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- Maggie Blanc at IMDb
Maggie Blanc | |
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| Other names | Maggie Randell-Blanc |
| Occupation | Television producer |
Maggie Blanc (formerly Maggie Randell) is an American television line producer of British descent.
Blanc produced the situation comedies Frasier (NBC) from 1993 to 2004 and Back to You (Fox) from 2007 to 2008. In 2009, Blanc produced the pilot episode of the NBC sitcom 100 Questions , and the entire run of episodes of the short-lived ABC series Hank .
Blanc won five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series for Frasier from 1994 to 1998. She was also nominated three additional times from Frasier from 1999 to 2001.
Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across eleven seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows Productions in association with Paramount Network Television, and was created by the team of James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles. The show is set in a bar named "Cheers" in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, and socialize. The show's main theme song, co-written and performed by Gary Portnoy, lent its refrain "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" as the show's catchphrase.
Frasier is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 11 seasons, premiering on September 16, 1993, and concluding on May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet (2004) and Paramount Network Television.
Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. After making appearances in several 1980s television sitcoms, Kudrow came to international prominence in the 1990s portraying Phoebe Buffay in the American sitcom Friends, which earned her Primetime Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards. Kudrow also portrayed Phoebe’s twin sister Ursula on both Friends and Mad About You. Kudrow has received several awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series from six nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Awards from 12 nominations, and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Her Friends character was widely popular while the series aired and was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television.
Matthew Steven LeBlanc is an American actor and comedian. He garnered global recognition with his portrayal of Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcom Friends and in its spin-off series Joey. For his work on Friends, Le Blanc received three nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. He has also starred as a fictionalized version of himself in Episodes (2011–2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received four additional Emmy Award nominations. He co-hosted Top Gear from 2016 to 2019. From 2016 to 2020, he played patriarch Adam Burns in the CBS sitcom Man with a Plan.
Martin Crane is a fictional character from the American television show Frasier, played by actor John Mahoney. An army veteran and retired police detective, he is the father of Frasier and Niles Crane.
Wendie Malick is an American-Canadian actress and former fashion model, known for her roles in various television comedies. She starred as Judith Tupper Stone in the HBO sitcom Dream On, and as Nina Van Horn in the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me!, for which she was nominated for two Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe Award.
"The Good Son" is the pilot episode of the television sitcom Frasier. It premiered on 16 September 1993, on NBC. It introduces the primary characters and settings, and distances itself from its parent series Cheers.
The 56th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 19, 2004. The ceremony was hosted by Garry Shandling and was broadcast on ABC.
"The Matchmaker" is the third episode of the second season of American sitcom Frasier. It is noteworthy in being Joe Keenan's first episode produced on the show, after which he became a regular writer and eventually executive producer on the show. It won a GLAAD Media Award for its lighthearted satire of the various stereotypes surrounding gay men. It was also a breakthrough performance for Eric Lutes, leading to his casting as a regular on Caroline in the City.
The 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, November 4, 2001, seven weeks later than originally scheduled. The ceremony was rescheduled twice from its original date of September 16 at the Shrine Auditorium because of the September 11, 2001 attacks that occurred five days prior to the event. It was also removed from its rescheduled date of October 7 again at the same venue as a result of the start of the War in Afghanistan. The event was then relocated to the smaller Shubert Theater, which had previously hosted the 1973 and 1976 ceremonies, and would be demolished in 2002. The ceremony was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres and was broadcast on CBS.
Christopher Lloyd is an American television screenwriter and producer. Lloyd is the co-creator and executive producer of the television series Modern Family, which he co-created and produced with Steven Levitan. Lloyd has had an extensive career on many series, primarily Frasier.
The first season of Frasier originally aired from September 16, 1993 to May 19, 1994 on NBC, consisting of a total of 24 episodes. This premiere season was mostly directed by James Burrows, alongside Andy Ackerman. The other 2 directors were co-creator David Lee and Rick Beren.
The third season of Frasier originally aired from September 19, 1995 to May 21, 1996 on NBC, consisting a total of 24 episodes. This season was mostly directed by Philip Charles MacKenzie. It also featured the episode, Moon Dance, the first episode in the series to be directed by Kelsey Grammer.
The 50th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 13, 1998. It was broadcast on NBC.
The 49th Primetime Emmy Awards were held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California in 1997. They were presented in two ceremonies hosted by Bryant Gumbel, one on Saturday, September 13 and another on Sunday, September 14. The September 14th ceremony was televised on CBS.
"Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz" is the tenth episode of Frasier 's sixth season. It first aired on NBC in the United States on December 17, 1998. In the episode, Frasier, while shopping for Christmas gifts meets a stylish Jewish woman, Helen Moskowitz, who asks him to take her daughter Faye on a blind date. This leads to a deepening relationship between each other. Helen on Christmas Eve makes a stop by Frasier's apartment, unaware that he is not Jewish and so he and the family must pretend that they are to survive the visit.
A sitcom, clipping for situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who (mostly) carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms.
The third season of Cheers, an American television sitcom, originally aired on NBC in the United States between September 27, 1984, and May 9, 1985. The show was created by director James Burrows and writers Glen and Les Charles under production team Charles Burrows Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television. The third season is available on DVD in a four-disc set.
The seventh season of Cheers, an American television sitcom, originally aired on NBC in the United States between October 27, 1988 and May 4, 1989. The show was created by director James Burrows and writers Glen and Les Charles under production team Charles Burrows Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Television.
Charlie Hauck was an American producer and screenwriter. He is notably best known as the creator of the American family sitcom television series The Hogan Family. He is also one the co-creators of the short-lived sitcom television series The Associates, which he created with James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, Ed. Weinberger and Michael Leeson.
