Sometimes companies or guilds require that you show their logo in the end credits where their equipment or members were used.
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More and more people are flocking to the small screen to find daily entertainment. So how can you break put from the pack and get your idea onto the small screen? Skip to content. So they are lower on the cast list but get special recognition because of who they are, which is a box office draw for their star power. Also, there's a set of very specific use of terms used in the cases of Writers, Directors and Producers.
When a team have worked independently and it was put together at the end, each name is linked by "with". In the case where John, Janet and Dave wrote together as a team and Anthony wrote some parts on his own that were added on.
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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. In opening credits for TV shows, why does it say 'with so and so' for some actors? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 8 months ago. Active 1 year, 11 months ago. Viewed 79k times. Improve this question. TVTropes covers this: When the Title Sequence includes credits, there is a whole mess of jockeying for position that goes on.
The dominant position within the credits sequence is either at the very beginning of the list, or at the very end. Jean Smart for Season 5. Regina King for Season 6. In Season 8, Cherry Jones , formerly second or third in the credits, moved to the very back of the list, with Freddie Prinze Jr. Sarah Clarke gets the "And" credit in Seasons 2 and 3. Although only for one episode, Season 5 gave it to Tzi Ma. Season 6 had quite a few.
It goes to Will Patton for Season 7. Karina Lombard Alana has a "with" credit in Season Three. The Addams Family : In the second season, the billing of "featuring Jackie Coogan" was added to the opening credits over the shot of Coogan's face. Alias was notorious for its revolving door-style notion of what makes a "main character" , yet no matter how often the names changed in the opening sequence the first and last spots always remained the same starting with Jennifer Garner and ending with "and Victor Garber ".
When Lena Olin joined the cast it became "with Lena Olin Additionally, the trope also applied In-Universe to Lange's character.
American Odyssey had Anna Friel appear first The Americans had "And Noah Emmerich. Angel initially didn't have an "And" credit, likely due to it only starting out with three cast members. However, starting in Season 4 by which point several more cast members had been added , Alexis Denisof was moved from third-billed to the end of the line and given an "And" credit.
This would last through the end of the series. John Barrowman replaces Thompson's name in the OBB during Seasons 3 and 4 due to the death of Thompson's character near the end of the second.
Season 5 had Josh Segarra replacing Barrowman in the "With" citation. Season 6 then had returning cast member Katie Cassidy replace Segara in the "With" citation. Cassidy eventually gets the citation all to herself in the last two seasons following the death of Blackthorne's character in the Season 6 finale, though she's instead credited as "Special Appearance By".
Harewood has the citation all to himself from Season 4 onwards. Black Lightning has "And James Remar ". Batwoman has "And Dougray Scott ". Lampshaded by JMS in one of the commentary tracks. The two rotated every season for the first four years, then switched every episode in season 5. Batman : "And Yvonne Craig as Batgirl. There's also "Crossroads, Part II" in which, instead of being billed with the rest of the main cast, Katee Sackhoff appears in a special credit, " Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck", right before the episode's end credits.
In both cases, it was done to preserve a surprise. And now Caprica has "And Polly Walker" concluding its main cast list each episode.
Weirdly, in the middle two seasons, Mark Ritts was not last credited, that one went to the assistant, Eliza Schneider. Better Call Saul : " Season 4 has "and Giancarlo Esposito" since McKean is no longer on the show. Bewitched : " Bloodline does this to Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard. Boston Legal never had the same full cast for two consecutive seasons Davis as Alice" ended the credits of The Brady Bunch.
In the last 2 seasons, he was dropped from the main cast but would still get a "Special Guest Star Alyson Hannigan , whose career had recently taken off thanks to the American Pie movies, would be moved to the end with "and In the sixth and final episode, "Claudius", Jones, who played the title character, was promoted to top billing; the cast list instead ended with "And Ralph Bates" who played Claudius' nephew, Caligula.
After Doherty left the show and was replaced by Rose McGowan , Milano's name is moved to the beginning and Holly Marie Combs who was previously credited between the two was upgraded to "And He had still been last in the credits prior to this though, First season episodes of Chico and the Man had "Introducing Freddie Prinze as 'Chico'; starting in the second season, it was "And Starring Freddie Prinze as 'Chico.
Phillip Watters". The final season saw a major overhaul of both the cast and the opening credits. Harmon and Adam Arkin alternated the top billing, and the 'with' honors went to one of the newcomers to the series Code Black has an interesting example.
The show's original star was Maggie Grace as Dr. Christa Lorenson. However, Grace dropped out of the project before the pilot was filmed, and Harden stepped into Grace's role note after which Bonnie Somerville joined the cast to play Christa. This goes away in the second season, because Rob Lowe joined the cast and got "And" billing to finish up the credits. Community also has two: "with Ken Jeong and Chevy Chase.
Cosby Jr. When Gibson also left the show, returning regular Paget Brewster took his "And" place at the end. Damages has this in every season. Ted Danson again gets an "and" in season 3 episodes he appears in. The other cast members simply get their names. James Remar , who plays Harry on Dexter , gets the "and," probably because the character only appears in flashbacks and imaginary conversations , and so isn't considered part of the main cast despite being a prominent character.
Notice the almost complete absence of any British shows on this page? Cast and crew credits on UK television come at the end of an episode, in the manner of films. A relative few also include the principal stars' names in the opening sequence, where you might get the odd "And Doctor Who is one of the fairly rare series to put the lead actors' names front and centre in the opening sequence, and even then has only done so since its Revival.
Typically, you get name of the Doctor and then that of the main companion, without any "starring", "with", "and", etc. The actresses for Sarah Jane and Rose also received the same treatment for the last three episodes of Series 4: " The Stolen Earth " and " Journey's End " made up an epic that brought together all major new-Who characters, the names of main companions going by really fast, followed by "With Elisabeth Sladen and Billie Piper " for the most famous companion in show history and the first companion of the revived series, respectively.
Piper also got the "and" treatment for the episode before them, " Turn Left ". The main actor's face returns late in the Eleventh Doctor era and continues into the Twelfth, the two actors' names coming before it. Lucas' character being something of an Unexpected Character seems the only reason to give his name special treatment you knew if you read everything about upcoming episodes, but if not, you had no reason to expect Nardole, a likeable-but-not-central guest star from the previous episode, to ever show up again, let alone immediately, let alone as a full-time companion.
Doogie Howser, M. Sikking as David Howser. Doom Patrol goes kind of crazy with this, to the extent that there are more specially credited actors on the show than "regular" stars.
Both got an "as" added, but so did all of the supporting characters after the first three leads. When Best was temporarily replaced by Dick Sargent! Dynasty did this with three cast members during its run. Nicholas Toscanni," and the most famous, of course, was "and Joan Collins as Alexis" for the rest of the series. Eastwick only billed the main cast members appearing in that week's episode, and in alphabetical order hence some episodes had the credit "starring ashley benson ," while others might say "starring jon bernthal " - and yes, the type used for the credits was all in lowercase Unusually for the show, episodes in Season 8 in which La Salle does not appear have him removed from the opening titles.
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