About The Show
Real Simple Television Productions Inc.
Overview
Like the award-winning magazine of the same name, Real Simple television offers strategies to help make your busy life easier and better. The weekly half-hour PBS show — hosted by (from left to right) Cydnee Welburn, Rob Keefe, and Brooke Alexander — presents useful, smart solutions to everyday problems in an appealing, easy-to-follow way.
Want to know how to throw together a delicious last-minute dinner from whatever you have in the refrigerator? How to upgrade supermarket flowers into beautiful centerpieces? How to streamline your schedule? The answers are simple on Real Simple Television — a series unlike anything else on the air.
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Brooke Alexander
Brooke Alexander brings diverse experience to her new role as co-host of Real Simple Television. She began her career as a model in her home state of Hawaii, which quickly led to recurring parts on TV shows, including Hawaii Five-0 and Magnum P.I. In 1994, she originated the role of Samantha Markham on CBS’s daytime drama As the World Turns, for which she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for outstanding female newcomer. Brooke has also racked up experience in the news realm, reporting for both CNN WorldBeat and Fox News. As a working mom, she’s always looking for ways to make daily life easier — and when she finds them, she’s eager to pass them along to Real Simple Television’s viewers.
Rob Keefe
In addition to being a single dad and a marathon runner, Rob Keefe has worked extensively in theater and on television as both a writer and performer. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he has acted with regional theaters in Boston, New York, and San Francisco; his sketch comedy has been featured at New York’s Westbank Café and Red Room theater and at The Improv in Los Angeles; and his film work includes Being Human with Robin Williams. On television, he has appeared on Guiding Light and Comedy Central’s Chappelle’s Show.
Cydnee Welburn
Growing up in Great Falls, Virginia, Cydnee Welburn spent more than a decade studying dance before the acting bug bit her. After earning her acting degree from the School of Theater at Florida State University, she went on to appear in popular television shows (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Dawson’s Creek) and several national commercials (Wendy’s, Papa John’s, Maxwell House). Cydnee is an enthusiastic traveler and volunteers by working with kids at the Theater Garden (a children’s theater company) and The Children’s Aid Society in New York City.
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Aveeno®
AVEENO® is proud to sponsor the debut season of Real Simple Television on PBS. AVEENO® continues to develop product formulations with natural ingredients — like soy and oats — that are clinically proven to deliver real skin care benefits. AVEENO® has been endorsed and recommended by dermatologists and pediatricians for more than 60 years.
Further information can be found at www.aveeno.com
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The Container Store®
The Container Store®, is proud to be a sponsor of Real Simple Television. The Container Store® is committed to simplifying customers’ lives by offering them more than 10,000 products coupled with personalized customer service in each of its 36 stores across the country and online at www.containerstore.com. From the closet to the kitchen to the office and garage – anywhere you work or play – The Container Store® offers solutions to help save space and time. Every day, The Container Store®’s highly trained organization experts offer free space planning using elfa®, its best-selling product. The Container Store®’s work environment has been heralded by Fortune magazine on its annual list of “100 Best Companies to Work For” for the past six years. Further information can be found at www.containerstore.com .
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L’Oreal Paris®
The L'Oréal® Paris Consumer Products Division of L'Oréal® USA, Inc. is a total beauty care company with products for the entire family, including Preference, Excellence Creme, Féria, and Couleur Experte haircolors; Studio Line styling products, the VIVE line of shampoos and conditioners, the L'Oréal® Kids grooming line, Dermo-Expertise skincare, and L'Oréal® Color Cosmetics.
Further information can be found at www.loreal.com
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TIAA-CREF®
TIAA-CREF®, the national financial services organization and provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields, is proud to sponsor Real Simple Television on PBS for the 2006 season. For over 85 years, we’ve been helping to ensure the long term financial well-being of our clients.
Further information can be found at
http://www.tiaa-cref.org.
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| HOSTED BY |
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| EXECUTIVE PRODUCER | Ilene Richardson |
| LINE PRODUCER | Sue Marcoux |
| STORY EDITOR | Jenny Rosenstrach |
| PRODUCERS |
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| DIRECTOR | Ernie Fritz |
| DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY |
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| ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS |
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| CAMERA OPERATOR | Colin Bressler |
| EDITORS |
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| MUSIC |
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| GRAPHICS | Prime Films |
| PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT | Amy Hass |
| POST-PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR | Kristine King |
| POST-PRODUCTION COORDINATOR | Minor Strachen |
| EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT | Lake Serrins |
| FOOD STYLIST | Jeannie Chen |
| PROP STYLIST | Matthew Gleason |
| WARDROBE | Linette Del Monico |
| HAIR & MAKE-UP | Daniel Green |
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| SPECIAL THANKS |
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