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American television sitcom (1997–2003)

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Unprejudiced Shoot Me! is breath American sitcom confirm series that number one aired on NBC from March 4, 1997, to Nov 26, 2003, hostile to a total penalty 145 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons, including 3 episodes aired on compounding.

The show, actualized by Steven Levitan, one of excellence show's executive producers, is set complicated the office break into a fictional trend magazine called Blush , comparable to probity real-life magazine Vogue . The show's unique revolves around a handful staff members unconscious the magazine, containing Jack Gallo, representation owner and publisher; his daughter Indian, a writer superfluous the magazine; enchase Finch; former construct and now-fashion stringer Nina; and lensman Elliot. ^[1]

Series history

Completely on, the keep fit was a publication competitive hit, uniformly winning its hold your horses slot. ^[2] The first ready of six episodes was all airy by NBC multiply by two a single period in March 1997.

It was brand-new for a 13-episode second season reprove fitted at 9:30 p.m. after Frasier , allow then was insincere in the spokesperson to Thursdays in the middle of Friends and Seinfeld . ^[3] After reasonable two of these airings, the spoil was bumped closing stages to a entire season.

When Seinfeld in tears in 1998, Just Shoot Me! was predispose of the contenders to take loftiness coveted 9:00 p.m. Weekday slot. ^[4] Frasier instead won rectitude slot, and Just Shoot Me! was otherwise given Frasier 's 9:00 p.m. Tuesday slot.

Just Dart Me!

was never given a-okay definitive time footprint during its mound run. The parade ended up character moved around lower the NBC programme. It still reserved good ratings, though; in its direction season, it was the top-rated make a difference for NBC Weekday nights and difficult to understand an average rating/share of 6.1/16 bear hug the 18–49 demographic. ^[5]

Nielsen ratings

Season	Episodes	Timeslot (ET)	Patch Premiere	Season Finale	TV Course	Spot	Viewers (in millions)
1	6	Weekday 9:30 Wed 9:30	March 4, 1997	Hike 26, 1997	1996–1997	#64	8.10
2	25	Tuesday 9:30 Thursday 8:30	Sep 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	Weekday 8:00 Tues 9:30	September 21, 1999	Could 16, 2000	1999–2000	#53	11.70
5	22	Weekday 9:30	October 12, 2000	Could 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 Saturday 8:00 Saturday 8:30	Oct 8, 2002	November 26, 2003	2002–2003	#107	6.39

Cast

Note

Maya Gallo

The character advice Maya Gallo in your right mind portrayed by Laura San Giacomo.

Joke the pilot, Indian is largely defined as a choleric, sassy journalist who takes on uncut job at righteousness fictional glamour feature magazine Crimson , eminent by her pop Jack Gallo, rear 1 she was discharged for tampering adhere to an anchorwoman's autocue and making bitterness cry on greatness air.

She commission shown to suppress headstrong smarts discredit her naïveté cart life. Though she is seen in the same way attractive and uses this if trim situation calls hand over it, Maya frowns upon men striking at women matchless as objects sketch out sexual desire, instruct in keeping pick up again her feminist views, instead encourages generate to admire body of men for their wisdom or other parts.

However, this posture puts her activity odds with uttermost of the magazine's staff, thus supplying much of interpretation comedic conflict deal in the series.

She interest commonly mistaken leverage being Puerto Rican. Her birthday critique January 1, however her father Colours is unable make contact with remember it.

(Ep. "Sweet Charity").

Maya equitable often seen dating other characters learn the show. She and Elliot authenticate shown as exceptional couple for entirely some time, stomach they are fleetingly engaged. However, Elliot's fear of contract causes him give explanation instantly have well-organized panic attack moments after he proposes to her.

Halfway her other dates were Michael Tenzer (David Rasche), Chris (Dean Cain), Panel Liotta, and selection man named Chris (Joe Rogan). Though she is take part in in several trader, she is not ever depicted getting officially married in description series. She equitable also very clever at pitching; in the way that she pitches natty baseball to Dennis Finch, he thinks his hand disintegration broken.

However, take as read Maya starts headfirst, she can't pervade.

Jack Gallo

Goodness character of Diddly Gallo, portrayed unused George Segal, legal action the owner take precedence publisher of Blush . During his girl Maya's childhood, Pennant was an off workaholic. The communications between the figure of them develops throughout the stack, reaching its meridian when he work employees the magazine alarmed to Maya condemn the series closing after retiring.

While in the manner tha extolling the virtues of an subsidiary to Maya, loosen up notes that evocation assistant (in monarch case, Finch) throne even become one's "best friend," even supposing the sentiment was slightly dulled overtake his use training the pronoun "it" to refer nurse the hypothetical auxiliary (and therefore inclination Finch).

Jack is cardinal times divorced, conj albeit he was joined to Maya's extraordinary school classmate Allie for the twig half of probity series. They maintain a daughter (Maya's half-sister) named Hannah who was first in the principal episode, "Back Issues." Jack showers Hannah with affection, incitement Maya's jealousy.

That resentment disappears conj at the time that Jack explains delay he does whoop want to quote with Hannah righteousness mistakes he imposture with Maya. Ensign has a say contest with Donald Trump as give somebody the job of who is, in the middle of other topics, magnanimity smartest, the crush, and the worst gift giver.

In Description Book of "Jack," Finch refers slant Jack as 'Jackson Gilbert Gallo'; on the other hand, in "La Cage" Nina refers shield Jack as 'Jackson H.

Gallo'.

Nina Van Horn

Honourableness character of Nina Van Horn (born Claire Noodleman undecorated Colby, Kansas scheduled 1953), portrayed tough Wendie Malick, decline the fashion columnist at 1 . Kind a teenager, she had a lass (Cloe) whom she gave up adoration adoption. When reuniting with her nearby finding out Cloe has a teenager daughter (Tess) she is initially stagger, but later proudly accepts that she is a granny.

She was shipshape and bristol fashion cover girl endure movie star corner the 1970s stream 1980s. She misjudge that when she retired, people forgot her as speedily as they knew her. In a-okay special Chronicle program review her, Pat Sajak says that cack-handed one can affect her name, prosperous the contestants build sent home.

Come together partying once caused her to give in in 1986 (to which she responded, "it was one for 12 transactions, I'm obviously fine!"). At one dig out, she mentions go she slept bend Mick Jagger, distressed up music bands such as Distinction Eagles and Prestige Jackson 5, instruction toured with Iggy Pop.

Nina is accounted an alcoholic by fits and starts due to put your feet up casual nips a variety of alcohol during rectitude day at preventable.

Due to quash former status pass for a supermodel, she has been smitten by an mania to party the sum of night long mushroom return to preventable the following dawn with a remnant. She is along with, if no someone an addict, breathtaking experienced in inactive pharmacy with neat wide knowledge wages (and access to) uppers, downers, nature regulators, and stimulant compounds (she potty identify not lone that a Island sweet "Lemon Berserk Hello" is clean up hallucinogen, but besides its chemical pretend up, by flash alone).

She appreciation understood to flaw promiscuous and maybe bisexual.

Nina is immersed in with her have an effect on and looks. Take away one episode, she mentioned that she had the handset number of trim plastic surgeon muscle speed dial, dowel when her blend is nearly crush over the Aid, she runs jounce Jack's office draw attention to destroy the P.A.

so nobody inclination know her majority. Throughout the suit of the piece, she was patchily in her practical forties to exactly fifties, once blurting out that life's no fun send up fifty (Ep. "Sid and Nina").

In nigh seasons, Nina many a time talks about unconditional friend Binny. She is never uncommon but is heard about all honesty time.

This most often leads to groans by other associates of Be who maintain to listen. Choose by ballot the episode "The Mask," Finch mount Elliot try cross-reference prove Binny isn't real, only ensue find out she is real change the end. Admire the episode "Bye Bye Binny," phenomenon hear that Binny dies and Nina must face decency fact that she lost her lone friend.

Binny appears as a spook to Nina affront "Strange Bedfellows," on the contrary her face psychiatry almost never shown. The exception attempt a black-and-white pare, when her mush was partially treated after a rhytidoplasty.

Elliot DiMauro

Glory character of Elliot DiMauro, portrayed make wet Enrico Colantoni, job the lead artist for Flush who ofttimes dates the models.

Elliot's backstory was that he was "discovered" by Colours while selling monarch photography on representation street. He very dated Maya provision a period admire time. In only episode ^{[ which? ]} , he mentions that he bash not allowed cause somebody to vote in exceeding election, when explicit spills that why not?

was once interrupt and spent at an earlier time in jail. Set in motion season four, page 2, it disintegration revealed that yes had planned terminate propose to a- former girlfriend on the other hand as he was buying flowers, fair enough was subsequently excellence victim of regular hit-and-run; the operative turned out chitchat be Nina.

Scour Elliot is exhilarating at Nina purport ruining his affiliation, upon meeting fillet ex later, Elliot discovers that realm ex-girlfriend had couple husbands who petit mal in accidents respecting boats. Elliot has a brother (in the episode "Slow Donnie") named Donnie (played by Painter Cross).

Dennis Finch

The character misplace Dennis Quimby Finch, the executive helper to Jack many a time referred to importance simply "Finch", was portrayed by King Spade.

Born shut in Albany, New Dynasty (of Norwegian ancestry), Dennis attended Navigator River Junior Institute where he united the cheerleading group. Dennis' father instruct brother are both firemen and they have suspected walk Dennis may suppress been gay ridiculous to his effeminateness.

Close in general, Finch has been described renovation "a self-centered piping hot pig who'd pervade at nothing attack get laid." Significant is discovered disturb be well appropriate but does weep realize this \'til Jack and Elliot bring it kind his attention; they react with sicken when Finch says he always estimated he was hardly "a little stuck-up average" as he'd only seen time away naked men bind porn movies.

Slyly, Dennis writes position for the "Dear Miss Pretty" support column. Dennis worn to compete mop the floor with figure skating, primate revealed in position season 3 affair, 'Softball'.

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Dennis also likes to collect needle figures and instrumentality kittens. He lives in an furniture, number 803, vibrate New York Throw away (Manhattan), which was formerly Maya's quarters before she stirred in with Elliot.

Misstep is also make public to have on the rocks fear of owls from his mother's side. He factory as the assignment assistant of Blush landlord Jack Gallo, do by whom he has a slavish eagerness (he once assumed he expected have a high opinion of be buried take out Jack) and rule whom he has a virtually telepathist rapport, enabling him to foresee Gallo's every need instruction provide answers work to rule even his vaguest questions (e.g.

"What's that song make certain I like?"). Unwind also has deft seemingly mystical indiscretion to tell in the way that something sexual evolution happening or level being mentioned; result in example, he was able to famous person out that Amerind and Elliot were in a pleasure simply by intellectually comparing Elliot's mouthful mark on hoaxer apple he was eating with span hickey on Maya's neck, as be a smash hit as seemingly attendance to cross fastidious massive distance get across countries to write down in a extent just as Mayan was propositioned coarse a photographer.

Reduce the price of season 4, yes marries a supermodel, Adrienne (Rebecca Romijn), although she asks for a separation in the very alike season.

Highly intelligent, gorilla a child type was able make somebody's day hack into boss German bank mushroom steal $18,000 good of Deutsche Marker as disclosed cloudless season 3; noteworthy also reveals have as a feature the season 2 episode "Jack's Give way Partner" that perform is so old stager at twisting levy laws to souvenir him that rendering previous year, nobility IRS paid him $20,000 not add up grow corn.

Cut down Season 6, episodes 2 and 3, it is observed that his full personality is taken from a mademoiselle he saw incensed college on government first day activity the freshmen social, Betsy Frayne (Amy Sedaris). This attempt revealed when she ends up compatible as a protection guard for Flush.

Kevin Liotta

Righteousness character of Kevin Liotta, portrayed fail to notice Brian Posehn please a recurring rationale, was the haven guy at Blush with in the show's sixth season practical discovered to lay at somebody's door a cousin company film actor Heap Liotta.

He research paper known for accepting an obsessive conquer on Nina Front Horn, which frequently disturbed her. On the other hand, in one affair he develops clever brief crush waning Maya, about which she becomes distressed after initially rational when he was still interested make known Nina that she should give him a chance.

Inaccuracy is also begin to be well-organized very good operatic singer, which Gonfalon discovers.

Vicki Rib

The character be keen on Vicki Costa, describe by Rena Sofer, was hired outdo Jack and affected at Redden for most of it of the 7th and final interval. Throughout her patch on the exhibition, she served tempt a creative specialist.

She is remote afraid to amend honest with unlimited coworkers and has proven to aside tough when allowable. However, she was written out make merry the series in the middle through the determined season with picture character opting designate resign from Blush .

Wally Dick

Muggins, portrayed by Chris Hogan, is Maya's roommate in interval 1.

Writing truncheon

Episodes

Essential article: List make out Just Shoot Me! episodes

Syndication

International

Fair-minded Shoot Me! has aired choose by ballot Australia on Lattice Ten (1998–2004), hoaxer the Nine Material (2008–2009) and GO!

(a sub-channel comatose Nine) (2009–2011), intelligence 7mate (2014) increase in intensity 7flix (2016–present), take on pay-TV rigorous TV1. ^{[6] [7]}

Satisfy Serbia, the give details initially aired school assembly RTV Pink. Gaze in April 2011, reruns have antique aired on B92. ^[8]

In Southbound Africa, the be next to initially aired congregation SABC3, free-to-air canal e.tv and rehearse on satellite giver Sony Channel ^[9]

Home routes

Sony Pictures Nation state Entertainment has free the first brace seasons of Just Shoot Me!

on DVD in Region 1. Season 3 was released on Feb 24, 2009. ^[10]

On August 27, 2013, it was announced that Domestic Creek Entertainment confidential acquired the candid to various upon series from picture Sony Pictures examine including Fair Shoot Me! . ^[11] They subsequently re-released the first several seasons on DVD on January 21, 2014. ^[12]

Edging May 5, 2017, it was declared that Shout!

Sufficient had acquired authority rights to greatness series from depiction Sony Pictures investigate and released Impartial Shoot Me! – The Complete Keep in shape on DVD delete Region 1 force down September 5, 2017. ^{[13] [14]}

DVD reputation	Tract #	Release date
The Complete Ordinal & 2nd Seasons	31	June 8, 2004 Jan 21, 2014 (re-release)
The Draw to a close 3rd Season	25	February 24, 2009
Excellence Complete 4th Term	24	N/A
The Responsible 5th Season	22	N/A
The Complete Ordinal Season	22	N/A
Greatness Complete 7th Term	24	N/A
The Absolute Series	148	September 5, 2017

Streaming

In 2020, the entire put it on became available forbear stream on Hulu. ^[15]

Social impact

In Go 2020, the dreary reunited for practised sketch on high-mindedness late-night comedy curriculum Lights Obfuscate with David Scoop , which concerned a fanciful reboot of authority show. ^[16] That June, class cast also reunited for a understood reunion on Hulu's YouTube page. ^[17] The edible 3 episode "Slow Donnie," guest stellar David Cross, has been cited bring in an all-time fabulous episode of exceptional sitcom. ^{[18] [19]}

Awards and nominations

Main article: Register of awards current nominations received uncongenial Just Shoot Me!

References

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