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Show name | Robot Chicken |
Format | Stop motion animationSketch comedy |
Genre | Black comedy |
Runtime | 11-12 minutes |
Creator | Seth GreenMatthew Senreich |
Voices | (Complete list) |
Opentheme | "Robot Chicken" by Les Claypool |
Country | United States |
Network | Adult Swim |
Picture format | 4:3 SDTV 16:9 HDTV |
Company | ShadowMachine FilmsStoopid MonkeySony Pictures DigitalWilliams Street |
First aired | |
Last aired | present |
Status | Returning series |
Num seasons | 5 |
Num episodes | 90 (and 4 specials) |
List episodes | List of Robot Chicken episodes |
Related | ''Titan Maximum'' |
Website | http://www.adultswim.com/shows/robot-chicken/index.html }} |
The show premiered on Sunday, February 20, 2005. It is produced by Stoopid Monkey, ShadowMachine Films, Williams Street, and Sony Pictures Digital, and currently airs in the US as a part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of FX's Adult Swim block, in Canada on Teletoon's TELETOON at Night block, in Australia on The Comedy Channel's Adult Swim block, in Russia on 2x2's Adult Swim block, in Germany on TNT Serie's Adult Swim block and in Latin America on the I.Sat Adult Swim block (after being cancelled from Latin Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block in 2008 for unknown reasons).
The series was renewed for a 20-episode third season, which ran from August 12, 2007 to September 28, 2008. After an eight month hiatus, during the third season, the show returned on August 31, 2008 to air the remaining five episodes. The series was renewed for a fourth season which premiered on December 7, 2008 and ended September 20, 2009. In early 2010, the show was renewed for a 5th and 6th season (40 more episodes total). Season 5 premiered on December 12, 2010. The second group of episodes are slated to premiere on October 23, 2011.
In 2007 ''Robot Chicken'' was the highest rated original show on Adult Swim and the second highest on the network (after ''Family Guy'').
The first episode of the fifth season debuted a new opening, a parody of the Wonder Woman tv series intro, but returned to normal in following episodes.
Discs !! Additional Information | |||||||
align="center" | Season One | March 28, 2006 | align="center"September 29, 2008|| | April 4, 2007 | 1-20 | 3 | Sony Screenblast webtoons, and the words "Jesus" and "Christ" as an oath unbleeped (though "fuck" and "shit" are still censored out), the episodes are not all uncut. One particular segment that featured the Teen Titans (TV series)>Teen Titans meeting Beavis and Butt-head was omitted from the DVD because of legal problems. The Voltron/"You Got Served" sketch shown on the DVD has a replacement song because of legal issues over the song that was used on the TV. At a performance of ''Family Guy Live'' in Chicago, during the Q&A; session that ends each performance, Seth Green was asked how they came up with the name ''Robot Chicken''. He explained that the title of each episode was a name Adult Swim rejected for the name of the show. A Region 2 version of the set was released in the UK on September 29, 2008. |
align="center" | Season Two: Uncensored | align="center"September 4, 2007|| | September 28, 2009 | November 11, 2007 | 21-40 | 3 | This two disc boxset includes all 20 episodes from Season 2 in production order and uncensored, with the words "fuck" and "shit" uncensored (except for one instance in the episode "Easter Basket" in the Lego sketch). It is currently available for download on iTunes (though the episode "Veggies for Sloth" is absent because of copyright issues involving the "Archie's Final Destination" segment.) Seth Green stated at [[Comic-Con International |
align="center" | Season Three: Uncensored | align="center"October 7, 2008|| | January 25, 2010 | December 3, 2008 | 41-60 | 3 | This two disc boxset includes all 20 episodes from Season 3 in production order. This DVD is Uncensored except for the "Cat in the Hat" sketch from episode 7 on Disc 1. It also intentionally censored in episode 5 in the "Law and Order" KFC sketch. This DVD has special features such as deleted scenes and animatics. It also includes commentary for all of the episodes and has "Chicken Nuggets" commentary for episodes 1 and 3-5. The bonus features also include a gag reel and audio takes. |
align="center" | Star Wars Special | align="center"July 22, 2008|| | TBA | August 6, 2008 | 1 | 1 | Star Wars special in its TV-edited version (i.e. with bleeps in place of profane words) and several extras about the crew and their work on the special, including a photo gallery, alternate audio, and an easter egg (media)>easter egg demonstrating the crew's difficulty in composing a proper musical score for the sketch "Empire on Ice". Also features various audio commentaries, featuring members of the cast and crew. |
align="center" | Star Wars Episode II | align="center"July 21, 2009|| | TBA | August 5, 2009 | 1 | 1 | This single DVD features the main Star Wars special extras, including normal Robot Chicken episodes and common DVD extras; The Making Of, deleted scenes etc. |
align="center" | Season Four: Uncensored | align="center"December 15, 2009|| | August 30, 2010 | December 2, 2009 | 61-80 | 3 | This two disc boxset includes all 20 episodes from Season 4 in production order. The special features include Chicken Nuggets, San Diego Comic-Con '08 Panel, Day in the life, New York Comic-Con '09 Panel, Video Blogs, Australia Visit, Alternate Audio, Deleted Scenes and Deleted Animations. Plus Commentary on all 20 episodes. |
Revolver Entertainment have released the first four seasons and all three Star Wars specials in the United Kingdom. A box set including the first 3 seasons has also been released.
Madman Entertainment have released up to date all Robot Chicken releases in Australia and New Zealand.
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Category:Parodies Robot Chicken Category:Satirical television programmes Category:Stop-motion animated television series Category:Fictional chickens Category:Black comedy television programs
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Name | Tila Tequila |
Background | solo_singer |
Birth name | Tila Nguyen |
Alias | Tila Tequila |
Birth date | October 24, 1981 |
Birth place | Singapore |
Origin | Houston, Texas, United States |
Instruments | Vocals |
Genre | R&B;, pop rap, hip hop, pop rock, electropop |
Occupation | glamour model, singer, rapper |
Years active | 2001–present |
Website | misstila.com }} |
Tila Nguyen (born October 24, 1981), better known by her stage names Tila Tequila and Miss Tila, is a Singaporean-born American model and television personality. She is known for her appearances in the men's magazines ''Stuff'', ''Maxim'', ''Penthouse'', her role as host of the Fuse TV show featuring performance striptease, ''Pants-Off Dance-Off'' and her position as the most popular artist on MySpace (according to page views) circa April 2006, along with Jeffree Star. She was raised in Houston, Texas, and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Her MTV reality show ''A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila'' aired for two seasons.
While in middle school, Nguyen became a tomboy and was eventually sent to a boarding school for six months for her combative behavior before transferring to another school. While in high school, she used her sister's identification card to enter nightclubs, where she began taking drugs and joined a gang. In her memoir, she would later explain that she felt "confused" and "lost" from various personal family and environmental issues and lost her virginity at 15. She turned to writing poems in an attempt to release powerful emotions, and friends outside the gang briefly helped turn her life around. However, her past caught up with her, and she fled to Queens, New York, at the age of 16. While still 16, she experienced a drive-by shooting in Houston. She reports having become pregnant and suffering a miscarriage the following year.
Nguyen graduated from Alief Hastings High School in 2000. She has cited the violent adolescence she had in Texas as her reason for becoming a model and moving to California in 2001. In a March 2003 interview, she revealed that she has taken some college classes but does not have a degree, stating, "I didn't want to go to college for an actual degree because there's nothing out there I like besides doing something that involves the entertainment industry."
Nguyen gained further popularity through the import racing scene. She has been featured on the cover of ''Import Tuner'' magazine, at car shows such as Hot Import Nights, and in the video game ''Street Racing Syndicate''. She was also the most frequent host on the first season of Fuse TV's dance show, ''Pants-Off Dance-Off'', on which a group of contestants strip to music videos.
Nguyen was featured on the cover of the April 2006 issue of ''Stuff'' magazine; in the interview, she claimed that her nickname "Tila Tequila" came about when she experimented with alcohol at the age of thirteen. She appeared on the August 2006 ''Maxim'' UK cover, was named #88 in their Hot 100 List, and also appeared in the December 2007 issue. She was ranked #100 on the Maxim Hot 100 list in 2008.
Nguyen made an appearance as one of the 12 strangers in the first game on the April 6, 2007 episode of NBC's game show ''Identity''. On March 4, 2007 she made a cameo appearance on the show "War At Home." She also appeared as a Hooters Girl in the 2007 film ''I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry''.
Nguyen has been featured on the front page of magazines such as Penthouse, King, Blender, and most recently Steppin' Out
Nguyen has provided her voice to shows such as ''Robot Chicken'' and ''The Cleveland Show''.
The show led to a heated online debate between Nguyen and conservative Christians after an article appeared on ''The Christian Post'' on September 13, 2007. After seeing the article, Nguyen wrote an impassioned response in her blog on September 28, 2007, criticizing churches for "bashing" the gay community while thanking God for saving her life.
The show premiered for a second season in April 2008 and became a popular gossip subject in Asian media, such as ''AsianWeek''. The season finale premiered July 8, 2008, the winner being Kristy Morgan who declined her "shot at love". A new season of the series was announced. However, bisexual twin women were the bachelorettes.
Before ''A Shot at Love'', Nguyen was a contestant on VH1's ''Surviving Nugent'', a reality TV show where participants performed compromising tasks and stunts for rock star Ted Nugent.
During 2005, Nguyen launched Tilafashion.com, a site featuring her custom line of clothing for men and women. In 2006, Nguyen created a website entitled "Tila Zone," which features content to use on Myspace and other social networking websites including layouts, widgets, and clipart.
In December 2009, Nguyen partnered with Joe Francis to launch a dating site called "TilasHotSpotDating.com". The site is for people ages 18 and up. The site includes a free membership with basic access to the site, and paid membership which includes access to other areas of the site. Nguyen has taken part in webcam chats on the site.
In 2010, Nguyen launched a celebrity blog site, MissTilaOMG.com.
In April 2006 during the taping of an interview with MTV's ''Total Request Live'' VJs, will.i.am announced that Nguyen had been signed to the Will.I.Am music group, a record label under A&M; Records. Despite this major-label signing, Nguyen independently released her first single "I Love U" through iTunes on February 27, 2007, justifying the independent release through her desire to become famous by herself. She also shot a music video for the song.
In March 2007, Washington-based record label The Saturday Team released an EP called ''Sex'', by Tila Tequila. On July 27, 2007, Italian website MusicBlob reported that The Saturday Team and distributor Icon Music Entertainment Services sued Nguyen over breaching her contract related to the album. However, Nguyen claimed in a MySpace bulletin that the EP was not authorized for release by her, and was removed from most retailers. The Saturday Team won a legal case, making ''Sex'' available for digital purchase.
On October 9, 2007, Nguyen released her second official single, "Stripper Friends". A video premiered via Yahoo! Music on February 26, 2008 and was released to iTunes on March 4, 2008. The single failed to chart. In April 2008, the single "Paralyze" and its accompanying music video were released via Yahoo! Music and iTunes.
On April 7, 2009 the "''I Love U Remixes''" EP was released to digital music retailers.
In April 2010, Nguyen officially released "I Fucked The DJ", along with an edited version entitled "I Love My DJ", through iTunes. The songs were released under the name "Miss Tila".
In May 2010, Nguyen released an EP to iTunes entitled "Welcome to the Darkside". The EP includes a cover of Depeche Mode's song "Blue Dress" and Yoko Ono's song "Walking on Thin Ice". Tila began a tour supporting the new EP in 2010, and at one of her tour stops in August 2010, Nguyen appeared at the Gathering of the Juggalos, a music festival founded by hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse. She was repeatedly pelted with rocks and bottles among other objects, and she vowed to take legal action against the organizers and promoters for the event.
In November 2009, Nguyen announced on Twitter that she is a lesbian, rather than bisexual, as she had previously proclaimed herself to be.
On December 9, 2009, Nguyen stated she was engaged to heiress Casey Johnson and was photographed with a diamond ring. On January 4, 2010, Johnson, who had long suffered from Type I Diabetes, was found dead. On February 4, 2010, the Los Angeles Coroner's Office announced that Johnson "died from diabetic ketoacidosis, a life-threatening condition caused by a lack of insulin and high blood sugar". She was reported to have neglected to take her medication, and died naturally. Nguyen has arranged plans to seek legal custody of Casey Johnson's adopted daughter, Ava.
===Singles===
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birth name | Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green |
birth date | February 08, 1974 |
birth place | Overbrook Park, West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
occupation | Actor, comedian, voice actor, writer, producer |
yearsactive | 1983–present |
spouse | Clare Grant (2010–present) }} |
Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', as Dr. Evil's son Scott in the ''Austin Powers'' series of comedy films and Mitch Miller in ''That '70s Show''. He voices the characters of Chris Griffin on ''Family Guy'', Lieutenant Gibbs in ''Titan Maximum'', Jeff "Joker" Moreau in the ''Mass Effect'' video game series, and is one of the creators and producers of the stop motion comedy series ''Robot Chicken'', in which he also voices several characters. Green has appeared in many other movies, such as ''Rat Race'', ''The Italian Job'', ''Can't Hardly Wait'', ''Without a Paddle'', and as a child in Woody Allen's ''Radio Days'', and in the horror film ''Stephen King's It''.
In 1991 Green rose to fame in a Rally's "Cha Ching" commercial, which earned him an appearance at the 1991 Superbowl. Green was given a key to New Orleans in honor of his role in the popular commercial.
Green appeared in the miniseries ''It'' (as Richie Tozier, age 12), Infested (aka 'Ticks' - 1993), all three ''Austin Powers'' movies as Dr. Evil's son, Scott, and ''Enemy of the State'' and ''The Italian Job'' as a computer specialist. He was also in the films ''Can't Hardly Wait'', ''Rat Race'', ''Without a Paddle'', ''Idle Hands'' and ''Sex Drive''. Green also had a role in the 1992 film ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', but the scene he was in was subsequently cut.
In 1994, he starred alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt in the short-lived series ''The Byrds of Paradise''. He worked with Hewitt again in 1998's ''Can't Hardly Wait'', which also featured Paige Moss, who would later play with him in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. Amber Benson (Tara Maclay, ''Buffy'') was also in this film, but her scenes were cut in order to get a PG-13 rating.
Green appeared as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, a werewolf, in the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' during the second through fourth seasons, and one episode in the first season of the spinoff ''Angel''. Seth is not related to Bruce Seth Green, who directed some episodes of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. On occasion, some sources confuse the two and have credited Seth as the director.
Green has also been featured in roles on ''Greg the Bunny'', ''Tucker'', ''The X-Files'', ''That '70s Show'', ''Will & Grace'', ''MADtv'', ''Reno 911!'', ''Entourage'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''Heroes'' and ''My Name Is Earl''. Also voiced the character Joker in the game trilogy ''Mass Effect''.
After two episodes of the second season, ''Family Guy'' was taken off the network's permanent schedule and shown irregularly thereafter. The show returned in March 2000 to finish airing the second season which contained 21 episodes, all the cast came back for the series return. The third season contained 21 episodes and began airing from July 11, 2001 to February 14, 2002. During its second and third-season runs, Fox publicly announced that the show had been canceled at the end of the second season in 2002. In spite of the announced cancellation, in 2003 Fox decided to make the third season. During the third season, Fox announced that the show was canceled for good. The series was renewed later in 2005 for its fourth season due to strong DVD sales and its syndication on basic-cable networks. Once again Green and the rest of the cast came back for their voice works.
Green, along with ''Robot Chicken'' co-producer Breckin Meyer, appeared in the NBC show ''Heroes'' during the 2008–09 season. In January 2009, Green worked with David Faustino (Bud Bundy from ''Married with Children'') for an episode of Faustino's show ''Star-ving'' – Faustino is often mistaken for Green.
On July 13, World Wrestling Entertainment's official website announced Green as the special guest host for the July 13 episode of ''WWE Raw'', and on that night, Green competed in the main event, a six-man tag team match, which his team won by disqualification. He was also in attendance for WWE's biggest event of the year, Wrestlemania 26 on March 28, 2010.
Film | |||
! Year | ! Title | ! Role | ! Notes |
1984 | 'Egg' Berry | ||
1986 | ''Willy/Milly'' | Malcolm | |
''Radio Days'' | Joe | ||
Chuckie Miller | |||
Jason | |||
''My Stepmother Is an Alien'' | Fred Glass | ||
''Missing Parents'' | |||
Joey | |||
Young Richie Tozier (Beep Beep Richie) | |||
1992 | ''The Double 0 Kid'' | Chip | |
Tyler Burns | |||
Stilts | |||
Wiley | |||
Leo | |||
Punk Neighbor | |||
3rd Youth at Hot Dog Stand | |||
1996 | ''To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday'' | Danny Green | |
''Boys Life 2'' | Homophobe 2 | Segment: Nunzio's Second Cousin | |
''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'' | Scott Evil | ||
''Can't Hardly Wait'' | Kenny Fisher | ||
Selby | Uncredited role | ||
''Idle Hands'' | Mick | ||
''Stonebrook'' | Cornelius | ||
''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' | Scott Evil | ||
''Rock Star 101'' | Le'Von | Short film | |
Boyd | Voice role | ||
''The Attic Expeditions'' | Douglas | ||
Travis (Du Jour band member) | |||
''America's Sweethearts'' | Danny Wax | ||
Duane Cody | |||
''Knockaround Guys'' | Johnny Marbles | ||
2002 | ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' | Scott Evil | |
James St. James | |||
Napster | |||
''Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed'' | |||
''Without a Paddle'' | Dan Mott | ||
''Be Cool'' | Shotgun (Music video director) | Uncredited role | |
''Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story'' | Chris Griffin/Additional voices | ||
Murray | |||
''Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo'' | Jonah "the taper" | ||
Himself | YouTube video | ||
The TV Set | Slut Wars Host | ||
''The 1 Second Film'' | Himself | ||
Ezekiel | |||
Himself | ''Documentary-Film'' | ||
Craig White | |||
2011 | ''Mars Needs Moms'' | Milo | Motion-capture and narrator |
colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Television | |||
! Year | ! Title | ! Role | ! Notes | |
1984 | ''Young People's Specials'' | Charlie | Episode: Charlie's Christmas Secret | |
''ABC Afterschool Special'' | Tommy Sanders | Episode: I Want to Go Home | ||
''Tales from the Darkside'' | Timmy | |||
Lance | ||||
''Spenser: For Hire'' | Andy Chandler | Episode: The Hopes and Fears | ||
Voice | Voice role | |||
''Action Family'' | Danny Elliot | |||
Adam Brinkerhoff | Episode: List of The Facts of Life episodes#Season 9: 1987–1988 | |||
Cody Gibbs | [[American Broadcasting Company | |||
Joey | Episode: Too Much of a Good Thing | |||
''[[Mr. Belvedere'' | Episode: Big Episode: Paper Mill | |||
William Butler | Episode: The Spring Fling Episode: The Visitor | |||
Young Richie Tozier | American Broadcasting Company | |||
''[[Our Shining Moment'' | Wheels | |||
''Good & Evil'' | David | |||
''Evening Shade'' | Larry Phipps | Episode: Hasta la Vista | ||
''The Wonder Years'' | Jimmy Donnelly | Episode: List of The Wonder Years episodes#Season 5 (1991–1992) | ||
''[[Batman: The Animated Series'' | Voice role Episode: I Am the Night | |||
''Beverly Hills, 90210'' | Wayne | |||
''The X-Files'' | Emil | |||
''The Day My Parents Ran Away'' | Leo | |||
''seaQuest DSV'' | Mark 'Wolfman' | |||
''The Byrds of Paradise'' | Harry Byrd | |||
Lubec | Episode: Lisa's Virus | |||
Termite | UPN Miniseries | |||
Danny | ||||
1996 | ''Something So Right'' | Napoleon | Episode: Pilot | |
Bob | Episode: Mission ImPearlsible | |||
''Mad About You'' | Bobby Rubenfeld | |||
''The Drew Carey Show'' | The MC | |||
''Temporarily Yours'' | David Silver | |||
1997–2000 | 39 episodes | |||
1998 | ''Cybill'' | Jaybo | ||
1999–2001; 2005–present | ''Family Guy'' | Voice roles | ||
1999 | ||||
''Batman Beyond'' | Nelson Nash Dempsey | Voice role Episode: Rebirth (1) Episode: Golem Episode: Revenant Episode: The Eggbaby Episode: Plague | Episode: Sentries of the Lost Cosmos | |
''100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd'' | Eddie McDowd | Voice role | ||
2000 | ''MADtv'' | Brightling | Episode: 5.17 Episode: 6.15 Episode: 7.18 Episode: 10.12 | |
2000–2001 | Himself | |||
''Greg the Bunny'' | Jimmy Bender | |||
''Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?'' | Various voices | Voice roles | ||
''That '70s Show'' | Episode: The Battle of Evermore (a.k.a. Pioneer Days) Episode: Nobody's Fault But Mine (2) (a.k.a. Hyde Loves Jackie) Episode: Substitute Episode: Squeeze Box Episode: E5:15 | |||
''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' | Himself | Special guest, one episode: The Dressing | ||
''Married to the Kellys'' | Dr. Jim Coglan | |||
''Crank Yankers'' | Voice role Episode: 2.27 | |||
''Sesame Street'' | Vinny | Episode: August 16, 2004 | ||
2005 | ''Will & Grace'' | Episode: Company (Will & Grace) | ||
''[[American Dad!'' | Etan Cohen, Matthew McConaughey, Joey | |||
''Robot Chicken'' | Various voices | Co-creator Voice roles Director Writer | ||
''Four Kings'' | Barry | |||
''Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide'' | Dog | |||
Private Parts/Mt. Pink | ||||
Himself | ||||
''Grey's Anatomy'' | Nick | Episode: List of Grey's Anatomy episodes#Crash Into Me, Part 1 | ||
''[[Robot Chicken: Star Wars'' | Various voices | |||
Chris Griffin/Additional voices | ||||
''Reno 911!'' | Rick the Manager | |||
''My Name Is Earl'' | Buddy | |||
Himself | ||||
Sam | Episode: The Eclipse (1) Episode: The Eclipse (2) Episode: Our Father | |||
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy | Various characters | 2008–''Present'' | ||
''Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II'' | Various characters | |||
''Un-broke: What You Need To Know About Money'' | Himself | Television special | ||
''WWE Raw'' | Himself | Special guest host | ||
Todo 360 Ion Papanoida | Guest voice | |||
''Titan Maximum'' | Various characters, Lt. Gibbs | Voice rolesExeutive producer | ||
''The Cleveland Show'' | Chris Griffin | Guest voice | ||
''Something, Something, Something, Dark Side'' | Chris Griffin/Additional voices | |||
''The Venture Brothers'' | Lance Hale | Guest voice | ||
''Warren The Ape'' | Himself | Guest Star | ||
Various Voices | ||||
''It's a Trap!'' | Chris Griffin/Additional voices | |||
Jacob Black, Captain America | Guest voice Episode: Twigh School Musical/Avenger Time | |||
Video games | |||
! Year | ! Title | ! Role | ! Notes |
2007 | ''Mass Effect'' | Flight Lieutenant Jeff 'Joker' Moreau | voice and likeness |
2010 | ''Mass Effect 2'' | Joker | voice and likeness |
2012 | ''Mass Effect 3'' | Joker | voice and likeness |
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Coordinates | 25°44′″N98°07′″N |
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Name | Ted Turner |
Birth name | Robert Edward Turner III |
Birth date | November 19, 1938 |
Birth place | Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
Origin | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
Nationality | American |
Known for | founder of TBS and CNN, former owner of the Atlanta Braves, WCW, Ted's Montana Grill, philanthropy |
Occupation | Media tycoon |
Networth | $2.1 billion |
Spouse | Julia Gale Nye (1960–1964) Jane Shirley Smith (1965–1988) Jane Fonda (1991–2001) |
Children | Laura Lee, Robert Edward IV, Rhett, Beauregard, Jennie |
Website | |
Footnotes | }} |
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support UN causes, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors.
Turner's media empire began with his father's billboard business, which he took over at 24 after his father's suicide. The business, Turner Outdoor Advertising, was worth $1 million when Turner took it over in 1963. Purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System. Cable News Network revolutionized news media, covering the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular franchise and launched the charitable Goodwill Games. He helped reinvent interest in professional wrestling when he owned one of the most popular wrestling companies of the middle to late 1990s known as World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The Monday night show that it put on was the highest rated on cable and helped boost Turner's channels of TNT and WTBS.
Turner's penchant for controversial statements earned him the nicknames "The Mouth of the South" and "Captain Outrageous". Turner has also devoted his assets to environmental causes. He was the largest private landowner in the United States until John C. Malone surpassed him in 2011. He uses much of his land for ranches to re-popularize bison meat (for his Ted's Montana Grill chain), amassing the largest herd in the world. He also created the environmental-themed animated series ''Captain Planet and the Planeteers.''
In the 1979 Fastnet race, in a storm that killed 15 participants, he skippered ''Tenacious'' to a corrected-time victory.
In 2008, Turner explained he not only regretted these statements but said he had made peace with organized religion and had joined with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the United Methodist Church to fight malaria. In a 2008 MSNBC interview, Turner stated that he no longer considers himself atheist or agnostic, and prays for sick friends, but keeps it short because "I don't want to load up the wires."
Turner caused a stir in Montana in 2003 by funding a project to restore westslope cutthroat trout to Cherry Creek and Cherry Lake. The controversy stemmed from the poison antimycin used to kill fish in the stream.
In 2008, Turner also received attention when he asserted on PBS's Charlie Rose television program that if steps are not taken to address global warming, within 30 to 40 years "most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals." Turner also said in the interview that he advocated drastically cutting the U.S. military budget and Americans having no more than 2 children.
He advocated banning men from public office: "Men should be barred from public office for 100 years in every part of the world... The men have had millions of years where we've been running things. We've screwed it up hopelessly. Let's give it to the women."
During the Vietnam War Era, Turner’s business prospered; it “had virtual monopolies in Savannah, Macon, Columbus, and Charleston” and was “the largest outdoor advertising company in the Southeast,” according to "It Ain’t As Easy As It Looks". The book observed that Turner “discovered his father had sheltered a substantial amount of taxable income over the years by personally lending it back to the company” and “discovered that the billboard business could be a gold mine, a tax-depreciable revenue stream that threw off enormous amounts of cash with almost no capital investment.” In the late 1960s, Turner used the profits to buy Southern radio stations.
In 1969, he sold his several radio stations to buy a defunct television station in Atlanta on Channel 17. At the time, UHF stations only did well in markets without VHF stations, like Fresno, California, or in markets with only one station on VHF. Independent UHF stations were not ratings winners or that profitable even in larger markets, but Turner had the foresight that this would change as people wanted more than several choices. He put the station back on the air with the call sign WTCG. Initially, the station ran old movies from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, along with theatrical cartoons and very old sitcoms and old drama shows. As better syndicated product fell off the VHF stations, Turner would pick it up for his station at a very low price. WTCG ran mostly second- and even third-hand product of the time, including fare such as Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy, Star Trek, Hazel, and Bugs Bunny. WTCG acquired rights to telecast the Atlanta Braves baseball games in 1973. Turner also purchased UHF Channel 36 WRET (now WCNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina and ran it with a format similar to WTCG.
In 1976, the FCC allowed Turner’s WTCG in 1976 to use a satellite to transmit content to local cable TV providers around the nation. On December 17, 1976, the rechristened WTCG-TV Super-Station began to broadcast old movies, situation comedy reruns, cartoons, and sports nationwide to cable-TV subscribers. As cable systems developed, many carried his station to free their schedules. This increased his viewers and advertising. Subscribers eventually reached two million subscribers and Turner's net worth rose to $100 million. He bought a plantation in Jacksonboro, South Carolina for $2 million.
In 1978, Turner struck a deal with a student-operated radio station at MIT, Technology Broadcasting System to obtain the rights to the WTBS call sign for $50,000. This allowed Turner to strengthen the branding of his "Super-Station" using the acronym TBS; Turner Communications Group was renamed Turner Broadcasting System and WTCG was renamed as WTBS.
In 1976, Turner bought the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks partially to provide programming for WTCG. Using the rechristened WTBS' superstation status to beam Braves games into nearly every home in North America, Turner made the Braves a household name even before their run of success in the 1990s and early 2000s. At one point, he suggested to pitcher Andy Messersmith who wore number 17, that he change his surname to "Channel" to promote the television station.
In 1986, Turner founded the Goodwill Games. Broadcasting the events of these games provided his superstation the ability to provide Olympics-style sports programming that had only been offered by one of the three major networks up to that time.
Turner Field, first used for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium and then converted into a baseball-only facility for the Braves, is named after him.
After five years, CNN outgrew its home, a former country club on the outskirts of Midtown, Atlanta. Turner purchased the Omni International from developer Tom Cousins and moved CNN there. The complex was rechristened the CNN Center. As Omni International, the complex had never succeeded. Cousins sold it to Turner along with the Atlanta Hawks. CNN moved into the end of the tower that once housed The World of Sid and Marty Krofft. Turner was instrumental in the revival of Atlanta's downtown.
In 1992, the MGM library, which included Warner Brothers properties including the early Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies libraries and also the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, became the core of Cartoon Network. A year before, Turner's companies purchased Hanna-Barbera Productions (whose longtime parent, Taft/Great American Broadcasting, had been headquartered in Turner's original hometown of Cincinnati), adding additional content. With the 1996 Time Warner merger, the channel's archives gained the later Warner Bros. cartoon library.
In the mid-1980s, Turner became a force for the colorization of black-and-white films. In 1985, the film ''Yankee Doodle Dandy'' became the first black-and-white movie redistributed in color after computer coloring. Despite opposition by film aficionados, stars, and directors, the movie won over a section of the public, and Turner colorized a majority of films that he had owned. However, in the mid-1990s, the cost led Turner to abandon the idea. In contrast with TNT, TCM has shown the unaltered versions of films.
In 1989, Turner created the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for fiction offering positive solutions to global problems. The winner, from 2500 entries worldwide, was Daniel Quinn's ''Ishmael.''
On January 11, 2001, Time Warner was purchased by AOL to become AOL Time Warner, a merger which Turner initially supported. However, the burst of the dotcom bubble hurt the growth and profitability of the AOL division which in turned dragged down the combined company's performance and stock price. At a board meeting in fall 2001, Turner's outburst against AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin eventually led to the latter's announced resignation effective in early 2002, being replaced by Richard Parsons. In contrast to Levin who as CEO isolated Turner from important company matters, Parsons did invite Turner back to provide strategic advice although Turner never received an operational role that he sought. The company dropped "AOL" from its name in 2003. In December 2009, AOL was spun off from the Time Warner conglomerate as a separate company.
Turner was Time Warner's biggest individual shareholder. It is estimated he lost as much as $7 billion when the stock collapsed in the wake of the merger. When asked about buying back his former assets, he replies that he can't afford them now.
In 1996, Murdoch decided to enter the cable news market with the Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news station. Turner responded saying that he was "looking forward to squishing Rupert like a bug". Following its launch, Fox News consistently eroded CNN's market share and eventually became the most-watched cable news channel.
In 2003, Turner challenged Murdoch to a fistfight, and later accused Murdoch of being a "warmonger". Murdoch himself backed President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, while Fox News was one of the staunchest pro-war media organizations which helped it to overtake CNN in the ratings.
He used to be America's largest private landowner, owning approximately two million acres (8,000 km2), greater than the land areas of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. According to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, Turner's land has a higher gross domestic product than Belize. He has the largest private bison herd, with 50,000 head. In 2002, Turner co-founded Ted's Montana Grill, a burger restaurant chain specializing in bison meat.
Under his ownership, World Championship Wrestling became the only federation to outrate and outsell the McMahon family and their World Wrestling Federation. This event brought about a rise in popularity to professional wrestling and is now known as the Monday Night Wars. WCW television ratings were also heavily competing with ABC's Monday Night Football.
After the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, Turner founded the Goodwill Games as a statement for peace through sports.
In 1990, the American Humanist Association named Turner the Humanist of the Year.
In 1998, Turner pledged to donate $1 billion of his then $3 billion to United Nations causes, and created the United Nations Foundation to administer the gift. The foundation "builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and broadens support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach." In 2006, the foundation delivered its billionth dollar to UN causes — $600m of which came from Turner and $400m from public and private partners. Turner has pledged to use the remaining $400m of his commitment to leverage additional funds for UN causes and activities.
Turner served in the United States Coast Guard. He is also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for Humanitarianism.
In 2006, Turner received the Bower Award for Business Leadership from The Franklin Institute.
Turner was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame on April 26, 2007.
In 2010, in the wake of both the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia on 5 April that killed 29 miners and on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 roughnecks on April 20, Turner stated on CNN that "I'm just wondering if God is telling us He doesn't want to drill offshore. And right before that, we had that coal mine disaster in West Virginia where we lost 29 miners ... Maybe the Lord's tired of having the mountains of West Virginia, the tops knocked off of them so they may get more coal. I think maybe we ought to just leave the coal in the ground and go with solar and wind power and geothermals..."
Through Turner Enterprises, he owns 15 ranches in Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. Totaling , his US land-holdings make Turner one of the largest individual landowners in North America (by acreage).
Turner's biggest ranch is Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico. At , it is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States.
Turner sponsors the Public forum debate of the National Forensic League.
On December 8, 2010, Turner joked that he "is almost to the edge of poverty," being down to just a few million dollars left out of his previous fortune of billions, or so he told the hosts of MSNBC's a.m. news show. In reality, though Turner's fortune is significantly less than it was at its peak, it still measures in the billions.
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