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2004-05 New Season Series.


12 YARD PRODUCTIONS

The Benefactor (ABC ABC
 in full American Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
) Production Team: David Young, Clay Newbill Format: One-Hour Unscripted un·script·ed  
adj.
Not adhering to or in accordance with a script written beforehand: "his unscripted encounters with the press" Eleanor Clift.
 Series Sixteen contestants vie for billionaire businessman Mark Cuban's million dollar cash prize.

ALLIANCE ATLANTIS

CSI CSI Crime Scene Investigator
CSI CompuServe, Inc.
CSI Commodity Systems, Inc.
CSI Commodity Systems Inc. (Boca Raton, FL)
CSI Crime Scene Investigation (CBS TV show)
CSI Christian Schools International
: New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. ) Production Team: Anthony Zuiker, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue Format: One-Hour Drama New version of the series with a Big Apple spin.

BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL TV

Desperate Housewives (ABC) Production Team: Chuck Pratt, Mark Cherry Format: One-Hour Drama Unhappy wives living in a cul-de-sac.

Grey's Anatomy (ABC) (midseason) Production Team: Shonda Rhimes, Mark Gordon, Jim Parriott, Betsy Beers Format: One-Hour Drama Surgical residents in a San Francisco hospital.

Kevin Hill (UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000)
UPN United Paramount Network
UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union)
UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation
) Production Team: Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey Format: One-Hour Drama Hotshot bachelor attorney raises his young niece.

Life As We Know It Life As We Know It is an American television drama on the ABC network during the 2004-2005 season. It was created by Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah. The series was based on the novel Doing It by British writer Melvin Burgess.  (ABC) Production Team: Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah Format: One-Hour Dramedy Revolves around the lives of three teenage boys.

Lost (ABC) Production Team: J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof Format: One-Hour Drama People stuck on an island a la Castaway Castaway
Arden, Enoch

shipwrecked sailor; lost for eleven years. [Br. Lit.: “Enoch Arden” in Benét, 316]

Bligh, Captain

commander of H.M.S. Bounty who was cast adrift by mutinous crew. [Am. Lit.
.

Rodney (ABC) Production Team: Ric Swartzlander Format: Half-Hour Comedy Based on Rodney Carrington's stand-up stand·up or stand-up  
adj.
1. Standing erect; upright: a standup collar.

2. Taken, done, or used while standing: a standup supper; a standup bar.
 routine.

BUNIM-MURRAY PRODUCTIONS

The Billionaire: Branson's Quest for the Best (Fox) Production Team: Jonathan Murray, Kevin Lee, Richard Branson, Lori Levin-Hyams, Laura Fuest Format: One-Hour Unscripted Series Would-be entreprenuers are judged on their ability to succeed in the business world.

CARSEY-WERNER-MANDABACH

Good Girls Don't Good Girls Don't is a short-lived sitcom created by Carsey-Werner-Mandabach, the production company behind That '70s Show and Roseanne. The series of twenty-five minute programs ran for only eight episodes in 2004 before it was dropped.  ... (Oxygen) Production Team: Claudia Lonow, Joe Voci Format: Half-Hour Comedy Five friends break traditional TV taboos.

CBS BROADCAST INT'L

The Missy Elliot Project (UPN) (midseason) Production Team: Missy Elliott Format: One-Hour Unscripted Aspiring artists join Missy on a tour of the US.

CREATIVE ARTS TV PRODUCTION

On the Cover (PAX) Production Team: Lisa Johnes Johnson, Jonathan Barry, Rick Leed n. 1. A caldron; a copper kettle.  Format: Half-Hour Game Show Mark Wahlberg hosts a pop culture game show.

DIPLOMATIC

Studio 7 (WB) Production Team: Michael Davies Format: One-Hour Game Show/Unscripted Seven contestants live together for seven days and compete for $777,000 at week's end.

DREAMWORKS TELEVISION

Father of the Pride (NBC NBC
 in full National Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network.
) Production Team: Peter Mehlman, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jon Pollack, Jonathan Groff Format: Half-Hour CGI CGI
 in full Common Gateway Interface.

Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program.
 animated comedy CGI show about Siegfried & Roy's white lions.

ENDEMOL

The Next Great Champ (Fox) Production Team: Paul Buccieri, Joe Livecchi Format: One-Hour Unscripted Oscar de La Hoya Oscar de la Hoya (IPA pronunciation: [ˈɑs.kɛɹ dɛ.lɑ.ˈhɔɪ.jɑ][1]) (born February 4, 1973) — nicknamed the Golden Boy  searches for the next big boxer.

FIRST TELEVISION

Model Citizens (PAX) Production Team: Bradley Anderson Format: One-Hour Unscripted Models lend a helping hand to various communities and small towns across the country.

GRAMNET PRODUCTIONS

World Cup Comedy (PAX) Production Team: Kelsey Grammer, Wayne Page, Dan O'Connor, Steve Stark, Adam Peck Format: One-Hour Variety Show Improv comedians compete for the fictitious World Cup of Comedy.

HALLMARK

Empire (ABC) Production Team: Thomas Wheeler, Skip Johannessen, Nell Meron, Craig Zadan Format: One-Hour Drama A period drama about Caesar's nephew Octavius.

THE HATCHERY hatchery

a commercial establishment dedicated to the hatching of bird eggs to provide day old chicks and poults to the poultry industry.


hatchery liquid
the contents of unfertilized eggs. Used in petfood manufacture.
 

Balderdash bal·der·dash  
n.
Nonsense.



[Possibly alteration of Medieval Latin balductum, posset.
 (PAX) Production Team: Margaret Loesch, Dan Angel Format: Half-Hour Game Show A game show based on the popular board game.

Young Blades (PAX) Production Team: Georges Campanna, Kirk Shaw Format: One-Hour Drama A modern-day version of The Three Musketeers.

KAOS KAOS - Kent Applicative Operating System  ENTERTAINMENT

The Magician (PAX) Production Team: David Harding, John Scheer Format: One-Hour Variety Show David Copperfield wannabees attempt to wow a group of magician judges.

LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Lions Gate redirects here, for other meanings see Lions' Gate (disambiguation)‎.
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, (usually renderred as Lionsgate
 

Second Verdict (PAX) Production Team: Raymond Brune, Andrew Yano Format: One-Hour Unscripted A new jury hears an old case and deliberates. Their verdict is compared with the previous one.

MARK BURNETT PRODUCTIONS

The Casino (Fox) Production Team: Mark Burnett, Rob Lieberman, Trent Othick, Conrad Riggs, Jamie Bruce. Format: One-Hour Unscripted Goes behind-the-scenes of the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino in glitzy Las Vegas.

The Contender (NBC) (midseason) Production Team: Mark Burnett Format: One-Hour Unscripted Aspiring boxers vie for a $1 million grand prize.

Untitled Mark Burnett Reality (WB) Production Team: Mark Burnett Format: One-Hour Unscripted

MGM MGM
 in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925.
 INTERNATIONAL TV

Crazy for You (NBC) (midseason) Production Team: Eileen Heisler, DeAnn Heline Format: Half-Hour Comedy Two eccentric New Yorkers fall for one another.

Hawaii (NBC) Production Team: Jeff Eastin Format: One-Hour Drama Police officers fight crime in a modern-day Hawaii 5-0.

LAX (NBC) Production Team: Nick Thiel, Mark Gordon Format: One-Hour Drama Set in a major U.S. airport.

The Men's Room (NBC) (midseason) Production Team: Danny Zuker Format: Half-Hour Comedy Explores lives of men in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Revelations (NBC) (midseason) Production Team: David Seltzer, Gavin Polone Format: One-Hour Drama A scientist and a nun try to save the world from Armageddon.

MICHIGAN J. PRODUCTIONS

Drew Carey's Green Screen Show Drew Carey's Green Screen Show was an improvisational comedy television series that aired in the fall of 2004 on The WB Television Network, and the fall of 2005 on Comedy Central.  (WB) Production Team: Drew Carey Format: Half-hour sketch comedy A sketch comedy pilot, expanding on a Whose Line is It Anyway? skit.

NAMESAKE ENTERTAINMENT

Left Behind (PAX) Production Team: Joe Goodman Format: One-Hour Drama Sci-fi series about people who randomly vanish at the blink of an eye.

NBC UNIVERSAL

Battlestar Galactica (Sci-Fi) Production Team: David Eick Format: One-Hour Drama Re-imagining of the 1978 sci-fi series.

Blow Out (Bravo) Production Team: Ben Silverman, Arnold Shapiro, Allison Grodner Format: One-Hour Unscripted Renowned hairstylist opens a salon in uber-trendy Beverly Hills.

House (Fox) Production: David Shore, Paul Attanasio, Bryan Singer Format: One-Hour Drama Medical team takes on hard cases.

Law & Order: Trial By Jury (NBC) (midseason) Production Team: Dick Wolf Format: One-Hour Drama Next chapter in the courtroom drama franchise.

The Office: An American Workplace (NBC) (midseason) Production Team: Greg Daniels, Ben Siiverman, Ricky Gervais Format: Half-Hour Comedy American version of the British hit.

Outback Jack (TBS) Production Team: Bruce Nash Format: One-Hour Unscripted City women travel to Australia.

Savages (ABC) Production Team: Mike Scully, Julie Thacker-Scully, Mel Gibson Format: Half-Hour Comedy Blue-collar dad is raising five sons.

PARAMOUNT TV INT'L

Blind Justice (ABC) (midseason) Production Team: Matt Olmstead, Nicholas Wootton, Steven Bochco Format: One-Hour Drama About a blind NY homicide detective.

Clubhouse (CBS) Production Team: Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent, Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey, Ken Topolsky Format: One-Hour Drama A coming-of-age story of a NY Yankees bat boy.

Medical Investigation (NBC) Production Team: Jason Horwitch, Bob Cooper, Scott Vila Format: One-Hour Drama Physician solves medical mysteries.

Medium (NBC) (midseason) Production Team: Kelsey Grammer, Steve Stark, Glenn Gordon Caron Glenn Gordon Caron (born 1954) (sometimes credited as Glenn Caron) is an American television writer, director and producer. He lives in Oceanside, New York.

Caron worked on the writing staff of Taxi.
 Format: One-Hour Drama Patricia Arquette stars as a wife/ mother with psychic powers.

Related by Family (Fox) (midseason) Production Team: Victor Fresco Format: Half-Hour Comedy Divorcees blend their families.

Second Time Around (UPN) Production Team: Ralph Farquhar Format: Half-Hour Comedy A divorced couple decides to give their marriage another shot.

Summerland (WB) Production Team: Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent, Remi Aubuchon, Stephen Tolkin, Lori Loughlin Format: One-Hour Drama A woman must care for her sister's children after she is killed.

RDF (Resource Description Framework) A recommendation from the W3C for creating meta-data structures that define data on the Web. RDF is designed to provide a method for classification of data on Web sites in order to improve searching and navigation (see Semantic Web).  

Wife Swap (ABC) Production Team: Michael Davies, Stephen Lambert, Jenny Crowther Format: One-Hour Unscripted Based on the U.K. hit, two matriarchs trade households for 10 days.

ROCKET SCIENCE LABS

The Partner (Fox) Production Team: Chris Cowan Ivy League lawyers compete against street smart attorneys for a job at a major law firm.

SONY PICTURES TV INT'L

!Huff (Showtime) Production Team: Mike Newell Format: One-Hour Drama Hank Azaria plays a psychiatrist suffering from a midlife crisis midlife crisis
n.
A period of psychological doubt and anxiety that some people experience in middle age.


midlife crisis 
.

Rescue Me (FX) Production Team: Peter Tolan, Jim Serpico, Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz.  Leary Format: One-Hour Drama About New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 firefighters.

SOUTHERN STAR

The Complex: Malibu (Fox) Production Team: Ted Haimes Format: One-Hour Unscripted Real-life couples move in to a tony beach community and must redesign a condominium.

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX TV

American Dad (Fox) (midseason) Production Team: Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker, Matt Weitzmann Format: Half-hour animated comedy

The Inside (Fox) (midseason) Production Team: Todd and Glenn Kessler, Kathryn Bigelow, Brian Grazer, David Nevins Format: One-Hour Drama A female cop goes undercover in a high school.

The Jury (Fox) Production Team: Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, James Yoshimura Format: One Hour Drama A trial is recapped by those who are picked to judge it.

Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show (Fox) (midseason) Production Team: Dan Patterson, John Thorday, Kelsey Grammer Format: Half-Hour Comedy A sketch comedy show modeled after the U.K. hit.

Listen Up (CBS) Production Team: Jeff Martin Format: Half-Hour Comedy Jason Alexander stars as a sports anchor and father.

Method & Red (Fox) Production Team: Kell Cahoon, Will Gluck Format: Half-Hour Comedy Rappers move to a posh block.

North Shore (Fox) Production Team: Chris Brancato, Bert Salke, Kevin Falls, Peyton Reed Format: One-Hour Drama Class conflicts at Hawaiian resort.

The Practice: Fleet Street (ABC) Production Team: David E. Kelley Format: One-Hour Drama Spin-off of The Practice.

Quintuplets (Fox) Production Team: Mark Reisman Format: Half-Hour Comedy About 15-year-old quintuplets.

Shacking Up (WB)(midseason) Production Team: Jamie Kennedy Format: Half-Hour Comedy A 24-year-old moves back in with his mom and her 24-year-old beau.

VISUAL FRONTIERS

Cold Turkey (PAX) Production Team: Stuart Krasnow Format: One-Hour Unscripted People live together in seclusion and attempt to kick a bad habit bad habit Unhealthy habit Clinical medicine A patterned behavior regarded as detrimental to physical or mental health, which is often linked to a lack of self-control. Cf Good habit. .

WARNER BROS. INT'L TV

Athens (Fox) Production Team: Josh Schwartz, Bob DeLaurentis, McG, Stephanie Savage Format: One-Hour Drama About intertwined lives in a fictional New England college town.

Big Man on Campus (WB) (midseason) Production Team: Mike Fleiss Format: One-Hour Unscripted A fraternity brother is voted king of the co-eds.

Blue Collar TV Blue Collar TV was a television program on the WB Television Network and starring Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy. The show's humor dealt principally with contemporary American society, and especially the hillbilly, redneck, and Southern stereotypes.  (WB) Production Team: Jeff Foxworthy, Fax Bahr, Adam Small, J.P. Williams Format: Half-Hour Comedy A sketch comedy show.

Center of the Universe (CBS) Production Team: Nat Bernstein, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum Format: Half-Hour Comedy John Goodman is a guy trying to appease his large Chicago family.

Commando Nanny (WB) Production Team: Dave Flebotte, Mark Burnett, Conrad Riggs Based on Burnett's life, about a commando working as a nanny.

Dr. Vegas (CBS) Production Team: John Herzfeld, Lawrence Bender, Mark Sennet sen·net 1  
n.
A call on a trumpet or cornet signaling the ceremonial exits and entrances of actors in Elizabethan drama.



[Perhaps variant of signet.]
 Format: One-Hour Drama About a casino's hotel shrink.

Eyes (ABC) (midseason) Production Team: John McNamara Format: One-Hour Drama About a risk management corp.

Global Frequency (WB)(midseason) Production Team: Mark Burnett Format: One-Hour Drama Based on a comic about an intelligence agency.

Jack & Bobby (WB) Production Team: Greg Berlanti, Thomas Schlamme, Mickey Liddell Format: One-Hour Drama A single mom raising two sons, one of whom will become US president.

Joey (NBC) Production Team: Scott Silveri, Shana Goldberg-Meehan, Kevin S. Bright Format: Half-Hour Comedy Matt Le Blanc reprises REPRISES. The deductions and payments out of lands, annuities, and the like, are called reprises, because they are taken back; when we speak of the clear yearly value of an estate, we say it is worth so much a year ultra reprises, besides all reprises.
     2.
 his Friends role, moves to Los Angeles.

Jonny Zero (Fox) (midseason) Production Team: R. Scott Gemmill, Llewellyn Wells, John Wells Format: One-Hour Drama Ex-con becomes a private detective.

The Mountain (WB) Production Team: McG, Stephanie Savage, David Barrett, Gina Matthews, Grant Scharbo Format: One-Hour Drama A young man inherits a mountain resort.

Rocky Point (WB)(midseason) Production Team: John Stockwell Format: One-Hour Drama A woman in Hawaii takes in her estranged es·trange  
tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es
1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate.

2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
 dad.

Untitled Chuck Lorre Project (CBS)(midseason) Production Team: Chuck Lorre Format: Half-Hour Comedy Comedy starring Jenna Elfman.

Veronica Mars (UPN) Production Team: Rob Thomas Format: Hour-long drama A teen and her father run a P.I. firm,

Wannabes Wannabes is an online interactive soap and game created for the BBC by Illumna Digital. Wannabes follows on from Jamie Kane, the BBC's previous foray into online interactive drama. The show/game consists of 14 10 minute episodes released twice a week.  (midseason) (WB) Production Team: Jamie Kennedy, Scott Einzinger, Josh Etting Format: Half-Hour Unscripted Actress wanabees vie for a shot at starring in a WB series.

T.B.A.

America's Most Talented Kids (PAX) Production Team: Stuart Krasnow, Mark Cronin, Peter Johansen Format: One-Hour Variety Show A studio audience watches and votes for talented youngsters, ages 5-16.

Untitled Bruce Nash Project (WB) Production Team: Bruce Nash Format: One-Hour Unscripted Cutting edge reality, deemed "top secret."

When international distributor is not known, list is by production company.
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Title Annotation:L.A. Screenings 2004
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2004
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