All American | |
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Season 1 | |
Starring | |
No. of episodes | 16 |
Release | |
Original network | The CW |
Original release | October 10, 2018 – March 20, 2019 |
Season chronology | |
The first season of the American sports drama television series All American premiered on The CW on October 10, 2018, and ended on March 20, 2019, with a total of 16 episodes produced. The series follows South Crenshaw High School football player Spencer James (Daniel Ezra) as he is recruited by football coach Billy Baker (Taye Diggs) to come play in Beverly Hills High School. It is inspired by the life of professional American football player Spencer Paysinger, with Ezra in the lead role.
The season also starred Bre-Z, Greta Onieogou, Samantha Logan, Michael Evans Behling, Cody Christian, Karimah Westbrook, Monet Mazur, and Jalyn Hall.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Rob Hardy | April Blair | October 10, 2018 | T15.10151 | 0.69 [1] |
Spencer James, an ambitious American football player from South Los Angeles, is offered a scholarship to Beverly Hills High School when the coach Billy Baker notices his ability. He is torn between his two worlds, as his mother and brother both want him to relocate while his friend Coop struggles with gangs and his cultural shift in lifestyles. He also struggles with his father's abandonment for a coaching job. On his first day, he plays exceptionally well much to the dismay of Asher while Spencer gets close with his girlfriend Layla who is extremely wealthy and takes a liking to him. However, Billy's daughter Olivia seems to be more interested in him. Soon Spencer learns of boosters coming in to watch him play American football but a party leads to him drinking too much and he embarrasses himself during the game. At the end of the episode, Spencer is forced to move into the Baker household while Billy shows up at Spencer's home and says to his mother that they need to tell Spencer the truth. | |||||||
2 | 2 | "99 Problems" | David McWhirter | April Blair & Mike Herro & David Straus | October 17, 2018 | T13.21352 | 0.61 [2] |
Spencer continues to live within the household but Billy's constant attention to Spencer causes a rift between his relationship with his son Jordan and Olivia with Asher becoming aggressive towards him because of his interest towards Layla. Spencer continues to travel down South but his friend Coop continues to hang out with gang member Shawn and forced to pledge loyalty by dropping off what is supposed to be drugs but actually a gift to an ex-member's grandmother and soon informs Spencer that he has to live his own life. His constant visits also worry Grace as she wants what's best for him. At scouting night, Asher's father soon disrupts the scene after his son is injured earlier on accidentally by Spencer and announces that Spencer has been staying in the Baker household. A confrontation between Shawn and Spencer and an injury leads to Beverly Hills losing the game. | |||||||
3 | 3 | "i" | Rob Hardy | Nkechi Okoro Carroll | October 24, 2018 | T13.21353 | 0.76 [3] |
At an American football session, Asher continues to grow frustrated with Spencer and soon creates a meme to ridicule him and sends it across the school. Meanwhile, Coop begins falling for a girl named Patience at her mother's church choir soon revealed to be the reason that she hasn't come out as lesbian due to the religious belief's of her family. The tensions between Asher and Spencer increase when they attempt to fight at a session and soon Jordan experiences Spencer's former life in South LA before Beverly after defending Spencer against Asher. Olivia and Layla try to reconcile after being paired for an English project. Jordan experiences police racism-based treatment after being harassed and Billy soon becomes hurt that his son wasn't aware of the prejudice. Jordan goes to a barber with his dad but finds his old high school yearbook revealing that his father dated Grace James, Spencer's mother. | |||||||
4 | 4 | "Lose Yourself" | Elodie Keene | John A. Norris | November 7, 2018 | T13.21354 | 0.75 [4] |
5 | 5 | "All We Got" | Rose Troche | Robert D. Doty & Lorna Osunsanmi | November 14, 2018 | T13.21355 | 0.67 [5] |
6 | 6 | "The Choice Is Yours" | Benny Boom | Mike Herro & David Strauss & J. Stone Alston | November 28, 2018 | T13.21356 | 0.75 [6] |
7 | 7 | "California Love" | Dawn Wilkinson | Nkechi Carroll & Michael Bhim | December 5, 2018 | T13.21357 | 0.66 [7] |
8 | 8 | "Homecoming" | Rob Hardy | April Blair | December 12, 2018 | T13.21358 | 0.70 [8] |
9 | 9 | "Keep Ya Head Up" | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | John A. Norris | January 16, 2019 | T13.21359 | 0.69 [9] |
10 | 10 | "m.A.A.d. city" | Darren Grant | Natalie Abrams & Cam'ron Moore | January 23, 2019 | T13.21360 | 0.71 [10] |
11 | 11 | "All Eyez on Me" | Michael Schultz | J. Stone Alston & Robert D. Doty | January 30, 2019 | T13.21361 | 0.77 [11] |
12 | 12 | "Back in the Day" | Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum | Nkechi O. Carroll & Lorna Osunsanmi | February 6, 2019 | T13.21362 | 0.57 [12] |
Coop struggles to keep Shawn's old rental properly as she isn't fully emancipated from her mother but her father managed to reconcile with his ex wife and make her at least sign the emancipation paper with him, while Olivia threatens to relapse back to her 2017 self due to her being abandoned during playoffs and her mother's district attorney promotion campaign period, while Kia also ended her relationship with Spencer during that same time after she witnessed him fighting, and he almost started a fight again with Asher, worrying he and Layla could be back together. | |||||||
13 | 13 | "Legacy" | Salli Richardson-Whitfield | John A. Norris | February 27, 2019 | T13.21363 | 0.61 [13] |
14 | 14 | "Regulate" | Geoff Sholtz | Jameal Turner | March 6, 2019 | T13.21364 | 0.59 [14] |
15 | 15 | "Best Kept Secret" | Michael Schultz | Mike Herro & David Strauss | March 13, 2019 | T13.21365 | 0.60 [15] |
16 | 16 | "Championships" | David McWhirter | Nkechi Okoro Carroll & Michael Bhim | March 20, 2019 | T13.21366 | 0.54 [16] |
Spencer must face his former team at South Crenshaw High in the state championship game. Coop finally executes the plan to subdue Tyrone. In the end, Spencer's dad becomes the new American football coach for South Crenshaw High School and wants Spencer to come back home to play for the team. Spencer must make the decision to either stay at Beverly or go back to Crenshaw. |
In September 2017, it was announced that the CW veteran Greg Berlanti had two pilots in development for the network, one of them inspired by the life of NFL football player Spencer Paysinger. It was also revealed that April Blair would write and executive produce the untitled project, with Berlanti and Sarah Schechter executive producing. [17] A pilot for the potential series, then called Spencer, was ordered in January 2018. [18] The pilot was ordered to series on May 11, 2018. [19] On October 2, 2018, it was reported that Blair had stepped down as showrunner due to "personal reasons" and was subsequently replaced with co-executive producer Nkechi Okoro Carroll, who was also made an executive producer. [20] On October 8, 2018, The CW ordered five additional scripts for the series. [21] On November 8, 2018, it was announced that The CW had ordered an additional three episodes of the series, bringing the first season total up to 16 episodes. [22]
On February 22, 2018, Taye Diggs was cast as Billy Baker, followed a week later with Samantha Logan cast as Olivia Baker, his daughter. [23] The rest of the cast was filled out through mid-March with Bre-Z and Greta Onieogou cast on March 15, 2018, as characters Tamia Cooper and Layla Keating, respectively, with Monet Mazur, Michael Evans Behling, and Cody Christian cast the next day, to play Laura Fine-Baker, Olivia's mother; Jordan Baker, Olivia's brother; and Asher, respectively. [24] Karimah Westbrook was cast as Grace James on March 19, 2018, and British actor Daniel Ezra was cast in the lead role of Spencer James on March 21, 2018. [25] [26] On May 31, 2018, Jalyn Hall was promoted to a series regular as Dillon, Spencer's little brother. [27]
No. | Title | Air date | Rating/share (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Pilot" | October 10, 2018 | 0.2/1 | 0.69 [1] | 0.1 | 0.37 | 0.3 | 1.06 [28] |
2 | "99 Problem" | October 17, 2018 | 0.2/1 | 0.61 [2] | 0.1 | 0.37 | 0.3 | 0.98 [29] |
3 | "i" | October 24, 2018 | 0.3/1 | 0.76 [3] | 0.1 | 0.44 | 0.4 | 1.21 [30] |
4 | "Lose Yourself" | November 7, 2018 | 0.3/1 | 0.75 [4] | 0.2 | 0.41 | 0.5 | 1.16 [31] |
5 | "All We Got" | November 14, 2018 | 0.3/1 | 0.67 [5] | 0.1 | 0.45 | 0.4 | 1.12 [32] |
6 | "The Choice Is Yours" | November 28, 2018 | 0.3/1 | 0.75 [6] | 0.1 | 0.43 | 0.4 | 1.18 [33] |
7 | "California Love" | December 5, 2018 | 0.2/1 | 0.66 [7] | 0.2 | 0.40 | 0.4 | 1.06 [34] |
8 | "Homecoming" | December 12, 2018 | 0.2/1 | 0.70 [8] | 0.2 | 0.35 | 0.4 | 1.05 [35] |
9 | "Keep Ya Head Up" | January 16, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.69 [9] | 0.1 | 0.34 | 0.3 | 1.03 [36] |
10 | "m.A.A.d. city" | January 23, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.71 [10] | 0.2 | 0.41 | 0.4 | 1.12 [37] |
11 | "All Eyez on Me" | January 30, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.77 [11] | 0.2 | 0.31 | 0.4 | 1.08 [38] |
12 | "Back in the Day" | February 6, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.57 [12] | 0.1 | 0.40 | 0.3 | 0.97 [39] |
13 | "Legacy" | February 27, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.61 [13] | 0.2 | 0.39 | 0.4 | 1.00 [40] |
14 | "Regulate" | March 6, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.59 [14] | 0.1 | 0.38 | 0.3 | 0.97 [41] |
15 | "Best Kept Secret" | March 13, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.60 [15] | 0.2 | 0.41 | 0.4 | 1.01 [42] |
16 | "Championships" | March 20, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.54 [16] | 0.1 | 0.34 | 0.3 | 0.88 [43] |
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