Rita Rocks | |
---|---|
Created by | James Berg Stan Zimmerman |
Starring | Nicole Sullivan Richard Ruccolo Tisha Campbell-Martin Ian Gomez Natalie Dreyfuss Kelly Gould Raviv Ullman |
Composer | Matter Music |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 40 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | James Berg Stan Zimmerman |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Zimmerman-Berg Lifetime Television Media Rights Capital |
Original release | |
Network | Lifetime |
Release | October 20, 2008 – December 7, 2009 |
Rita Rocks is a Lifetime original sitcom that ran from October 20, 2008 to December 7, 2009. It was the network's first original comedy in over a decade. The series debuted alongside re-runs of Reba as part of a new comedy hour for Tuesday nights, which later changed to Monday nights. The show stars Nicole Sullivan as Rita, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Richard Ruccolo, Raviv Ullman, and Kelly Gould.
On 11 January 2010, Lifetime cancelled the series after two seasons due to low ratings. [1]
A hard-working mom and wife splits her time between a job she doesn't particularly like, running the kids around and managing the household. She believes that if she can just get a few hours a week to herself, she can figure a few things out. After finding her old guitar in the garage and the prompting of a new friend, they start up a weekly jam session and are joined by a neighbor, the mail-woman and her daughter's boyfriend for nightly rehearsals. The plot is set in the Metropolitan Detroit area, most likely the Southfield area as Shannon attends Southfield Elementary School, which is shown throughout season 1.
In a February 2009 interview on Anytime with Bob Kushell , Sullivan agreed the main character is going through a midlife crisis, but she does not like using the term "midlife". [2]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Andrew D. Weyman | James Berg & Stan Zimmerman | October 20, 2008 |
2 | 2 | "Lies, Lies, Lies, Yeah-ah" | Shelley Jensen | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | October 21, 2008 |
3 | 3 | "You Gotta Have Friends" | Shelley Jensen | James Berg & Stan Zimmerman | October 22, 2008 |
4 | 4 | "Flirting With Disaster" | Peter Marc Jacobson | Denise Moss | October 23, 2008 |
5 | 5 | "Nobody Does It Better" | Katy Garretson | Bob Nickman | October 24, 2008 |
6 | 6 | "Mother's Little Helper" | Peter Marc Jacobson | Sylvia Green | October 28, 2008 |
7 | 7 | "Take This Job and Shove It" | Emile Levisetti | Nastaran Dibai & Jeffery Hodes | November 11, 2008 |
8 | 8 | "The Crying Game" | Andrew D. Weyman | Sylvia Green | November 18, 2008 |
9 | 9 | "Under Pressure" | Katy Garretson | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | November 25, 2008 |
10 | 10 | "Got No Time" | Shelley Jensen | Denise Moss | December 2, 2008 |
11 | 11 | "Love on the Rocks" | Shelley Jensen | Sylvia Green | December 9, 2008 |
12 | 12 | "I Write The Songs" | Shelley Jensen | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | December 16, 2008 |
13 | 13 | "The Girl Is Mine" | Shelley Jensen | Bob Nickman | January 5, 2009 |
14 | 14 | "Old Friends" | Shelley Jensen | Denise Moss | January 12, 2009 |
15 | 15 | "It's My Party" | Emile Levisetti | Bob Nickman | January 19, 2009 |
16 | 16 | "I Can't Make You Love Me" | Jody Margolin Hahn | Bill Fuller & Jim Pond | January 26, 2009 |
17 | 17 | "Get Off of My Cloud" | Shelley Jensen | Teleplay by : Mark Driscoll Story by : Adam Waring | February 2, 2009 |
18 | 18 | "Killer Queen" | Shelley Jensen | Ellen Byron & Lissa Kapstrom | February 9, 2009 |
19 | 19 | "What's Love Got Do To With It?" | Lynn McCracken | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | February 16, 2009 |
20 | 20 | "We Can Work It Out" | Gerry Cohen | James Berg & Stan Zimmerman | February 23, 2009 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
21 | 1 | "A Change is Gonna Come" | Shelley Jensen | Denise Moss | October 5, 2009 |
22 | 2 | "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" | Shelley Jensen | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | October 6, 2009 |
23 | 3 | "Nothing's Gonna Change My World" | Shelley Jensen | Sylvia Green | October 7, 2009 |
24 | 4 | "Welcome to the Working Week" | Andy Cadiff | Denise Moss | October 8, 2009 |
25 | 5 | "Stuck in the Middle with You" | Andy Cadiff | Bob Nickman | October 9, 2009 |
26 | 6 | "The Shape of Things To Come" | Lynn McCracken | Bob Nickman | October 13, 2009 |
27 | 7 | "Mr. Bassman" | Andy Cadiff | Seth Kurland | October 20, 2009 |
28 | 8 | "Mommy's Alright, Daddy's Alright" | Mark Cendrowski | Jennifer Glickman | October 26, 2009 |
29 | 9 | "Vogue" | Lynn McCracken | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | October 26, 2009 |
30 | 10 | "Bad Company" | Shelley Jensen | Sylvia Green | November 2, 2009 |
31 | 11 | "Why Can't We Be Friends?" | Shelley Jensen | Seth Kurland | November 2, 2009 |
32 | 12 | "Mother and Child Reunion" | Shelley Jensen | Denise Moss | November 9, 2009 |
33 | 13 | "Anchors Aweigh" | Leonard R. Garner Jr. | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | November 9, 2009 |
34 | 14 | "Shower The People" | Shelley Jensen | Jennifer Glickman | November 16, 2009 |
35 | 15 | "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" | Shelley Jensen | Matt Quezada & Frank Wolff | November 16, 2009 |
36 | 16 | "Sympathy For The Devil" | Leonard R. Garner Jr. | Bob Nickman | November 23, 2009 |
37 | 17 | "Jingle All The Way" | Shelley Jensen | Teleplay by : Seth Kurland Story by : Maxine Lapiduss & Seth Kurland | November 23, 2009 |
38 | 18 | "The Jealous Kind" | Shelley Jensen | Sylvia Green | November 30, 2009 |
39 | 19 | "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" | Shelley Jensen | Denise Moss | November 30, 2009 |
40 | 20 | "Born In The USA" | Shelley Jensen | Bob Nickman | December 7, 2009 |
Rita Rocks: The Complete 1st Season was released on a 3-disc combo pack on April 27, 2010. [3]
According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 3, 2001, to June 2, 2009.
Thomas Duane Arnold is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Arnie Thomas on Roseanne, which starred his ex-wife Roseanne Barr.
One Day at a Time is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from December 16, 1975, to May 28, 1984. It stars Bonnie Franklin as a divorced mother raising two teenage daughters, played by Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli, set in Indianapolis.
Two Guys and a Girl is an American television sitcom created by Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz, and Danny Jacobson. The series started as a short-run mid-season replacement on March 11, 1998, on ABC. The series ran for four seasons, ending with a planned series finale, its eighty-first episode, on May 16, 2001.
The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television sketch comedy variety show starring Tracey Ullman. It debuted on Fox on April 5, 1987, as the network's second original primetime series to air following Married... with Children, and ran for four seasons and 81 episodes, until May 26, 1990. The show was produced by Gracie Films. The show blended sketch comedy with musical numbers and dance routines, choreographed by Paula Abdul, along with animated shorts. The format was conceived by creator and executive producer James L. Brooks, who was looking to showcase the show's multitalented star. Brooks likened the show to producing three pilots a week. Ullman was the first British woman to be offered her own television sketch show in the United States.
Catwalk is a Canadian musical drama series that ran for 49 episodes on the YTV network from 1992 until 1994. The series' first season aired in syndication in the United States, while the second season aired on MTV.
Tisha Michelle Campbell is an American actress and singer. She made her screen debut appearing in the 1986 rock musical comedy film Little Shop of Horrors, and later starred on the NBC musical comedy drama Rags to Riches (1987–1988). She has appeared in films including School Daze (1988), Rooftops (1989), Another 48 Hrs. (1990), Boomerang (1992), and Sprung (1997). She received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for playing Sidney in the comedy film House Party (1990). She reprises the role of Sidney in the sequels House Party 2 (1991) and House Party 3 (1994).
Less than Perfect is an American television sitcom created by Terri Minsky and starring Sara Rue and Sherri Shepherd which originally aired on ABC from October 1, 2002, to June 6, 2006. It follows Claude (Rue), who works at a television network named GNB, as well as her friends and colleagues.
The Patty Duke Show is an American television sitcom created by Sidney Sheldon and William Asher. The series ran on ABC from September 18, 1963, to April 27, 1966.
Alan Bradley is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Mark Eden. He first appeared on 15 January 1986 and became the show's main antagonist until the character was killed off on 8 December 1989.
Raviv Chanan "Ricky" Ullman is an Israeli-American actor, director, and musician. He is best known for playing Phil Diffy, the main character in the Disney Channel series Phil of the Future.
Daddy's Little Girls is a 2007 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Tyler Perry, produced by Perry and Reuben Cannon, and starring Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Louis Gossett Jr., and Tracee Ellis Ross. It tells the story of a lawyer who helps a mechanic in a custody battle against his mean-spirited ex-wife over who will get custody of their daughters.
Nicole Sullivan is an American actress and comedian best known for being a cast member on the sketch comedy series MADtv for six seasons (1995–2001). She also played Holly Shumpert in five seasons of the CBS sitcom The King of Queens.
Cheerleader Nation is a reality television series based on the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School cheerleading team's ups and downs on the way to Nationals, of which they are the two-time champions. The show also explains how cheerleading is an intense physical activity. It takes place in Lexington, Kentucky. The team is on a quest to win a third national championship. It was broadcast on the channel Lifetime.
Nicole Scherzinger is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and television personality. She is a former member of the pop group and dance ensemble The Pussycat Dolls. With only two albums and over 55 million records sold worldwide, The Pussycat Dolls are one of the world's best-selling female groups.
James Berg is an American television producer and writer. He has written for many television series including The Golden Girls, Roseanne and Gilmore Girls and the 1996 feature film A Very Brady Sequel. He has frequently collaborated with fellow producer and writer Stan Zimmerman. Berg and Zimmerman were also the creators and executive producers of the sitcom, Rita Rocks, starring Nicole Sullivan and Tisha Campbell-Martin which ran on Lifetime Television.
The Protector, is an American police procedural drama television series starring Ally Walker as Gloria Sheppard, a single mother who struggles to maintain the balance between her personal and professional life as an LAPD homicide detective.
Doc McStuffins is an animated children's television series created by Chris Nee and produced by Brown Bag Films. It aired on Disney Junior from March 23, 2012, to April 18, 2020. The series centers on a girl who fixes toys, with help from her four toy friends. The series features songs written and composed by Kay Hanley and Michelle Lewis.
Unreal is an American drama television series that premiered on Lifetime on June 1, 2015. It stars Shiri Appleby as a young reality television producer pushed by her unscrupulous boss to swallow her integrity and do anything it takes to drum up salacious content for their dating reality show Everlasting. The show was created by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, and was inspired by Shapiro's award-winning independent short film Sequin Raze.
The third season of Gilmore Girls, an American dramedy television series, began airing on September 24, 2002 on The WB. The season concluded on May 20, 2003, after 22 episodes. The season was aired on Tuesday nights at 8/7c.