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ALLIANCE ATLANTIS Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (formerly traded as TSX:AAC) is a Toronto-based media company, which now operates primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada.  

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 Carol Mendelsohn (born 1951) is an American TV writer, notable for her work on the crime drama .

Mendelsohn grew up in Chicago. She went to Smith College, but later transferred and in 1973 graduated from Cornell University.
, Ann Donahue Ann Donahue is a prominent television writer. She along with Carol Mendelsohn and Anthony Zuiker created the successful CSI franchise which includes , , and . She currently serves as the showrunner for .  

Format: One-Hour Drama

New version of the series with a Big Apple spin.

BRUCE NASH Nash   , Ogden 1902-1971.

American writer known for his droll epigrammatic verse, much of which appeared in the New Yorker.

Noun 1. Nash - United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971)
Ogden Nash
 PRODUCTIONS

Untitled Bruce Hash Project (WB)

Production Team: Bruce Hash

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.
 

Cutting edge reality, deemed "top secret."

BUENA VISTA INT'L TV

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

Sixteen contestants vie for billionaire businessman Mark Cuban's million dollar cash prize.

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

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, Mack 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, Neil 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 glitz   Informal
n.
Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" Peter G. Davis.

tr.v.
 Las Vegas.

The Contender (NBC) (midseason)

Production Team: Mark Burnett

Format: One-Hour Unscripted

Aspiring boxers vie for a $1 million grand prize.

Distribution rights shared with DreamWorks

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 Silverman, 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.

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy U.K. (LivingTV)

Production Team: Scout Prods.

Format: One-Hour Unscripted

U.K. version of the makeover show, with a continental Fab Five.

Savages (ABC)

Production Team: Mike Scully, Julie Thacker-Scully, Mel Gibson

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Blue-collar dad is raising five sons.

NO BRAINER PRODUCTIONS

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.

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 morn and her 24-year-old beau.

VISUAL FRONTIERS

Cold Turkey (PAX)

Production Team: Stuart Krasnow

Format: One-Hour Unscripted

People live together in seclusion seclusion Forensic psychiatry A strategy for managing disturbed and violent Pts in psychiatric units, which consists of supervised confinement of a Pt to a room–ie, involuntary isolation, to protect others from harm  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.

When international distributor is not known, list is by production company.
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