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43-648: Hit the Floor , originally titled Bounce , is an American sports drama television series that debuted on VH1 on May 27, 2013. Created by James LaRosa, the series chronicles the off-the-court drama surrounding the Los Angeles Devil Girls, the cheerleaders for the Los Angeles Devils, a fictional professional basketball team. On April 27, 2017, the series was renewed for an eight-episode fourth season that premiered on BET on July 10, 2018. The network canceled

86-412: A large country house and given clues to solve the mystery. Tom Stoppard 's The Real Inspector Hound is a send-up of crime fiction novels and features a bumbling detective. The 2019 film Knives Out is a modern take on the classic whodunit by deconstructing the narrative form and adds a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. The term whodunit is also used among homicide investigators to describe

129-448: A mansion, attempting to identify a killer whose identity is recorded on a hidden card. A murder mystery game is a form of live-action "whodunit" experience, where guests at a private party are given notes to perform the roles of the suspects, detective and murderer over the course of an evening. There are a number of murder mystery dinner theaters , where either professional or community theatre performers take on those roles, and present

172-430: A more richly developed sport world, and may also be more player-oriented or thematically complex. Often, they feature a hero of adventure origins and a clear distinction between loss and victory set against each other in a play time struggle. Thematically, the story is often one of "our team" versus "their team"; their team will always try to win, and our team will show the world that they deserve recognition or redemption;

215-563: A plan to destroy the Devils. New Devil Girls London Scott ( Teyana Taylor ) and Jamie Lawson (Kyndall) clash, and Derek is frustrated with new rookie player Pax Lowe (Cort King). After the cancellation of the series, creator James LaRosa announced the resolutions of several storylines. Notes: Hit the Floor was announced by VH1 in April 2012. The series was created and executive produced by LaRosa, alongside Bryan Johnson and Maggie Malina. The pilot

258-542: A reunited Jelena and Terrence secretly plot to take over the Devils and oust Lionel, and Zero's unwillingness to go public becomes an obstacle to his fledgling relationship with Jude. From jail, Devils owner Oscar Kinkade ( Don Stark ) seeks vengeance against Sloane, who has rekindled her romance with Pete. Season four finds Ahsha and Zero gone from the Devils and Los Angeles, leaving Derek and Jude to navigate new relationships. A vengeful Eve Vincent ( Tiffany Hines ), Olivia's daughter with Chase Vincent ( Rick Fox ), arrives with

301-415: A secret, Pete's estranged wife Lionel ( Jodi Lyn O'Keefe ) becomes a regular presence at the arena, and a devious new forward named Zero ( Adam Senn ) arrives with a plan to supplant star players Terrence Wall ( Robert Christopher Riley ) and Derek. Zero seduces—and eventually gets burned by—Jelena, before he becomes sexually involved with his male agent, Jude Kinkade ( Brent Antonello ). In season three,

344-409: A seemingly unassailable case against a suspect. He then learns that that suspect cannot be a murderer, and that while he found nearly all of the truth, his conclusion is wrong. Then, at the end of the novel, another character tells Trent that he always knew the other suspect was innocent, because "I shot Manderson myself." These are Trent's final words to the killer: Another example of a spoof, which at

387-554: A specific moment in history like I, Tonya (2018). Examples of this overall genre/type include: Body and Soul (1947), The Hustler (1961), Rocky (1976), Hoosiers (1986), Remember the Titans (2000), Lagaan (2001), Moneyball (2011), Ford v Ferrari (2019), Ferrari (2023) and the Goal! trilogy. There have been numerous sports movies that have become award winning phenomenons. Several films have been nominated for and won

430-410: A split gaze on the narrative itself. The two tales coexist and interweave with the first tale focusing on the crime itself, what led to it, and the investigation to solve it while the second story is all about the reconstruction of the crime. Here, the diegesis , or the way the characters live on the inquiry level creates the phantom narration where the objects, bodies, and words become signs for both

473-427: Is clear that this genre is loved by many. Whodunit A whodunit (less commonly spelled as whodunnit ; a colloquial elision of "Who [has] done it?") is a complex plot -driven variety of detective fiction in which the puzzle regarding who committed the crime is the main focus. The reader or viewer is provided with the clues to the case, from which the identity of the perpetrator may be deduced before

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516-400: Is restored to a threatened social calm. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary , the term "WhoDunIt" was coined by News Of Books reviewer Donald Gordon in 1930, in his review of the detective novel " Half-Mast Murder " written by Milward Kennedy . Journalist Wolfe Kaufman claimed that he coined the word "whodunit" around 1935 while working for Variety magazine. However, an editor of

559-421: The murder mystery to an audience, usually in conjunction with a meal. Typically before or immediately following the final course, the audience is given a chance to offer their help in solving the mystery. An important variation on the whodunit is the inverted detective story (also referred to as a howcatchem or howdunnit ) in which the guilty party and the crime are openly revealed to the reader/audience and

602-463: The "British" style. Still others, such as Rex Stout , Clayton Rawson and Earl Derr Biggers , attempted a more "American" style. During the Golden Age, the genre was dominated by female authors. In addition to Christie, Brand, Sayers, Mitchell, and Tey, major writers also included Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh . Over time, certain conventions and clichés developed which limited surprise on

645-420: The Devils, Pete Davenport ( Dean Cain ), is her biological father. Ahsha is also tempted by bad boy player Derek Roman ( McKinley Freeman ), even though she is already involved with German Vega ( Jonathan McDaniel ). Season two is overshadowed by the murder of Olivia Vincent ( Charlotte Ross ), who was blackmailing several people associated with the Devils. Meanwhile, Ahsha and Derek try to keep their relationship

688-515: The Floor outside of the United States. The series premiered on May 27, 2013, and the first season was the No. 1 new cable scripted series of mid-2013 among the adults 18–49 viewership demo. VH1 announced the renewal for a second season on July 15, 2013. Season two production began on January 31, 2014, and premiered on May 26, 2014. The season featured a whodunit story involving Olivia's murder, and LaRosa

731-459: The detective and the reader to interpret and draw their conclusions from. For instance, in a detective novel, solving a mystery entails the reconstruction of the criminal events. This process, however, also involves on the part of the detective the production of a hypothesis that could withstand scrutiny, including the crafting of findings about cause and motive as well as crime and its intended consequences. This discourse of explanation constitutes

774-487: The field of crime fiction. Examples of pastiche are the Sherlock Holmes stories written by John Dickson Carr , and hundreds of similar works by such authors as E. B. Greenwood . As for parody, the first Sherlock Holmes spoofs appeared shortly after Conan Doyle published his first stories. Similarly, there have been innumerable Agatha Christie send-ups. The idea is to exaggerate and mock the most noticeable features of

817-490: The highest award of Best Picture at the Academy Awards , including Chariots of Fire (1981), Rocky (1976), and Million Dollar Baby (2004). Other movies that received awards of a high caliber are Jerry Maguire (Best Supporting Actor, 1996), Bull Durham (Best Original Screenplay, 1988), and The Karate Kid (Best Supporting Actor, 1984). Regardless of the awards that these sports films have been granted, it

860-499: The magazine, Abel Green , attributed it to his predecessor, Sime Silverman . The earliest appearance of the word "whodunit" in Variety occurs in the edition of August 28, 1934, in reference to a film adaptation of the play Recipe for Murder , as featured in the headline, "U's Whodunit: Universal is shooting 'Recipe for Murder,' Arnold Ridley 's play". The film was eventually titled Blind Justice . The "whodunit" flourished during

903-462: The original and, by doing so, amuse especially those readers who are also familiar with that original. There are also "reversal" mysteries, in which the conventional structure is deliberately inverted. One of the earliest examples of this is Trent's Last Case (1914) by E. C. Bentley (1875–1956). Trent, a very able amateur detective, investigates the murder of Sigsbee Manderson. He finds many important clues, exposes several false clues, and compiles

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946-432: The part of the reader – vis-à-vis details of the plot – the identity of the murderer. Several authors excelled, after successfully misleading their readers, in revealing an unlikely suspect as the real villain of the story. They often had a predilection for certain casts of characters and settings, with the secluded English country house at the top of the list. One reaction to the conventionality of British murder mysteries

989-482: The players cast as jurors who are given the scenario of the murder, the evidence presented by the prosecutor and defendant, two photographs of the crime scene and ballot papers. Players are challenged to make the decision as to who is guilty, before a real solution is read out. The 1948 board game Cluedo , released as Clue in North America, was the first murder mystery board game, and sees players as visitors in

1032-414: The same process of deduction as the protagonist throughout the investigation of a crime. This engages the readers so that they strive to compete with or outguess the expert investigator. A defining feature of the whodunit narrative is the so-called double narrative . Here, one narrative is hidden and gradually revealed while the other is the open narrative, which often transpires in the present time of

1075-493: The same time shows that the borderline between serious mystery and its parody is necessarily blurred, is U.S. mystery writer Lawrence Block 's novel The Burglar in the Library (1997). The burglar of the title is Bernie Rhodenbarr, who has booked a weekend at an English-style country house just to steal a signed, and therefore very valuable, first edition of Chandler 's The Big Sleep , which he knows has been sitting there on one of

1118-566: The same vein is Iles's Before the Fact (1932), which became the Hitchcock movie Suspicion . Successors of the psychological suspense novel include Patricia Highsmith 's This Sweet Sickness (1960), Simon Brett 's A Shock to the System (1984), and Stephen Dobyns 's The Church of Dead Girls (1997). In addition to standard humor, parody , spoof, and pastiche have had a long tradition within

1161-411: The second narrative besides the primary story relating to the crime. The double narrative is cited as a main distinguishing element between the whodunit and the thriller . The whodunit goes backward as it goes forward, reconstructing the timeline of both crime and investigation, while the thriller coincides with the action in a single story. According to Tzvetan Todorov , in terms of temporal logic ,

1204-534: The series on December 7, 2018. Ahsha Hayes ( Taylour Paige ) becomes the newest member of the Devil Girls, the cheerleaders for the professional basketball team, the Los Angeles Devils, and immediately makes an enemy of Devil Girl captain Jelena Howard ( Logan Browning ). Knowing that her mother Sloane ( Kimberly Elise ) used to be a Devil Girl herself, Ahsha is shocked to discover that former player-turned-coach of

1247-779: The series' eight-episode fourth season premiered on July 10, 2018. LaRosa said in August 2018 that he had already planned out a potential fifth season. However, BET canceled the series on December 7, 2018. Sports drama The first sports film was released 1915, this was during the era of silent films. Several sub-categories of sports films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in live action, are somewhat fluid. The most common sports subgenres depicted in movies are sports drama and sports comedy. Both categories typically employ playground settings, match, game creatures and other elements commonly associated with biological stories. Sports films tend to feature

1290-520: The series, and series creator James LaRosa confirmed that Paige and Senn would not be returning for season four. Teyana Taylor was cast in an undisclosed role in October, and four new regular cast members were announced in November 2017: Tiffany Hines as "mystery woman" Eve, Cort King as rookie player Pax, Kyndall as new dancer Jamie, and Kristian Kordula as reporter Noah. Production began in November 2017, and

1333-541: The shelves for more than half a century. Alas, immediately after his arrival a dead body turns up in the library, the room is sealed off, and Rhodenbarr has to track down the murderer before he can enter the library again and start hunting for the precious book. Murder by Death is Neil Simon 's spoof of many of the best-known whodunit sleuths and their sidekicks . In the 1976 film, Sam Spade (from The Maltese Falcon ) becomes Sam Diamond, Hercule Poirot becomes Milo Perrier, and so on. The characters are all gathered in

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1376-547: The so-called " Golden Age " of detective fiction, between the First and Second World Wars , when it was the predominant mode of crime writing. Many of the best-known writers of whodunits in this period were British — notably Agatha Christie , Nicholas Blake , G. K. Chesterton , Christianna Brand , Edmund Crispin , Michael Innes , Dorothy L. Sayers , Gladys Mitchell and Josephine Tey . Others – S. S. Van Dine , John Dickson Carr and Ellery Queen — were American, but imitated

1419-485: The sport they are playing and trying to get back into it. Examples and staples of the genre include The Waterboy , The Longest Yard , Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby , and Blades of Glory . Sports drama combines the sports film genre with drama film elements. These films rely on conflict, usually revolving around an athlete or a team. These dramas can further be broken up into categories, some movies focusing on race such as 42 (2013), or focusing on

1462-528: The squad. The pilot was ordered to series in July 2012, with Logan Browning , Jonathan McDaniel and McKinley Freeman signing on to the main cast. Don Stark , who plays Oscar Kinkade, the owner of the basketball team, and Robert Christopher Riley , who plays star player Terrence, were upgraded to series regulars after being billed as guest stars in the pilot. In April 2013, Starz Distribution finalized an international television distribution agreement to represent Hit

1505-434: The story does not always have to involve a team. The story could also be about an individual athlete or the story could focus on an individual playing on a team. Sports comedy combines the sports film genre with comedy film elements. Traditionally, these films heavily rely on slapstick humor and very physical comedy, such as someone getting hurt in a comical way. A typical storyline may revolve around someone losing sight of

1548-620: The story follows the investigator's efforts to find out the truth while the criminal attempts to prevent it. The Columbo TV movie series is the classic example of this kind of detective story ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent and The Streets of San Francisco also fit into this genre). This tradition dates back to the inverted detective stories of R Austin Freeman , and reached an apotheosis of sorts in Malice Aforethought written by Francis Iles (a pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley ). In

1591-417: The story provides the revelation itself at its climax . The investigation is usually conducted by an eccentric, amateur, or semi-professional detective . A whodunit follows the paradigm of the traditional detective story in the sense that it presents crime as a puzzle to be solved through a chain of questions that the detective poses. In a whodunit, however, the audience is given the opportunity to engage in

1634-465: The story. This feature has been associated with the Russian literary terms syuzhet and fabula . The former involves the narrative presented to the reader by the author or the actual story as it happened in chronological order while the latter focuses on the underlying substance or material of the narrative. The double narrative has a deep structure but is specific, particularly when it comes to time and

1677-498: The third season renewal of Hit the Floor . The 10-episode new season premiered on January 18, 2016 and ended on March 28, 2016. In April 2016, VH1 greenlit an hour-long summer special to resolve the cliffhangers raised in the third season finale. The special aired on September 5, 2016. On April 27, 2017, it was announced that the series would move to BET for its future seasons. In October 2017, BET announced that Cain, Elise, Freeman, Bailess, O'Keefe, and Antonello would be returning to

1720-410: The whodunit narrative is considered a paradigm for fiction in general because the story unfolds in relation not to a future event but one that is already known and merely lying in wait. Such certainty pertains to the crime and not to the identity of the culprit, who the reader must anticipate as part of the unknown future. This narrative development has been seen as a form of comedy , in which order

1763-404: Was American " hard-boiled " crime fiction, epitomized by the writings of Raymond Chandler , Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane , among others. Though the settings were grittier, the violence more abundant and the style more colloquial, plots were, as often as not, whodunits constructed in much the same way as the " cozier " British mysteries. The 1935 commercial parlour game Jury Box sees

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1806-458: Was inspired by the 1980s " Who shot J.R.? " storyline on Dallas to shoot multiple resolutions so that even the cast would not know the identity of the killer until the episode aired. Teasing the reveal in the season two finale, LaRosa said, "It's definitely someone you've come to know. It's a name at the top of the credits and I can tell you that you will be shocked ... the reveal gives me chills every single time". On July 29, 2014, VH1 announced

1849-413: Was written by James LaRosa and directed by Sanaa Hamri . Signed on to the pilot was Taylour Paige as Ahsha, the lead; Dean Cain as Pete, the coach of the basketball team; Kimberly Elise as Sloane, Ahsha's mother; Valery Ortiz as Raquel, and Katherine Bailess as Kyle. Following the announcement of the pilot, Charlotte Ross signed on to play Olivia, a former dancer-turned-basketball wife who oversees

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