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6.2/10 TV Theme music composer Rick Cutler Network CBS | 7.5/10 IMDb Genre Sitcom Final episode date 27 February 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by Nat Bernstein
Mitchel Katlin Written by Elaine Aronson
Michael Carrington
Lance Crouther
Ron Darian
Sy Dukane
Michael Feldman
Elin Hampton
Ali LeRoi
Denise Moss
Alex Reid
Kriss Turner Directed by Bob Delegall
Andrew D. Weyman Starring Gregory Hines
Brandon Hammond
Wendell Pierce
Mark Tymchyshyn
Robin Riker
Bill Cobbs
Judith Shelton Program creators Nat Bernstein, Mitchel Katlin Cast Gregory Hines, Brandon Hammond, Wendell Pierce, Robin Riker, Bill Cobbs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Gregory Hines Show is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS. The series premiered on Monday, September 15, 1997 before airing on September 19, 1997 as a part of the network's Block Party Friday night lineup. It ended its run on February 27, 1998 with 15 episodes that were produced.
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Background
The Gregory Hines Show was the only show on the Block Party lineup that was not produced by Miller-Boyett Productions. Compared to the Miller-Boyett series, The Gregory Hines Show was markedly more mature in its themes; Leslie Moonves, incoming head of CBS at the time, described the inclusion of the show in the block as an effort to target the whole family, and executives at Miller-Boyett were fully pleased to have the show in the block, as TGIF, the block for which they had previously produced shows, was quickly shifting into a teen-oriented block that did not fit their style.
Premise
The series starred Gregory Hines as Ben Stevenson a Publishing agent and widower taking care of 12-year-old son Matty (Brandon Hammond). Following a year and a half after his wife's death, Ben decides to resume back into his social life, with dating women. Ben soon realizes that he has a lot to re-learn about women just as his son is learning about them for the first time. Even though Ben and Matty hardly had any trouble talking about anything before, now even the simplest conversation has become complicated, especially when the topic is the women in their lives. Now and then Ben would receive advice from his brother Carl (Wendell Pierce), his father James (Bill Cobbs) as well as his co-worker Alex (Mark Tymchyshyn), Alex's ex-wife, Nicole (Robin Riker) and his assistant Angela (Judith Shelton).