Anthony McPartlin Career Where did he begin his career? McPartlin's first appearance on television was on the children's workshop programme Why Don't You?, Was that the only show he was on? but his big break came when he rose to prominence playing the character of PJ in the CBBC series Byker Grove.
Why was the show important to his career?
Why was the Why Don't You show important to McPartlin's career?
McPartlin's first appearance on television was on the children's workshop programme Why Don't You?, but his big break came when he rose to prominence playing the character of PJ in the CBBC series Byker Grove. It was during his time on the programme that he first met Declan Donnelly, who was cast in the part of Duncan. The pair formed a close friendship on the programme, both socially and professionally, with the men performing as their characters until their departure from the programme in 1993. During their tenure, the pair created a number of hit records under the label of "PJ & Duncan AKA", including the song "Tonight I'm Free" that had been performed on Byker Grove.  From that part onwards, McPartlin and Donnely worked together on television, creating the presenting duo of Ant & Dec. Initially, the pair continued to work in children's television with the Saturday morning hit SMTV Live, before they eventually branched out into gameshows - Friends Like These, PokerFace and Push the Button - along with talent shows - Pop Idol, and Britain's Got Talent - and entertainment programmes - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. The pair continued to maintain work in acting, starring in a tribute to The Likely Lads, in the form of a remake of an episode from the show's sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? entitled "No Hiding Place". In 2006, McPartlin and Donnelly starred together in the film Alien Autopsy.  In 2007, it was discovered that two shows, Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, which he co-presented with Donnelly, had defrauded viewers participating in phone-ins. The latter was produced by the pair's own production company.  In April 2009, Ant & Dec achieved wide international exposure when, as backstage commentators for Britain's Got Talent, they interviewed contestant Susan Boyle, whose audition would become the most viewed YouTube video of the year and whose record album topped sales charts in dozens of countries. CANNOTANSWER
he rose to prominence playing the character of PJ in the CBBC series Byker Grove.
Emily's Reasons Why Not is a television series starring Heather Graham. The show, which was based on the novel of the same name by Carrie Gerlach, published in August 2004, was canceled by its broadcaster, ABC, after a single airing on January 9, 2006. The story revolves around Emily Sanders, a successful career woman in Los Angeles who has been unsuccessful dating. She seeks help from a therapist who recommends that Emily make a list of ten reasons why each of her dating relationships has failed.

The series premise centered on Emily (Graham), an editor of self-help books who is unable to find success in romance. In the premiere episode she ends a bad relationship and adopts a new rule for her romances: if she can list five reasons to break up with a guy, then she does so.  Emily gets help from her friends, among them Josh, whose character is strongly based on gay stereotypes. The show was widely considered a less risqué copycat of Sex and the City.

First episode
In the first episode, she is convinced that the man she was dating was gay when he was actually a devout Mormon practicing chastity before marriage.  His open virginity is presented through gay stereotypes, and his preferred sport, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is described as "the gayest sport there is" by Emily's former boyfriend.

Critical reception
It was reported that ABC committed to the show before seeing a script. Despite heavy promotion by both Sony Pictures Television and ABC, and a viewing average of 6.2 million viewers, the show was pulled after the first episode due to negative reception; production was stopped after filming six episodes. ABC was said to have spent millions on promotion, including airtime, billboards and radio ads, and considered Emily to be the "linchpin" of the network's post-football Monday-night schedule.  The promotion was so heavy and the cancellation so abrupt that some magazines found themselves carrying cover stories about a canceled show. After viewing it, ABC's entertainment president suggested that they considered the show lackluster and unlikely to improve. The New York Times attributed the cancellation in part to the extremely unappealing nature of the main character and the portrayal by Graham.

In 2006, all six episodes of the show aired on Spain's pay-TV channel Cosmopolitan under the title Cinco razones (para no salir contigo) ("Five Reasons (to not go out with you)"), on Sony Entertainment Television (Latin America), on ORF1 in Austria, and on POP TV in Slovenia. It also aired on the cable/satellite channel, FOX Life, in Japan in 2007, titled in Japanese as .

Cast
 Emily Sanders (Heather Graham)
 Reilly Harvey (Nadia Dajani)
 Midas O'Shay (James Patrick Stuart)
 Josh (Khary Payton)
 Glitter Cho (Smith Cho)

Episodes

Home media
Emily's Reasons Why Not – The Complete Series was released on DVD on May 1, 2012. All six episodes produced were included in the set.

References

External links
 
 
 Washington Post article in which the programming chief at ABC discusses why the show was canceled and why it got as far as it did.

American Broadcasting Company original programming
2006 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
2000s American single-camera sitcoms
Television shows based on American novels
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Television shows set in Los Angeles "The Reason Why" is a song by Italian singer-songwriter Lorenzo Fragola, released as his debut single on 5 December 2015, during the week preceding the final of the eight series of Italian talent show X Factor, which was won by Fragola himself.

The song was written by Fragola with Michelle Lily Popovic and Fausto Cogliati. The latter also served as the song's producer.

Background
Fragola started composing the song a few years before it was completed, during a summer holiday when some friends asked him to write a song as a joke while they played the guitar together. He later continued to work on the track, and he chose to perform it during the auditions for the eighth series of X Factor. On 4 December 2016, during the semi-final of the show, each contestant was required to perform a previously unreleased track, and Fragola chose to perform "The Reason Why". The following day, the song was released as a single, together with the other contestant's entries. "The Reason Why" later allowed Fragola to win the X Factor series, on 11 December 2014.

Writing for Italian magazine Panorama, Gianni Poglio described "The Reason Why", as a "pop song written to receive airplay, incisive, immediate, without being trivial". Critics including Alessandro Alicandri and la Repubblicas Anna Puricella also compared the song's sound to the work of British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.

Track listing
 Digital download'
 "The Reason Why" – 3:02

Charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2014 songs
2014 debut singles
English-language Italian songs
Italian songs
Number-one singles in Italy
X Factor (Italian TV series) "Why'd You Lie to Me" is a song by American singer Anastacia from her second studio album Freak of Nature (2001). Written by Anastacia, Damon Sharpe, Greg Lawson, Trey Parker, Damon Butler, and Canela Cox, the song first appeared on the US edition of Anastacia's debut album Not That Kind in March 2001. It was released as the third single from Freak of Nature on August 12, 2002 by Daylight Records and Epic Records.

Critical reception
With a positive review, James Salmon from Yahoo! Music said: "Just when you think she's about to grind to an insipid halt, she snaps out of it with good old fashioned pop rants against the male species ('Why'd You Lie To Me')." Jose Promis from Allmusic compared it to a "Destiny's Child-sounding".

Music video
Directed by Mike Lipscombe and produced by Michael J. Pierce, the music video for "Why'd You Lie to Me" was shot at Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles on July 6–7, 2002. It was later included on Anastacia's first music DVD, The Video Collection. The video is notable for being the first to show the singer without her trademark glasses. Choreography was done by Tina Landon. In June 2010, Anastacia confirmed in her last tour she films a new alternative video of this single and a new music video of "I Thought I Told You That".

Cover versions and media appearances
The song was covered by Operación Triunfo series six finalist Noelia. She sang the song live on May 27, 2008, when the gala show took place. She was nominated by the panel for eviction, but was saved by the teachers. The song is also used as the fanfare to introduce "The Lie of the Day" segment on The Laura Ingraham Radio Show.

Track listings

UK CD1
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (album version)
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (M*A*S*H master mix)
 "Bad Girls" (live at the Brits 2002 with Jamiroquai)
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (video)

UK CD2
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (album version)
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (Kardinal Beats mix)
 "Boom" (album version)
 "Boom" (video)

UK cassette single
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (album version)
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (NDB Nu Soul mix)
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (M*A*S*H master mix)

European CD single
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (album version) – 3:43
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (M*A*S*H master mix) – 7:03

European maxi-CD single
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (album version) – 3:43
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (M*A*S*H master mix) – 7:03
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (M*A*S*H deep club) – 8:14
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (Kardinal Beats mix) – 4:31
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (video)

Australian CD single
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (album version) – 4:02
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (M*A*S*H remix radio edit) – 3:40
 "Why'd You Lie to Me" (Kardinal Beats mix) – 4:31
 "Bad Girls" (live at the Brits 2002 with Jamiroquai) – 4:13

Charts

Release history

References

2001 songs
2002 singles
Anastacia songs
Dance-pop songs
Daylight Records singles
Epic Records singles
Music videos directed by Mike Lipscombe
Song recordings produced by Ric Wake
Songs about betrayal
Songs written by Anastacia
Songs written by Damon Sharpe
Songs written by Greg Lawson