Less Than Perfect
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| Less Than Perfect | |
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 The fourth season cast |
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Creator(s) | Terri Minsky |
| Starring | Sara Rue Andy Dick Sherri Shepherd Andrea Parker Zachary Levi Will Sasso (2003-2006) Eric Roberts (2002-2005) Patrick Warburton (2003-2006) |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 81 (8 unaired) |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | October 1, 2002 – June 6, 2006 |
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Less Than Perfect was an American sitcom television program about a young female office employee (played by Sara Rue) and her co-workers that began airing on ABC on October 1, 2002. The show was directed by Skip Collector and Ted Wass, amongst others.
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[edit] Overview and premise
The show centered around Claude (Sara Rue), who worked at a television network and was the assistant for anchor Will Butler (Eric Roberts). Comedians Andy Dick, Will Sasso, and Sherri Shepherd played her co-workers and friends, while Zachary Levi and Andrea Parker played her enemies at work.
Much was made at the time of the show's premiere about the central character of the show being a "full figured" woman, and that the title correlated to Claude being "less than perfect". At the time of the show's premiere, Rue was a size 10 to 12, which is a norm or national average in American in real life, but is rarely depicted on television. [1] Over the course of the series, Rue lost 30 pounds. [2]
[edit] History
Less Than Perfect debuted in a Tuesday evening timeslot and received steady ratings for its first two seasons. When the series was moved in its third season to a Friday-night timeslot, ratings began to fall sharply, and the show was considered to be in danger of cancellation.
TVGuide.com featured the show on a list of "Endangered Series." Ratings in the coveted 18-49 demographic were high enough, and the show was near the threshold for number of episodes needed for syndication, so a limited fourth season of 13 episodes was ordered.
After a long hiatus from ABC's schedule, the show returned as a late-season replacement for ABC with its fourth season premiere on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 9:30 p.m. [3].
Despite the pickup, the future of the series was not assured. Cast member Zachary Levi stated many cast members were ready to move on [4],and series lead Sara Rue had filmed a pilot for CBS starring as a sister who runs a toy company with her brother in the comedy Play Nice.
ABC confirmed on May 17, 2006 that the fourth season would be its last [5]. ABC showed only part of the fourth season as scheduled. After five of the 13 episodes aired, ABC ceased broadcasting of the show, with the last episode broadcast on June 6, 2006. However, these episodes which remain unaired in the United States have been aired internationally.
[edit] International broadcasting of show
Less Than Perfect is currently showing on abc1 and Paramount Comedy 1 in the United Kingdom, on ATV in Austria, on Nelonen in Finland, on FOX8 (cable) and the Seven Network (free to air) in Australia, on MTV Russia in Russia, on Star World for the rest of Asia, on yesSTARS in Israel, on Sky Italia's FOX and MTV Italia in Italy and on HRT in Croatia. The first seven episodes and episode nine of the final season of Less Than Perfect aired on TV2 in New Zealand, with the remaining episodes (eight and 10 through 13) yet to be scheduled, and in the UK a new season is to be aired. The show also aired on MBC 4 to Arabic speaking viewers. In Turkey, ComedyMax currently airs the show for Digiturk subscribers.
[edit] Cast
- Sara Rue - Claude Casey
- Sherri Shepherd - Ramona Platt
- Andrea Parker - Lydia Weston
- Zachary Levi - Kipp Steadman
- Will Sasso - Carl Monari (2003-2006)
- Patrick Warburton - Jeb Denton (2003-2006)
- Eric Roberts - Will Butler (2002-2005)
- Andy Dick - Owen Kronsky
[edit] Episodes
[edit] External links
- Less Than Perfect's entry in IMDB
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