3.6 /10 1 Votes
Country of origin United States No. of seasons 1 Final episode date 4 November 2009 | 4.5/10 IMDb 5.4/10 TV Composer(s) Matter Music Original language(s) English First episode date 30 September 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Kelsey GrammerDavid KoechnerMelinda McGrawJordan HinsonNathan Gamble Cast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hank (originally titled Awesome Hank and PRYORS) is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 30, 2009, to November 4, 2009. The series was created by Tucker Cawley and is about a Wall Street executive who loses his job and reconnects with his small-town family. Hank originally aired on Wednesday nights in the fall season and starred Kelsey Grammer. The series was produced by Good Humor Television and from Warner Bros. Television.
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Hank (2009 TV series)
Premise
Hank Pryor (Kelsey Grammer) is a high-powered business executive. He lives with his wife, Tilly (Melinda McGraw), their daughter, Maddie (Jordan Hinson) and their son, Henry (Nathan Gamble). The big life is great for them until Hank is suddenly released from his CEO job and has his family relocate from New York City to the small southern town of River Bend, Virginia. Life is not all too grand now with having to live in the same zip code as Tilly's family, but for Hank, it's starting small to become big.
Cast
Episodes
A total of 10 episodes of Hank were filmed and five have been aired, but on November 11, 2009, ABC said it had "no immediate plans" to air the others.
Reception
The show has been critically panned, scoring a 36/100 in Metacritic, with viewers agreeing with the critics, scoring it at a 4.1/10. The Los Angeles Times has noted "There's nothing here you couldn't imagine from the premise, but there's also nothing wrong with what's here: McGraw is a good foil for Grammer, and Grammer is good at what he does." The New York Post panned the show: "Hank is one of the worst new (or old) comedies of this or many other seasons".
Cancellation
Hank was officially cancelled on November 11, 2009 amidst low ratings and bad reviews. A total of ten episodes of the series have been produced, leaving five episodes unaired. ABC stated that they had no immediate plans to air the remaining episodes. Special programs and reruns of comedy shows aired in its place. In a December 2009 interview with Jay Leno, Kelsey Grammer admitted that he had initially called Warner Bros. to ask that the show be cancelled because it was too unfunny. The unaired episodes have since aired in the UK on BT Vision and in Croatia on Doma TV.