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(World of Wonder ) is an international media production company based in Hollywood, California. Founded in 1991 by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, the company creates reality and documentary television programs, feature films, and Internet video content with a particular focus on sex, sexuality and the erotic subculture.〔Pike, L (2006). "Channel XYZ: drag queens, club kids, and amateur erotic filmmakers make WOW TV the online outlet for artists on the edge", ''Los Angeles Magazine'', as (archived on gcnext.com ), retrieved April 4, 2009.〕 (World of Wonder )'s Reality TV credits include series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' (Logo), ''Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Francisco'' (Bravo), ''(#CandidlyNicole )'' (Vh1), ''(Big Freedia )'' (Fuse), and ''(Island Hunters )'' (HGTV). The company is best known for producing RuPaul's television show ''The RuPaul Show'', as well as the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise, which consists of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and ''RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race'', spinoff series ''RuPaul's Drag U'' (which was canceled in 2012 after two seasons), and RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked, a behind-the-scenes after show which airs immediately after every new episode of the original and All-Star series. Since its creation, ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' has led to record-breaking ratings hit for Viacom's Logo channel,〔Stransky, T (2009). "(RuPaul on 'Drag Race': Five rules for a killer comeback )", ''(Entertainment Weekly )'', February 26, 2009, retrieved April 4, 2009.〕 and has already completed seven primary seasons and one All Stars season on Logo, VH1 and OUTtv in Canada. Both RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's All-Star Drag Race have been renewed for an eighth and second season respectively. In addition to the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise, the production company is also known for ''Inside Deep Throat'', ''The Eyes of Tammy Faye'', and ''Party Monster'' (both the feature film and "shockumentary"). ==History== World of Wonder operates primarily out of its historic art-deco building on Hollywood Boulevard. Designed by architects S. Tilden Norton and Fredrick H. Wallis and erected in 1930, the building served as the original home of the Directors Guild of America. The World of Wonder Storefront Gallery now occupies the ground floor retail space, with production and management offices occupying the upper three stories. The basement, once home to the legendary punk rock club The Masque, now houses the company's video archive and a sound stage. Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey met in the graduate film program at NYU, in the mid-1980's. Intent on becoming famous, they formed a disco-pop-rock duo called The Fabulous Pop Tarts and began performing regularly at Danceteria and other clubs in downtown New York City.〔 They produced two albums, ''Age of the Thing'' which included their hit single, “New York City Beat”, and ''Gagging on the Lovely Extravaganza'', which included guest appearances by Lady Miss Kier, RuPaul, Martyn Phillips, and Filthy the Dog. World of Wonder was organized initially in order to manage the Fabulous Pop Tarts, and to enable projects in television production and licensing, documentary film-making, and in helping to build the careers of their friends and fellow artists, particularly RuPaul. (World of Wonder ) shares its name with one of its early television documentaries, ''(Died on the 4th of July: Nelson Sullivan's World of Wonder )''. Nelson Sullivan was a central figure in the downtown New York City art and club scene of the 1980s, obsessively videotaping everyone and everything he saw before dying of a heart attack on July 4, 1989. He left behind over 1800 hours of video footage shot over the last ten years of his life. From this archive, (World of Wonder ) created the one-hour documentary portrait of Nelson which aired on UK's Channel 4, and is also included on the DVD release of ''Party Monster: The Shockumentary''. Co-founders Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey authored ''(The World According to Wonder )'' in 2013, celebrating 21 years of production, which is available online at Amazon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World of Wonder (production company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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