108 Facts About Patrick Stewart

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Patrick Stewart has been nominated for Olivier, Tony, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Patrick Stewart received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama in 2010.

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In 1966, Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Patrick Stewart made his Broadway theatre debut in 1971 in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Patrick Stewart gained stardom for his leading role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, its subsequent films, and Star Trek: Picard.

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Patrick Stewart starred as Captain Ahab in the USA Network series Moby Dick, Ebenezer Scrooge in TNT's A Christmas Carol, and King Henry II in Showtime's The Lion in Winter.

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Patrick Stewart became known for his comedic appearances on the NBC sitcom Frasier and the BBC series Extras for which he received Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.

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Patrick Stewart recently starred as the lead of the Starz series Blunt Talk.

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Patrick Stewart gained further stardom when he portrayed Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men series, Logan, and an alternate version of the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

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Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield on 13 July 1940, the son of Gladys, a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a regimental sergeant major in the British Army during the Second World War who later worked as a general labourer and postman.

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Patrick Stewart spent much of his childhood in a poor household in Jarrow, where he experienced domestic violence at the hands of his father.

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Patrick Stewart attended Crowlees Junior and Infant School, a Church of England-affiliated school in Mirfield.

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Patrick Stewart later attributed his acting career to his English teacher there, Cecil Dormand, who "put a copy of Shakespeare in [Stewart's] hand" and told him to get up and perform.

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Patrick Stewart entered Mirfield Secondary Modern School in 1951, aged 11, and continued to study drama there.

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Patrick Stewart supported himself with work as a newspaper reporter and obituary writer for the local newspaper, but quit after one year when his boss gave him an ultimatum to choose acting or journalism.

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Patrick Stewart has said that acting served as a means of self-expression in his youth.

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Patrick Stewart and Blessed later received grants to attend the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

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Patrick Stewart was an associate artist of the company in 1967.

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Patrick Stewart appeared with actors such as Ben Kingsley and Ian Richardson.

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Patrick Stewart made his Broadway debut as Snout in Peter Brook's legendary production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, then moved to the Royal National Theatre in the early 1980s.

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Patrick Stewart appeared as Vladimir Lenin in Fall of Eagles; Sejanus in I, Claudius; Karla in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People; Claudius in a 1980 BBC adaptation of Hamlet.

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Patrick Stewart took the romantic male lead in the 1975 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South.

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Patrick Stewart took the lead, as psychiatric consultant Dr Edward Roebuck, in BBC's Maybury in 1981.

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Patrick Stewart continued to play minor roles in films, such as King Leondegrance in John Boorman's Excalibur, the character Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's Dune, Dr Armstrong in Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce and Henry Grey in Lady Jane, the story of English Queen Lady Jane Grey.

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Patrick Stewart preferred classical theatre to other genres, asking Doctor Who actress Lalla Ward why she would work in science fiction or on television.

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Patrick Stewart knew nothing about the cultural influence of Star Trek or its iconic status in American culture.

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Patrick Stewart was reluctant to sign the standard contract of six years, but did so as he, his agent, and others with whom Stewart consulted, all believed the new show would quickly fail, and that he would return to his London stage career after making some money.

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When Patrick Stewart was picked for the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Los Angeles Times called him an "unknown British Shakespearean actor".

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Patrick Stewart initially experienced difficulty fitting in with his less-disciplined castmates, saying that his "spirits used to sink" when he was required to memorise and recite technobabble.

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Patrick Stewart eventually came to better understand the cultural differences between the stage and television, and his favourite technical line became "spacetime continuum".

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Patrick Stewart remained close friends with his fellow Star Trek actors and became their advocate with the producers when necessary.

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In 1992, during a break in filming, Patrick Stewart calculated that he earned more during that break than from 10 weeks of Woolf in London.

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On 4 August 2018, CBS and Patrick Stewart jointly announced that he would reprise his role as Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek series.

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Patrick Stewart found returning to the stage difficult because of his long absence.

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Patrick Stewart was initially reluctant to sign on to another movie franchise, but his interest in working with director Bryan Singer persuaded him.

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Patrick Stewart has played the role in seven feature films and voiced the role in several video games.

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Patrick Stewart announced that he would be leaving the X-Men film franchise after Logan.

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In 2022, Patrick Stewart portrayed the Professor Xavier of Earth-838 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

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Patrick Stewart portrayed Captain Ahab in the 1998 made-for-television film version of Moby Dick, receiving an Emmy Award nomination and Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance.

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Patrick Stewart starred as Scrooge in a 1999 television film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for his performance.

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In late 2003, during the 11th and final season of NBC's Frasier, Patrick Stewart appeared on the show as a gay Seattle socialite and opera director, who mistakes Frasier for a potential lover.

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Patrick Stewart appeared as a nudity-obsessed caricature of himself in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's television series Extras.

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Patrick Stewart played John Bosley in the 2019 action comedy film Charlie's Angels, released on 15 November.

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Patrick Stewart was a voice actor on the animated films The Prince of Egypt, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Chicken Little, The Pagemaster, The Emoji Movie, the English dubbings of the Japanese anime films Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, by Hayao Miyazaki, and Steamboy, by Katsuhiro Otomo.

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Patrick Stewart supported his home town of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire by lending his voice to a series of videos on the town in 1999.

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Patrick Stewart voiced the pig Napoleon in a made-for-TV film adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm and guest starred in the Simpsons episode "Homer the Great" as Number One.

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Patrick Stewart recorded a narration planned for the prologue and epilogue for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas but the final movie used another voice.

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Patrick Stewart has made several guest appearances on Family Guy in various roles.

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Patrick Stewart appears as narrator in Seth MacFarlane's 2012 film directorial debut, Ted.

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In 2006, Patrick Stewart voiced Bambi's father, the Great Prince of the Forest, in Disney's direct-to-video sequel Bambi II.

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In 1991, Patrick Stewart performed it on Broadway, receiving a nomination for that year's Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show.

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Patrick Stewart staged encore Broadway performances in 1992 and 1994, with the 1993 run held in London and the 1996 production in Los Angeles.

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Patrick Stewart was the co-producer of the show, through the company he set up for the purpose: Camm Lane Productions, a reference to his birthplace in Camm Lane, Mirfield.

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Patrick Stewart had wanted to play the title role since the age of 14, so he and director Jude Kelly inverted the play so Othello became a comment on a white man entering a black society.

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Patrick Stewart has, they say, overcome the technique-destroying indignity of being a major American television star.

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Patrick Stewart played Antony again opposite Harriet Walter's Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the Novello Theatre in London in 2007 to excellent reviews.

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When Patrick Stewart began playing Macbeth in the West End in 2007, some said that he was too old for the role; he and the show again received excellent reviews, with one critic calling Patrick Stewart "one of our finest Shakespearean actors".

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Patrick Stewart was named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre based at St Catherine's College, Oxford in January 2007.

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In 2008, Patrick Stewart played King Claudius in Hamlet alongside David Tennant.

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Patrick Stewart won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor for the part.

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In 2009, Patrick Stewart appeared alongside Ian McKellen as the lead duo of Vladimir and Estragon, in Waiting for Godot.

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Patrick Stewart had previously appeared only once alongside McKellen on stage, but the pair had developed a close friendship while waiting around on set filming the X-Men films.

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Patrick Stewart stated that performing in this play was the fulfilment of a 50-year ambition, having seen Peter O'Toole appear in it at the Bristol Old Vic while Patrick Stewart was just 17.

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Patrick Stewart has been a prolific actor in performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in more than 60 productions.

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On 18 November 2012, Patrick Stewart appeared on stage at St Martin's Theatre in the West End for a 60th anniversary performance of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play.

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Patrick Stewart provided the narration for Nine Worlds, an astronomical tour of the Solar System and nature documentaries such as The Secret of Life on Earth and Mountain Gorilla.

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Patrick Stewart was the narrator for the American release of Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real.

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Patrick Stewart is narrator for two fulldome video shows produced and distributed by Loch Ness Productions, called MarsQuest and The Voyager Encounters.

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Patrick Stewart lent his voice to the Activision-produced Star Trek computer games Star Trek: Armada, Armada II, Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, Star Trek: Invasion, Bridge Commander, and Elite Force II, all reprising his role as Picard.

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Patrick Stewart reprised his role as Picard in Star Trek: Legacy for both PC and Xbox 360, along with the four other "major" Starfleet captains from the different Star Trek series.

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Patrick Stewart lent his voice to several editions of the Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.

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Patrick Stewart voiced the UK and Australian TV advertisements for the PAL version of Final Fantasy XII.

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Patrick Stewart used his voice for Pontiac and Porsche cars and MasterCard Gold commercials in 1996, and Goodyear Assurance Tyres in 2004.

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Patrick Stewart provided the voice of Max Winters in TMNT in March 2007.

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Patrick Stewart voiced the narrator of the Electronic Arts computer game, The Sims Medieval, for the game's introduction cinematic and trailer released on 22 March 2011.

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Patrick Stewart voiced the story plaques and trailer of the MMOG LEGO Universe and the narrator of My Memory Of Us.

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Patrick Stewart stepped down from the chancellorship in July 2015, and was named chancellor emeritus in the installation ceremony for his successor, Prince Andrew, Duke of York.

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Patrick Stewart was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 New Year Honours for services to acting and the cinema and a Knight Bachelor in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to drama.

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Patrick Stewart's knighthood was conferred by Queen Elizabeth II at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 2 June 2010.

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On 16 December 1996, Patrick Stewart received a Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.

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In July 2001, Patrick Stewart received an honorary fellowship from the University of Wales, Cardiff.

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Patrick Stewart is an emeritus fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford.

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Patrick Stewart carried the Olympic torch in July 2012 as part of the official relay for the 2012 London Summer Olympics and stated it was an experience he "will never forget", adding that it was better than any movie premiere.

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Patrick Stewart shared with Hugh Jackman the Guinness World Record for the longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero, for his portrayal of Professor X until December 2021 when they were eclipsed by Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe.

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In May of 2022, Patrick Stewart retook the record by appearing as the character in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

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In 2006, Patrick Stewart made a short video against domestic violence for Amnesty International, in which he recollected his father's physical attacks on his mother and the effect it had on him as a child.

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In 2009, Patrick Stewart gave a speech at the launch of Created Equal, a book about women's rights, talking again about his personal experiences with domestic violence and the impacts they had on him.

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On 15 April 2018 Patrick Stewart attended the launch event of the People's Vote, a campaign group calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal between the UK and the European Union.

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Patrick Stewart has fostered several dogs through Wags and Walks, a dog rescue in Los Angeles, and was honoured at the rescue's annual gala in 2018.

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Patrick Stewart partnered with the ASPCA in 2017 for their National Dog Fighting Awareness Day Campaign.

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Patrick Stewart married his first wife, Sheila Falconer, in 1966; they divorced in 1990.

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In 1997, Patrick Stewart became engaged to American producer Wendy Neuss, one of the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Four months before his divorce from Neuss, Patrick Stewart co-starred with English actress Lisa Dillon in a production of The Master Builder, and the two were romantically involved until 2007.

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In 2008, Patrick Stewart began dating American singer and songwriter Sunny Ozell, whom he had met while performing in Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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Patrick Stewart purchased a home in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighbourhood in August 2012, and subsequently began living there with Ozell.

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In 2020, Patrick Stewart revealed that his marriage to Ozell in Nevada had not been legally binding because McKellen's marriage credentials were not valid in Nevada.

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Patrick Stewart has stated that his politics are rooted in a belief in "fairness" and "equality".

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Patrick Stewart considers himself a socialist and is a member of the Labour Party.

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Patrick Stewart signed an open letter of objection to this proposal in March 2008.

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Patrick Stewart posted on Twitter to confirm that he had been misquoted and denied that he had left the party.

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Patrick Stewart is an atheist and a patron of Humanists UK.

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Patrick Stewart has publicly advocated the right to assisted suicide.

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On 2 March 2017, Patrick Stewart said he was going to apply for US citizenship to oppose the Trump administration.

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In 2015, Patrick Stewart defended the Belfast-based Christian bakers who were penalised for discrimination after refusing to bake a cake with words reading, "Support Gay Marriage".

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Patrick Stewart is an avid car enthusiast, and is regularly seen at Silverstone during British Grand Prix weekends.

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Patrick Stewart conducted the podium interview with the top three finishers in the 2017 Canadian Grand Prix.

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Patrick Stewart holds a Motorsport UK competition licence and competed in the 2012 Silverstone Classic Celebrity Challenge race, finishing ninth, 3 m 02.808 s behind winner Kelvin Fletcher.

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Patrick Stewart is a fan of the Beavis and Butt-Head television series from Mike Judge.