title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: In 1930, Princess Andrew was diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a sanatorium in Switzerland; thereafter, she lived separately from her husband. After her recovery, she devoted most of her remaining years to charity work in Greece. She stayed in Athens during the Second World War, sheltering Jewish refugees, for which she is recognised as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Israel's Holocaust memorial institution, Yad Vashem. After the war, she stayed in Greece and founded a Greek Orthodox nursing order of nuns known as the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: After the fall of King Constantine II of Greece and the imposition of military rule in Greece in 1967, Princess Andrew was invited by her son and daughter-in-law to live at Buckingham Palace in London, where she died two years later. In 1988, her remains were transferred from a vault in her birthplace, Windsor Castle, to the Church of Mary Magdalene at the Russian Orthodox convent of the same name on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: Alice was born in the Tapestry Room at Windsor Castle in Berkshire in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. She was the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. Her mother was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the Queen's second daughter. Her father was the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine through his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia Hauke, who was created Princess of Battenberg in 1858 by Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse. Her three younger siblings, Louise, George, and Louis, later became Queen of Sweden, Marquess of Milford Haven, and Earl Mountbatten of Burma, respectively.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: She was christened Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie in Darmstadt on 25 April 1885. She had six godparents: her three surviving grandparents, Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, and Julia, Princess of Battenberg; her maternal aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia; her paternal aunt Princess Marie of Erbach-Schönberg; and her maternal great-grandmother Queen Victoria.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: Alice spent her childhood between Darmstadt, London, Jugenheim, and Malta (where her naval officer father was occasionally stationed). Her mother noticed that she was slow in learning to talk, and became concerned by her indistinct pronunciation. Eventually, she was diagnosed with congenital deafness after her grandmother, Princess Battenberg, identified the problem and took her to see an ear specialist. With encouragement from her mother, Alice learned to both lip-read and speak in English and German. Educated privately, she studied French, and later, after her engagement, she learned Greek. Her early years were spent in the company of her royal relatives, and she was a bridesmaid at the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George V) and Mary of Teck in 1893. A few weeks before her 16th birthday, she attended the funeral of Queen Victoria in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and shortly afterward she was confirmed in the Anglican faith.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: Princess Alice met Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (known as Andrea within the family), the fourth son of King George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia, while in London for King Edward VII's coronation in 1902. They married in a civil ceremony on 6 October 1903 at Darmstadt. The following day, there were two religious marriage ceremonies; one Lutheran in the Evangelical Castle Church, and one Greek Orthodox in the Russian Chapel on the Mathildenhöhe. She adopted the style of her husband, becoming "Princess Andrew". The bride and groom were closely related to the ruling houses of the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Denmark, and Greece, and their wedding was one of the great gatherings of the descendants of Queen Victoria and Christian IX of Denmark held before World War I. Prince and Princess Andrew had five children, all of whom later had children of their own.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: After their wedding, Prince Andrew continued his career in the military and Princess Andrew became involved in charity work. In 1908, she visited Russia for the wedding of Grand Duchess Marie of Russia and Prince William of Sweden. While there, she talked with her aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, who was formulating plans for the foundation of a religious order of nurses. Princess Andrew attended the laying of the foundation stone for her aunt's new church. Later in the year, the Grand Duchess began giving away all her possessions in preparation for a more spiritual life. On their return to Greece, Prince and Princess Andrew found the political situation worsening, as the Athens government had refused to support the Cretan parliament, which had called for the union of Crete (still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire) with the Greek mainland. A group of dissatisfied officers formed a Greek nationalist Military League that eventually led to Prince Andrew's resignation from the army and the rise to power of Eleftherios Venizelos.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: With the advent of the Balkan Wars, Prince Andrew was reinstated in the army, and Princess Andrew acted as a nurse, assisting at operations and setting up field hospitals, work for which King George V awarded her the Royal Red Cross in 1913. During World War I, her brother-in-law King Constantine I of Greece followed a neutrality policy despite the democratically elected government of Venizelos supporting the Allies. Princess Andrew and her children were forced to shelter in the palace cellars during the French bombardment of Athens on 1 December 1916. By June 1917, the King's neutrality policy had become so untenable that she and other members of the Greek royal family were forced into exile when her brother-in-law abdicated. For the next few years, most of the Greek royal family lived in Switzerland.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: The global war effectively ended much of the political power of Europe's dynasties. The naval career of her father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had collapsed at the beginning of the war in the face of anti-German sentiment in Britain. At the request of King George V, he relinquished the Hessian title Prince of Battenberg and the style of Serene Highness on 14 July 1917, and anglicized the family name to Mountbatten. The following day, the King created him Marquess of Milford Haven in the peerage of the United Kingdom. The following year, two of her aunts, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, were murdered by Bolsheviks after the Russian revolution. At the end of the war the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires had fallen, and Princess Andrew's uncle, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, was deposed.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: On King Constantine's restoration in 1920, they briefly returned to Greece, taking up residence on Corfu at Mon Repos (inherited by Prince Andrew on his father's assassination in 1913). But after the defeat of the Hellenic Army in the Greco-Turkish War, a Revolutionary Committee under the leadership of Colonels Nikolaos Plastiras and Stylianos Gonatas seized power and forced King Constantine into exile once again. Prince Andrew, who had served as commander of the Second Army Corps during the war, was arrested. Several former ministers and generals arrested at the same time were shot following a brief trial, and British diplomats assumed that Prince Andrew was also in mortal danger. After a show trial, he was sentenced to banishment, and Prince and Princess Andrew and their children fled Greece aboard a British cruiser, HMS "Calypso", under the protection of the British naval attaché, Commander Gerald Talbot.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: The family settled in a small house loaned to them by Princess George of Greece and Denmark at Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris, where Princess Andrew helped in a charity shop for Greek refugees. She became deeply religious and, in October 1928, converted to the Greek Orthodox Church. That winter, she translated into English her husband's defence of his actions during the Greco-Turkish War. Soon afterward, she began claiming that she was receiving divine messages and that she had healing powers.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: In 1930, Princess Andrew began to behave in a very disturbed manner and claimed to be in contact with Christ and the Buddha. She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, first by Thomas Ross, a psychiatrist who specialised in shell-shock, and subsequently by Sir Maurice Craig, who treated the future King George VI before he had speech therapy. The diagnosis was confirmed at Ernst Simmel's sanatorium at Tegel, Berlin. Princess Andrew was forcibly removed from her family and placed in Ludwig Binswanger's sanatorium in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. It was a famous and well-respected institution with several celebrity patients, including Vaslav Nijinsky, the ballet dancer and choreographer, who was there at the same time as Princess Andrew. Binswanger also diagnosed the princess with schizophrenia. Both he and Simmel consulted Sigmund Freud, who believed that her delusions were the result of sexual frustration. He recommended "X-raying her ovaries in order to kill off her libido." Princess Andrew protested that she was sane and repeatedly tried to leave the asylum.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: During Princess Andrew's long convalescence, she and Prince Andrew drifted apart, her daughters all married German princes in 1930 and 1931 (she did not attend any of the weddings), and Prince Philip went to the United Kingdom to stay with his uncles, Lord Louis Mountbatten and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, and his grandmother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: Princess Andrew remained at Kreuzlingen for two years, but after a brief stay at a clinic in Merano in northern Italy, was released and began an itinerant, incognito existence in Central Europe. She maintained contact with her mother but broke off ties to the rest of her family until the end of 1936. In 1937, her daughter Cecilie, son-in-law, and two of her grandchildren were killed in an air accident at Ostend; she and Prince Andrew met for the first time in six years at the funeral. (Prince Philip and Lord Louis Mountbatten also attended.) She resumed contact with her family, and in 1938 returned to Athens alone to work with the poor, while living in a two-bedroom flat near the Benaki Museum.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: During World War II, Princess Andrew was in the difficult situation of having sons-in-law fighting on the German side and a son in the British Royal Navy. Her cousin, , was the German ambassador in Greece until the occupation of Athens by Axis forces in April 1941. She and her sister-in-law, Princess Nicholas of Greece, lived in Athens for the duration of the war, while most of the Greek royal family remained in exile in South Africa. She moved out of her small flat and into her brother-in-law George's three-storey house in the centre of Athens. She worked for the Red Cross, helped organise soup kitchens for the starving populace and flew to Sweden to bring back medical supplies on the pretext of visiting her sister Louise, who was married to the Crown Prince. She organised two shelters for orphaned and lost children, and a nursing circuit for poor neighbourhoods.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: The occupying forces apparently presumed Princess Andrew was pro-German, as one of her sons-in-law, Prince Christoph of Hesse, was a member of the NSDAP and the Waffen-SS, and another, Berthold, Margrave of Baden, had been invalided out of the German army in 1940 after an injury in France. Nonetheless, when visited by a German general who asked her, "Is there anything I can do for you?", she replied, "You can take your troops out of my country."


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: After the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in September 1943, the German Army occupied Athens, where a minority of Greek Jews had sought refuge. The majority (about 60,000 out of a total population of 75,000) were deported to Nazi concentration camps, where all but 2,000 died. During this period, Princess Andrew hid Jewish widow Rachel Cohen and two of her five children, who sought to evade the Gestapo and deportation to the death camps. Earlier, in 1913, Rachel's husband, Haimaki Cohen, had aided King George I of Greece. In return, King George had offered him any service that he could perform should Cohen ever need it. Years later, during the Nazi threat, Cohen's son remembered this, and appealed to Princess Andrew, who, with Princess Nicholas, was one of only two remaining members of the royal family left in Greece. Princess Andrew honoured the promise and saved the Cohen family.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: When Athens was liberated in October 1944, Harold Macmillan visited Princess Andrew and described her as "living in humble, not to say somewhat squalid conditions". In a letter to her son, she admitted that in the last week before liberation she had had no food except bread and butter, and no meat for several months. By early December, the situation in Athens was far from improved; Communist guerrillas (ELAS) were fighting the British for control of the capital. As the fighting continued, Princess Andrew was informed that her husband had died, just as hopes of a post-war reunion of the couple were rising. They had not seen each other since 1939. During the fighting, to the dismay of the British, she insisted on walking the streets distributing rations to policemen and children in contravention of the curfew order. When warned that she was in danger of being struck by a stray bullet, she replied, "They tell me that you don't hear the shot that kills you and in any case I am deaf. So, why worry about that?"


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: Princess Andrew returned to the United Kingdom in April 1947 to attend the November wedding of her only son, Philip, to Princess Elizabeth, the elder daughter and heir presumptive of King George VI. She had some of her remaining jewels used in Princess Elizabeth's engagement ring. On the day of the wedding, her son was created Duke of Edinburgh by George VI. For the wedding ceremony, Princess Andrew sat at the head of her family on the north side of Westminster Abbey, opposite the King, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary. It was decided not to invite Princess Andrew's daughters (the groom's sisters) to the wedding because of anti-German sentiment in Britain following World War II.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: In January 1949, the princess founded a nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, modelled after the convent that her aunt, the martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, had founded in Russia in 1909. She trained on the Greek island of Tinos, established a home for the order in a hamlet north of Athens, and undertook two tours of the United States in 1950 and 1952 in an effort to raise funds. Her mother was baffled by her actions, "What can you say of a nun who smokes and plays canasta?", she said. Her daughter-in-law became queen of the Commonwealth realms in 1952, and Princess Andrew attended her coronation in June 1953, wearing a two-tone grey dress and wimple in the style of her nun's habit. However, the order eventually failed through a lack of suitable applicants.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: In 1960, she visited India at the invitation of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, who had been impressed by Princess Andrew's interest in Indian religious thought, and for her own spiritual quest. The trip was cut short when she unexpectedly took ill, and her sister-in-law, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, who happened to be passing through Delhi on her own tour, had to smooth things with the Indian hosts who were taken aback at Princess Andrew's sudden change of plans. She later claimed she had had an out-of-body experience. Edwina continued her own tour, and died the following month.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: Increasingly deaf and in failing health, Princess Andrew left Greece for the last time following the 21 April 1967 Colonels' Coup. Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh invited Princess Andrew to reside permanently at Buckingham Palace in London. King Constantine II of Greece and Queen Anne-Marie went into exile that December after a failed royalist counter-coup.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: Despite suggestions of senility in later life, Princess Andrew remained lucid but physically frail. She died at Buckingham Palace on 5 December 1969. She left no possessions, having given everything away. Initially her remains were placed in the Royal Crypt in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on 10 December 1969, but before she died she had expressed her wish to be buried at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem (near her aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, a Russian Orthodox saint). When her daughter, Princess George of Hanover, complained that it would be too far away for them to visit her grave, Princess Andrew jested, "Nonsense, there's a perfectly good bus service!". Her wish was realised on 3 August 1988 when her remains were transferred to her final resting place in a crypt below the church.


title: Princess Alice of Battenberg

text: On 31 October 1994, Princess Andrew's two surviving children, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess George of Hanover, went to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Memorial) in Jerusalem to witness a ceremony honouring her as "Righteous Among the Nations" for having hidden the Cohens in her house in Athens during the Second World War. Prince Philip said of his mother's sheltering of persecuted Jews, "I suspect that it never occurred to her that her action was in any way special. She was a person with a deep religious faith, and she would have considered it to be a perfectly natural human reaction to fellow beings in distress." In 2010, the Princess was posthumously named a Hero of the Holocaust by the British Government.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: Prithviraj Sukumaran (born 16 October 1982) is an Indian actor, director, producer and playback singer primarily working in Malayalam cinema. He has also done Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. He acted in over 100 films in a variety of roles and has received several awards including a National Film Award, three Kerala State Film Awards, a Tamil Nadu State Film Award and a Filmfare Awards South.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: Prithviraj made his acting debut with "Nandanam" (2002), a commercial success. He established himself as a leading Malayalam actor with "Classmates" (2006), the highest-grossing Malayalam film that time. The Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor for "Vaasthavam" made him its youngest recipient at 24. He played a musician in the Tamil romantic comedy "Mozhi" (2007) and ventured into playback singing with "Puthiya Mukham" (2009) before earning his second Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor for medical drama "Ayalum Njanum Thammil" and biographical film "Celluloid".


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: In 2010, Prithviraj joined the production house August Cinema to then headline and co-produce "Urumi" and "Indian Rupee" (both 2011); the latter won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam and Kerala State Film Award for Best Film. He won a Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Villain for "Kaaviya Thalaivan" (2014) before appearing in "Ennu Ninte Moideen" (2015) and "Ezra" (2017). After leaving August Cinema in 2017, he launched Prithviraj Productions independently that firstly backed "9" (2019). Prithviraj made his directorial debut with "Lucifer" (2019), the highest-grossing Malayalam film ever. He has since starred in "Driving License" (2019), "Ayyappanum Koshiyum" (2020) and "Jana Gana Mana" (2022).


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: His family was settled in Tamil Nadu at the time, where he attended Shrine Vailankanni Senior Secondary School in T. Nagar, Chennai, and St. Joseph's Boys School, Coonoor. When the family moved to Kerala, he attended the NSS Public School, Perunthanni. He then moved to St. Mary's Residential Central School, Poojappura where he acted in plays and skits for the school's Annual Day Celebrations. He completed his education at Sainik School, Kazhakootam and Bhavan's Senior Secondary School, Kodunganoor. He also participated and won several debates and elocution competitions while in school. Prithviraj won the title of "Mr LA Fest" in the Annual Inter-School arts festival hosted by Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram in successive years and is the only person to date to win that title twice.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: After school, he studied for a bachelor's degree in Information Technology at the University of Tasmania in Australia. During this time, he auditioned for film director Ranjith and won the lead role in the film "Nandanam". It was film director Fazil who introduced him to Ranjith. His elder brother Indrajith Sukumaran and sister-in-law Poornima Indrajith are also film actors.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: In 2001, Prithviraj underwent a screen-test by director Fazil for one of his projects. Even though that project never materialised, Fazil recommended him to director Ranjith, who was planning his second directorial, "Nandanam" (2002), Prithviraj underwent screen-test for the role and got selected. Though "Nandanam" was the first film that Prithviraj acted in, it was released after "Nakshathrakkannulla Rajakumaran Avanundoru Rajakumari". Prithviraj then appeared in films directed by Lohithadas, Vinayan, Kamal and Bhadran. Shyamaprasad, who cast him in lead role in his film "Akale", said that Prithvi's advantages are his talent and intelligence irrespective of his box office successes.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: In 2006, he played the role of Sub Inspector Solomon Joseph in "Vargam", then appeared in "Vaasthavam", for which he received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor. He was the youngest actor to win the award. The same year he starred in Lal Jose's "Classmates". In 2007, he starred in "Chocolate", directed by Shafi. In 2008, he starred in "Thalappavu", (directed by Madhupal) and "Thirakkatha" (directed by Ranjith), playing pivotal characters in both. One of the reviews of "Thalappavu" describes it as the coming-of-age film for prithviraj describing the "spartan dignity" he brought to his portrayal of the Naxalite Joseph. The Sify review of "Thirakkatha" describes it as a "genuine attempt that keeps the viewer engaged until the end". Both "Thalappavu" and "Thirakkatha" shared the award for the best film in the Film Critics Award for 2008. He also made a special appearance in Anjali Menon's "Manjadikuru".


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: In 2009, the success of Prithviraj Sukumaran's "Puthiya Mukham" (directed by Diphan) lead to him being called a "Superstar". His other releases in 2009 were "Robin Hood" (directed by Joshy) and the anthology film "Kerala Cafe". In 2010, Sukumaran's notable films were "Pokkiri Raja" and "Anwar", directed by Amal Neerad. In 2011, Prithviraj produced his first film, the multilingual "Urumi". Other releases in Malayalam include "City of God", "Manikyakallu", "Veettilekkulla Vazhi" and "Indian Rupee". Reviewers praised Prithviraj Sukumaran for his performance in "Indian Rupee", the critic at Nowrunning.com, who described it as his "career best performance". In 2012, his major releases were "Hero", "Molly Aunty Rocks!" and "Ayalum Njanum Thammil", along with cameo roles in "Aakashathinte Niram" and "Manjadikuru". In 2013, Prithviraj had three releases "Celluloid", "Mumbai Police" and "Memories", all of which were critical and commercial successes. He portrayed J.C. Daniel in "Celluloid", for which he won his second Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: In 2014, Prithviraj's first major release was "London Bridge", which failed at box office; followed by "7th Day", which turned out to become a commercial success. He also did a cameo role in "Munnariyippu". His third release of the year, "Sapthamashree Thaskaraha" was praised by critics and audiences alike. His first release of 2015 was "Picket 43". His second movie of 2015 was Shyamaprasad's "Ivide". Prithviraj was widely praised for his acting in the movie. Varun Blake (Prithviraj's character in "Ivide") is considered to be one of his best performances till the date. He next appeared in Lijo Jose Pellissery's "Double Barrel", which was appreciated for its novelty. His most successful film of the year was "Ennu Ninte Moideen", which narrated the tragic love tale of Kanchanamala and Moideen that happened in the 1960s in Mukkam, a riverside village in Kerala. The film opened to critical acclaim, with several critics regarding it as one of the greatest romance films made in Malayalam. His role as Moideen in the film is regarded as one of the best in his career. His next releases "Amar Akbar Anthony" and "Anarkali" became a major commercial success at the box office, thus completing a hat-trick of hits ending the year.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: Prithviraj had four releases in 2016, debuting with "Paavada", a family drama in which he played a drunkard. It met with a positive response and was a commercial success, grossing 16.34 crore from Kerala box office and ran for 100 days in theatres. His following releases "Darvinte Parinamam" and "James & Alice" met with mixed reviews, the former told the story of an ordinary man dealing with a local goon and the latter was a family drama that discussed the matter of life and death. His last release, "Oozham", an action thriller directed by Jeethu Joseph was a commercial success, earning 15.25 crore in 25 days. He played a demolition expert. In 2017, he starred in the horror film "Ezra", which became one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of the year, grossing 50 crore worldwide, with 33 crore from Kerala box office. He continued the year with "Tiyaan", "Adam Joan" and "Vimaanam". Both "Tiyaan" and "Vimaanam" were moderate box office hits. "Adam Joan" collected around 20 crores at the box office and emerging as a superhit.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: His first release of 2018 was Roshini Dinakar's romantic drama "My Story", a commercial failure at the box office. His next two releases were Anjali Menon's drama "Koode" and Nirmal Sahadev's crime drama "Ranam". "Koode" received critical acclaim and was a commercial success, while "Ranam" met with positive critical response but performed moderately at the box office. In 2018, Prithviraj launched his independent production house, Prithviraj Productions. In 2019, he produced and starred in the science fiction film "9". The film received critical praise for its novelty, actors' performance, direction and cinematography. It was a box office hit. Prithviraj made his directorial debut in 2019 with "Lucifer", starring Mohanlal, the film became the highest-grossing Malayalam film ever.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: In 2005, Prithviraj Sukumaran debuted in Tamil through "Kana Kandaen". In 2006, Prithviraj co-starred with actor Bhagyaraj's daughter Saranya Bhagyaraj in "Parijatham". It has been acclaimed as a hit and gave the actor a turning point in his Tamil film career. In 2007, Prithviraj co-starred in "Mozhi". He also starred in "Satham Podathey" and "Kannamoochi Yenada" in the same year. In 2008, Prithviraj starred in "Vellithirai", the Tamil remake of "Udayananu Tharam". Rediff described his performance: "Prithviraj ... makes the best of his assets – his expressive eyes, which glint in fury, soften with love, or brim over with frustrated tears." The Tamil remake of "Classmates", titled "Ninaithale Inikkum", was released in 2009. He played a cop in Mani Ratnam's "Raavanan" in 2010 with Vikram playing the main protagonist and his performance was critically acclaimed. Prithviraj played one of the main characters in director Vasanthabalan's big budget period film "Kaaviya Thalaivan", in which he co-stars with Siddharth.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: Prithviraj Sukumaran debuted in Telugu through "Police Police", which was released in 2010. Besides, Prithviraj has had many of his Malayalam films dubbed into Telugu such as "Sivapuram" in 2006, which was the dubbing of "Ananthabhadram" and "ATM" in 2010, which was the dubbing of "Robin Hood". The dubbed version of "Urumi" released in August 2011.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: Prithviraj debuted in Bollywood through "Aiyyaa", directed by Sachin Kundalkar. "Aiyyaa", which was jointly produced by Anurag Kashyap and Viacom 18 released on 12 October 2012. His second film "Aurangzeb", directed by Athul Sabharwal, released on 17 May 2013. His performance was highly praised. His next film was "Naam Shabana" in 2017, in which he played the antagonist.


title: Prithviraj Sukumaran

text: Prithviraj married BBC India reporter Supriya Menon on 25 April 2011 in a private ceremony held in Palakkad. They have a daughter, Alankrita born in 2014. His family resides in Thevara, Kochi.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Richard William Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor. He portrayed Wesley Crusher on the television series "", Gordie Lachance in the film "Stand by Me", Joey Trotta in "Toy Soldiers", and Bennett Hoenicker in "Flubber". Wheaton has also appeared in recurring voice acting roles as Aqualad in "Teen Titans", Cosmic Boy on the "Legion of Super Heroes", and Mike Morningstar/Darkstar in the "Ben 10" franchise's original continuity. He appeared regularly as a fictionalized version of himself on the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" and in the roles of Fawkes on "The Guild", Colin Mason on "Leverage", and Dr. Isaac Parrish on "Eureka". Wheaton was the host and co-creator of the YouTube board game show "TableTop". He has narrated numerous audio books, including "Ready Player One" and "Ready Player Two".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton was born July 29, 1972, in Burbank, California, to Debra "Debbie" Nordean (née O'Connor), an actress, and Richard William Wheaton Jr., a medical specialist. He has a brother, Jeremy, and a sister, Amy, each of whom appeared uncredited in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "". Amy appeared alongside Wil in the 1987 film "The Curse".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: As an adult, Wheaton described his father as being abusive to him as a child and his mother as being an enabler of that abuse. He also stated that his parents forced him to become an actor. He is currently estranged from his parents.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton made his acting debut in the television film "A Long Way Home" (1981), which starred Timothy Hutton. He voiced the character of Martin in the animated film "The Secret of NIMH" (1982), the movie adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's book "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" (1971). Wheaton also appeared in "Hambone and Hillie" (1983), "The Buddy System" (1984) (opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon), and "the Last Starfighter".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton first gained widespread attention for his work in "Stand by Me" (1986), the film adaptation of Stephen King's novella "The Body". In "Stand by Me", Wheaton played the lead role of Gordie Lachance, a 12-year-old storyteller mourning the loss of his elder brother. In her review of the film, Sheila Benson of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote that "Wheaton makes Gordie's 'sensitivity' tangible, but not effete. He's a gem". In addition to being successful at the box office, "Stand by Me" was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and became known as a coming-of-age classic.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton played Wesley Crusher, a "boy genius and Starfleet hopeful", during the first four seasons of "". He appeared in an additional four episodes of the remaining three seasons. The Wesley Crusher character is a "polarizing" character; while some Star Trek fans love him, others are vocal about their hatred for the character. Wheaton commented about his critics in a 2004 interview for WebTalk Radio:


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton left "Star Trek: The Next Generation" due to concerns over how the production team addressed a scheduling conflict related to his wish to appear in the 1989 film, "Valmont".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton returned to "Star Trek" in 2002 and 2022, reprising his Wesley Crusher role in cameo appearances in "", and in the season 2 finale of "".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton played Joey Trotta in the action film "Toy Soldiers" (1991). After leaving "Star Trek", he moved to Topeka, Kansas, to work for NewTek, where he helped to develop the Video Toaster 4000 doing product testing and quality control and later used his public profile to serve as a technology evangelist for the product.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Afterward, he returned to Los Angeles, attended acting school for five years, and then re-entered the acting world. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Wheaton appeared in several independent films, including the award-winning "The Good Things" (2001), in which he portrays a frustrated Kansas tollbooth worker. For his performance in "Jane White Is Sick & Twisted" (2002) he received the award for Best Actor at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton has worked as a voice actor in animation, video games and audiobooks, beginning with the role of Martin Brisby in "The Secret of NIMH" at age 10. His most noteworthy credits include the roles of Aqualad in the cartoons "Teen Titans" and "Teen Titans Go!", the voice of radio journalist Richard Burns in "", Kyle in the Nickelodeon cartoon, "Kyle + Rosemary" as well as himself and various other characters on both "Family Guy" and "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy". Wheaton also featured as the second Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, on "", Dr. Peter Meechum in "Generator Rex", Mike Morningstar / Darkstar in "", "" & "". Wheaton took upon the anime roles of Yakumo in "", Menma in "Naruto", Hans in "Slayers Evolution-R", Aaron Terzieff in "Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn". He appeared as himself in a skit on nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot's 2008 album "Final Boss" attempting to be a rapper, whose rhymes only involved shellfish. Wheaton later collaborated with Frontalot on "Your Friend Wil", a track from the 2010 album "Zero Day" on the subject of what Wheaton calls "Wheaton's law": "don't be a dick".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton has narrated a number of bestselling audiobooks, mostly in the science-fiction and fantasy category, including "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline (Wheaton also exists in the novel's universe, described as being joint President along with Cory Doctorow, of the OASIS User Council in the virtual world, which is the setting for much of the book) and its sequel "Ready Player Two", "Armada", also by Cline, "Redshirts" by John Scalzi, "Fuzzy Nation" by Scalzi, and books 6–10 of the "Chronicles of Amber" series by Roger Zelazny.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton was a contestant on a 2001 episode of "The Weakest Link" featuring "Star Trek" actors attempting to win money for charity. He has made guest appearances on the November 23, 2007, episode of the TV series "Numb3rs", and the October 22, 2008, episode of the series "Criminal Minds", and appeared in Internet presentations, including a cameo in a comedy sketch ("Lock Out") for "LoadingReadyRun" (and a reprise of the same the following year, in "CommodoreHustle 4"), and the May 30, 2008, episode of the Internet series "Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show". From 2009 to 2011, Wheaton appeared in seasons 3, 4, and 5 of the web series "The Guild" as Fawkes, the leader for a rival guild known as Axis of Anarchy. Wheaton credits his roles in "Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show" and "The Guild" for reigniting his career by encouraging him to seek out roles as the "Villain You Love To Hate" stock character. He also appears in seasons 2, 3, and 4 of the television series "Leverage", as rival computer hacker Colin "Chaos" Mason, antagonist to Leverage team hacker Alec Hardison. He made regular appearances in many web productions for Geek & Sundry, including hosting "TableTop", a board game based show, and "Titansgrave", a roleplaying game based show.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: He appeared as a fictionalized version of himself in 17 episodes of the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", starting in season 3, episode 5: "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary" (2009). On the show, Wheaton behaves in comically petty and manipulative ways towards main character Sheldon Cooper, who regards him as an archenemy until the season 5 episode "The Russian Rocket Reaction", when they make amends and become friends. Wheaton appears in 12 episodes in a recurring, guest-starring role on "Eureka", playing Dr. Isaac Parrish, the head of the Non-Lethal Weapons Lab at Global Dynamics and a thorn in Fargo's side. Wheaton also voices the character of the former scoutmaster and current sous-chef Earl Harlan in the popular dark, surreal-comedy podcast "Welcome to Night Vale".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton played Alexander Rook in the Syfy TV series "Dark Matter," based on the eponymous comic book.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: From September 2006 to September 2007, Wheaton hosted a Revision3 syndicated video podcast called "InDigital" along with Jessica Corbin and Hahn Choi. He hosted a NASA video on the Mars Curiosity rover which landed on Monday August 6, 2012. He has hosted "2nd Watch", interviews with cast members and producers of the science-fiction series "Falling Skies" that appears online after each episode. On April 3, 2014, Wheaton announced on his blog that his new show called "The Wil Wheaton Project" would premiere on the SyFy network at 10pm on May 27 for an initial projected run of twelve episodes. However, on August 29, Wheaton blogged that SyFy canceled the show after only one season. Wheaton has hosted "Star Trek" aftershow "The Ready Room" since the second season in 2020.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: In 2003, Wheaton mentioned his love for the game of poker on his blog. The following year, he began writing more extensively about his poker-playing experiences, including stories about playing Texas hold 'em tournaments locally and in Las Vegas. Eventually, he worked up to regular play, including a run at the 2005 World Poker Tour Championships. On June 23, 2005, Wheaton accepted an invitation to join Team PokerStars. He went on to play in that year's World Series of Poker and was the guest speaker for the 2005 BARGE Banquet. In June 2007, he announced he would no longer be on Team Pokerstars due to changes in the US legal system that would cause poker sites to have to focus on European and Asian markets and held a farewell Pokerstars tournament on June 5, 2007, which he titled "So Long and Thanks for All the Chips".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton is a "Dungeons & Dragons" player, and played during the PAX 2010 event using the 4th edition rules. Wheaton, along with webcartoonists Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade, and Scott Kurtz of PvP, played in front of a live audience. The game was hosted and recorded by Wizards of the Coast with Chris Perkins as the dungeonmaster. Wheaton also played "D&D" 4th edition at the PAX 2011 event using the 4th edition rules, and used the "D&D Next" play test rules at PAX Prime 2012.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton hosts the web series "TableTop" that he created with Felicia Day, in which he explains how to play various card, board, and dice games, then plays the game with celebrity guests. This web series has had over 4.5 million views and raised $1.4 million on Indiegogo for its third series, a record amount for a web series at that time In 2018 it appears in syndication on the TBD cable television.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton starred in the Kickstarter-funded game "There Came an Echo" by Iridium Studios. In "Dungeons and Dragons Online", he became the dungeon master of the Temple of Elemental Evil quests.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Nintendo of America announced on Twitter that Wheaton would be voicing Abraham Lincoln in "". Wheaton announced in February 2015 that he was chosen to provide voiceover talent for the strategy role-playing video game "Firefly Online", a game based on Joss Whedon's "Firefly" sci-fi franchise. Wheaton does the voice narration on the "Secret Hitler" companion app for the "Secret Hitler" social deduction game.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton has spoken out against misogyny in video game culture, and wrote a profile of Anita Sarkeesian for the 2015 Time 100.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: A fictionalized version of Wheaton was included in the comic book "PS 238", in which he harbors the power of telekinesis. Wheaton's debut comic book "The Guild: Fawkes," which he wrote alongside Felicia Day, was released on May 23, 2012.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton has recorded several of his non-self-published books as downloadable audiobooks. These include "Just A Geek", "Dancing Barefoot", "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", "Dead Trees Give No Shelter", "asteraleS", "kamaKiri" and "The Criminal Minds Production Diary", an excerpt from his book "Sunken Treasure".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton has performed improvisational and sketch comedy at the ACME Comedy Theater in Hollywood. He has a traveling sketch comedy/improv troupe called "EarnestBorg9" that performs science fiction-related comedy at conventions.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton runs his own blog, Wil Wheaton Dot Net. Between 2001 and late 2004, he operated a message board, known as "The Soapbox" or "Paracosm", as part of the blog site. Two collections of writings taken from postings to the message board have been published, titled "Boxer Shorts" () and "Boxer Shorts Redux" (). He contributes regularly to the Los Angeles-based Metroblogging site. In June 2005, he became that month's featured Tech writer for the SuicideGirls Newswire.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: In early 2003, he founded the independent publishing company Monolith Press and released a memoir entitled "Dancing Barefoot". Monolith Press was "founded on the idea that publication should not be limited by opportunity." Most of the entries are extended versions of his blog entries. "Dancing Barefoot" sold out three printings in four months. In winter 2003, Wheaton signed to publisher Tim O'Reilly with a three-book contract. O'Reilly acquired "Dancing Barefoot", and published his extended memoirs, "Just a Geek", in summer of 2004. He has since written about his bitterness regarding how the book was marketed, believing it was pitched as a "Star Trek" book when he intended it as more of a personal memoir. Subsequently, in 2007, his next book, "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" was again published by Monolith Press. In 2008, Subterranean Press published a special expanded edition.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: With the release of "Sunken Treasure: Wil Wheaton's Hot Cocoa Box Sampler" in February 2009, instead of using traditional publishing, Wheaton decided to self-publish using Lulu Publishing, releasing paperback and digital copies, something he has continued to do with all his publications since. As a chapbook, "Sunken Treasure" contains several small extracts of various different projects, including two short stories from Ficlets, an ACME comedy sketch, "William's Tell" and a Criminal Minds production diary. The production diary was later released as an audiobook. Later that same year, Wheaton released "Memories of the Future: Volume 1", a humorous critique, as well as an account of Wheaton's own experiences with, and memories of, the first thirteen episodes of "". Closing up 2009, Wheaton published a special edition of "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", which included an afterword by his son, Ryan. "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and "Sunken Treasure" were released on a Creative Commons license.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: In 2017, Wheaton wrote the short story "Laina" for the "Star Wars" anthology "From a Certain Point of View". The book features 40 short stories, each by a different author, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of "Star Wars".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: In 2022, Wheaton published "Still Just a Geek", an annotated memoir that includes extensive (and often constructively self-critical) author's commentary on "Just a Geek", as well as previously unpublished work.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton described himself as a liberal in 2005. In a column that he wrote for Salon.com in 2005, "The Real War on Christmas", Wheaton attacked conservative commentators like Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity for influencing the political views of his parents, with whom Wheaton found himself unable to have political discussions during family get-togethers on holidays like Christmas. His parents were very offended by the article, and he posted a lengthy apology on his site and an interview in which his parents clarified their political views.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Immediately following the Sutherland Springs church shooting on November 5, 2017, Wheaton on Twitter stated in response to Congressman Paul Ryan's call for prayers for the victims that "The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, they'd still be alive, you worthless sack of shit." Wheaton subsequently clarified his opinion after receiving criticism, writing "I apologize to those of you who are sincere people of Faith, who felt attacked by me", but accused "the right wing noise machine" of using his comments "to deflect attention and anger away from the role that unfettered access to weapons of mass murder played in the latest incidence of mass murder in America".


title: Wil Wheaton

text: He has also been vocal about criticizing other entertainers he disagrees with, such as Dave Chappelle, after his "The Closer" special, and PewDiePie, after a Facebook algorithm recommended a PewDiePie fan group to Wil Wheaton.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton married Anne Prince on November 7, 1999, and lives in Arcadia, California, with her and her two sons from a previous relationship. Upon reaching maturity, both sons asked Wheaton to legally adopt them, which he did.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton was roommates with Chris Hardwick while they were both students at UCLA. They met at a showing of "Arachnophobia" in Burbank, California.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: Wheaton lives with complex post-traumatic stress disorder generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression. He supports mental health nonprofit organizations in raising awareness for these conditions.


title: Wil Wheaton

text: In 2022 Wheaton participated in "Celebrity Jeopardy!," playing for the National Women’s Law Center. He reached the finals, defeating Troian Bellisario and Hasan Minhaj in the quarterfinals, and John Michael Higgins and Joel Kim Booster in the semifinals.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Madison Nicole Ziegler (; born September 30, 2002) is an American actress and dancer. She was initially known for appearing in Lifetime's reality show "Dance Moms" from 2011 (at age 8) until 2016. From 2014, she gained wider recognition for starring in a series of music videos by Sia, beginning with "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart", which have in total attracted more than 5 billion views on YouTube. Ziegler has appeared in films, television shows, concerts, advertisements and on magazine covers.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler was a judge on the 2016 season of "", toured with Sia in North America and Australia in 2016 and 2017 and has given dance tours with her sister, Mackenzie. Her 2017 memoir, "The Maddie Diaries", was a "New York Times" Best Seller. Her film roles include Camille Le Haut in the animated film "Ballerina" (2016), Christina Sickleman in "The Book of Henry" (2017), the title role in "Music" (2021), Mia in the high school drama "The Fallout" (2021) and Velma in Steven Spielberg's 2021 "West Side Story".


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler was included by "Time" magazine on its list of the "30 most influential teens" in each year from 2015 to 2017. She was included in the 2023 "Forbes" 30 Under 30 list in the Hollywood & Entertainment category. Her social media presence includes an Instagram account with more than 13 million followers.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Melissa Ziegler-Gisoni and Kurt Ziegler, who owned a mortgage company. She is of Polish, German and Italian descent. Her parents divorced when she was six years old, and her mother married Greg Gisoni in 2013. Ziegler began taking ballet lessons at the age of two and joined the Abby Lee Dance Company at age four, where she trained in tap, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, acro, jazz and aerial dance. Ziegler has a younger sister, Mackenzie, a singer and dancer who appeared with her on "Dance Moms", two older half-brothers from her father's previous marriage, and two older step-siblings from the previous marriage of her stepfather, Greg Gisoni, a vice president at Westinghouse Electric Company.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler attended Sloan Elementary School in Murrysville, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until 2013, when she left to be homeschooled. Ziegler was raised in Murrysville, but as a teenager she began to work and spend most of her time in Los Angeles. From early 2017 to mid-2018, Ziegler dated Australian teenager Jack Kelly, the son of former New York Yankees infielder Pat Kelly. Since 2019 she has been dating singer-songwriter Eddie Benjamin.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: With Abby Lee Dance Company, Ziegler won numerous titles at regional, state and national dance competitions, including the 2014 Dancers Choice Award for Favorite Dancer 17 & Under. In 2010, she performed for Paula Abdul's reality television program "Live to Dance". In 2011, eight-year-old Ziegler and her mother appeared on the first season of Lifetime's "Dance Moms", a reality show about the young dancers on Abby Lee Miller's Abby Lee Dance Company Elite Competition Team and their often quarrelsome mothers. Ziegler "emerged as the preternaturally polished standout on six seasons" on the show, where she continued to appear alongside her mother and younger sister, Mackenzie, until 2016, their last season on the show. In 2013, she made guest appearances on a spin-off program, "Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition". "Dance Moms" helped to make Ziegler "one of the most famous dancers in the entertainment world currently. ... [She inspires] other dancers to pursue their dreams with originality and grace."


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler has appeared in music videos for such artists as Alexx Calise, Sia and Todrick Hall. She gained wide notice, at the age of 11, by starring in the 2014 video for "Chandelier" by Sia, who discovered her on "Dance Moms". The video won the ARIA Music Award for Best Video and received nominations at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year and Best Choreography, winning the latter. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 2015. It has received more than 2 billion views on YouTube, and at one point it was the 13th most viewed YouTube video of all time. Ziegler said of the choreography: "It ... was really out of the box and it expanded me a lot, because I'm used to competition dances where you're like, "Point your legs!" But this time it was like, you just need to let go and feel it."


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: In 2015, Ziegler starred with Shia LaBeouf in "Elastic Heart", another Sia video, which has accumulated more than 1 billion YouTube views. Later that year, Ziegler starred in the music video for "Big Girls Cry" to complete her trilogy of videos from Sia's album "1000 Forms of Fear". She danced to Sia's vocals on several television shows in 2014 and 2015, including "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "Dancing with the Stars", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and "Saturday Night Live", as well as at the Hollywood Bowl. By the end of 2015, she had performed with Sia on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" three times. She also performed to "Chandelier", alongside Sia and Kristen Wiig, at the 2015 Grammy Awards. The "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart" videos were both selected as part of PopSugar's 2016 list of "25 of the Best Dance Videos of the Last Decade". In 2016, Ziegler starred in a fourth Sia video, "Cheap Thrills", from the album "This Is Acting", in which she "delivers another powerful performance". This was followed by a fifth Sia video, later that year, for "The Greatest". Kathleen Hildebrand wrote in "Süddeutsche Zeitung" that anyone who has seen Ziegler's "iconic" movement will never again return to "boringly ordinary" MTV videos. Ziegler continued the collaboration with Sia and the group LSD in the music videos for "Thunderclouds" (2018) and "No New Friends" (2019). She also dances in the 2020 music video for Sia's single, "Together".


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: In 2012, Ziegler's first professional acting job was portraying the character Young Deb on an episode of the Lifetime series "Drop Dead Diva". In 2014, Ziegler appeared as a guest star in Episode 34 of "HitStreak Summer", a made-for-mobile series. She continued her acting career in 2015 with guest spots on the Disney Channel series "Austin & Ally" and ABC Family's "Pretty Little Liars". In January 2016, she guest starred in the episode "Ballet and the Beasts" on Nickelodeon's "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn". She returned to "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn" in January 2017 in the episode "Keeping Up with the Quadashians".


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler voiced the character Camille in the animated film, "Ballerina" (2016), released in the US in 2017 as "Leap!", and played Christina in the feature film "The Book of Henry" (2017). Colin Trevorrow, the director of "The Book of Henry", told "Entertainment Weekly" that Ziegler "is extraordinarily capable. ... She finds whatever emotion she needs to dial in very quickly. No one taught her how to do that she just knows." A reviewer for "Santa Monica Daily Press" wrote that, in "The Book of Henry", "Ziegler ... does a wonderful job with a character forced to hide her pain". In 2019, she narrated a tribute film about her friend Simone Biles for BBC Sport. Ziegler co-starred as the title character in a musical film written and directed by Sia, titled "Music", released in February 2021. Chris Willman, in "Variety", called Ziegler's performance as a non-verbal autistic teenager "not always credible" but commented that she had "no limitations in ... dancing up a storm". Although she received the 2021 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for the role, she received several favorable reviews.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler co-stars in the high school drama film "The Fallout", which premiered in March 2021 at South by Southwest, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the Narrative Feature Film Competition. It was released on HBO Max in January 2022 and in theatres where HBO Max is not available. Ziegler's performance as the popular but lonely Mia was called "stoic yet sensitive and vulnerable", "a staggering performance" and "astounding ... fully realized and complex". She plays Velma in Steven Spielberg's 2021 version of "West Side Story" and has been cast in the leading role, Lindy, in the upcoming film "Bloody Hell", written and directed by Molly McGlynn.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler has modeled for, or represented, such brands as Clean & Clear, Capezio, including their Betsey Johnson line, Target, Ralph Lauren, and Tiffany & Co. She has also been featured on numerous magazine covers and in fashion editorials for "Schön!", "Elle", "Dance Spirit", "Nylon", "Vs.", "Seventeen", "Harper's Bazaar", "People", "Dazed", "Cosmopolitan", "i-D", "Billboard", "Teen Vogue", "Stella", "Maniac", "Vanity Fair Italia", "Flaunt", "Paper" "Galore" and "Russh".


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler and her sister released a fashion line, The Maddie & Mackenzie Collection in 2014. At the 2015 New York Fashion Week, Ziegler acted as a correspondent for "Elle". She launched a casual fashion line, MaddieStyle, for girls and juniors, in 2016. In 2017, she appeared as a guest judge in an episode of "Project Runway" and appeared on the cover of Sia's 2017 album "Everyday is Christmas". In 2018 Ziegler collaborated with Sia on a lipstick, VIVA GLAM Sia, to benefit the M.A.C. AIDS Fund. Ziegler has a make-up collaboration with Morphe Cosmetics and a fashion collaboration with Fabletics. In 2020, she was the model for Kate Spade's signature fragrance advertisements.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler appeared as the featured dancer in the ABC TV special "" in February 2016, during the song "Part of Your World", sung by Kelsea Ballerini and choreographed by Travis Wall. A "Huffington Post" reporter called the number "stunning and graceful". In April 2016, six of her pre-taped performances were projected onto the big screens during Sia's Coachella set, and Ziegler appeared live with Sia at YouTube's Brandcast event in New York City. In May 2016, Ziegler appeared on the season finale of "The Voice" with Sia, dancing to "Cheap Thrills". The following month, she starred in another Todrick Hall video, "Taylor in Wonderland", based on "Alice in Wonderland", dancing to a mash-up of Taylor Swift songs. Also in June, Ziegler joined Fox's "", a television competition for dancers, ages 8 to 14, where she was one of the judges and a guest performer, and danced at Sia's concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. In September 2016, Ziegler performed with Sia at the launch of Apple's iPhone 7 and at the iHeartRadio Music Festival.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: She joined Sia on the singer's "Nostalgic for the Present Tour" from September to November 2016. Ziegler and her sister conducted a dance workshop tour of Australia in January 2017. In March 2017, Ziegler performed at the Dubai World Cup with Sia. In September, Ziegler danced to Sia's song "Rainbow", from , dressed in a wig and outfit that simulated the look of Sia's character in the film. She again performed with Sia on a mini-tour of Australasia in November and December 2017, and later in December, she and Sia returned to the "Ellen" show to perform Sia's song "Snowman". Ziegler and her sister conducted another dance workshop tour of Australia and New Zealand in July 2018 and in the UK in 2019. In July 2019, Ziegler performed at the Fuji Rock Festival with Sia in Japan. She and her sister were guest judges in 2020 on the Quibi dance competition show "Floored".


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler wrote the foreword to Abby Lee Miller's 2014 memoir, "Everything I Learned about Life, I Learned in Dance Class". Ziegler interviewed her friend Millie Bobby Brown for a cover article in the November 2016 issue of "Interview" magazine. In 2017, she released her own memoir, "The Maddie Diaries", which became a "New York Times" Best Seller. Ziegler also wrote a trilogy of novels for middle-grade readers. The series centers on a 12-year-old dancer, Harper, whose family relocates to a new state, as she negotiates the pre-teen challenges of making new friends while earning her place on a competitive dance team. The first novel, "The Audition", was released in 2017, "The Callback" was released in 2018, and "The Competition" followed in 2019.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler has an active social media presence, with more than 13 million Instagram followers, over 1.3 million Twitter followers and over 3 million followers on Facebook. Videos of her dancing have accumulated more than five billion total views on YouTube. Her YouTube channel has more than 3.5 million subscribers.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: In 2012, Ziegler, along with her mother and sister, partnered with Starlight Children's Foundation to help raise awareness for chronically ill youth. In 2016, Ziegler and her sister made a public service announcement for DoSomething.org's Birthday Mail campaign, which enables people to send homemade birthday cards to children living in homeless shelters. The same organization placed the Ziegler sisters on their 2016 list of charitable young celebrities. Ziegler also performed with Travis Wall at Nigel Lythgoe's Dizzy Feet Foundation gala in 2016 to raise funds for dance education programs for low-income children and scholarships for talented students at dance schools in the U.S.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Since 2016, Ziegler has partnered with Dancers Against Cancer, appearing in public service announcements to raise awareness and funding for people battling cancer. She starred in a 2017 ASPCA Public service announcement, set to Sia's song "Puppies Are Forever", to encourage people to adopt shelter and rescue dogs. In 2018, Ziegler teamed up with Sia and MAC Cosmetics, with an ad, choreographed to Sia's song "Helium", for a lipstick with all proceeds to benefit the company's AIDS Fund. She appeared on "Celebrity Family Feud" on July 7, 2019, together with her sister, mother, aunt and dancer Charlize Glass, playing for "My Friend's Place", where they have volunteered in the past, which provides meals for homeless youth in Los Angeles.


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Reviews called Ziegler's work in "Chandelier" "a dazzling dance performance" ("Billboard" magazine); commented that she "dances with such impressive flexibility" ("The Guardian"); thought that her "crisp moves and theatrical mugging were a great fit for Ryan Heffington's imaginative choreography" and praised her "charisma that makes this video mesmerizing: Her dancing makes your memory tingle" ("Rolling Stone"); and said that she "interprets the song's lyrics into something that is deranged, isolated, manic and profound" ("Dazed" magazine). "People" magazine joked that she is "a super-human graceful alien sent from Planet Talented to make us mere mortals look really clumsy". A 2015 feature in "The Huffington Post" praised her artistry:


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ballet choreographer Troy Schumacher told "New York" magazine in 2016: "She has, fascinatingly, really created her own world of dance. When we talk about great dancers, it's definitely a persona that leaves a lasting impression – it's not necessarily the most technically perfect dancer. She's only 13, but there's a strong sense of personality that comes through in her movement that is somewhat iconic." "Billboard"s Jason Lipshutz wrote that Ziegler's live participation in Sia's Nostalgic for the Present Tour "transforms a staged affair into a live one, and a great lineup into an indispensable arena experience" and that she "possesses an astounding control of her physicality. ... [Her] presence adds a mischievous energy, as if replicated movements can't capture the heart behind those wide eyes and deranged smiles." Leslie Ventura of "Las Vegas Weekly" noted that, on the tour, Ziegler's dancing added "dimension and weight to the dramatic vocals." Britt Robson of the "Star Tribune" added, "The clear-cut star was Ziegler, obviously Sia's alter ego. ... Ziegler was a riveting whirlwind, contorting her appendages and facial expressions with equal aplomb, topped by forward flips". Jon Pareles of "The New York Times" wrote that her "frenetic moves and flickering expressions ramp up the songs' emotional stakes". Reviewing Sia's concert in 2017, Richard He of "The Guardian" called Ziegler "a physical virtuoso to match Sia's vocal acrobatics, embodying the songs' emotional turmoil." David James Young of "Junkee" felt that Ziegler's performance "cements her status as one of the great dancers of the modern era. ... She leaves everything out there on the stage". Bonnie Malkin of "The Guardian" wrote that Ziegler's "face and body are extraordinary. ... So expressive, so wild in her movement, so magnetic."


title: Maddie Ziegler

text: Ziegler was named by "Time" magazine as one of the "30 most influential teens of 2015"; she made the list again in 2016 and in 2017. She was also on the "Harpers Bazaar" 2015 list of "19 Rising Style Icons Aged 19 and Under". "Billboard" selected Sia and Ziegler's performance of "Elastic Heart" on "Saturday Night Live" 2015 as one of the 10 Best SNL musical performances since the 1990s, "12-year-old dance phenom Maddie Ziegler ... displayed power, vulnerability, and more than a little weirdness". Ziegler won a 2016 People's Choice Award, a 2016 Teen Choice Award and a 2017 Teen Choice Award. She won a 2017 Shorty Award in one category and received an audience honor in another. In 2018 and 2019, "The Hollywood Reporter" named Ziegler among Hollywood's top thirty stars under age eighteen. In 2018, for the third year in a row, Ziegler won the award for Choice Dancer at the Teen Choice Awards. She was included in the 2023 "Forbes" 30 Under 30 list in the Hollywood & Entertainment category.


title: Bob's Burgers

text: Bob's Burgers is an American adult animated television series created by Loren Bouchard that premiered on Fox on January 9, 2011. The show centers on the Belcher family—parents Bob and Linda and their three children, Tina, Gene, and Louise—who run a hamburger restaurant and often go on adventures of many kinds. The show was conceived by Bouchard after he developed "Home Movies". "Bob's Burgers" is a joint production by Wilo Productions and 20th Television Animation.


title: Bob's Burgers

text: While reviews for the first season were mixed, feedback for subsequent seasons has been much more positive. The series premiere, "Human Flesh", drew in 9.39 million viewers, making it the highest-rated series premiere of the season and finishing ninth in the ratings for the week it aired. Since then, the show has grown to be a critical and cultural success. In 2013, "TV Guide" ranked "Bob's Burgers" as one of the 60 Greatest TV Cartoons of All Time. The series has been nominated for several awards, including the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program eleven consecutive times (2012–2022), winning in 2014 and 2017. Reruns began airing on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim on June 23, 2013 and its sister channel TBS in 2016, and began airing in syndication on local stations in September 2015.


title: Bob's Burgers

text: A comic book series based on the show, published by Dynamite Entertainment, began in September 2014. A soundtrack album was released on Sub Pop Records on May 12, 2017, with a second volume released on August 20, 2021.


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text: The show has been renewed for its twelfth and thirteenth production cycles. In addition, a feature film was released in theatres on May 27, 2022.


title: Bob's Burgers

text: The show centers on the Belcher family—which consists of Bob, his wife Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, and Louise. The family runs a burger restaurant on Ocean Avenue in an unnamed seaside community (informally known as "Seymour's Bay" among the show's writing staff). Episodes typically follow the family's experiences running the restaurant, interacting with the eccentric members of their community, and navigating being a working-class family and business owners.


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text: Episodes will sometimes involve a single storyline involving all of the Belchers, or will have two simultaneous stories for different groups of the family. The family members interact with many recurring characters who are also residents of the town. Bob's Burgers has a few regulars—most frequently Mort from the neighboring crematorium and handyman Teddy. The restaurant has to compete with several other local eateries for business. His biggest rival is Jimmy Pesto, who owns an Italian restaurant called "Jimmy Pesto's Pizzeria," which is located directly across the street and is generally more successful, creating tension between the two owners.


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text: Bob's Burgers is located in a green two-story building which features an apartment on the second floor where the Belcher family lives. The restaurant is sandwiched between two other commercial buildings, one of which houses "It's Your Funeral Home and Crematorium". As a running gag, the other building is shown in the opening credits to be a new business each week, often with names which are elaborate puns.


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text: As well as assisting in the restaurant, the Belcher children all attend Wagstaff School. Several episode plot lines involve the children's escapades in and out of school. Thirteen-year-old Tina, at the beginning of adolescence, struggles with her attraction to boys. The most common target for her affections is Pesto's eldest son, Jimmy Pesto Jr. Eleven-year-old Gene strives to be a musician, very often carrying a keyboard and noodling with it. Nine-year-old Louise is the scheming troublemaker, seeking revenge, riches, or adventure, often dragging her siblings along; she puts on a face of fearlessness but is still afraid of some things (such as the dentist).


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text: "Bob's Burgers" makes occasional use of musical numbers. The closing sequence uses different soundtracks each episode. From season two, a different animation played alongside the credits.


title: Bob's Burgers

text: The Belcher family runs a hamburger restaurant. Despite routinely cycling through the seasons, the characters remain perpetually the same age.


title: Bob's Burgers

text: There are various recurring characters in the series, including Jimmy Pesto Sr. (Jay Johnston, 2011–2021), Bob's primary business rival who owns an Italian-themed restaurant across the street with his friend Trev, and his three sons: Jimmy Jr. (Benjamin), Tina's somewhat oblivious love interest who just wants to dance; and hyperactive and childish twins Andy (Laura Silverman) and Ollie (Sarah Silverman), who are friends of Louise. Other friends, and frenemies, of the Belcher kids include the rebellious yet soft-hearted Zeke (Bobby Tisdale); valley girl Tammy (Jenny Slate) and her sidekick Jocelyn (Roberts); anxious nerd Darryl (Aziz Ansari); and the timid Regular-Sized Rudy (Brian Huskey). Mr. Frond (David Herman) is the always-stressed guidance counselor at their school. The kids often have run-ins with him.


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text: Other recurring characters include Mort (Andy Kindler), the mortician who lives next door; the Belcher family's taciturn mailman Mike Wobbles (Tim Meadows); Linda's flighty sister Gayle (Megan Mullally); and the Belchers' wealthy, meddling and odd landlord, Calvin Fischoeder (Kevin Kline) and his bratty brother Felix (Zach Galifianakis). Sgt Bosco (Gary Cole) is a caustic and cantankerous police officer who helps and hinders the Belchers in their adventures. Bob is frequently antagonized by health inspector Hugo (Sam Seder), Linda's ex-fiancé who holds a grudge against Bob and constantly schemes to get the restaurant shut down, though his plans are often revealed to the Belchers by his easy-going assistant, Ron (Ron Lynch). Other characters include Linda's troubled friend Gretchen; Linda's insufferable parents; several recurring teachers and classmates of the Belcher children; Nat Kinkle, a family friend who helps them with odd jobs; and Marshmallow, a local who comes and goes as she pleases, answers to no one and is truly free.


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text: Creator Loren Bouchard said "Bob's Burgers" came about because Fox's animation brand centers mostly on family, but he also wanted to dabble in workplace comedy. In his original concept, the family were cannibals, but Fox executives convinced him to drop that aspect of the show. However, the idea was referenced in the pilot episode when Louise spreads a rumor that the burgers were made of humans. The show has generally been viewed as a spiritual successor to "King of the Hill", which carried less emphasis on shock comedy and focused more on character-driven humor. "Bob's Burgers" executive producer Jim Dauterive worked on "King of the Hill" for nearly its entire run.


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text: Before the show was aired, the team created a proof of concept so Fox Broadcasting Company knew what to expect if they bought the show. Bouchard, who was living in the Mission District of San Francisco at the time, hired some local artists to work on the pilot. These included Jay Howell, the character designer, and Sirron Norris, the background designer. The test animation featured Bob forgetting about his and Linda's wedding anniversary. This proof of concept eventually turned into the pilot episode. The pilot had the same synopsis as the official first episode (aired in 2011) but had both cosmetic and substantial differences.


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text: "Bob's Burgers" first appeared on the development slate at Fox on August 6, 2009. On December 1, 2009, Fox ordered 13 episodes for the first season. On May 17, 2010, Fox placed the series on the primetime slate for the 2010–11 television season. A special preview aired on Thanksgiving on November 25, 2010.


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text: The setting of the show is officially unnamed, though the town is referred informally among staff writers as "Seymour's Bay". Though informal, the name has appeared during the show: Bob is seen reading a newspaper titled "Seymour's Bay Times" in the season 11 episode "Y Tu Tina También". Series creator Loren Bouchard said early on that the show's location was an indeterminate Northeastern United States shore town (calling the setting a "semi-Springfield"), saying he drew inspiration from several areas (including San Francisco, whose Victorian architecture is mimicked on some of the buildings) for the town's physical appearance. As the show has proceeded, viewers and critics alike have come to a conclusion that the unnamed town is actually in southern New Jersey. The first such episode where the connection is at least attempted is the season three episode "It Snakes a Village,". Additional examples include character Tammy Larsen, who has a phone number with the area code 201, which belongs to the state (although not to the Jersey Shore area). An episode of "Archer" that featured a crossover between the two series has also furthered the narrative: in the episode "Fugue and Riffs," Sterling Archer is discovered to have been "flipping burgers at the Shore" for several weeks due to a case of amnesia where he believes he is Bob Belcher (Archer and Belcher are both voiced by H. Jon Benjamin).


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text: Creator Loren Bouchard serves as the executive producer, alongside developer Jim Dauterive. They have served as executive producers since the first season. Dan Fybel and Rich Rinaldi were promoted to executive producers during season 6. Jim Dauterive later retired after the 9th production cycle and Norah Smith replaced him as co-showrunner in the 10th production cycle.


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text: The current team of writers include Loren Bouchard, Scott Jacobson, Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin, Wendy Molyneux, Holly Schlesinger, Nora Smith, Steven Davis, Kelvin Yu, Dan Fybel, Rich Rinaldi, Jon Schroeder, Greg Thompson, and Katie Crown. Past writers on the show include Jim Dauterive, Kit Boss, Aron Abrams, and Mike Benner. H. Jon Benjamin, Rachel Hastings, Justin Hook, Dan Mintz, and Mike Olsen have also written or co-written episodes. After the writing has been completed, the voice actors read the script as written, but later are allowed to improvise lines. The editors and writer decide what improvised lines make the final cut.


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text: Jay Howell acted as production designer for the show, creating the designs for the main cast, and acting as the blueprint for following designers. For the first nine seasons, character designs were provided by Dave Creek, who would go on to create designs for "The Great North" and "Central Park" before his death in 2021.


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text: "Bob's Burgers" has six main cast members: H. Jon Benjamin as Bob Belcher, John Roberts as Linda Belcher, Dan Mintz as Tina Belcher, Eugene Mirman as Gene Belcher, Kristen Schaal as Louise Belcher, and Larry Murphy as Teddy.


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text: At the "Bob's Burgers" Comic-Con 2018 panel, show creator Loren Bouchard stated they were aware of the predominantly male gender imbalance amongst the voice actors, saying they would "strive to do better...to have balance." He stated one of the driving factors behind this was voice actor Kristen Schaal "reprimanding" them on the issue.


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text: The ingredients of a hamburger fall into place on a white screen, and Bob's hands appear underneath to hold it. The other family members appear around him one at a time, beginning with Linda and ending with Louise. Linda puts her arm around Bob, Tina stands expressionless, Gene plays a sound effect on his keyboard, and Louise poses for the camera. The restaurant then materializes behind them and the neighboring businesses slide into place, with a funeral parlor at screen left, and the street slides into view in front. As the family stands in front of the restaurant (with Gene bouncing in place to the beat of the theme music), a "Grand Opening" banner is placed over the door, followed by a series of mishaps: a fire, an infestation of vermin, and a car knocking down a utility pole so that it smashes the front window of the restaurant. A new banner is hung up after each event: "Grand Re-Opening," "Grand Re-Re-Opening," and finally "Grand Re-Re-Re-Opening." The camera then zooms in on the cheese on the burger Bob is holding (and the restaurant sign during Seasons 1–2), and the view fades in to the start of the episode.


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text: As with other Fox animated series, such as "The Simpsons", the show employs the "changing element" running gag in its opening credits. The gag present on "Bob's Burgers" involves the store next to the restaurant, which has a new, humorously named occupant in every episode (such as "Betty's Machetes" in "Purple Rain-Union"). Additionally, beginning with Season 2, the pest control van in the sequence has the name of a different company on each episode; the van read "Rat's all Folks! Exterminators" on all episodes of Season 1. On certain episodes, an element is changed for a special night (a flash frame saying "HAPPY HALLOWEEN" was shown during the title sequence of "Fort Night").


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text: In an article where the writers of the show rank the best 10 musical numbers of the first three seasons, show creator and theme composer Loren Bouchard explains that the ukulele track in the theme is an edited version of the first recording he did, as well as the first take in 2008. According to Bouchard, if the EQ filter is taken off the original track, there is noise audible from the nightclub below the apartment he was living in when he recorded the theme.


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text: Beginning in season 13, after the telephone pole crashes into the restaurant, an additional segment is added where the sinkhole opens up, referencing the events of "The Bob's Burgers Movie".


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text: The credits sequence of "Bob's Burgers" often features the Belcher family at work. The scene is the kitchen of Bob's Burgers drawn with a black outline over a white background and the characters in full color, with the credits off to the right hand side. The sequence consists of Bob cooking a burger and Louise and Tina doing prep. Bob places the burger on the plate for Louise to give to Linda, who takes it from the window, and a few seconds later Gene walks through the kitchen wearing his burger costume.


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text: Although the kitchen scene is still the main closing sequence the show uses, beginning in season two the producers began to use different elements from the show in the credits. Other times, the scene will play out as usual, but with something from the episode going on in the background.


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text: Every episode features one or more "Today's Special" burgers on a chalkboard on the wall behind the counter. The name of the special is usually a play on words that indicates what comes on the burger (ex.: "It's Fun to Eat at the rYe M C A Burger": Comes with Rye, Mustard, Cheese, and Avocado). Other "Special" burgers are also mentioned by the family without being written on their chalkboard. The joke is often that the play on words is overly complex or obscure, or simply a bad pun.


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text: Adult Swim acquired the cable syndication rights to air "Bob's Burgers" in 2013. Episodes generally air six nights a week on the network, sometimes seven. Adult Swim currently has rights to the first eight seasons of "Bob's Burgers" and recently began airing the episodes on Sundays.


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text: 20th Century Fox Television began distributing "Bob's Burgers" to local stations in 2015. The local stations had rights to the first eight seasons and also had rights to the ninth when the tenth season debuted on Fox. The series also premiered on September 26, 2016, on TBS and airs Mondays afternoons (along with "American Dad!") and on Friday nights. As both are sister channels, TBS has the same rights as Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, and is airing the first eight seasons.


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text: The series joined the FXX lineup on September 24, 2019, starting with the ninth season. In 2023, it will become the exclusive cable network for reruns, which means it will leave the Adult Swim and TBS lineups. This will not affect local syndication stations' rights to rerun the series.


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text: The first season through the current season of the show are available on the iTunes Store for download & Hulu. The first 8 seasons are available from Amazon Video, and all twelve seasons are available on Disney + Star outside of the US. Only season 1 has a brick-and-mortar release, with special features and commentaries for every episode. All other seasons are manufactured-on-demand by Amazon.com, with little-to-no extras. These DVDs have been widely bootlegged, which can be identified by fragile plastic cases and silver-undersided discs. Bouchard has expressed on Twitter his disdain for the inferior picture quality of the official DVD-Rs and the ironically superior quality of the bootlegs.


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text: "Bob's Burgers" initially received mixed reviews for season 1, with a Metacritic score of 54 out of 100. However, by season 2 the ratings had reached a score of 78 out of 100, proving a rise in popularity with praises about its "daffy comedic momentum" and how it is "new and fresh." Rotten Tomatoes gave the first season a 73% score based on 41 reviews with an average rating of 6.1/10. The site's critical consensus states "A modestly immature workplace cartoon, not without potential, that needs to work on finding its rhythm." "The Washington Post" described the show as "pointlessly vulgar and derivatively dull," while Reuters stated that "It's unwise – and unnecessary – to launch an animated sitcom on Fox that appears intent to ape the vulgarity quotient of "Family Guy"." "USA Today" stated that ""Bob's Burgers" isn't very tasty," describing the comedy as just "lop[ing] along, stumbling from one tasteless moment to the next." "The New York Times" described the show as having "a lackadaisical vibe; its humor, no matter how anarchic, slides by in a deadpan monotone."


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text: However, as the first season progressed and concluded and the second began, critics began giving the series praise. Rowan Kaiser of "The A.V. Club" has recalled, "...the show was amusing, yes, and there was certainly potential, but it took half a dozen episodes before it really began to meet that potential." "Season 2" has a Metacritic score of 78 out 100, and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 100% based on 8 reviews.


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text: Season 3 has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 88% based on 8 reviews, Season 4 has a score of 89% based on 9 reviews, season 5 has a score of 100% based on 12 reviews, and season 6 has 100% based on 10 reviews.


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text: "Entertainment Weekly" gave the show an A− grade in its review, remarking that "a comedy this well done is very rare indeed." "Ain't It Cool News" called "Bob's Burgers" "perhaps the funniest half-hour currently airing on broadcast TV" in 2011. In its review, CNN called the show "wickedly funny" and said there are "too many highlights to list here." Speaking about the show during its second season, "The A.V. Club" reviewer Rowan Kaiser said: "After an uneven start, "Bob's Burgers" is becoming one of television's best comedies!" Since the debut of season two of the series, the show's positive reception has increased.


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text: "The A.V. Club" voted "Bob's Burgers" as the 10th best TV show of 2012, the 3rd best show of 2013, the 20th best show of 2014, and the 35th best show of 2015.


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text: After airing, the show became the highest-rated series premiere of the season and also finished 9th in the ratings for the week it aired. Despite this, the ratings went on a slide with ratings expert Bill Gorman of "TV by the Numbers" calling it a "toss up" for renewal before the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on March 11, 2012.


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text: On January 6, 2011, some Fatburger locations were re-branded as "Bob's Burgers" for the day as a promotion. It also offered limited-time offers, such as a free burger giveaway, and a special, "The Thanks a Brunch Burger", on the menu until February 2011. There were also "Bob's Burgers" coupons offered for a free medium Fatburger special. Across the US, four locations were re-branded as "Bob's Burgers": in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Illinois. Two restaurant locations in California continued to use the "Bob's Burgers" appellation into 2016 which are located in La Puente, and Westminster, California.


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text: The season 4 premiere episode of "Archer" features a crossover where the Belcher family is shown, but Bob is revealed to be Sterling Archer (also voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) in a fugue state. Archer has taken the place of Bob Belcher, with Bob inexplicably missing. The menu board touts the "Thomas Elphinstone Hambledurger, with Manning Coleslaw", a play on amnesiac secret agent Tommy Hambledon, a character in a series of novels by Manning Coles.


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text: "Homerland", the season 25 premiere episode of "The Simpsons", features a couch gag in which the Belcher family (skinned yellow according to the standard character coloring of the series) attend a 25th anniversary party in the Simpson family living room with the main characters of their fellow Animation Domination series. Bob made another cameo in the season 27 episode "The Girl Code", where a picture of him is shown, and explaining that the restaurant was boycotted by short people due to an offensive Burger of the Day. The show has also been referenced in season 30 of "The Simpsons" in a couch gag in the episode "My Way or the Highway to Heaven". Homer is stuck in the restaurant and the Belcher family does not understand what he wants. The original five cast members guest starred for the couch gag. "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII", the sixth episode of season 34 of "The Simpsons" featured Linda Belcher, with John Roberts reprising his role.


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text: In the "Family Guy" episode "Space Cadet", the principal shows Peter and Lois a picture of Bob Belcher as a sign that Chris is doing poorly in his Advanced Art class. Peter mutters "I'm very embarrassed", and the principal replies "Well, someone should be". In "Boopa-dee Bappa-dee", Louise is one of many characters Stewie is turned into by Peter using a remote control. "Bob's Burgers" is also mentioned on "He's Bla-ack!" as one of the reasons why "The Cleveland Show" did not succeed. Bob makes a cameo appearance in the hour-long "The Simpsons"-"Family Guy" crossover "The Simpsons Guy". He appears on the same airplane as Homer and Peter in a cutaway about them being a greater team than the Air Force. Peter remarks to Homer that they have to carry Bob, and then Peter points to Cleveland's plane and says "We let that other guy try and look what happened". Cleveland, repeatedly saying "no", crashes in flames. This is a reference to the poor ratings of "Bob's Burgers" and the cancellation of "The Cleveland Show". "Bob's Burgers" has been referenced two times in season 17 of "Family Guy". In "Trump Guy", when Peter and Lois find out that Donald Trump is about to sexually harass Meg, Chris says that "Bob's Burgers" is on the TV. In "Trans-Fat", the Belcher family makes a cameo appearance in the Griffin family home, but only Bob has lines. In this cameo, H. Jon Benjamin voiced Bob, as he works on "Family Guy".


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text: In "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", a character previously known as Dr. Eugene Mirman (played by himself) was renamed "Dr. Gene Belcher" in the episode "Hospice". The character's name was revealed on "Aqua Teen Hunger Force"s creator Dave Willis' Twitter account two hours before the episode. The character had been introduced in 2006, which was five years before "Bob's Burgers" aired.


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text: Seattle rock band Sleater-Kinney collaborated with "Bob's Burgers" and its crew for their 2015 single "A New Wave", from the album "No Cities to Love". The resultant music video featured the band, animated in the cartoon's style, performing for the Belcher children in Tina's bedroom.


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text: In 2016, "The Bob's Burgers Burger Book", edited by series creator Bouchard, was released. There are 75 burger recipes pulled from the fan-based blog "The Bob's Burger Experiment" based on the Specials of the Day that appear on the chalkboard menu in the show.


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text: A sketch from the "Robot Chicken" episode "Boogie Bardstown in: No Need, I Have Coupons" has Bob Belcher compete on "MasterChef Celebrity Showdown", along with SpongeBob SquarePants, Alfredo Linguini, and Jerome "Chef" McElroy. Bob has to cook with what he fears most: pigeons.


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text: On October 4, 2017, Fox announced that a "Bob's Burgers Movie" was in the works to be released on July 17, 2020. Creator Bouchard has said the movie will "scratch every itch the fans of the show have ever had," while being appealing to new audiences. On July 18, 2018, Bouchard said that the script has been submitted and accepted by the studio. The film will be a musical comedy and will involve Louise and her night light Kuchi Kopi inside her fantasy world as a minor subplot.


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text: On November 17, 2019, it was briefly pulled from Fox's release schedule, but the following day it was back on the schedule. On April 3, 2020, Disney announced a delay to April 9, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


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text: In September 2021, the film received a new release date of May 27, 2022. Despite positive reviews from critics and audiences, the box office was below expectations, and it was released on HBO Max and Hulu on July 12, 2022.


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text: Before the film's release, screenwriters Loren Bouchard and Nora Smith expressed interest in making a sequel film. The principal cast, including Benjamin, Schaal, Roberts, Mirman, and Mintz, have also expressed interest in a sequel on the film's commentary.


title: Bob's Burgers

text: A comic book series based on the show, published by Dynamite Entertainment, began its run in September 2014.


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text: A virtual pinball adaptation of the series was developed and released by Zen Studios in 2015, available as an add-on for the games "Zen Pinball 2", "Pinball FX 2" and "Pinball FX 3", as well as a standalone, paid app on iOS and Android. This table is one of four tables featured in the "Balls of Glory" pinball pack produced as a result of Zen's partnership with Fox Digital Entertainment, and features 3D animated figures of the Belcher family.


title: Forward (association football)

text: Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals as well as assisting them. As with any attacking player, the role of the forward relies heavily on being able to create space for attack.


title: Forward (association football)

text: Attacking positions generally favour irrational players who ask questions to the defensive side of the opponent in order to create scoring chances, where they benefit from a lack of predictability in attacking play. Team formations normally include one to three forwards. For example, the common 4–2–3–1 includes one forward. Less conventional formations may include more than three forwards, or none.


title: Forward (association football)

text: The normal role of a striker is to score the majority of goals on behalf of the team. If they are tall and physical players, with good heading ability, the player may also be used to get onto the end of crosses, win long balls, or receive passes and retain possession of the ball with their back to goal as teammates advance, in order to provide depth for their team or help teammates score by providing a pass ('through ball' into the box), the latter variation usually requiring quicker pace and good movement, in addition to finishing ability. Most modern strikers operate in front of the second strikers or central attacking midfielders, and do the majority of the ball handling outside the box. The term "target forward" is often used interchangeably with that of a striker, but usually describes a particular type of striker, who is usually a tall and physically strong player, who is adept at heading the ball; their main role is to win high balls in the air, hold up the ball, and create chances for other members of the team, in addition to possibly scoring many goals themselves. However, the two terms are not necessarily synonymous, with the target forward having developed into a more specialised role, while the centre-forward description is more broad, encompassing many types of forwards.


title: Forward (association football)

text: When numbers were introduced in the 1933 English FA Cup final, one of the two strikers that day wore the number 9 – Everton's Dixie Dean, a strong, powerful forward who had set the record for the most goals scored in a season in English football during the 1927–28 season. The number would then become synonymous with the centre-forward position (only worn that day because one team was numbered 1–11 whilst the other was numbered 12–22).


title: Forward (association football)

text: Centre-forwards have a long history in the game, but the terminology to describe their playing activity has varied over the years. Originally such players were termed inside forwards, creative or deep-lying centre-forwards ("sub forwards"). More recently, two more variations of this old type of player have developed: the second, or shadow, or support, or auxiliary striker and, in what is in fact a distinct position unto its own, the number 10; the former role is exemplified by players such as Dennis Bergkamp (who would play just behind the striker Thierry Henry at Arsenal), Alessandro Del Piero at Juventus, Youri Djorkaeff at Inter Milan, or Teddy Sheringham at Tottenham Hotspur. Other creative players who play further back, such as Diego Maradona, Ronaldinho, Kaká, Michael Laudrup and Zinedine Zidane are often instead described as the "number 10", and usually operate as an attacking midfielder or advanced playmaker.


title: Forward (association football)

text: A centre forward should have good ball control abilities in order to receive the ball and keep it under control, so as to be able to finish off the attack or create a solid scoring chance. They also need to have good split-vision in order to know where to position themselves for a finish or a scoring chance. Finally, a solid set of finishing skills with the head as well as feet is an advantage, as this will lead to a good scoring percentage on attempts on goal.


title: Forward (association football)

text: The centre-forward position is a loosely defined and most often misunderstood description of a player positioned in a free role, somewhere between the out-and-out striker, whether the player is a "target man" or more of a "poacher", and the number 10 or attacking midfielder, while possibly showing some of the characteristics of both. In fact, a term coined by French advanced playmaker Michel Platini, the "nine-and-a-half", which he used to describe the playing role of his successor in the number 10 role at Juventus, Italian playmaker Roberto Baggio, has been an attempt to become a standard in defining the position. Conceivably, a number 10 can alternate as a centre-forward provided that the player is also a prolific goalscorer; otherwise, a mobile forward with good technical ability (dribbling skills and ball control), acceleration, vision, passing, and link-up play, who can both score and create opportunities for a less versatile centre-forward, is more suited. Although they are often given "licence to roam," and either run forward, or drop further back in order to pick up the ball in deeper areas, giving them more time and space in possession, second or support strikers do not tend to get as involved in the orchestration of attacks as the number 10, nor do they bring as many other players into play, since they do not share the burden of responsibility, functioning predominantly in a supporting role as assist providers. In Italy, this role is known as a "rifinitore", "mezzapunta", or "seconda punta", whereas in Brazil, it is known as "segundo atacante" or "ponta-de-lança".


title: Forward (association football)

text: The position of inside forward was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. The inside forwards would support the centre-forward, running and making space in the opposition defence, and, as the passing game developed, supporting him with passes. The role is broadly analogous to the ""hole"" or "second striker" position in the modern game, although here, there were two such players, known as inside right and inside left.