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48% Metacritic Created by Carrie Gerlach Country of origin United States No. of seasons 1 Program creator Emily Kapnek | 4.6/10 IMDb 7.3/10 TV Developed by Emily Kapnek Original language(s) English First episode date 9 January 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Heather Graham
Nadia Dajani
James Patrick Stuart
Khary Payton
Smith Cho Network American Broadcasting Company Cast Heather Graham, Smith Cho, Khary Payton, Nadia Dajani, James Patrick Stuart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emily's Reasons Why Not is a television series starring Heather Graham. The show, which was based on the novel of the same name, was canceled by its broadcaster, ABC, after airing one episode on January 9, 2006.
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Premise
The series centered on Emily (Graham), an editor of self-help books who is unable to find success in romance. In the premiere episode she ends a bad relationship and adopts a new rule for her romances: if she can list five reasons to break up with a guy then she does so. Emily gets help from her friends, among them Josh, whose character is strongly based on gay stereotypes. The show was widely considered a less risqué copycat of Sex and the City.
In the first episode, she is convinced that the man she was dating was gay when he was actually a devout Mormon practicing chastity before marriage. His open virginity is presented through gay stereotypes, and his preferred sport, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is described as "the gayest sport there is" by Emily's former boyfriend.
Critical reception
It was reported that ABC committed to the show before seeing a script. Despite heavy promotion by both Sony Pictures Television and ABC, and a viewing average of 6.2 million viewers, the show was pulled after the first episode due to negative reception; production was stopped after filming six episodes. ABC was said to have spent millions on promotion, including airtime, billboards and radio ads, and considered Emily to be the 'linchpin' of the network's post-football Monday-night schedule. The promotion was so heavy and the cancellation so abrupt that some magazines found themselves carrying cover stories about a canceled show. After viewing it, ABC's entertainment president suggested that they considered the show lackluster and unlikely to improve. The New York Times attributed the cancellation in part to the extremely unappealing nature of the main character and the portrayal by Graham.
In 2006, all seven episodes of the show aired on Spain's pay-TV channel Cosmopolitan, on Sony Entertainment Television (Latin America), on ORF1 in Austria, and on POP TV in Slovenia. It also aired on the cable/satellite channel, FOX Life, in Japan in 2007, titled in Japanese as Emirī no Renai Baiburu (エミリーの恋愛バイブル, Emirī no Renai Baiburu, "Emily's Love Bible"). The entire season can also be seen on video sites such as YouTube.
Cast
DVD release
Emily's Reasons Why Not - The Complete Series was released on DVD on May 1, 2012. All seven episodes produced were included in the set.