South Beach (2006 TV series)

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South Beach
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Genre Drama
Created byMatt Cirulnick
Starring
Composer Michael Wandmacher
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Elayne Keratsis
  • Terry Miller
  • Antoinette Stella
Production companies
Original release
Network UPN
ReleaseJanuary 11 (2006-01-11) 
February 22, 2006 (2006-02-22)

South Beach is an American drama television series that aired on UPN [1] from January 11 to February 22, 2006. Created by Matt Cirulnick, one of its executive producers was singer/actress Jennifer Lopez. [2] The program was panned by critics and shunned by viewers, ranking 152nd in the Nielsen TV ratings rankings for the 2005–06 season. It was canceled after eight first-run episodes due to low viewership. South Beach was produced by Paramount Television.

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Synopsis

Vincent and Matt are two friends from Brooklyn who decide to move to glamorous South Beach in order to seek out better opportunities. Vincent has aims of meeting with beautiful women and getting ahead by any means necessary, while Matt supposedly only wants to make enough money to return to university, since his father blew his college fund. However, as it turns out, Matt has other reasons for going to South Beach as well.

Several years earlier, Matt was dating Arielle. However, he broke up with her so as to not interfere with her dreams of being a superstar fashion model and pushed her to Miami. There, Arielle met and fell in love with Alex Bauer, the young manager of Nocturnal, South Beach's hottest nightclub. Nocturnal, in turn, is located inside the glitzy Hotel Soleil, where models, celebrities, and other members of the rich and famous regularly spend their sojourns at South Beach. The Hotel Soleil is owned by Alex's mother Elizabeth, a shrewd businesswoman who believes her son is weak and does not have a head for business. On top of that, Elizabeth seems to have a penchant for dating younger men that are her son's age.

Matt's arrival in South Beach causes friction with Alex, who is jealous of his previous relationship with Arielle. Elizabeth did not help things when she gave Matt a job at the Hotel Soleil (thus ensuring that he and Arielle would be seeing a lot of each other) and evidently also had an eye for him as well. Things culminate in a fight between Alex and Matt at Nocturnal; however, Alex ultimately apologizes to Arielle about the fight, and Matt agrees to respect Alex and Arielle's relationship.

Vincent, meanwhile, originally takes a job at the Hotel Soleil as a "spray boy" for female guests who are tanning poolside. However, he soon falls into the dubious employ of one Robert Fuentes, an investor in the hotel who happens to have links to Miami's underworld, and plans to use them to gain greater control of the operations of the hotel. For some time, Fuentes has been pressuring Elizabeth to establish a casino in the Hotel Soleil, but she constantly rebuffs him.

Cast and characters

Main

Recurring

Special guest stars

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
1
2
"Pilot"
"I'm Not Your Baby"
Jason Ensler (part 1)
Darnell Martin (part 2)
Story by: Matt Cirulnick (part 1)
Philip Levens (part 2)
Teleplay by: Matt Cirulnick & Philip Levens
January 11, 2006 (2006-01-11)
3"I Want What's Coming to Me" Peter Medak Scott KauferJanuary 18, 2006 (2006-01-18)
4"Every Day Above Ground is a Good Day"Jason EnslerPeter HumeJanuary 25, 2006 (2006-01-25)
5"Who Do You Trust" Tim Hunter Derick Martini & Steven MartiniFebruary 1, 2006 (2006-02-01)
6"I'll Do What I Wanna Do"Whitney RansickAntoinette StellaFebruary 8, 2006 (2006-02-08)
7"The S.B." David Jackson Melody FoxFebruary 15, 2006 (2006-02-15)
8"It Looked Like Somebody's Nightmare"Whitney RansickStory by: Peter Hume
Teleplay by: Adam Giaudrone
February 22, 2006 (2006-02-22)

Ratings and reviews

Similar to UPN's Fall 2005 effort Sex, Love & Secrets , South Beach was not welcomed by critics. The Miami Herald said that, "Cannibalism is about the only thing missing from this delirious new trashfest of hard bodies and soft brains." The Washington Post 's headline for the show was "Bang, Bang, Bling, Bling, Blah, Blah." The writer called the show "vacuous... preposterous and pretentious." The Seattle Times said, "The dialogue's awful, ranging from clichés ('I don't want to work in my uncle's restaurant the rest of my life') to quotations ('First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women') to product placements ('Anybody got a Red Bull?').

The show was one of the lowest-rated on television. It ranked 152nd out of the 156 original series produced for network television in the 2005–06 season, with an average of 1.6 million viewers. [3]

South Beach was canceled when it was announced that the new The WB/UPN hybrid network, The CW, would not renew the show for additional seasons.

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