What is "premiere"

Premiere \Pre*mi[`e]re"\, a. fem. [F., prop. fem. of premier first. See Premier, a.] First; chief; as, a premi[`e]re danseuse. -- n. fem.; pl. -mi[`e]res (F. pre*my[^a]r").

1. The leading woman of a group, esp. in a theatrical cast.

2. A first performance, as of a play; a first night.

1889, "first performance of a play," from French première, in phrase première représentation, from fem. of Old French premier "first" (see premier). The verb is recorded from 1940.

n. 1 The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests. 2 The first episode of a television show or a particular season of that show. 3 In a series of narrative works, the installment that is chronologically set first. 4 The leading woman of a group, especially in a theatrical cast. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) Of a film or play, to play for the first time. 2 (context transitive English) To present a film or play for the first time.

n. (context less common English) (alternative spelling of premiere English)

1. adj. preceding all others in time; "the premiere showing" [syn: premier]

2. n. the first public performance of a play or movie

3. v. be performed for the first time; "We premiered the opera of the young composer and it was a critical success" [syn: premier]

4. perform a work for the first time [syn: premier]

A premiere (or , French for "first") is the debut (first public presentation) of a play, film, dance, or musical composition.

Raymond F. Betts attributes the introduction of the film premiere to Sid Grauman.

Premiere was an American and New York City-based film magazine published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., between 1987 and 2010. The original version of the magazine, Première, was established in France in 1976 and is still being published there.

"Premiere" launches the Farscape series. It was written by series creator Rockne S. O'Bannon and directed by Andrew Prowse. It is the only episode in the series whose opening credits lack Crichton's usual voiceover.

Première is the first album by the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra (NBYO), released in November 2003 (see 2003 in music). All tracks were conducted by Principal Conductor Dr. James Mark.

Premiere is the debut album by Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins, released on 5 April 2004, in the UK. It charted at number 31 on the UK Albums Chart, and at number 1 on the UK Classical Album Chart.

Premiere is a side-scrolling platform video game, which Core Design published for the Amiga in 1992 and Amiga CD32 in 1994.

The player takes the role of Clutch, a young film editor, who had the reels for his film stolen from him on the night before the film's premiere. The goal is to get to six different levels, represented as movie sets, and return the film.

Premiere is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from July 1, 1968 to September 9, 1968. The presentations were pilots that were not brought by any of the networks.

Among them were "Lassiter", starring Burt Reynolds, "Crisis", starring Carl Betz and Susan Strasberg, and "Higher and Higher", starring Sally Kellerman and John McMartin. Also seen was "Call to Danger", which was made years earlier as the pilot to ''Mission: Impossible.

A premiere is the first artistic performance of theatrical, musical or other cultural presentations.

Premiere may also refer to:

In film:

• Premiere (1937 film), an Austrian musical crime film
• Premiere (film), a 1938 British mystery film

In television:

• La Première (Ivory Coast), an Ivorian television channel operated by Radiodiffusion Television Ivoirienne
• Premiere, a defunct British television channel
• Réseau Outre-Mer 1, a network of radio and television stations for the overseas departments and territories of France
• Sky Deutschland, a German pay-television platform formerly known as Premiere

• Premiere (TV program), the first commercially sponsored television program to be broadcast in color
• "Premiere" (Farscape episode)
• "Premiere" (The O.C.), the pilot episode of The O.C.

In radio:

• La Première (Belgium), a Belgian radio station operated by RTBF
• La Première (Switzerland), a French-language radio network in Switzerland
• Première Chaîne, a Canadian radio network operated by CBC Radio
• Premiere Networks, also formerly Premiere Radio Networks, a syndication service
• Réseau Outre-Mer 1, a network of radio and television stations for the overseas departments and territories of France

In music:

• Première (Katherine Jenkins album)
• Première (New Brunswick Youth Orchestra album)

In other uses:

• Adobe Premiere Pro, a video-editing software program
• Lincoln Premiere, a 1950s luxury car by the Ford Motor Company
• Première, a term in secondary education in France
• Premiere (magazine), a magazine of films and filmmaking

"Premiere" (also known as "Pilot") is the series premiere of the television series The O.C., which premiered on the Fox network on August 5, 2003. Written by series creator Josh Schwartz and directed by executive producer Doug Liman, the episode depicts the introduction of troubled teenager Ryan Atwood ( Benjamin McKenzie) into the wealthy lifestyle of the Cohen family in Newport Beach, Orange County, California.

The casting directors, Patrick J. Rush and Alyson Silverberg, began selecting the principal cast eight to ten weeks before filming started. The role of Ryan was particularly hard to cast. Seth Cohen ( Adam Brody) was based on Schwartz's experiences at the University of Southern California as a "neurotic Jewish kid from the East Coast in a land of water polo players". Other central characters in the episode are Seth's parents— Sandy ( Peter Gallagher) and Kirsten ( Kelly Rowan)—and teenage next-door neighbor Marissa Cooper ( Mischa Barton).

The series premiere led the first half-hour of its time slot in viewership. It was generally well received by critics, and earned Schwartz a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Screenplay in an Episodic Drama. Rush and Silverberg received an Artios Award nomination for excellence of casting in the Dramatic Pilot category. Originally broadcast and released in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio, it was remastered in a widescreen ratio for the series DVD, released in November 2007. The episode was released on MiniDVD on April 26, 2005, and is available to purchase from video on demand services.

Premiere (known as Prem1ere on air) was the first subscription movie channel that broadcast to Europe via satellite alongside the other European channels of that time, Sky Channel, Music Box and The Children's Channel.

In addition to movies, the channel also showed children television shows in an after school slot fillers. The channel premiered Thundercats years before the BBC 1 launch. It was also the first channel to premiere Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors

Due to losses of around £10 Million and increased competition from Sky Movies, Premiere closed in July 1989. The final film shown was Twice in a Lifetime, followed by a final announcement thanking the viewers as well as mentioned businesses that helped Premiere's transmission and a final ident to end broadcasting.

Premiere is the first commercially sponsored television program to be broadcast in color. The program was a variety show which aired as a special presentation on June 25, 1951 on a five-city network of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television stations. Its airing was an initial step in CBS's brief and unsuccessful campaign to gain public acceptance of its field-sequential method of color broadcasting which had recently been approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the first color television broadcasting standard for the United States.

Premiere is a 1938 British musical mystery film directed by Walter Summers and starring John Lodge, Judy Kelly, Joan Marion, Hugh Williams. In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shoftly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience takes over the investigation.

The film was shot at Elstree Studios. It was a close remake of the 1937 Austrian film Premiere and re-used a number of musical scenes from the original which were dubbed into English.

Premiere is a 1937 Austrian musical crime film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Zarah Leander, Attila Hörbiger and Karl Martell. The wealthy backer of a Viennese musical revue is murdered on the first night of the show. It was Leander's first German language role after previously appearing in Swedish films. On the basis of her performance in the film, Leander was signed by the German Major studio UFA after their major rival, Tobis, had decided she had insufficient star appeal. Her next film To New Shores established Leander as the leading star in Germany.

In 1938 the film was remade in Britain with many of the original musical numbers re-used.