an executive producer for the ABC television series Black-ish,and is the co-creator,with Issa Rae,of the HBO television series Insecure. Since May 2017,he has hosted a podcast,Black on the Air,where he discusses current events and interviews guests. He is the host of the talk show Wilmore.
Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent. After serving 26 years with The New York Times from 1962-88 as correspondent,editor and bureau chief in both Moscow and Washington,Smith moved into television in 1989,reporting and producing more than 50 hours of long-form documentaries for PBS over the next 25 years on topics from the inside story of the terrorists who mounted the 9/11 attacks and Gorbachev’s perestroika to Wall Street,Walmart and The Democracy Rebellion of grassroots citizen reform movements. Smith has authored five best-selling books including The Russians,The Power Game:How Washington Works,and Who Stole the American Dream?,and co-authored several other books,including The Pentagon Papers and Reagan:The Man,the President. Smith is currently Executive Editor of the website ReclaimTheAmericanDream.org and the YouTube channel The People vs. The Politicians.
CBS Productions was a production arm of the CBS television network,now a part of Paramount Global,formed in 1952 to produce shows in-house,instead of relying solely on outside productions. One of its first productions was Studio One,a drama anthology series.
Veep is an American political satire comedy television series that aired on HBO from April 22,2012,to May 12,2019. The series was created by Armando Iannucci as an adaptation of his sitcom The Thick of It. The protagonist of Veep is Selina Meyer,a fictional Vice President of the United States. The series follows Meyer and her team as they attempt to make their mark and leave a legacy but often instead become mired in day-to-day political games.
Craig B. Fisher was an American network and cable television producer. He spent more than 25 years with ABC,CBS,and NBC News Division in New York and Washington,D.C.,and more than two decades as a freelance writer and producer. Fisher was responsible for over one thousand hours of live,film and videotape,studio and location television and corporate productions.
Running Mates is a 2000 American made-for-television political comedy-drama film directed by Ron Lagomarsino and starring Tom Selleck. The film follows the presidential election campaign of James Pryce,a Democratic Party presidential candidate,who has a hard time deciding whom to pick as his vice-presidential running mate. Laura Linney,Nancy Travis,Faye Dunaway,and Teri Hatcher also star as Pryce's current or former love interests who have had a major influence on his success so far,but who also have a great deal of control over his decisions.
Don Ringe was an American political media consultant,Emmy Award winning journalist,documentary filmmaker and online innovator in both the US and overseas. He was a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (MS) and Hofstra University (BA). He held a Certificate in Advanced Advertising Studies from the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business.
The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in US prime time television programming from June 1,2014 until May 31,2015,as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts &Sciences. The ceremony was held on Sunday,September 20,2015 at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles,California,and was broadcast in the U.S. by Fox. Andy Samberg hosted the show for the first time. The nominations were announced on July 16,2015.
Robert Sorcher is an American television executive producer for Warner Bros. Television Group. Sorcher was formerly executive vice president and global chief content officer at Cartoon Network,starting his job in 2008,and promoted in 2013. He was a producer for We Bare Bears,Adventure Time,Clarence,Regular Show,Steven Universe,Over the Garden Wall,The Powerpuff Girls and Ben 10. As chief content officer,he was responsible for original content development for Cartoon Network and Cartoon Network Studios Sorcher previously worked at AMC Network where he introduced scripted originals to the channel,including the Emmy award winning Broken Trail and the Peabody Award winning series;Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
