MikeTeevee
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Hello Out There From Toonzone Land,
I'm new here, and for my first post, I'd like to discuss a critically-acclaimed yet IMO unjustly criminally short-lived 2013 Disney Sitcom which frankly I believe had full potential into lasting such a long time, yet unfortunately instead lasted only a single season of 8 half-hour episodes followed by a TV Movie version.
Its name: "Hello Ladies," which originally aired on the HBO Television Network from September 29, 2013 - November 17, 2013; the show was created by Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg and based on Steve Merchant's successful stand-up comedy routine of the same name, with Steve starring as Stuart Pritchard, a web designer by trade who relocated to Los Angeles from England in order to reinvent himself as a ladies' man after his former girlfriend, Trudy, left him for her future husband, Mike Moffitt.
Other principal characters included Jessica Vanderhoff (Christine Woods, fresh from the 2009 Disney Sci-Fi show "FlashForward"), a struggling actress who lived in and rented the guest house from Stuart; Wade Bailey (Nate Torrence, futurely of the 2016 Disney Cartoon "Zootopia"), a man struggling to accept the reality that his marriage to wife Marion (Crista Flanagan), with whom he had a little girl, Cassidy (Reece Caddell), was over; and Kives (Kevin Weisman, fresh from the early 2000s Disney Spy Drama "Alias"), a Wheelchair-bound man with far better luck with the ladies than Stuart in spite of his Physical Disability (though in reality Kevin IS NOT wheelchair-bound as evidenced in his Past AND Present acting career roles In Real Life).
What I LOVED about "Hello Ladies" was IMO also what caused HBO to cancel it after a single full season: compared to other HBO Network shows such as "The Sopranos," "Hello Ladies" was a lot less risque and, except for profanity and brief nudity on 2 episodes, it could have easily been on a major broadcast network e.g. ABC, FOX, CBS, NBC or The CW or even basic cable.
In 2015, HBO Home Entertainment issued and released on DVD "Hello Ladies: The Complete Series and The Movie."
"Hello Ladies" was Produced by Four Eyes Entertainment and Quantity Entertainment in association with ABC Studios and is Distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television Distribution.
For me to say I miss "Hello Ladies" would be putting it mildly.
Anyhow, I'd have, had the show made it to Season 2 and beyond, loved to have seen Steve's Stuart character gradually grow, mature, and learn from the error of his ways and (as what happened at the end of the TV Movie) find true love--in his case with Jessica.
Until next time, remember, if you want somebody to be your friend, you've got to be a friend to them. Good Bye, Everybody!!!
I'm new here, and for my first post, I'd like to discuss a critically-acclaimed yet IMO unjustly criminally short-lived 2013 Disney Sitcom which frankly I believe had full potential into lasting such a long time, yet unfortunately instead lasted only a single season of 8 half-hour episodes followed by a TV Movie version.
Its name: "Hello Ladies," which originally aired on the HBO Television Network from September 29, 2013 - November 17, 2013; the show was created by Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg and based on Steve Merchant's successful stand-up comedy routine of the same name, with Steve starring as Stuart Pritchard, a web designer by trade who relocated to Los Angeles from England in order to reinvent himself as a ladies' man after his former girlfriend, Trudy, left him for her future husband, Mike Moffitt.
Other principal characters included Jessica Vanderhoff (Christine Woods, fresh from the 2009 Disney Sci-Fi show "FlashForward"), a struggling actress who lived in and rented the guest house from Stuart; Wade Bailey (Nate Torrence, futurely of the 2016 Disney Cartoon "Zootopia"), a man struggling to accept the reality that his marriage to wife Marion (Crista Flanagan), with whom he had a little girl, Cassidy (Reece Caddell), was over; and Kives (Kevin Weisman, fresh from the early 2000s Disney Spy Drama "Alias"), a Wheelchair-bound man with far better luck with the ladies than Stuart in spite of his Physical Disability (though in reality Kevin IS NOT wheelchair-bound as evidenced in his Past AND Present acting career roles In Real Life).
What I LOVED about "Hello Ladies" was IMO also what caused HBO to cancel it after a single full season: compared to other HBO Network shows such as "The Sopranos," "Hello Ladies" was a lot less risque and, except for profanity and brief nudity on 2 episodes, it could have easily been on a major broadcast network e.g. ABC, FOX, CBS, NBC or The CW or even basic cable.
In 2015, HBO Home Entertainment issued and released on DVD "Hello Ladies: The Complete Series and The Movie."
"Hello Ladies" was Produced by Four Eyes Entertainment and Quantity Entertainment in association with ABC Studios and is Distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television Distribution.
For me to say I miss "Hello Ladies" would be putting it mildly.
Anyhow, I'd have, had the show made it to Season 2 and beyond, loved to have seen Steve's Stuart character gradually grow, mature, and learn from the error of his ways and (as what happened at the end of the TV Movie) find true love--in his case with Jessica.
Until next time, remember, if you want somebody to be your friend, you've got to be a friend to them. Good Bye, Everybody!!!
