Time of Your Life (U.S. TV series)

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Created by Christopher Keyser
Amy Lippman
Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Garner
Pauley Perrette
Gina Ravera
Johnathon Schaech
Diego Serrano
Country of originUnited States
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes19
Production
Executive producer(s)Christopher Keyser
Amy Lippman
Mark B. Perry
Ken Topolsky
Producer(s) Darin Goldberg
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Paul Marks
Shelley Meals
Ellen S. Pressman
Running time4548 minutes
Production company(s)Keyser/Lipman Productions
Columbia TriStar Television
Release
Original network Fox
Picture format 480i SDTV
Original releaseOctober 25, 1999 (1999-10-25) 
June 21, 2000 (2000-06-21)
Chronology
Related shows Party of Five

Time of Your Life is an American television drama series starring Jennifer Love Hewitt that aired for one season on Fox. A spin-off of Party of Five , the series followed Sarah Reeves Merrin as she moved to New York City to learn more about her biological parents. Co-stars included Jennifer Garner, Pauley Perrette and Gina Ravera.

Jennifer Love Hewitt American actress and singer-songwriter

Jennifer Love Hewitt is an American actress, singer, songwriter, producer, and director. Hewitt began her career as a child actress and singer, appearing in national television commercials before joining the cast of the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated (1989–1991) as well as performing as a backup singer. She received her breakthrough role as Sarah Reeves Merrin on the Fox teen drama Party of Five (1995–1999), and rose to fame as a teen star for her role as Julie James in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its 1998 sequel, and as Amanda Beckett in the teen comedy film Can't Hardly Wait (1998).

Fox Broadcasting Company American television network

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In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, film, or any narrative work, derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work.

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Time of Your Life debuted on Fox on October 25, 1999, but was later put on an indefinite hiatus that ended up lasting five months due to low ratings. The series returned to the network in June 2000 as a part of its summer schedule, but was soon officially cancelled. As a result, the series' final seven episodes remained unaired in the United States, but were later broadcast in several European countries.

Plot

The series centers on the new life of Hewitt's character Sarah Reeves Merrin as she moves to New York City to learn more about her biological mother's life there before she bore Sarah, while also searching for her biological father. Along the way, Sarah moves into her mother's old apartment and makes a new group of friends. Her first friend is her new roommate Romy Sullivan (Jennifer Garner), a struggling actress.

New York City Largest city in the United States

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 20,320,876 people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 23,876,155 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. A global power city, New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. The city's fast pace has inspired the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.

Jennifer Garner American actress

Jennifer Anne Garner is an American actress. Following a supporting role in Pearl Harbor (2001), Garner gained recognition for her performance as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller Alias, which aired from 2001 to 2006. For her work on the series, she won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Cast

Pauley Perrette American actress

Pauley Perrette is an American actress, best known for playing Abby Sciuto on the U.S. TV series NCIS. She is also a published writer, singer, and civil rights advocate.

Gina Ravera is an American actress. She has appeared in films Showgirls (1995), Soul Food (1997), Kiss the Girls (1997), and The Great Debaters (2007). She co-starred as detective Irene Daniels in the TNT crime drama series, The Closer (2005-2009).

Johnathon Schaech American actor

Johnathon Schaech is an American actor, writer and producer.

Debut and cancellation

Time of Your Life first aired on October 25, 1999; it was canceled in the middle of its first season (following a five-month hiatus), on June 21, 2000. Despite Hewitt's popularity at the time, the show was not well received and had poor ratings. [1] The original pilot for the show was completely re-shot and largely rewritten before Fox would air it. [2]

In American English, the term hiatus may be used to refer to a break of several weeks or months in the normal broadcast programming of a television series in the United States. Such a break can occur part-way through the season of a series, in which case it is called a mid-season break, or between distinct television seasons. On the Northern Hemisphere, the breaks between late November and early February are also referred to as winter breaks or, in the Christian cultural sphere, Christmas breaks.

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Fox tried to save the show by putting it on an hiatus that lasted five months. [3] Fox promoted the return of the show in June 2000 as part of its "Summer of Love," a reference to Hewitt's name. [4] However, despite the promotion, ratings for the series' return episode remained low, and it was immediately canceled, with seven episodes remaining unaired in the United States; they were later broadcast in several European countries.

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
1"The Time She Came to New York" Michael Engler Amy Lippman & Christopher Keyser October 25, 1999 (1999-10-25)
2"The Time Sarah Got Her Shih-Tzu Together" Ellen S. Pressman Mark B. Perry November 1, 1999 (1999-11-01)
3"The Time They Threw That Party"Ellen S. PressmanMark B. PerryNovember 8, 1999 (1999-11-08)
4"The Time She Got Mobbed"Michael Engler Ivan Menchell November 15, 1999 (1999-11-15)
5"The Time They All Came Over for Thanksgiving"Ellen S. PressmanAmy Lippman & Christopher KeyserNovember 22, 1999 (1999-11-22)
6"The Time the Truth Was Told"Michael EnglerMark B. PerryNovember 29, 1999 (1999-11-29)
7"The Time They Had Not" Steven Robman Shelley Meals & Darin Goldberg December 13, 1999 (1999-12-13)
8"The Time the Millennium Approached" Robert Berlinger Richard Greenberg December 20, 1999 (1999-12-20)
9"The Time They Decide to Date" Ken Topolsky Amy Lippman & Christopher KeyserJanuary 10, 2000 (2000-01-10)
10"The Time She Turned 21" Daniel Attias Mark B. PerryJanuary 24, 2000 (2000-01-24)
11"The Time They Got E-Rotic"Michael Engler Krista Vernoff June 14, 2000 (2000-06-14)
12"The Time Everything Changed"Ellen S. PressmanAmy Lippman & Christopher KeyserJune 21, 2000 (2000-06-21)
13"The Time They Were Scared of the City" Aaron Lipstadt Allison Robinson Unaired
14"The Time They Cheated"Michael EnglerMark B. PerryUnaired
15"The Time She Made a Temporary Decision" Miguel Arteta Amy Lippman & Christopher KeyserUnaired
16"The Time They Found a Solution"Ellen S. PressmanIvan Menchell & Allison RobinsonUnaired
17"The Time They Got Busy"Daniel AttiasDarin Goldberg & Krista VernoffUnaired
18"The Time They Broke the Law"Michael EnglerMark B. PerryUnaired
19"The Time He Saved the Day"Ellen S. PressmanAmy Lippman & Christopher KeyserUnaired

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