Sentences with phrase «live television drama»

Along with Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer was the major director to emerge from and be influenced by the aesthetics of live television drama, which flourished briefly in the US before it became commercially and technologically obsolete around 1960.

Not exact matches

USA Network postponed Wednesday's season finale of breakout drama Mr. Robot due to what the network says are similarities between the episode's plot and Wednesday's slaying of two Virginia journalists on live television.

Then the president, who enjoys creating tension and drama, announced he would not veto the bill in an event carried on live television.

We're living in a wonderful time for television, but you'd never know it to look at the nominees for Best TV Drama, which correctly nominated The Handmaid's Tale and then a series of passably mediocre shows (No Leftovers.

And through careful attention to stereotypes and formula situations, from its soap operas to its dramas, television provides us with scenarios which we can «put on» and use in dealing with real situations in everyday life.

In an era of television characterized by fantasy, science dystopias and larger - than - life drama characters, Penelope Alvarez feels like the Every Mom.

Leave it to the truly soulless medium of television to bring the zombie archetype full circle with CBS's Babylon Fields, an hour - long series the network describes as a «sardonic, apocalyptic American comedy - drama where the dead are rising and as a result, lives are regained, families restored, and old wounds reopened.»

Liars: they populate our news feeds, perform evil deeds on our favorite television shows and infuse drama into our daily lives.

But the wedded bliss was short - lived for Claire Holt, as her beau Matthew Kaplan filed for The Vampire Diaries is an American fantasy - drama television series which was first broadcast on The CW from 2009 to 2017, airing 171 episodes over 8 seasons.

Looking is an American comedy - drama television series about a group of gay friends living in San Francisco.

In 2008, Nichole got the biggest television break of her career as she was tapped to play the younger sister of Mary Shannon (played by Mary McCormack), Brandi, on In Plain Sight, a drama about the high - risk life of a Federal Marshal with the Witness Protection Program.

A respected doctor makes the decision to take her own life after being diagnosed with a terminal disease in this made for television drama inspired by a true story.

Within a year, she made her television debut as a female police detective in the pilot for a short - lived crime drama entitled Dog and Cat; in 1978, she landed the starring role in the made - for - TV movie Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold, appropriately playing a beautiful Southern girl who comes to Los Angeles in search of stardom.

Her television career continued with roles on Joan of Arcadia (as Sister Lilly Waters), the showbiz comedy Entourage (as studio exec Dana Gordon), and the short - lived drama In Justice.

After spending all 15 years of her life in foster care, an Oregon teen finally meets her biological parents, and, in true television fashion, quickly moves in with the previously separated and mis - matched couple in this oddly capitalized CW drama.

... In four episodes of sterling drama, Howards End has been brought fully to life on the television screen.

There's drama, there's intense drama, and there's «realizing Leslie Jones might actually throw up on live television» drama.

Biography: His many television appearances span such hit series as «The Practice,» «Homicide: Life on the Street,» «Law and Order,» «The Jamie Foxx Show,» as well as a recurring role on the NBC drama «ER.»

The show is really just like any other drama on television, save for the fact that these characters happen to live on a space ship.

It's unsurprising, then, that the Golden Globes chose to honor television dramas that offered a little more distance from the realities of modern life.

The Killer Elite (Twilight Time, Blu - ray) is included not for the film itself — one of Peckinpah's impassioned expressions of loyalty, betrayal, professionalism, and violence as a way of life hung on a weak scrip — but for its very special supplements: the American home video debut of Peckinpah's 1966 made - for - television drama Noon Wine, an intimate 52 - minute production shot on a combination of film and videotape and broadcast on TV once.

Actress Patricia Clarkson has done her share of television; heck, before breaking through as a film actress in the late 1990s, she even co-starred in a network legal drama, the short - lived, ahead - of - its - time Murder One.

Deadline for Notice of Producing Credits Form for Television Series and Specials (All Comedy, Drama, Non-Fiction, Competition, Live Entertainment / Talk Television and Children's Programs.

The tech giant has given a two - season order to an untitled drama about the lives of people working on morning television as well as a show from Steven Spielberg

Gravity and 12 Years a Slave Documentary: We Steal Secrets Animated Motion Picture: Frozen Kramer Award: Fruitvale Station Long - Form Television: Behind the Candelabra Drama Series: Breaking Bad Comedy Series: Modern Family TV Competition: The Voice Sports: ESPN's SportsCenter Children's TV: Sesame Street Digital Series: Wired: What's Inside Non-Fiction Television: Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Live Entertainment and Talk TV: The Colbert Report

That approach eventually filtered into television, with high - school dramas like Winnie Holzman's My So - Called Life becoming the standard - bearer for emotionally mature teen storytelling.

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Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.

His breakthrough performance came in Alan Clarke's Scum, an overlooked gem that started life as a 1977 BBC television drama before being given a theatrical release in 1979.

If picked up to series, Quarry will mark the 28 - year - old's first regular television role since short - lived CBS drama Wolf Lake (2001 - 2002).

On the television side, a handful of performers and TV shows picked up double wins including Transparent (LGBTQ Show of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actor for Jeffrey Tambor), The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for TV Drama of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actress for Sarah Paulson and Kate McKinnon earned two wins; one for her melancholy musical performance of «Hallelujah» on Saturday Night Live the week of the Presidential election and as the Wilde Artist of the Year (in a tie with Hamilton «s Lin - Manuel Miranda).

Director D.J. Caruso moved from television to feature films with the somber drama Salton Sea in 2002 and followed that up with the dark thriller Taking Lives and the sports drama Two for the Money.

Cate Marquis: In part, HEAL THE LIVING is a medical procedural, like on ER or countless television dramas, but what sets it apart is its fuller emotional portrait of the patients and their families, and its lush cinematic approach to the subject.

Directed with a terrific sense of style by longtime television show director D.J. Caruso (Taking Lives, Two for the Money), this is definitely a «walk on the wild side» that should appeal to those who like comic crime dramas like Pulp Fiction, The Boondock Saints, Fight Club, and other over-the-top funny but violent thrillers of this ilk.

Fans who want to watch the drama unfold from the 12 Hours of Sebring on March 15 will have to fire up their computers and mobile devices as just the first three hours will be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 television.

Many manga artists have chosen their life story as inspiration for a manga but not many get adapted into Japanese television dramas.

His TV credits include Shadowlands (the life of C.S. Lewis) and Life Story, both of which won the BAFTA Best Television Drama award in their ylife of C.S. Lewis) and Life Story, both of which won the BAFTA Best Television Drama award in their yLife Story, both of which won the BAFTA Best Television Drama award in their year.

Boys Over Flowers was a hit from the start, spawning a movie, two live action adaptions, and seven television dramas including a top Korean drama.

The Network Ten television drama «The Secret Life Of Us» was set in St Kilda, mostly around Acland Street, Fitzroy Street and in the famous Esplanade Hotel.

The natural beauty of South Water Caye provides a perfect setting for your escape to a secluded island getaway to unplug from the wired world, and your busy life schedule of answering endless e-mails, ringing telephones, and television drama.

British television drama Life On Mars did something very similar plot-wise with great results way back in 2006, but sadly, the dream - premise of the game is only really used to excuse the trippy Shift mechanic and offer some cool (yet tough) eleventh hour missions involving deserted city streets and flipping cars.

Inspired in part by her study of 17th - century Dutch and Flemish painting, Heagle's works take up still life and the genre painting as mutable formats to be invested with symbolic meaning, portraying animals, lava lamps, knights» armor, and characters from television dramas with subtle irony.

BBC attendees: Jana Bennett, Director of Television Sacha Baveystock, Executive Producer, Science Helen Boaden, Director of News Andrew Lane, Manager, Weather, TV News Anne Gilchrist, Executive Editor Indies & Events, CBBC Dominic Vallely, Executive Editor, Entertainment Eleanor Moran, Development Executive, Drama Commissioning Elizabeth McKay, Project Executive, Education Emma Swain, Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual Fergal Keane, (Chair), Foreign Affairs Correspondent Fran Unsworth, Head of Newsgathering George Entwistle, Head of TV Current Affairs Glenwyn Benson, Controller, Factual TV John Lynch, Creative Director, Specialist Factual Jon Plowman, Head of Comedy Jon Williams, TV Editor Newsgathering Karen O'Connor, Editor, This World, Current Affairs Catriona McKenzie, Tightrope Pictures Liz Molyneux, Editorial Executive, Factual Commissioning Matt Morris, Head of News, Radio Five Live Neil Nightingale, Head of Natural History Unit Paul Brannan, Deputy Head of News Interactive Peter Horrocks, Head of Television News Peter Rippon, Duty Editor, World at One / PM / The World this Weekend Phil Harding, Director, English Networks & Nations Steve Mitchell, Head Of Radio News Sue Inglish, Head Of Political Programmes Frances Weil, Editor of News Special Events

No doubt, it makes for good drama on television, but in real life Olivia Pope's story would have an unhappy ending.