Parenthood is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Katims and produced by Imagine Television and Universal Television. The first season premiered on March 2, 2010, on NBC. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the same title, Parenthood is the second adaptation of the film to air on television preceded by the 1990–91 television series.

Following on the heels of the critically acclaimed TV series, Friday Night Lights, Jason Katims approached Ron Howard and Brian Grazer with the idea of creating an updated, modern adaptation of the 1989 film and bringing it to television.^[2] Production began in 2009 with Katims as the head writer, showrunner, and executive producer.

The series was renewed for a fourth season, consisting of 15 episodes, on May 10, 2012.^[3]

Overview[link]

The show revolves around the Braverman family, which has expanded to three generations, featuring patriarch Zeek Braverman and matriarch Camille Braverman, their oldest son Adam, his wife and three children, their daughter Sarah and her two children, their second son Crosby, his new wife Jasmine and their young son Jabbar, and finally their daughter Julia, her husband, their young daughter Sydney, and their newly adopted young boy, Victor.

The series is set in Berkeley, California and the San Francisco Bay Area, but is filmed primarily in Southern California.

Cast[link]

• Craig T. Nelson as Zeek Braverman, the patriarch of the Braverman family, Camille's husband and the father of Adam, Sarah, Crosby, and Julia.
• Bonnie Bedelia as Camille Braverman, the matriarch of the family and Zeek's wife.
• Peter Krause as Adam Braverman, Kristina's husband and Max's, Nora's and Haddie's father. He is the oldest Braverman child and all of his siblings and parents consult him in times of crisis.
• Monica Potter as Kristina Braverman, Adam's wife, and a source of stability and support for anyone who needs it. She is the mother to Haddie, Max and Nora.
• Sarah Ramos as Haddie Braverman, Adam's and Kristina's 17-year-old daughter. She is a straight-A student who plays soccer and has several friends; she aspires to be the quintessential "good girl" in order to compensate for her brother's behavioral problems.
• Max Burkholder as Max Braverman, Adam's and Kristina's 11-year-old son, who was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. He is also incredibly gifted academically.
• Lauren Graham as Sarah Tracey Braverman, the second child and oldest daughter. She and her two children (Amber and Drew) have moved back into her parents' house because of her financial situation.
• Mae Whitman as Amber Holt, Sarah's rebellious, willful, and not very studious daughter who is seeking direction in life.
• Miles Heizer as Drew Holt, Sarah's sensitive son, who longs for a male role model. His girl friend is Amy.
• Dax Shepard as Crosby Braverman, husband of Jasmine, father of Jabbar. He works as a small-time record producer. His former lover now wife, Jasmine, introduced Crosby to his five-year-old son, Jabbar, after five years.
• Joy Bryant as Jasmine Braverman, a dancer, Crosby's wife, and mother of Crosby's son Jabbar.
• Tyree Brown as Jabbar Braverman, Jasmine & Crosby's son.
• Erika Christensen as Julia Braverman-Graham, Sydney's mother and the youngest of the four Braverman children. She is a lawyer at a top corporate firm while her husband, Joel, supports her ambitions by serving as a stay-at-home dad to their daughter.
• Sam Jaeger as Joel Graham, Julia's husband and Sydney's father. He is a stay-at-home father, and is popular among the stay-at-home mothers in their social circle at Sydney's school, a fact which sometimes puts strains on his marriage. It was discovered in the season finale of Season 3 that he is Jewish.
• Savannah Paige Rae as Sydney Graham, Julia and Joel's 7-year-old daughter. It was discovered at the end of Season 3 that she is half Jewish.

Braverman family tree[link]

Series background and premiere[link]

The series premiered on March 2, 2010, at 10:00 p.m. on NBC following The Biggest Loser.^[4] The series was originally scheduled to premiere on NBC on September 23, 2009. However, on July 10, 2009, it was announced that Parenthood would be pushed back to midseason due to actress Maura Tierney's breast cancer.^[5][6] On September 10, 2009, a spokesperson for Tierney announced that she was leaving the show because of conflicts with her treatment schedule.^[7] Tierney's already-filmed scenes were deleted.^[8] On October 9, 2009, it was reported that Lauren Graham would replace Tierney in the upcoming series. Helen Hunt had been approached, but she and NBC could not come to a financial deal.^[9] The premiere date was then set for March 1, 2010, at 9:00 p.m. but was moved again to the following day at 10:00 p.m. after The Jay Leno Show was cancelled.

Parenthood's pilot episode was filmed in Northern California, using local crews, while the rest of the series continues to be filmed in Los Angeles.^[10] The series premiere was dedicated to the memory of Nora O'Brien, a Vice President at NBC, who died on the set of Parenthood on April 29, 2009, after collapsing from an aneurysm.^[5] Two other shows, Warehouse 13 and Sanctuary, are also dedicated to her memory.^[11]

On April 20, 2010, Parenthood was renewed for a second season by NBC, as reported by Variety.^[12] The second season premiered September 14, 2010. Later that year on November 15, it was announced that Parenthood would be moving to Mondays at 10/9c beginning March 7. However, due to an overhaul of NBC's Law & Order: Los Angeles putting the show on an indefinite hiatus, the network announced on January 18, 2011, that Parenthood would remain in the Tuesday 10/9c time slot.

On May 12, 2011, Parenthood was renewed for a third season and premiered at 10:00 p.m. on September 13.^[13] On May 10, 2012 NBC has renewed Parenthood for a 15-episode fourth season.

Soundtrack[link]

On August 31, 2010, Arrival Records/Scion Music Group released a soundtrack for the first season of Parenthood. The soundtrack consists of 10 songs including the theme song for Parenthood, "Forever Young" by Bob Dylan, and the international theme, "When We Were Young" by Lucy Schwartz. The soundtrack also includes a cover of "Forever Young" performed by John Doe and Lucy Schwartz.

Andrew McMahon, of the band Jack's Mannequin, revealed in speaking about the band's album, People and Things, that the song "Casting Lines" was written after he was contacted by producers of the show as a possible theme song for the series. After recording the song and sending it to producers, he was told they appreciated his efforts but they had selected "Forever Young" as the show's theme song. The song does appear on Jack's Mannequin's third album, People and Things.

Track listing[link]

1. "Forever Young" – Bob Dylan
2. "Darlin' Do Not Fear" – Brett Dennen
3. "Colors" – Amos Lee
4. "Kick Drum Heart" – The Avett Brothers
5. "Put Your Records On" – Corinne Bailey Rae
6. "In My Dreams" – Eels
7. "Change of Time" – Josh Ritter
8. "When We Were Young" – Lucy Schwartz
9. "In These Arms" – The Swell Season
10. "Solitaire" – Wilco
11. "Let It Be Me" – Ray LaMontagne
12. "Forever Young" – John Doe and Lucy Schwartz

Reception[link]

Parenthood itself received mostly positive to mixed reviews, scoring a 61 out of 100 on Metacritic.^[14] Newark Star Ledger's Alan Sepinwall wrote that "Like the movie that inspired it, Parenthood isn't an instant classic, but it's smart and warm and knowing, and it casts its net so wide that at least part of it should connect with you."^[15] While Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Parenthood isn't better than Modern Family, but it's different—it's its own creation, thanks to the deft touch and careful characterizations developed by executive producer Jason Katims and his writers."^[16] Sheri Levine of The Vancouver Sun wrote, "The cast moves effortlessly from providing serious, thoughtful answers to cracking jokes and allowing the funny moments to shine through. It's almost as though art is imitating life, or life imitating art."^[17]. Already in its third season, the show received a glowing review in The New Yorker, where Emily Nussbaum wrote "it's one of only two great dramas on network television. (The other is "The Good Wife.")...If it gets cancelled, I may never recover. The show has become stronger with each season"^[18]

Accolades[link]

Episodes[link]

DVD release[link]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

Television portal

• Official website

• Parenthood at the Internet Movie Database
• Parenthood at TV.com

Look up parenthood in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Parenthood may refer to:

• Parenting, the process of being a parent
• Parenthood (film)
  • Parenthood (1990 TV series)
  • Parenthood (2010 TV series)
    • Parenthood (television soundtrack)
• "Parent Hood", an episode of the 2006 TV series Robin Hood
• The Parent 'Hood, a 1990s American TV sitcom

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2010 (MMX) was a common year that started on a Friday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2010th year of Anno Domini or the Common Era designation; the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 1st of the 2010s.

2010 was designated the:

• International Year of Biodiversity
• International Year of Youth.

Pronouncing 2010 and subsequent years[link]

Among experts and the general public, there is a debate as to how specific years of the 21st century should be pronounced in English. The year 2010 is pronounced either "two thousand (and) ten",^[1] or "two thousand ten" or "twenty ten". 2010 was the first year to have a wide variation in pronunciation, as the years 2000–09 were generally pronounced "two thousand (and one, two, three, etc....") or "two thousand (one, two, three, etc.") as opposed to the less common "twenty oh...."

Events[link]

Damaged buildings in Jacmel as a result of the Haiti Earthquake.

January[link]

• January 3 – The United States and the United Kingdom close their embassies in Yemen due to the ongoing security threat by Al Qaeda.
• January 4 – The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.^[2][3][4]
• January 8 – The Togo national football team is involved in an attack in Angola, and as a result withdraws from the Africa Cup of Nations.^[5]
• January 12 – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With a confirmed death toll over 230,000^[6][7][8] it is one of the deadliest on record.
• January 15 – The longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs.
• January 25 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on board.

The clock counting down to the opening of Olympics Games in Downtown Vancouver.

February[link]

• February 3 – The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.^[9][10][11]
• February 12 – February 28 – The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.
• February 18 – The President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou, is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace^[12] and form a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy headed by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.^[13]
• February 27 – An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing at least 525.^[14] The earthquake is one of the largest in recorded history.

March[link]

• March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.^[15]
• March 26 – The ROKS Cheonan, a South Korean Navy ship carrying 104 personnel, sinks off the country's west coast, killing 46. In May, an independent investigation blames North Korea, which denies the allegations.^[16][17]

Volcano plume from on Eyjafjallajokull 17 April 2010.

April[link]

• April 7 – Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees Bishkek amid fierce rioting, sparking a sociopolitical crisis. Former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva is placed at the head of an interim government as the opposition seizes control.^[18]
• April 10 – The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes in western Russia.^[19][20]
• April 13 – A 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurs in Qinghai, China, killing at least 2,000 and injuring more than 10,000.^[21]
• April 14 – Volcanic ash from one of several eruptions beneath Eyjafjallajökull, an ice cap in Iceland, begins to disrupt air traffic across northern and western Europe.^[22][23][24]
• April 20 – The Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers. The resulting Horizon oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline, and prompting international debate and doubt about the practice and procedures of offshore drilling.^[25][26]
• April 27 – Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk four days after the activation of a €45-billion EU–IMF bailout, triggering the decline of stock markets worldwide and of the euro's value,^[27][27][28] and furthering a European sovereign debt crisis.

May[link]

• May 2 – The eurozone and the International Monetary Fund agree to a €110 billion bailout package for Greece. The package involves sharp Greek austerity measures.^[29]
• May 4 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso sells in New York for US$106.5 million, setting another new world record for a work of art sold at auction.^[30][31][32]
• May 7 – Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred.^[33][34]
• May 12 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board.^[35]
• May 19 – Protests in Bangkok, Thailand, end with a bloody military crackdown, killing 91 and injuring more than 2,100.^[36][37]
• May 20
  • Scientists announce that they have created a functional synthetic genome.^[38]
  • Five paintings worth €100 million are stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.^[39][40]
• May 22 – Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors.^[41]
• May 31 – Nine activists are killed in a clash with soldiers when Israeli Navy forces raid and capture a flotilla of ships attempting to break the Gaza blockade.^[42][43]

June[link]

• June 9 – Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks results in the deaths of hundreds.^[44]
• June 11 – July 11 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup is held in South Africa, and is won by Spain.

Satellite images of the upper Indus River valley comparing water-levels on 1 August 2009 (top) and 31 July 2010 (bottom) during the flooding in Pakistan

July[link]

• July 8 – The first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane is completed by the Solar Impulse.^[45]
• July 25 – Wikileaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.^[46]
• July 29 – Heavy monsoon rains begin to cause widespread flooding (pictured) in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over 1,600 are killed, and more than one million are displaced by the floods.^[47]

August[link]

• August 10 – The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.^[48]

Luis Urzúa, the leader of the trapped miners and the last of the 33 to be lifted to freedom, celebrates with President Piñera at San José Mine, during "Operación San Lorenzo".

October[link]

• October 10 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status.^[49]
• October 13 – Thirty-three miners near Copiapó, Chile, trapped 700 metres underground in a mining accident in San José Mine, are brought back to the surface after surviving for a record 69 days.^[50]
• October 22 – The International Space Station surpasses the record for the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days).^[51][52]
• October 23 – In preparation for the Seoul summit, finance ministers of the G-20 agree to reform the International Monetary Fund and shift 6% of the voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets.^[53]
• October 25 – An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leaves hundreds missing.^[54]
• October 26 – ongoing^[when?] – Repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi volcano in Central Java, Indonesia, and accompanying pyroclastic flows of scalding gas, pumice, and volcanic ash descending the erupting volcano kill three hundred people and force hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate.^[55][56][57]

November[link]

• November 4 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.^[58]
• November 11 – November 12 – The G-20 summit is held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea becomes the first non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders summit.^[59]
• November 13 – Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest.^[60]
• November 17 – Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.^[61]
• November 20 – Participants of the 2010 NATO Lisbon summit issued the Lisbon Summit Declaration.
• November 21 – Eurozone countries agree to a rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the country's financial crisis.^[62][63][64]
• November 22 – A stampede during Bon Om Thook (Khmer Water Festival) celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, kills 347.^[65]
• November 23 – North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea. The incident caused an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula and prompted widespread international condemnation. The United Nations declared it to be one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War.^[66][67][68]
• November 28 – WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential".^[69][70]
• November 29 – The European Union agree to an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the International Monetary Fund and bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden.^[71]
• November 29 – December 10 – The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it served too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).^[72][73]

December[link]

• December 21 – The first total lunar eclipse to occur on the day of the Northern winter solstice and Southern summer solstice since 1638 takes place.^[74][75]

Deaths[link]

January[link]

Jean Simmons

• January 4
  • Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910)
  • Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (b. 1916)
• January 9 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (b. 1925)
• January 11
  • Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909)
  • Éric Rohmer, French film director (b. 1920)
• January 12 – Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (b. 1934)
• January 13 – Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B and soul singer (b. 1950)
• January 15 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• January 17
  • Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
  • Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (b. 1937)
• January 18 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk singer (b. 1946)
• January 19 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (b. 1939)
• January 22
  • Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (b. 1932)
  • Jean Simmons, British actress (b. 1929)
• January 25 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (b. 1941)
• January 27
  • Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (b. 1933)
  • J. D. Salinger, American author (b. 1919)
  • Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922)