Just Shoot Me!
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Steven Levitan
Starring	Laura San Giacomo George Segal Wendie Malick Enrico Colantoni David Spade Rena Sofer
Ending theme	Life Keeps Bringin' Me Back To You (Vocals by Lauren Wood) Image File history File links Just Shoot Me screenshot. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Steven E. Levitan (b. ... Laura San Giacomo (born November 14, 1962) is an Italian-American actress. ... George Segal George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is a well-known Jewish American film and stage actor who was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. ... Wendie Malick (born December 13, 1950, in Buffalo, New York) is an American actress. ... Enrico Colantoni Enrico Colantoni (born February 14, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actor who starred in the sitcom Just Shoot Me, playing the womanizing fashion photographer Elliot DiMauro. ... David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an Emmy-Award and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, comedian, television personality who gained fame in the 1990s as a castmember on Saturday Night Live, He currently stars as single man Russell on CBSs sitcom, Rules of Engagement and will also... Rena Sofer (born December 2, 1968 in Arcadia, California) is an American actress. ... Lauren Wood (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter, voice-over artist and producer. ...
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	148 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Steven Levitan
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	March 4, 1997 – August 16, 2003
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Just Shoot Me! was an American television sitcom which aired for seven and a half seasons on NBC from March 4, 1997 to August 16, 2003, and 148 episodes were produced. The show was created by Steven Levitan, the show's executive producer. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The following is an episode list for the NBC television series Just Shoot Me!. The series premiered in March 4, 1997 and ended its run in August 16, 2003. ... Steven E. Levitan (b. ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Steven E. Levitan (b. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Cast

• Laura San Giacomo - Maya Gallo
• George Segal - Jack Gallo
• Enrico Colantoni - Elliot DiMauro
• Wendie Malick - Nina Van Horn
• David Spade - Dennis Finch
• Rena Sofer - Vicki Costa (2002-03)

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Episodes

Main article: List of Just Shoot Me! episodes

The following is an episode list for the NBC television series Just Shoot Me!. The series premiered in March 4, 1997 and ended its run in August 16, 2003. ...

Description

The show followed the staff at the fictional fashion magazine Blush. The show starred Maya Gallo, a neo-feminist writer, who reluctantly takes a job at the glamour magazine, owned by her father, the Trump-like Jack Gallo. The cast included womanizing (and usually over-sensitive) photographer Elliot DiMauro, and the heavy drinking and sexually promiscuous ex-model Nina Van Horn. David Spade was added to the cast after the show's original pilot for NBC, and proved to be the x-factor as smart-mouthed assistant Dennis Finch. While the show had been designed as something of a vehicle for San Giacomo, it quickly became Spade's ticket to stardom, also allowing for marked comebacks for the careers of Segal and Malick. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television personality and author. ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

The first season also included Chris Hogan as Maya's roommate, Wally, who was dropped when the show quickly solidified as a workplace sitcom, making the Mary-Rhoda dynamic obsolete. Brian Posehn appeared as mail clerk Kevin Liotta (supposedly Ray Liotta's cousin) through much of the last four seasons. Rena Sofer, the only regular added during the run of the show, played young fashion savant Vicki Costa during the first half of the final season. Chris Hogan is an American comic actor. ... Mary Tyler Moore is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. ... Brian Posehn (born July 6, 1966 in Sacramento, California) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his roles as mail clerk Kevin Liotta on Just Shoot Me! and as a cast member of HBOs Mr. ... Ray Liotta[1] (born December 18, 1954) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor. ... Rena Sofer (born December 2, 1968 in Arcadia, California) is an American actress. ...

Notable actors appearing in a recurring or Guest star capacity included Rebecca Romijn (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos), Brian Dennehy (as Dennis' father who gets engaged to Nina in an episode), David Cross (as Elliot's younger brother who pretends to be mentally disabled), Rhoda Gemignani, Stephen Root, Tom Kenny, Dave Foley, Amy Sedaris, French Stewart, Carmen Electra, Ray Liotta, Snoop Dogg and Paul Parducci as Deke "The Dekester" Williams. Rebecca Alie Romijn (born November 6, 1972) is an American actress and former fashion model. ... Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman Brian Dennehy parodied in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is an Irish-American actor who has appeared in movies, television shows, and stage productions. ... David Cross (born April 4, 1964) is an Emmy-winning American actor, writer and comedian. ... Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951 in Sarasota, Florida) is an American actor. ... Thomas James Kenny (born July 13, 1962 in East Syracuse, New York) is an American voice actor who is perhaps best known for his work in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, in which he is the voice of Spongebob, the narrator, Patchy the Pirate, and a number of other characters. ... Dave Foley (born January 4, 1963, in Etobicoke, Ontario) is a Canadian actor, best known for his work in The Kids in the Hall, NewsRadio, and Celebrity Poker Showdown. ... Amy Sedaris (born March 29, 1961 in Endicott, New York) is an American actress, author, and comedian. ... Milton French Stewart (born on February 20, 1964) is a American actor, best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. ... Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), professionally known as Carmen Electra,[1] is an American glamour model, television personality, singer and actress. ... Ray Liotta[1] (born December 18, 1954) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor. ... Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. ... Paul Parducci Paul Parducci is an American Actor, Writer, Director and Producer. ...

The show was rooted in Levitan's earlier career as a writer for The Larry Sanders Show; he had once conceived of a story about Janeane Garofalo's character having to sit and talk with a vapid model with whom she had nothing in common. The idea went unproduced, but Levitan liked the dynamic and later used the idea to develop a pitch for NBC. Garofalo's persona would become a template for Maya Gallo. The Larry Sanders Show is a satirical television sitcom that originally aired from 1992 to 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the USA. It starred stand-up comedian Garry Shandling as vain, neurotic talk show host Larry Sanders. ... Janeane Garofalo Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964 in Newton, New Jersey), is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer and former co-host on Air America Radios The Majority Report. ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

The cast of Just Shoot Me!

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Series history

Early on, the series was a very competitive hit, consistently winning its time slot despite numerous changes in the schedule. The show was so popular that its first season of six episodes were all aired by NBC in a single month in March 1997. It was renewed for a 13-episode second season, and after just two of these airings, the order was bumped up to a full season. The show was never given a definitive timeslot, however, likely because its ideal time of Tuesdays at 9 was taken away when NBC returned that slot to Frasier, which had tanked in the coveted Thursdays at 9 slot. In its fifth season, Just Shoot Me! was given Thursdays at 9:30, after Will & Grace, where ratings saw an immediate (though expected) spike and where the show would remain for two years. Frasier is a popular American situation comedy television series that starred Kelsey Grammer, reprising the character of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane from parent show Cheers, which had ended months before. ... Will & Grace was a popular Emmy Award winning and Golden Globe nominated American television sitcom that focused on Will Truman, a gay lawyer and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm, as well as Karen Walker, a very rich socialite and...

The show's seventh season saw several drastic changes that inevitably led to its cancellation. Series showrunners Moses Port and David Guarascio left the show at the end of the sixth season to pursue a development deal with NBC, and were replaced with Jon Pollack and Judd Pillot (Coach, Anything But Love) and John Peaslee (Spin City). Also noted as a big factor was the addition of Rena Sofer to the cast. Her addition was mandated by NBC, who had sought a successful vehicle for her for years. (She later starred in the ill-fated U.S. version of Coupling for the network). Many of the series' fans felt betrayed by the addition of Sofer to the show, which hadn't added a new regular cast member in its entire run. Coach is a popular American television sitcom that aired for nine seasons on ABC from 1989 to 1997. ... Anything but Love was an American television sitcom, which aired on ABC from 1989 to 1992. ... Spin City was an American sitcom television series that ran from 1996 to 2002 on ABC, based on a fictional local government running New York City, originally starring Michael J. Fox as Mike Flaherty, the Deputy Mayor of New York. ... Rena Sofer (born December 2, 1968 in Arcadia, California) is an American actress. ... Coupling is a British television sitcom written by Steven Moffat that aired on BBC2 from May 2000 to 2004. ...

At the same time, NBC also gave the show one of its most difficult timeslots, Tuesdays at 8 pm. Ratings fell sharply in the first few weeks, and the show was put on hiatus by November, showing only one new episode until the following April. During this time, production resumed, but Sofer's character was written out immediately. By this point, NBC had canceled the show, and promised Levitan to run the remaining episodes twice a week until the series finale. When the first of such installments was not as successful as NBC had hoped with its "Return of Just Shoot Me!" campaign, the show was again pulled, and new episodes were burned off in the summer, the final pair of episodes airing on a Saturday in August 2003. Three more episodes, including Sofer's speedy good-bye, were not aired in America until their respective slots in syndicated airings. Levitan publicly denounced NBC's treatment of a former Must-See TV show and refused production deals for several years. Must See TV was the name given to NBCs popular Thursday-night prime time television lineup during the mid and late 1990s. ...

The show stopped airing in U.S. syndicated markets in March, 2007, but TV Land has picked up the show starting first quarter of 2008.[1] The show regularly airs in the UK on Channel 4 in a breakfast slot. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Trivia and Items of Note

• Just Shoot Me! perhaps holds the record for the most unseen characters on a sitcom: seven. Characters regularly spoken about (or to, via telephone) included Jack's daughter Hannah and Jack's ex-wife (Maya's mother) Eve; Nina's friend Binnie; Elliot's negligent father; ubiquitous office worker Baxter; and Jack's rival Donald Trump. The majority of these characters eventually appeared in some form.
• Models who made guest appearances on the show included Tyra Banks, Stephanie Romanov, Amber Smith, Paige Brooks, Daphhannelne Duplaix, Cassidy Rae, Cybill Shepherd, Cheryl Tiegs, Rebecca Chaney, Tiffani Thiessen, Carmen Electra and Rebecca Romijn
• The set of the original pilot featured a staircase, which would be privy to comedic entrances from Nina. When the show was picked up and the pilot reshot, however, the staircase was not included, with the justification that a typical office wouldn't have this kind of affectation. Wendie Malick good-naturedly fought to get the staircase back for several seasons to no avail.
• In an unusual turn for such a long-running show, every single episode of the 148-show run features all five cast members (see also Friends).
• An infamous Christmas-themed episode called "How The Finch Stole Christmas" featured Finch stealing all the Christmas decorations in the office, parodying How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.
• Every surviving male cast member of NewsRadio guest-starred on the show at some point.
• A pre-SpongeBob SquarePants Tom Kenny occasionally played spat-upon office worker Persky throughout the first three seasons.
• The end theme "Life Keeps Bringing Me Back To You" first appeared in overseas broadcasts and syndication, as networks now squeeze the credits into a corner while ads and previews play.

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External links

• Website of Sony Pictures, producer of Just Shoot Me!.