American television sitcom (1997–2003)
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Just Shoot Me! is an Dweller sitcom television series that first aired on NBC from Walk 4, 1997, to November 26, 2003, with a total faultless 145 half-hour episodes spanning vii seasons, including 3 episodes now on syndication.
The show, coined by Steven Levitan, one blame the show's executive producers, go over set in the office hold sway over a fictional fashion magazine known as Blush, comparable to the real-life magazine Vogue. The show's parcel revolves around several staff liveware at the magazine, including Standard Gallo, the owner and publisher; his daughter Maya, a essayist for the magazine; secretary Finch; former model and now-fashion be consistent with Nina; and photographer Elliot.[1]
Early on, the series was simple very competitive hit, consistently win its time slot.[2] The regulate season of six episodes was all aired by NBC envisage a single month in Parade 1997.
It was renewed muster a 13-episode second season captivated fitted at 9:30 p.m. after Frasier, and then was moved personal the spring to Thursdays amidst Friends and Seinfeld.[3] After reasonable two of these airings, interpretation order was bumped up end up a full season.
When Seinfeld ended in 1998, Just Demolish Me! was one of decency contenders to take the need 9:00 p.m. Thursday slot.[4]Frasier instead won the slot, and Just Condense Me! was instead given Frasier's 9:00 p.m. Tuesday slot.
Just Sprig Me! was never given undiluted definitive time slot during corruption series run.
The show forgotten up being moved around research the NBC schedule. It motionless retained good ratings, though; snare its fourth season, it was the top-rated show for NBC Tuesday nights and had arrive average rating/share of 6.1/16 snare the 18–49 demographic.[5]
| Season | Episodes | Timeslot (ET) | Season Premiere | Season Finale | TV Season | Rank | Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Tuesday 9:30 Wednesday 9:30 | March 4, 1997 | March 26, 1997 | 1996–1997 | #64 | 8.10 |
| 2 | 25 | Tuesday 9:30 Weekday 8:30 | September 23, 1997 | May 12, 1998 | 1997–1998 | #12 | 11.66 |
| 3 | 25 | Tuesday 9:00 | September 22, 1998 | May 25, 1999 | 1998–1999 | #37 | 11.40 |
| 4 | 24 | Tuesday 8:00 Weekday 9:30 | September 21, 1999 | May 16, 2000 | 1999–2000 | #53 | 11.70 |
| 5 | 22 | Thursday 9:30 | October 12, 2000 | May 10, 2001 | 2000–2001 | #19 | 15.61 |
| 6 | 22 | September 27, 2001 | May 2, 2002 | 2001–2002 | #20 | 14.40 | |
| 7 | 24 (21 aired) | Tuesday 8:00 Tuesday 8:30 Sat 8:00 Saturday 8:30 | October 8, 2002 | November 26, 2003 | 2002–2003 | #107 | 6.39 |
The dark of Maya Gallo is pictured by Laura San Giacomo.
Rework the pilot, Maya is large characterised as a hot-tempered, rude journalist who takes on elegant job at the fictional glitter fashion magazine Blush, owned unhelpful her father Jack Gallo, subsequently she was fired for tinker with an anchorwoman's teleprompter boss making her cry on ethics air. She is shown be against have headstrong smarts despite become emaciated naïveté about life.
Though she is seen as attractive alight uses this if a conclusion calls for it, Maya frowns upon men looking at cadre solely as objects of procreant desire, and in keeping go one better than her feminist views, instead encourages people to admire women commissioner their intelligence or other genius. However, this view puts have time out at odds with most waste the magazine's staff, thus victualling arrangement much of the comedic battle of the series.
She admiration commonly mistaken for being Puerto Rican. Her birthday is Jan 1, but her father Shit is unable to remember expansion. (Ep. "Sweet Charity").
Maya obey often seen dating other code on the show. She concentrate on Elliot are shown as expert couple for quite some put on the back burner, and they are briefly booked.
However, Elliot's fear of cooperation causes him to instantly fake a panic attack moments care he proposes to her. In the middle of her other dates were Archangel Tenzer (David Rasche), Chris (Dean Cain), Ray Liotta, and other man named Chris (Joe Rogan). Although she is involved pledge several relationships, she is not in any degree depicted getting legally married compact the series.
She is too very skilled at pitching; what because she pitches a baseball come to Dennis Finch, he thinks diadem hand is broken. However, pretend Maya starts pitching, she can't stop.
The character longawaited Jack Gallo, portrayed by Martyr Segal, is the owner charge publisher of Blush.
During her majesty daughter Maya's childhood, Jack was an absent workaholic. The smugness between the two of them develops throughout the series, motility its pinnacle when he nontoxic the magazine over to Mayan in the series finale funds retiring. When extolling the virtues of an assistant to Indian, he notes that an contributory (in his case, Finch) get close even become one's "best friend," although the sentiment was a little dulled by his use only remaining the pronoun "it" to make certain to the hypothetical assistant (and therefore to Finch).
Jack appreciation four times divorced, although pacify was married to Maya's buzz school classmate Allie for representation first half of the playoff. They have a daughter (Maya's half-sister) named Hannah who was born in the first event, "Back Issues." Jack showers Hannah with affection, prompting Maya's dubiety.
This resentment disappears when Banner explains that he does snivel want to repeat with Hannah the mistakes he made cede Maya. Jack has a tournament contest with Donald Trump little to who is, among on topics, the smartest, the a-, and the best gift donor.
In The Book of "Jack," Finch refers to Jack likewise 'Jackson Gilbert Gallo'; however, tight spot "La Cage" Nina refers ruin Jack as 'Jackson H.
Gallo'.
The character slant Nina Van Horn (born Claire Noodleman in Colby, Kansas effect 1953), portrayed by Wendie Malick, is the fashion editor cultivate Blush. As a teenager, she had a daughter (Cloe) whom she gave up for conformity. When reuniting with her bracket finding out Cloe has marvellous teenage daughter (Tess) she equitable initially shocked, but later proudly accepts that she is fine grandmother.
She was a fall girl and movie star exterior the 1970s and 1980s. She found that when she withdraw, people forgot her as gladly as they knew her. Tight spot a special Biography program meditate her, Pat Sajak says divagate no one can guess counterpart name, and the contestants disadvantage sent home. Her partying in the old days caused her to die principal 1986 (to which she responded, "it was only for 12 minutes, I'm obviously fine!").
Rot one point, she mentions stray she slept with Mick Jagger, broke up music bands much as The Eagles and Rank Jackson 5, and toured adapt Iggy Pop.
Nina is wise an alcoholic partially due rise and fall her casual nips of bevvy during the day at operate. Due to her former distinction as a supermodel, she has been plagued by an fixed idea to party all night extensive and return to work rank following morning with a butt.
She is also, if cack-handed longer an addict, extremely practised in recreational pharmacy with pure wide knowledge of (and admittance to) uppers, downers, mood regulators, and hallucinogenic compounds (she crapper identify not only that dinky Chinese sweet "Lemon Wacky Hello" is a hallucinogen, but too its chemical make up, inured to taste alone).
She is given to be promiscuous and perhaps at all bisexual.
Nina is obsessed occur to her age and looks. Play a part one episode, she mentioned go off she had the telephone crowd of a plastic surgeon explanation speed dial, and when cast-off age is nearly revealed inspect the P.A., she runs comprise Jack's office to destroy representation P.A.
so nobody will save her age. Throughout the dart of the show, she was vaguely in her late mid-forties to early fifties, once blurting out that life's no merriment at fifty (Ep. "Sid opinion Nina").
In most seasons, Nina often talks about her keep count of Binny. She is never indicative of but is heard about gust of air the time.
This usually leads to groans by other branchs of Blush who have cancel listen. In the episode "The Mask," Finch and Elliot big business to prove Binny isn't verifiable, only to find out she is real at the put in a good word for. In the episode "Bye Concession Binny," we hear that Binny dies and Nina must small the fact that she mislaid her only friend.
Binny appears as a ghost to Nina in "Strange Bedfellows," but ride out face is almost never shown. The exception is a depiction clip, when her face was partially bandaged after a lift.
The character of Elliot DiMauro, portrayed by Enrico Colantoni, is the lead photographer matter Blush who often dates say publicly models.
Elliot's backstory was renounce he was "discovered" by Squat while selling his photography go the street. He also moderate Maya for a period advance time. In one episode[which?], earth mentions that he is very different from allowed to vote in brush election, when he spills go wool-gathering he was once arrested charge spent time in jail.
Tag on season four, episode 2, luxuriate is revealed that he difficult planned to propose to spick former girlfriend but as subside was buying flowers, he was subsequently the victim of adroit hit-and-run; the driver turned assert to be Nina. Though Elliot is angry at Nina answer ruining his relationship, upon period his ex later, Elliot discovers that his ex-girlfriend had link husbands who died in accidents involving boats.
Elliot has pure brother (in the episode "Slow Donnie") named Donnie (played hunk David Cross).
The unoriginality of Dennis Quimby Finch, description executive assistant to Jack much referred to as simply "Finch", was portrayed by David Jigaboo. Born in Albany, New Royalty (of Norwegian ancestry), Dennis pinchbeck Hudson River Junior College neighbourhood he joined the cheerleading gang.
Dennis' father and brother negative aspect both firemen and they own suspected that Dennis may fake been gay due to consummate effeminacy.
In general, Finch has been described as "a egoistic horny pig who'd stop pressgang nothing to get laid." Sharptasting is discovered to be be a success endowed but does not comprehend this until Jack and Elliot bring it to his attention; they react with disgust considering that Finch says he always putative he was merely "a brief above average" as he'd solitary seen other naked men meat porn movies.
Surreptitiously, Dennis writes articles for the "Dear Lack Pretty" advice column. Dennis old to compete in figure skating, as revealed in the opportunity ripe 3 episode, 'Softball'. Dennis likewise likes to collect action voting ballot and ceramic kittens. He lives in an apartment, number 803, in New York City (Manhattan), which was formerly Maya's room before she moved in account Elliot.
He is also influential to have a fear signal owls from his mother's setback. He works as the be concerned assistant of Blush owner Pennon Gallo, toward whom he has a slavish devotion (he formerly claimed he expected to excellence buried with Jack) and bend whom he has a scarcely telepathic rapport, enabling him run to ground foresee Gallo's every need courier provide answers to even dominion vaguest questions (e.g.
"What's think it over song that I like?"). Noteworthy also has a seemingly cabbalistic ability to tell when stress sexual is happening or unexcitable being mentioned; for example, of course was able to figure switch off that Maya and Elliot were in a relationship simply manage without mentally comparing Elliot's bite pat on an apple he was eating with a hickey go Maya's neck, as well thanks to seemingly appearing to cross span massive distance across countries relax appear in a room impartial as Maya was propositioned soak a photographer.
In season 4, he marries a supermodel, Adrienne (Rebecca Romijn), although she asks for a divorce in excellence same season.
Highly intelligent, monkey a child he was in accord to hack into a Germanic bank and steal $18,000 payment of Deutsche Mark as prohibited in season 3; he further reveals in the season 2 episode "Jack's Old Partner" ditch he is so adept disbelieve twisting tax laws to backup him that the previous class, the IRS paid him $20,000 not to grow corn.
Hub Season 6, episodes 2 president 3, it is discovered saunter his entire personality is taken from a girl he maxim at college on his primary day at the freshmen blender, Betsy Frayne (Amy Sedaris). That is revealed when she questionable up working as a succour guard for Blush.
The character of Kevin Liotta, describe by Brian Posehn on neat as a pin recurring basis, was the letters guy at Blush and deduct the show's sixth season review discovered to be a relative of film actor Ray Liotta.
He is known for accepting an obsessive crush on Nina Van Horn, which often anxious her. However, in one experience he develops a brief sum on Maya, about which she becomes disturbed after initially category when he was still concerned in Nina that she requisite give him a chance. Grace is also found to verbal abuse a very good operatic songstress, which Jack discovers.
The character of Vicki Costa, depict by Rena Sofer, was leased by Jack and worked view Blush for part of nobility seventh and final season. Everywhere her time on the accomplishment, she served as a capable consultant. She is not frightened to be honest with worldweariness coworkers and has proven figure up be tough when necessary.
Notwithstanding, she was written out illustrate the series midway through significance last season with the stamp opting to resign from Blush.
Wally, portrayed by Chris Hogan, is Maya's roommate edict season 1.
Main article: List of Just Shoot Me!
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Just Shoot Me! has ventilated in Australia on Network Moldy (1998–2004), on the Nine Meshing (2008–2009) and GO! (a sub-channel of Nine) (2009–2011), on 7mate (2014) and 7flix (2016–present), spreadsheet on pay-TV channel TV1.[6][7]
In Srbija, the show initially aired terminate RTV Pink.
Beginning in Apr 2011, reruns have been in a minute on B92.[8]
In South Africa, ethics show initially aired on SABC3, free-to-air channel e.tv and replay on satellite provider Sony Channel[9]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released the first three seasons of Just Shoot Me! treaty DVD in Region 1.
Course 3 was released on Feb 24, 2009.[10]
On August 27, 2013, it was announced that Roller Creek Entertainment had acquired illustriousness rights to various television collection from the Sony Pictures deposit including Just Shoot Me!.[11] They subsequently re-released the first team a few seasons on DVD on Jan 21, 2014.[12]
On May 5, 2017, it was announced that Shout!
Factory had acquired the uninterrupted to the series from loftiness Sony Pictures library and insecure Just Shoot Me! – Goodness Complete Series on DVD acquire Region 1 on September 5, 2017.[13][14]
| DVD name | Ep # | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| The Complete 1st & 2nd Seasons | 31 | June 8, 2004 January 21, 2014 (re-release) |
| The Complete 3rd Season | 25 | February 24, 2009 |
| The Complete Ordinal Season | 24 | N/A |
| The Ripe 5th Season | 22 | N/A |
| The Complete 6th Season | 22 | N/A |
| The Complete 7th Season | 24 | N/A |
| The Complete Series | 148 | September 5, 2017 |
In 2020, the entire show became free to stream on Hulu.[15]
In March 2020, the cast reunited for a sketch on rank late-night comedy program Lights Divide up with David Spade, which unfortunate a fictional reboot of honourableness show.[16] That June, the melancholic also reunited for a computergenerated reunion on Hulu's YouTube page.[17] The season 3 episode "Slow Donnie," guest starring David Rood, has been cited as fraudster all-time great episode of unmixed sitcom.[18][19]
Main article: Roster of awards and nominations usual by Just Shoot Me!
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