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11 unusual facts about What About Brian


AO Recordings

Their music has been included in hit television series including Brothers & Sisters, ALIAS, MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real OC, My Name Is Earl and What About Brian.

Chris Pierce

Chris Pierce's original music has been featured on TV shows like Brothers & Sisters, What About Brian, "Dawson's Creek", "Eli Stone", "Half and Half", "Lincoln Heights", Army Wives, In Plain Sight, and Sister Act among others.

CTV Two Atlantic

Despite the then-pending CTVglobemedia/CHUM merger, CHUM content was actually lowered during the 2006-07 season compared to previous years, with other series from the CTV library – including repeats, "shelf" series like What About Brian, programming from MTV Canada, and timeshifted CTV programming for simsub purposes – making up the balance.

Dan Lerner

What About Brian (2006-2007) - director and co-executive producer

Gabe Sachs

Gabe Sachs, American television producer, has been a writer/producer for a number of primetime television shows including Freaks & Geeks, Just Shoot Me, Undeclared, Life As We Know It, 90210 and What About Brian.

Keith Varon

An independent soft rock musician, several of his songs have been selected to appear on different TV shows, such as MTV's Laguna Beach and its spin-off The Hills as well as Next, ABC's What About Brian and Paradise City on E!.

Mark B. Perry

He has written and produced for the television series The Wonder Years, Law & Order, One Tree Hill, Brothers & Sisters, Pasadena, What About Brian, Windfall, Party of Five, its spin-off Time of Your Time and Ghost Whisperer, the latter three series all starred Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Trust Electricity

Music from Trust Electricity has also been featured on the television programs What About Brian, Fast Inc, and Trauma (TV series).

What About Brian

Howie Day's "Collide" is the song used in the announcement commercials.

The 1970 song "Hey Hey What Can I Do" by Led Zeppelin inspired the theme song and also has lyrics that parallel the show's plot.

In the third verse he comes to the conclusion that he must leave her 'where the guitars play', a sentiment reinforced by the vamp in which the lead singer, Robert Plant, is backed by the rest of the band repeating the two lines; 'Hey hey what can I do' and 'Oh Lord what can I say.'


Joe Pennella

Moving on to television, he worked on such shows as Life Goes On, The Drew Carey Show, The Wayans Bros., Jack & Jill, Ed, Kitchen Condential, Pepper Dennis, What About Brian and other series.