6-454: Pepper Dennis is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on The WB from April 4 to July 4, 2006. It was announced on May 17, 2006 that Pepper Dennis would not be one of the WB shows transferred to The CW . Pepper Dennis was the final new series to premiere on the network. The series stars Rebecca Romijn as Pepper Dennis, a television reporter for an evening news broadcast at
12-534: A lower joke rate than sitcoms . In the very influential Greek theatre , plays were considered comedies or tragedies. This concept even influenced Roman theatre and theatre of the Hellenistic period . Theatre of that era is thought to have long-lasting influence, even in modern narrative works. Even today, works are often classified into two broad buckets, dramas and comedies. For instance, many awards that recognize achievements in film and television today, such as
18-693: The Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards segregate several award categories into these two classifications. The 20th century saw a rise in film and television works that could be described as comedy-dramas. The term is a translation from the French "comédie dramatique". The portmanteau "dramedy" came to be in the 1980s. In January 2022, Rafael Abreu, writing for the StudioBinder filmmaking blog, defined this genre as follows: A dramedy
24-408: The portmanteau dramedy , is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and drama . In films, serious dramatic themes (such as death, illness, etc.) are dealt with realism and subtlety, while preserving a humorous tenor. In television, modern scripted comedy dramas tend to have more humour integrated into the story than the comic relief common in drama series but usually contain
30-465: The fictional television station WEiE (specifically with a small i ) in Chicago . The series also starred Rider Strong as Chick, Pepper's cameraman who has an unrequited crush on her, Brooke Burns as Pepper's sheltered and somewhat flaky sister Kathy Dinkle, Lindsay Price as Kimmy Kim, Pepper's closest friend and WEiE's makeup artist and Josh Hopkins as Charlie Babcock, the station's news anchor. One of
36-631: The focal points of the show was the love-hate relationship between Pepper and Charlie. The song used in commercials for the show was " Black Horse and the Cherry Tree " by KT Tunstall , and the opening theme song is "Better Half" by Chris Trapper , the former frontman for the Boston pop group The Push Stars . Another song that the WB used for advertising "Pepper Dennis" was Morningwood 's " Nth Degree " which also appeared in another WB drama, One Tree Hill . Comedy-drama Comedy drama , also known by
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