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Best Friends Forever (TV series)

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Composer(s)
  
Jim Dooley

Original language(s)
  
English

Final episode date
  
1 June 2012

Genre
  
Sitcom

6.4/10
IMDb

48%
Rotten Tomatoes

Country of origin
  
United States

No. of seasons
  
1

Network
  
NBC

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Created by
  
Lennon Parham Jessica St. Clair

Starring
  
Lennon Parham Jessica St. Clair Luka Jones Stephen Schneider Daija Owens

Cast
  
Jessica St Clair, Lennon Parham, Stephen Schneider

Best Friends Forever is an American television comedy series that ran on NBC from April 4, to June 1, 2012. The series aired during the 2011–12 NBC primetime season as a mid-season replacement and was created by real-life best friends Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair. The pilot episode was made available early through Hulu and NBC.com on March 21, 2012. NBC officially canceled the series on May 11, 2012.

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Series synopsis

When Jessica's (Jessica St. Clair) husband files for divorce, she flies across the country to seek comfort and move back in with her best friend Lennon (Lennon Parham). However, Lennon's boyfriend Joe (Luka Jones) has recently moved in and has a hard time fitting into Lennon and Jessica's close friendship.

Cast and characters

  • Lennon Parham as Lennon Walker, Jessica's best friend and old roommate, living in New York City.
  • Jessica St. Clair as Jessica Black, Lennon's best friend who moves back in with Lennon and her boyfriend after getting recently divorced.
  • Luka Jones as Joe Foley, Lennon's live-in boyfriend.
  • Stephen Schneider as Rav Stark, Jessica's old friend, who has unresolved feelings for Jessica.
  • Daija Owens as Queenetta Carpenter, Jessica and Lennon's precocious nine-year-old neighbor.

    • Development and production

    NBC placed a pilot order on February 7, 2011. The series was created by Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair with the pilot directed by Fred Savage. The series is executive produced by Jessica St. Clair, Lennon Parham, Scot Armstrong, Alexa Junge, Fred Savage and Ravi Nandan and the production company's Universal Media Studios and American Work.

    NBC ordered the pilot to series on May 13, 2011 as a midseason entry in the 2011–12 United States network television schedule. Six episodes will be produced for the first season. Adam Pally originally played the role of Joe, Parham's boyfriend, in the pilot, however with ABC renewing Pally's other show Happy Endings, the role was recast. On August 12, 2011, Luka Jones was cast in the role of Joe, replacing Pally.

    On April 27, 2012, it was announced that NBC has pulled the series off their schedule "indefinitely", leaving two of the six filmed episodes left unaired. Parham stated a desire to post the remaining episodes online. However, on May 1, 2012 NBC announced that they would air the remaining episodes on Friday June 1, 2012.

    References

    Best Friends Forever (TV series) Wikipedia
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