"Childline ChildLine is a counselling service for children and young people up to their 19th birthday in the United Kingdom provided by the NSPCC. Childline deals with any issue which causes distress or concern, common issues dealt with include child abuse, bullying, mental illness, parental separation or divorce, pregnancy, substance misuse, neglect, and psychological abuse. Counsellors do not record calls but write down case notes of calls and sometimes counselling supervisors may also listen in to calls to make sure that they can help the best they can. In 1986 Esther Rantzen, presenter of ""That's Life!"", a popular consumer TV"
"the launch of ChildLine in 1986, the first national helpline for children in danger or distress. Rantzen had suggested the ""Childwatch"" programme to BBC One Controller Michael Grade after the death of a toddler who had starved to death, locked in a bedroom. The aim of the programme was to find better ways of detecting children at risk of abuse; to that end, viewers of ""That's Life!"" who had themselves experienced cruelty as children were asked to take part in a survey detailing the circumstances of their abuse. Rantzen suggested that after that edition of ""That's Life!"", the BBC should"
"That's My Line That's My Line was a summer CBS reality show developed by Mark Goodson, one of the creators of ""What's My Line?"". The show highlights the unusual occupations of ordinary people, but unlike ""What's My Line?"", it has no panel or game components; the show is rather along the same lines as NBC's ""Real People"" and ABC's ""That's Incredible!"". It was hosted by Bob Barker and announced by Johnny Olson, both associated with Goodson-Todman's hit game show, ""The Price Is Right"". The series was co-hosted by Suzanne Childs and Tiiu Leek, and joined during the 1981 run by"
"That's Life (1998 TV series) That's Life is an American television sitcom that premiered March 10, 1998, on ABC. The series is about a blue-collar family living in Queens. Mike (Gerry Red Wilson) is head of the meat department at the supermarket. He has been married to Patty (Kellie Overbey) for ten years, and the two live in their own duplex in Queens. Patty's sister Catherine (Nadia Dajani) and her son Kieran (Michael Charles Roman) move into the apartment above Mike and Patty. Lisa (Pauley Perrette) is Patty's college-aged sister. Mitch (Ron Livingston) is Mike's best friend. Rick Lyman of"
"That's Life (2000 TV series) That's Life is an American comedy-drama series created by Diane Ruggiero, that was broadcast on CBS from October 1, 2000 to January 26, 2002. The hour-long series follows the life of a young Italian-American woman (Lydia DeLucca, played by Heather Paige Kent), loosely based on Ms. Ruggiero's life, and her family in suburban New Jersey. The show was set in fictional Bellefield, ostensibly a play on the combination of Belleville and Bloomfield, two adjacent older working class suburbs on the north side of Newark, New Jersey. The show premièred a year after ""The Sopranos"", also"
"Sarah Caplin Sarah Caplin is a British producer and television executive, formerly at ITV, and before that Deputy Secretary of the BBC, who has helped create two national charities, one for children and one for older people. She was a founder of Childline, together with her cousin Esther Rantzen and also The Silver Line. She was educated at the University of York and has been married to TV presenter Nick Ross for more than twenty-five years. Caplin joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1980 and worked as a researcher on a variety of current affairs and factual entertainment"
"main presenter. ""That's Life!"" ran on BBC1 for 21 years from 1973 to 1994, becoming one of the most popular shows on British television, reaching audiences of more than 18 million. During that time, it expanded the traditional role of the consumer programme from simply exposing faulty washing machines and dodgy salesmen, to investigating life-and-death issues, such as a campaign for more organ donors, which featured Ben Hardwick, a two-year-old dying of liver disease whose only hope was a transplant, and the investigation of a boarding school, the headmaster of which was a paedophile who employed several paedophile teachers. To"
"and numerous reunions and specials celebrating the legacy of ""All That"". Although Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin are credited as creators, the main creative force behind ""All That"" was Dan Schneider who became the showrunner of the series in the third season. ""All That"" marked the beginning of Schneider's prolific career in creating and writing hit television series for young audiences. The ""New York Times"", in separate articles, referred to Dan Schneider as ""the Norman Lear of children's television"" and ""the master of a television genre"". In 1986, Robbins and Schneider met while working on the ABC sitcom, ""Head of"
"is Director of Policy and Communications. Sarah Caplin Sarah Caplin is a British producer and television executive, formerly at ITV, and before that Deputy Secretary of the BBC, who has helped create two national charities, one for children and one for older people. She was a founder of Childline, together with her cousin Esther Rantzen and also The Silver Line. She was educated at the University of York and has been married to TV presenter Nick Ross for more than twenty-five years. Caplin joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1980 and worked as a researcher on a variety"
"of That's Media, which provides local TV programmes. In 2016, she was made an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. In addition to her television career, as a patron or vice-president of 55 charities, she mainly concentrates on working for children, vulnerable older people and disabled people. Much of her voluntary effort is for ChildLine as a volunteer counsellor on the helpline, and as a fund-raiser and spokesperson for children, and latterly working to set up the new helpline for isolated and vulnerable older people. ChildLine currently has 12 centres around the UK, 1,500 volunteer counsellors and answers around a"
"That's Life! That's Life! was a magazine-style television series on BBC1 between 26 May 1973 and 19 June 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen throughout the entire run, with various changes of co-presenters. The show was notable for presenting hard-hitting investigations alongside satire and occasional light entertainment. The show was generally recorded about an hour prior to transmission, which was originally on Saturday nights and then on Sunday nights. In its latter days, in an attempt to win back falling ratings, it was moved back to Saturday nights. In October 2018, it was announced that ""a similar version"" of the show"
"Friday night death slot for much of its run. It was cancelled at the end of the second season with numerous unresolved plot lines, including the budding romance between Lydia and one of her professors. That's Life (2000 TV series) That's Life is an American comedy-drama series created by Diane Ruggiero, that was broadcast on CBS from October 1, 2000 to January 26, 2002. The hour-long series follows the life of a young Italian-American woman (Lydia DeLucca, played by Heather Paige Kent), loosely based on Ms. Ruggiero's life, and her family in suburban New Jersey. The show was set in"
"Lifeline Center for Child Development The Lifeline Center for Child Development in Queens, NY, is a non-profit State Office of Mental Health (SOMH) licensed children's day treatment center and special education school serving emotionally disturbed children and their families from the New York metropolitan area. Founded by Ethel Wyner in 1959, the Lifeline Center has grown and expanded over the years to include a New York State Education Department chartered K-12 school, a preschool and evaluation program approved by both NYC and Nassau County, and a state-licensed day treatment center. Lifeline considers children exhibiting the following symptoms for admission: fearfulness,"
"lighten some of these very serious themes and issues, ""That's Life!"" also had some humorous spots, such as readings of amusing misprints sent in by viewers; it also featured comic songs that often matched the theme of each show, specially written and performed by artists such as Lynsey De Paul, Victoria Wood, Richard Stilgoe and Jake Thackray. In 1976, Rantzen devised the documentary series ""The Big Time"", which launched Sheena Easton's singing career. ""That's Life!"" was influential in many different ways, not least in the introduction of the videolink for child witnesses in court procedures, and it was responsible for"
"That's Life (1968 TV series) That's Life is a musical comedy series that appeared on the ABC television network in 1968–69, starring Robert Morse and E. J. Peaker as Bobby and Gloria Dickson. The series focused on the lives of Bobby and Gloria, from their first meeting through their marriage, as their lives progressed, through Gloria's pregnancy and childbirth, as well as Bobby's work experiences at the Miller Chalk Company. Characters often broke into song, in the manner of musical plays and movies. Songs included well-known numbers (for example, Morse doing a duet with an office computer on ""Anything You"
"Family Lives Family Lives is a United Kingdom-based charity that works for, and with, parents. Parentline Plus was the result of the merger of three charities: Parentline UK, National Stepfamily Association (NSA) and Parent Network. On 7 September 1999 NSA and Parentline UK held AGMs and agreed formally to merge as FamilyLives. Those AGMs were immediately followed by FamilyLives’ first Board meeting. Parent Network’s merger into the combined charity took place on 31 March 2000. Dorit Braun had led the mergers and became Chief Executive of Parentline Plus (previously appointed Chief Executive of NSA in 1997). She was awarded the"
"Firing Line (TV series) Firing Line (in full, Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. and Firing Line with Margaret Hoover) is an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley Jr. and relaunched with host Margaret Hoover. Under Buckley, 1,504 episodes, over 33 years, made ""Firing Line"" the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host. The program, which featured many influential public figures in the United States, won an Emmy Award in 1969. ""Firing Line"" began on April 4, 1966 as an hour-long show (including breaks) for commercial television, syndicated by"
"is the daughter of the show's star, Mary Nell Santacroce (Catherine Catlin). The Catlins (TV series) The Catlins is an American prime-time soap opera on Superstation TBS that ran from April 1, 1983, to May 31, 1985. Created by Chris McIntyre, it focuses on the lives of two wealthy and feuding families; the Catlin family and the Quinn family. The show is set in Atlanta, Georgia. Catlin family matriarch, Catherine (Mary Nell Santacroce) was widowed. Her son T.J., the head of Catlin Industries, a diversified corporation based in Atlanta and his wife, Annabelle, had five children: sons Matthew, Jonathan and"
"Lifeline (2017 TV series) Lifeline is an American science fiction drama web television series broadcast on the YouTube Red network which began October 11, 2017. Starring Zach Gilford, and Sydney Park. Created by screenwriters Benjamin Freiburger and Grant Wheeler, the show tells the tale of an insurance agency that uses time travel to prevent the deaths of their clients. After the company's best agent, Conner Hooks, accidentally causes his wife's death during a save-gone-bad, he attempts to find her killer while searching for a way to travel back in time and reverse history. The first season consisted of eight episodes."
"Paul Heiney Paul Heiney (born Paul Wisniewski 20 April 1949) has been a radio broadcaster or television reporter in the United Kingdom for over forty years, but remains best-known as a former presenter of ""That's Life!"" He was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, the son of Norbert Wisniewski and Evelyn Mardlin. He changed his surname to Heiney in 1971. He attended Parson Cross Primary School on Halifax Road, Sheffield, and High Storrs Grammar School for Boys. In 1971-74 he was one of the founder broadcasters on BBC Radio Humberside with his programme of music, chat and current affairs titled ""Scunsbygookington"", reflecting"
"Quarterlife Quarterlife (stylized as ""quarterlife"") is an American web series, also briefly an NBC television series in 2008, created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creators of ""Thirtysomething"" and ""Once and Again"", and producers of ""My So-Called Life"". The show is about a group of twenty-something artists who are coming of age in the digital generation. According to its official website, ""Quarterlife"" is the first Internet series to have been created alongside a social networking website, quarterlife.com. The regular cast includes Bitsie Tulloch, Kevin Christy, Mike Faiola, Scott Michael Foster, Michelle Lombardo, Maïté Schwartz, and David Walton. NBC announced"
"means “big sister”. Soon, Billimoria realized that it could take days for a street child to receive help in an emergency, and her idea for Childline was born. Billimoria wanted to network the various organizations that give assistance to children together. Ultimately, Billimoria was inspired to start a twenty-four-hour hotline that could provide immediate response to the needs of Bombay’s street children. Since then, Childline has expanded into forty-two cities, 120 organizations implement the service, and as of October 2002, Childline has fielded over 2.7 million calls. Childline is an organization that deeply cares for the rights of a child,"
"CityLine CityLine is a Canadian talk show and lifestyle television program hosted by Tracy Moore produced for the Citytv network at flagship station CITY-DT. Each show has a theme that changes daily. These include ""Around the House"", ""Family Day"", ""Home Day"", and ""Fashion Friday"". It is Canada's longest running, daytime show specifically targeted to women. Originally hosted by Dini Petty, the show was hosted by Marilyn Denis between September 1989 and May 23, 2008. Subsequent to Denis's departure to host ""The Marilyn Denis Show"" for CTV, a series of guest hosts were used, including Jessica Holmes, Jennifer Valentyne, Jody Vance,"
"and 7:00 pm and the musical performances edited out. The show currently airs in reruns on Monday and Saturday nights on The Splat. All That All That is an American live-action, sketch comedy-variety show created by Dan Schneider, Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin, which originally aired on the Nickelodeon cable television network from April 16, 1994, to October 22, 2005, lasting ten seasons. The series was produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions (later Schneider's Bakery during the final season). The pilot episode was originally shown as a special ""sneak peek"", with the show officially debuting a regular series on December 24, 1994."
"That's Life! (film) That's Life! is a 1986 American comedy-drama film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews. The film was made independently by Edwards using largely his own finances and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Although Columbia released the film, Artisan Entertainment (now Lionsgate) holds the rights to distribute it on DVD. ""That's Life!"" was shot in Edwards and his wife Andrews' own beachside home in Malibu and features their family in small roles, including two daughters. Lemmon's son Chris Lemmon plays his character's son Josh, while his wife Felicia Farr puts in a brief"
"John Charles Daly John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly (February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991), generally known as John Charles Daly or simply John Daly, was an American radio and television personality, CBS News broadcast journalist, ABC News executive and TV anchor and a game show host, best known as the host and moderator of the CBS television panel show ""What's My Line?"" The second of two brothers, Daly was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his American father worked as a geologist. While in Johannesburg Daly attended Marist Brothers College. After his father died of a tropical fever, Daly's"
"""The New York Times"" called the series ""an affable car wreck of a sitcom"". Ray Richmond of ""Variety"" said that it is ""an uncomfortably crude"" series that ""looks to be a jarringly insular, Hollywood vision of how the gentiles must live"". In response to the Easter episode, which aired on April 7, 1998, the series was denounced by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights as ""the most anti-Catholic television show ever"". That's Life (1998 TV series) That's Life is an American television sitcom that premiered March 10, 1998, on ABC. The series is about a blue-collar family living"
"Children's Health Fund Children's Health Fund (CHF) is a non-profit organization that provides health care to children and families on mobile medical clinics throughout the United States. CHF was founded in 1987 by singer/songwriter Paul Simon and pediatrician/advocate Irwin Redlener, M.D.. The organization began with a single mobile medical unit funded by Simon and designed by Redlener's wife, Karen. More than 20 years later, the organization has 23 programs with more than 50 mobile medical units and is the nation's leading provider of mobile-based health care for homeless and low-income children and their families. Karen Redlener remains with CHF, currently"
"areas where many calls were coming in reporting sick children, and even trained police officers to be more aware of children on the streets around them. This ethical fiber is often influenced by a relative who has strong morals and makes an impact on an entrepreneur’s early life. Jeroo Billimoria began Childline as a leveraged nonprofit. As her employees she hired young men and women who had once been street children themselves. These employees could easily spread the word about Childline to the children and understand how best to serve them. Many of her policies were influenced by listening to"
"programmes. As a producer her credits include ""ChildWatch"", which involved the creation of a helpline, which in turn developed into ChildLine. Caplin was also responsible for ""Drugwatch"", which featured an appearance by the Princess of Wales as well as ""Crime The Shocking Truth"" and the pilot for ""Crimewatch"". In 1989 she was appointed Editor of ""Watchdog"", and was responsible for hiring Anne Robinson as the presenter. In 1995 she was appointed Deputy Secretary of the BBC and in 1997 was headhunted to join Granada TV as the Editor of ""This Morning"". Caplin quit after three months because of what was"
"Play staff member during the live stream of Desert Bus For Hope 2017, but only provided the information that they have a blog post planned for when they aren't busy. Child's Play (charity) Child's Play is a charitable organization that donates toys and games to children's hospitals worldwide. It was founded in 2003 by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, authors of the popular video games-related webcomic ""Penny Arcade"". The charity is seen as a way to refute mainstream media's perception of gamers as violent and antisocial. As of 2017, Child's Play had processed $40,292,852 in donations since its inception. With"
"would air on Channel 5, with Rantzen presenting alongside Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford. The original purpose of the programme was consumer protection, particularly safety issues. The importance of wearing seat belts, for example, was illustrated before attitudes supporting their use became widespread. Britain's telephone helpline for children, ChildLine, was developed by Rantzen following items on the programme. Awareness for the need for child organ transplants was increased through the 1985 death of Ben Hardwick, a toddler whose liver disease was followed by the show. In tribute, Marti Webb released a version of the Michael Jackson song ""Ben"". The programme"
"launched ChildLine with a specially written jingle (by B. A. Robertson) which featured the free phone number 0800 1111. On that first night in October 1986, fifty thousand attempted calls were made to the helpline. ChildLine now has twelve bases around the UK, including two in Northern Ireland, two in Scotland and two in Wales. The NSPCC merged with ChildLine in 2006, enabling it to expand in an effort to meet demand. The helpline has now been copied in 150 countries around the world. In 2013, Rantzen set up the charity The Silver Line for elderly people, to help combat"