"film. His last television role was as the supermarket manager in another ITV sitcom, ""Tripper's Day"" (1984). He continued to make a steady stream of film appearances, including a role in Lindsay Anderson's ""Britannia Hospital"" (1982). Rossiter also played the title role in the ""BBC Television Shakespeare"" production of ""The Life and Death of King John"" (1984). His last film appearance was in ""Water"" (1985). Rossiter displayed his acid wit in two books: ""The Devil's Bedside Book"" (1980), a collection of cynical dictionary definitions in the style of Ambrose Bierce's ""The Devil's Dictionary"", and ""The Lowest Form of Wit"" (1981),"
"""Variety"" wrote that the show was ""a funny, pointed and essential workplace comedy"", and that ""there are no weak links in [the] ensemble"". The second season was lauded by critics and the season has a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Superstore (TV series) Superstore is an American single-camera sitcom television series that premiered on NBC on November 30, 2015. The series was created by Justin Spitzer, who also serves as an executive producer. Starring America Ferrera (who also serves as a producer), Ben Feldman and Mark McKinney, ""Superstore"" follows a group of employees working at ""Cloud 9"", store number"
"The Losers (TV series) The Losers is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1978. Written by Alan Coren, it stars Leonard Rossiter and Alfred Molina. ""The Losers"" was made for ITV by ATV and was produced and directed by Joe McGrath. In ""The Losers"", Rossiter plays Sydney Foskett, a wrestling promoter who discovers a young new wrestler called ""The Butcher"", played by Molina, who Foskett ensures loses to get the public's love. Sydney Foskett is a wrestling promoter who discovers young new wrestler and part-time footballer, ""The Butcher"", whose real name is Nigel. Foskett, realising that the public"
"a fictional big-box store in St. Louis, Missouri. The ensemble and supporting cast features America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn, Nico Santos, Nichole Bloom and Mark McKinney. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The series was one of three pilots picked up by NBC on January 14, 2015, along with the sitcom ""Crowded""; both were green lighted to series status the same day (May 7, 2015). The series was the first project for Ruben Fleischer's newly formed company The District as part of a two-year deal with Universal, as he directed the pilot episode. ""Superstore"" was officially picked up as a series on"
"Superstore (TV series) Superstore is an American single-camera sitcom television series that premiered on NBC on November 30, 2015. The series was created by Justin Spitzer, who also serves as an executive producer. Starring America Ferrera (who also serves as a producer), Ben Feldman and Mark McKinney, ""Superstore"" follows a group of employees working at ""Cloud 9"", store number 1217, a fictional big-box store in St. Louis, Missouri. The ensemble and supporting cast includes Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn, Nico Santos and Nichole Bloom. On February 21, 2018, NBC renewed the series for a 22-episode fourth season, which premiered on October"
"obituary of Alan Coren in 2007 said the series ""sank with all hands"". A region 2 DVD containing restored editions of the surviving episodes was released by Network on 21 January 2013 The Losers (TV series) The Losers is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1978. Written by Alan Coren, it stars Leonard Rossiter and Alfred Molina. ""The Losers"" was made for ITV by ATV and was produced and directed by Joe McGrath. In ""The Losers"", Rossiter plays Sydney Foskett, a wrestling promoter who discovers a young new wrestler called ""The Butcher"", played by Molina, who Foskett ensures"
"in a supermarket, this was the final television work undertaken by distinguished British actor Leonard Rossiter prior to his sudden death. Paul stayed in the series when it was re-cast with Bruce Forsyth two years later and renamed ""Slinger's Day"". In 1989, he joined ""The Bill"", the long-running police serial, as PC Dave Quinnan, and became a very popular character. He had previously appeared as a witness to a crime in series 3, in the episode entitled ""Missing, Presumed Dead"". When the series decided to focus more on the officers themselves and less on crime, Quinnan was given a number"
"a sitcom created by Dr. Steve Brule for Channel 5. Dr. Steve Brule directs himself in the title role of a rejected sitcom pilot about a Myer's Super Foods bagboy who must decide whether or not to report a shoplifter. Shelved for its ""substandard quality and low entertainment value"", it begins with an introduction by Pablo Myers, owner of Myer's Super Foods, along with his family. After the opening with Steve injuring himself after mopping the floor inside of Myer's Super Foods, Steve is shown stocking some produce when he is asked by Micky Dolenz (as himself) where the bananas"
"would not be picked up for the fourth season. In 2015 the series was made available on Crackle. The series stars John Lehr as a failed New York City businessman who moves back to his hometown of Dayton, Ohio to take over the family supermarket following the death of his father. The show is set in the fictional supermarket known as ""Greens & Grains"", located at 5th Street and Tiberius. A detailed script was written for each episode outlining the overall story arc. However, the script was not shown to the actors; instead they were provided with a loose outline"
"carried on NBC's development slate in 1993 before Fox began airing the show in 1994. ""Variety"" stated that while the show was cliched, it had funny moments and that lead actor Henry Winkler did ""just fine"". Monty (TV series) Monty is an American sitcom that aired on Fox from January 11 to February 15, 1994. The series starred Henry Winkler as Monty Richardson, a loud, obnoxious conservative TV commentator. Richardson had also written a best-selling book titled"" I'm Right. I'm Right. I'm Right. Shut Up"". The series also starred Tom McGowan as his executive producer and David Schwimmer as his"
"holiday season commercials for Wal-Mart with advertising agency Bernstein-Rein. He has also directed ads for Burger King, Nintendo, BMW, and Buick. In television, Reitman directed two episodes of ""The Office"" entitled ""Local Ad"" and ""Frame Toby"". Reitman also directed a three-part pretaped sketch for the NBC show ""Saturday Night Live"" called ""Death By Chocolate,"" about a walking candy bar (played by episode host Ashton Kutcher) who murders people (stabbing a homeless man, shooting a doctor, cutting off a life support machine on a coma victim, and slicing Andy Samberg [dressed as a lumberjack] with a chainsaw). Since 2011, Reitman directs"
"""Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C."" (1964–69), ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"" (1961–66), and ""I Spy"" (1965–68). He also directed several TV series episodes, including four of the first eight episodes of the TV series ""Lassie"" (Season 1, 1954). Leonard also provided the voice of Linus the Lionhearted in a series of Post Crispy Critters cereal TV commercials in 1963-64, which led to a ""Linus"" cartoon series that aired on Saturday (and later, Sunday) mornings on CBS (1964–66) and ABC (1967–69). He also was briefly the star of his own television show ""Big Eddie"" (1975), where he played the owner of a large"
"the supermarket and taking out the rubbish. The love-hate relationship between the King and Goober provides a sitcom-style element to the show with a self-resolving story arc throughout each episode. Recurring sketch characters include Devil Finger!, Court Casey, Sarah (played by Stephanie Wookey), Jas (played by Stephanie Wookey), Jeff (played by Jimmy Akingbola), Box Boy, Gotta Go Joe, Time Team Archie (played by Travis Yates), Frank Boffin, Invisible Ian, Scout Leader (Dominic Coleman), Karen Jackson (played by Stephanie Wookey), Grandma and 'Your Face' Graham (played by Tony Bignell), Mr. Steven, Dinner Lady (played by Miranda Hart), Neil Bell, the Red"
"Supermarket Superstar Supermarket Superstar is an American reality-competition cooking television series which aired from July to September 2013 on Lifetime. Produced by Eli Holzman, Rhett Bachner, Michael Chiarello and Bob and Harvey Weinstein, it was hosted by Stacy Keibler. In each episode, three aspiring food entrepreneurs competed for a chance to win $10,000 in cash and consultation services valued at $100,000 from DINE Marketing and Mattson. In the final episode, three previous winners competed for a chance to have their products introduced and sold in The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) family of supermarkets. The panel of judges"
"Three days later, ""TVLine"" announced on March 16, 2015, that America Ferrera had landed the female lead as the floor supervisor Amy in the Cloud 9 store. It was also reported that Ferrera was also a producer for the show. Early reviews for the series were mixed. According to Metacritic, the first season of ""Superstore"" holds a score of 58 out of 100, indicating ""mixed to average reviews"" based on 21 critics. On another review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds a 54% with a ""Rotten"" rating, based on 24 critics, with an average rating of 4.4/10. The"
"His performance in the premiere of Michael Blakemore's stage production of Bertolt Brecht's ""The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui"" in 1969 met with critical acclaim. Rossiter's first film role was in ""A Kind of Loving"" (1962). In ""Billy Liar"" (1963) he played the title character's boss. He soon established himself as a respected actor in films and television as well as on stage. His first major television role was as Detective-Inspector Bamber in the long-running police television series ""Z-Cars"". He also had guest roles in series as diverse as ""Steptoe and Son"" (""The Lead Man Cometh"", 1964; ""The Desperate Hours"","
"Larry Poindexter Larry Poindexter (born December 16, 1959) is an accomplished American actor known for numerous small parts in movies and television, as well as many commercials and audio advertisements. He is also an accomplished singer. Poindexter was born in Dallas, Texas on December 16, 1959. Poindexter is currently best known for his role in 2003's ""S.W.A.T."", where he played by-the-book LAPD Captain Tom Fuller, who went head to head with Samuel Jackson's character Hondo. Daytime audiences know him best from ABC soap opera ""General Hospital"" as the not-so-good Dr. Asher Thomas. He played Asher from June 3, 2005, until"
"said that Robbie returns with more maturity, although his job as market inspector leads him to clash with Martin Fowler (James Bye), Donna Yates (Lisa Hammond) and Kush Kazemi (Davood Ghadami). The actor compared Robbie to the character David Brent from the BBC mockumentry ""The Office"", and noted that due to his job as a road sweeper, Robbie ""knows the market like the back of his hand."" Robbie returned in episode 5517, broadcast on 26 June 2017. In 2009, Robbie Jackson came sixth in a poll by British men's magazine ""Loaded"" for 'Top Soap Bloke'. Robbie Jackson Robbie Jackson is"
"in a number of McDonald's Hamburger Restaurant television commercials which also featured numerous classic/nostalgic TV series stars, such as Barbara Billingsley from ""Leave It To Beaver"", Buddy Ebsen from ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" and Al Lewis from ""The Munsters"". Adam also starred in a Canadian sitcom called “Check It Out” in which he played a supermarket manager but many of Adams’ reoccurring Get Smart jokes - such as ‘the old [something something] trick’ and ‘I told you not to tell me that!’ - were used and reused in the show but in a supermarket setting. A series of novels based on"
"Sex Olympics"", part of BBC 2's ""Theatre 625"", one of his four appearances in the series. In ""Rising Damp"", on ITV, Rossiter played Rigsby, the lecherous landlord of a house converted into seedy bedsits, reprising the role from the successful stage version, ""The Banana Box"". While he was in ""Rising Damp"" he also took the lead role in ""The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"", adapted by David Nobbs from his own comic novels and aired on the BBC. Rossiter was given a surprise tribute on ""This Is Your Life"" in 1975. He appeared in ""I Tell You It’s Burt"
"2015, Nichole Bloom was announced to have joined the show as Cheyenne, a very pregnant teenage employee. ""Deadline"" announced on March 13, 2015, that Ben Feldman had landed the male lead in ""Superstore"", as Jonah, a new employee in the superstore Cloud 9. Three days later, ""TVLine"" announced on March 16, 2015, that America Ferrera had landed the female lead as the floor supervisor Amy in the Cloud 9 store. It was also reported that Ferrera was also a producer for the show. The Cloud 9 store has also appeared in other series produced by NBCUniversal Television, including Hulu's ""The"
"unspecified field and worked as a salesman in the pharmaceuticals industry for the bulk of his adult life. Having saved much of his earnings, Flanders decided to quit his job and invested his family's life savings into a store in the Springfield mall called ""The Leftorium"" specializing in products for left-handed people. In the fifth season episode, ""Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"", Superintendent Chalmers fires Ned Flanders, who has become principal after Skinner being sacked, only because he freely expresses his religious views in the school. However in Season 29, the Leftorium closes leaving Flanders unemployed, until he returns to"
"Leonard Rossiter Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor. He had a long career in the theatre but achieved his greatest fame for his television comedy roles, most notably starring as Rupert Rigsby in the ITV series ""Rising Damp"" from 1974 to 1980, and Reginald Perrin in the BBC's ""The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"" from 1976 to 1979. Rossiter was born on 21 October 1926 in Wavertree, Liverpool, the second son of Elizabeth (née Howell) and John Rossiter. The family lived over the barber shop owned by his father. He was educated"
"Justin Rosniak Justin Rosniak (born 11 May 1977) is an Australian television and film actor, best known for his appearances in the television series ""Packed to the Rafters"", ""Police Rescue"", ""Squinters"" and ""Mr Inbetween"". Rosniak appeared in """" as Tony in 1997 and in the same year voiced the title role in the animated television series ""The Adventures of Sam"". Rosniak has appeared in ""Home and Away"" three times, in 1988 as Ben McPhee, the grandson of regular character's Neville and Floss McPhee, in 1995 as Joseph Lynch, and in 2018 as Ross Nixon. In 2010, Rosniak was cast in"
"the animated series ""Hey Arnold!"" He has also appeared in several minor roles in films, mostly for television movies. Rick Fitts Rick Fitts is an American television and film actor. Fitts has had roles in almost a hundred different television shows since his acting debut in 1980, in shows such as """", ""Knight Rider"", ""Simon & Simon"", ""The A-Team"", ""Hill Street Blues"", ""Jake and the Fatman"", Diagnosis Murder, """", ""Get a Life"", ""Seinfeld"", ""NYPD Blue"", ""Reba"", ""Desperate Housewives"", ""Frasier"", ""Commander in Chief"", ""Bones"", and ""Back to You"". He is best known to soap opera fans for playing the role of"
"May 7, 2015, by NBC. The first season consisted of eleven episodes, after the episode order was reduced from thirteen on October 19, 2015. It was announced on November 2, 2015, that the show would air the premiere on January 4, 2016, but would be airing two back-to-back episodes on November 30, 2015, following ""The Voice"". A promotional poster was released on November 2, 2015. It was announced on February 20, 2015, that Lauren Ash had been cast as a series regular, and would be playing Dina, the store’s assistant manager. On March 2, 2015, ""Deadline"" reported that ""Superstore"" had"
"MacGregor breaking the news that her memoirs, which were about to be published, would include an account of the affair. Rossiter died from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in 1984 while waiting to go onstage at the Lyric Theatre, London, where he was performing in Joe Orton's play ""Loot"". His funeral took place at St. Mary's Church, The Boltons, London. Leonard Rossiter Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor. He had a long career in the theatre but achieved his greatest fame for his television comedy roles, most notably starring as Rupert Rigsby in the ITV series"
"several years. After ending his regular acting career in 1992, Lisle went on to teach Vocal Techniques, to up and coming Broadcasters at the Academy of Radio and Television Broadcasting in Huntington Beach, California. His parents were Lisle Wilson, Sr. and Cecile (Ross) Wilson. Lisle Wilson Lisle Astor Wilson (September 2, 1943 – March 14, 2010), born 'Lisle Astor Wilson Jr.', was an American actor known for playing Leonard Taylor on the ABC sitcom ""That's My Mama"" which ran from 1974 to 1975. His film roles included appearances in Brian De Palma's horror film ""Sisters"" (1972) and ""The Incredible Melting"
"Rising Damp Rising Damp is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. ITV originally broadcast the programme from 2 September 1974 until 9 May 1978. It was adapted for television by Eric Chappell from his 1971 stage play ""The Banana Box"" (retained as the working title early in the series). The series was the highest-ranking ITV sitcom in BBC's 100 Best Sitcoms poll of 2004. The show was recorded entirely before a studio audience at The Leeds Studios of Yorkshire Television in Leeds, West Yorkshire and featured no scenes shot on location. ""Rising Damp"" starred Leonard Rossiter, Frances"
"Cooke, however, in contrast to the previous series, Cooke only wrote two episodes of the twelve episodes, more than half of them being written by Vince Powell with others being written by Alex Shearer and ""Sorry!"" creators Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, and one episode written by the prolific Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. ""Slinger's Day"" represented Forsyth's only ever situation comedy acting role, and he remained more associated with stand-up routines and gameshows. Cecil Slinger (played by Forsyth) is designated by the Supafare supermarket chain as the new manager in the branch that had previously been run by Norman"
"world's longest running sitcom. The commercial station ITV had popular successes with ""Rising Damp"" (1974–78, sometimes called the best of all ITV sitcoms), ""Man About the House"" (1973–76) and ""George and Mildred"" (1976–79). ""Rising Damp""'s star, Leonard Rossiter, also played the lead role in the BBC's highly popular ""The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"" (1976–79). The decline in cinema attendance in this period meant that many of these series were turned into cinema films; the first film version of ""On the Buses"" (1969–73) was the biggest hit at the British box office in 1971. According to Jeff Evans, ""On"
"Superstore (season 4) The fourth season of ""Superstore"", the U.S. television series, was ordered on February 21, 2018. The season premiered on October 4, 2018 and will contain 22 episodes. The series will continue to air in the same timeslot Thursday at 8:00 PM. ""Superstore"" follows a group of employees working at Cloud 9, a fictional big-box store in St. Louis, Missouri. The ensemble and supporting cast features America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn, Nico Santos, Nichole Bloom and Mark McKinney. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> It was announced on September 10, 2018 that former ""The Middle"" star Eden Sher had been"
"would mark the departure of Eric Johnson as Whitney Fordman, though he would return as a special guest in seasons two and four. Although the ""Smallville"" finale pulled in just over half of the viewership attained by the pilot episode, it was still favorably received by critics. It was also nominated for two awards. Lionel Luthor (John Glover) shows up at the Smallville LuthorCorp plant, and announces that ""management failure"" has forced him to shut the plant down. Effectively blaming the problem on Lex (Michael Rosenbaum), Lionel informs his son he wants him to return to Metropolis. Clark (Tom Welling),"