3.8 /10 1 Votes3.8
41% Metacritic Original language(s) English Final episode date 23 June 2012 | 4.7/10 IMDb 27% Rotten Tomatoes Country of origin United States First episode date 29 September 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring David HornsbyKevin DillonDave FoleyMary Lynn RajskubRhys DarbyNancy Lenehan Cast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Be a Gentleman is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 29, 2011, to June 23, 2012. Lead actor David Hornsby created the series, adapting the nonfiction book of the same name by John Bridges.
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Thirteen episodes were originally ordered for the first season. However, on October 7, after two Thursday episodes had aired, it was announced that the series episode order had been cut down to nine, effectively ending production immediately, and the remaining seven episodes would be burned off on Saturdays starting October 15 as part of the network's Comedytime Saturday block.
On October 18, CBS pulled the series from its Saturday timeslot after airing only one episode that lost half of the audience from the Two and a Half Men rerun leading into it, completely removing the series from the lineup and leaving the remaining six episodes unaired. CBS later made the decision to air the remaining episodes on Saturday evenings over the summer, beginning on May 26.
Premise
The series chronicles two former high school classmates, an uptight columnist (Hornsby) and his more freewheeling, Iraq war veteran, trainer (as well as a former high school bully) (Kevin Dillon), as they "renew" a friendship that never really existed before.
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Reception
The show received negative reviews from critics. It averaged a score of 45 out of 100 on Metacritic. The website's users have given it a 3.7 out of 10, indicating generally unfavorable reviews.
The premiere recorded 8.98 million viewers and a 2.7 Adults 18-49 rating. This rating compared poorly to that of its lead-in, The Big Bang Theory, which recorded 14.74 million viewers and a 4.9 in the 18-49 demo, as well as the shows in CBS's Monday night comedy block for the same week, all of which ranked in the top 25 for the week with Adults 18-49.