Carmen Finestra (Writing)

What Women Want

Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.

Release Date: 2000-12-15

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 4000

Where the Heart Is

Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.

Release Date: 2000-04-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 695

Costello

Release Date: 1998-09-15

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 8

Firelight

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.

Release Date: 1998-05-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 63

Soul Man

Soul Man is an American sitcom that aired

Release Date: 1997-04-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 2

Buddies

Two pals---one black, one white---go into business over the protests of their elders, who worry about their racial differences. But the friends just make light of them as they try to get their small company off the ground.

Release Date: 1996-03-05

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 3

Thunder Alley

Thunder Alley is an American sitcom which aired from March 9, 1994 to July 4, 1995 on ABC.

Release Date: 1994-03-09

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Home Improvement

The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.

Release Date: 1991-09-17

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 203

Vote Count: 635

A Different World

A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities.

Release Date: 1987-09-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 64

The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.

Release Date: 1984-09-20

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: Andy Witherspoon III

Episode Count: 201

Vote Count: 417

Punky Brewster

An abandoned waif and her dog are taken in by a cranky apartment manager who becomes her guardian in this family-friendly sitcom.

Release Date: 1984-09-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 85

It's Not Easy

It's Not Easy is an American sitcom that aired from September 29 until October 27, 1983.

Release Date: 1983-09-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

Twilight Theatre

Television parody. Sketches include: Women Who Have Made It With Me, No-Arms Bandits, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, & Funky High School. Features a performance by Riders in the Sky & Devo's "Beautiful World" music video. Also, excerpts from Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" video, & QUASI AT THE QUACKADERO.

Release Date: 1982-02-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

All Commercials... A Steve Martin Special

Steve Martin's third NBC special serves as a salute to 1970s television commercials. Taking shots at everything from "Suzy Chapstick" to Palmolive to advertising agencies, this special showcased Martin's genius for physical comedy.

Release Date: 1980-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty

Steve Martin's second NBC special was made up entirely of sketches. Highlights include: Marty Robbins' "El Paso" with monkeys; "The Death Of Socrates"; and "Bizarre Oddities Of The World."

Release Date: 1980-02-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1979

For the 1979 broadcast, Cash's annual CBS Christmas special returns to Nashville after taping the previous year's program in Los Angeles. This time he features his father, Ray Cash, and older brother Roy Cash in a visit to the small home in Dyess, Arkansas, where Johnny and his siblings were raised. Guests include Canadian pop and country star Anne Murray ("You Needed Me"), who was enjoying the most successful period of her career, and country music's Tom T. Hall, whom Cash introduces as "my very favorite songwriter" before Cash and Hall launch into a medley of Hall's hits "Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine," "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died," "I Love" and "Country Is." The show's comic foil is the late Andy Kaufman, who appears as his character Latka Gravas from the hit network show Taxi.

Release Date: 1979-12-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Highcliffe Manor

Newly widowed Helen Blacke inherits the Blacke Foundation, a scientific research institute located in the Highcliffe Manor on an island off the Massachusetts coast and populated by mad scientists who want to get rid of her.

Release Date: 1979-04-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1978

For his 1978 Christmas special, the third in as many years, Johnny Cash moved the taping of the Christmas Special to Los Angeles, and, predictably, the program takes on a Hollywood feel. Guests include Kris Kristofferson and singer Rita Coolidge, both friends of the Cash family who perform a heartfelt "Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends," and Steve Martin, one of America's hottest new comics at the time. June Carter Cash, as always, performs with her husband, and other family members make appearances in this special as well.

Release Date: 1978-12-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Johnny Cash and the Country Grils

This 1981 television special features Johnny Cash and notable women country singers.

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Angie

Angie is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast by the ABC network from February of 1979 to October of 1980.

Release Date: 1979-02-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

The Love Boat

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.

Release Date: 1977-09-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 182

Chico and the Man

Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown, the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job. It was the first U.S. television series set in a Mexican-American neighborhood.

Release Date: 1974-09-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 12

Soul Man

Department: Creator

Job: Creator