Life With Bonnie
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| Life With Bonnie | |
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 Bonnie Malloy (Hunt) |
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Creator(s) | Bonnie Hunt Don Lake |
| Starring | Bonnie Hunt Mark Derwin Charlie Stewart Marianne Muellerleile David Alan Grier Anthony Russell Holly Wortell Chris Barnes Frankie Ryan Manriquez Samantha Browne-Walters |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 44 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 17, 2002 – April 9, 2004 |
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| TV.com summary | |
Life With Bonnie was an ABC television comedy airing 2002-2004 which outlined the life of Bonnie, who juggled her personal life and a TV talk show position. Life With Bonnie was also shown on Living TV during ABC's airings and is currently airing re-runs on Family Channel in Canada.
[edit] Cast
- Bonnie Hunt as Bonnie Malloy - Bonnie is the mother of 2 children (3 in season 1), loving wife, and TV host of a local talk show. While balancing all this Bonnie tries to maintain a public image of the perfect wife and mother when in reality, her life is chaotic.
- Mark Derwin as Mark Malloy – Mark is a doctor, father and Bonnie's husband. Usually Mark looks on as Bonnie tries to balance her hectic life. Mark is much less concerned about what other people think than Bonnie is, which causes problems on occasion. He has a generally more professional demeanour, and sometimes doesn't understand why Bonnie continues to put up with annoying people in her life.
- Charlie Stewart as Charlie Malloy – Charlie is Bonnie's son. Charlie shares most of his scenes with his friend Frankie. His role is small and usually unscripted but he adds priceless comedy to the show.
- Samantha Browne-Walters as Samantha Malloy (Season 1) - Samantha played Bonnie's eldest child. Along with Charlie, she added to Bonnies hectic life. She was removed from the cast when season 2 started without a mention of what had become of her.
- Marianne Muellerleile as Gloria – Gloria is Bonnie's live-in housekeeper/nanny. It was stated in the show that she was only intended to stay there until Charlie started school but because they had grown close to her, and as a result they could not let her leave, despite the fact she provides little help.
- David Alan Grier as David Bellows – David is the producer of the "Morning Chicago" show. David is most often seen yelling and franticly rushing to get things for the show in order while pushing his podium around the studio.
- Anthony Russell as Tony Russo – Tony plays Bonnie's affable piano player on the "Morning Chicago" show. Bonnie’s housekeeper Gloria has a crush on Tony.
- Holly Wortell as Holly – Holly is Bonnie's make-up artist on the "Morning Chicago" show. She often gives advice on Bonnie’s marriage issues and seems to date many men.
- Chris Barnes as Marv – Marv is the cue-card guy on the "Morning Chicago" show. Marv is very protective of Holly, who does not return his interest.
- Frankie Ryan Manriquez as Frankie – Frankie is Charlie's best friend and spends most of his time at the Malloy's house. He contributes many funny anecdotes about his screwed up family.
[edit] Guest Stars
- Rip Taylor (as "Rappin' Rip" in four episodes)
- Tom Hanks (as himself in the episode "What If?")
- Robin Williams (as Kevin Powalski in the episode "Psychic")
- David Duchovny (as Johnny Volcano in 2 episodes)
- Carl Reiner (as "Mr. Portinbody" in 3 episodes)
- Martin Mull (as "Lenord" in 2 episodes (and yes, his name is pronounced "Le Nord"))
- The Smothers Brothers (as contractors in the episode "Everything Old is New Again").
[edit] Notes
- Brian Kerwin was cast as Dr. John Molloy in the pilot, but his scenes were later re-shot with Mark Derwin.
- With the exception of the characters "Gloria" and "Marv," all of the characters on the show go by their real-life first names.
- Bonnie Hunt received an Emmy nomination for best actress in a comedy after ABC cancelled her show.
- Bonnie Hunt was apparently not warned or had very little warning that the show was going to be canceled.
- The interviews with "guests" are completely improvised.
- The studio audience in the talk show scenes are the actual studio audience.
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