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7.5/10 TV Original language(s) English | 6.5/10 IMDb Country of origin United States Final episode date 25 March 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by David KohanMax Mutchnick Starring Mark FeuersteinSuzanne PleshetteAshley WilliamsMatt LetscherJere BurnsConstance Zimmer Composer(s) Rich RagsdaleJonathan Wolff Cast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Good Morning, Miami is a sitcom which ran from 2002 to 2004 on NBC. Created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, the show focused on the personal and professional life of Jake, the executive producer of the lowest-rated morning show in the country, based in Miami.
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Though unsuccessful and unacclaimed, the show lasted in the coveted Thursday "Must See TV" lineup for an entire season. It was one of the first sitcoms to be broadcast by NBC in High Definition.
After nine episodes were aired during the second season in the United States, the show was canceled and didn't get to finish airing the rest of the 18 episodes that were ordered for the season. However, all episodes of the second season were shown on TG4 in Ireland and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.
The theme song, entitled "Once in a Lifetime", is played by John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls .
Synopsis
Wunderkind producer Jake Silver decides to accept the job helming the worst TV show in all of Miami. He falls in love with the show's beautiful, down-to-earth hairdresser, Dylan. The carnival of clowns at the station includes pompous and insulting on-air host Gavin; Jake's wise-cracking assistant, Penny; and highly insecure station manager, Frank.
Early in the first season, Gavin's morning co-host was Lucia, and Sister Brenda was the station's nun/weather-girl. Eventually Jake's foul-mouthed grandmother, Claire, becomes the on-screen co-host. They were written out early in the series as the producers were still searching for the "center" of their program.
During the second season, Jake and Dylan begin a relationship, almost even deciding on a relocation to New York together. Victoria Hill, a new station boss, took over the show to get higher ratings, and Gavin struggled to warm up to her. A new weather girl, Joni, was also introduced.
The series ended with Gavin and Penny deciding to start a relationship (as Penny is pregnant with his baby), Frank marrying Gavin's mother as a publicity stunt and Jake and Dylan considering to go their separate ways (Jake leaves the network and goes to produce at NBC in Manhattan) and Dylan returns to her home state of Omaha, Nebraska.
In the second season, exterior footage of NBC affiliate WPTV's studio complex in West Palm Beach, Florida was used to portray the exteriors of the fictional Good Morning, Miami studios.
The sitcom was filmed at CBS Studio Center stage 16
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In the original unaired test Pilot the part of Gavin was played by actor (Burke Moses). The part of Penny was played by an uncredited actress and the character was completely different.
The show contained numerous references to Feuerstein's earlier work. In one scene, he scolds Gavin in front of the audience and Penny remarks, "That's one fired-up little yuppie!" (a reference to his role on the short-lived sitcom Fired Up); in a second, he drinks hard liquor and his voice gets hoarse (he did the same thing after eating food that was too spicy in Woman on Top). In another scene, he remarks that the highlights in his hair are natural (which he also did in What Women Want).
Episodes
Originally, the first batch of episodes were broadcast out of production order by NBC and they could not manage to program the inventory of episodes onto the schedule properly. First, completely discarding the episode titled, "It Didn't Happen One Night," then failing to run the Christmas themed episode until the second week of January, after first running another new episode during the first week of January.
Despite renewing the series, only half of the second season was ever broadcast in the United States by NBC, the entire series did make it to air on TG4 in Ireland several times in a daily morning time slot. Channel 4 UK also broadcast the entire series.