Dirty Sexy Money
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dirty Sexy Money |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2007-2008 |
| length | 41 minutes |
| Episodes | 23 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Dramedy |
| idea | Craig Wright |
| production |
Craig Wright Greg Berlanti Peter Horton Bryan Singer Matthew Gross Josh Reims |
| First broadcast | September 26, 2007 (USA) on ABC |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 14, 2009 on ORF 1 |
| occupation | |
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Dirty Sexy Money is an American television series, which was invented by Craig Wright (among others, episode writer for Six Feet Under , Lost , Brothers & Sisters ) and started on September 26, 2007 on the American television station ABC .
In addition to Craig Wright, Greg Berlanti ( Everwood , Brothers & Sisters), Bryan Singer ( X-Men ) and Peter Horton ( The Prime Years , Grey's Anatomy ) are executive producers on the series.
The series is described by ABC as a cross between the Denver Clan and Six Feet Under - Always Died .
On November 20, 2008, ABC announced that production of the series would be discontinued.
action
Nick George has lived in the shadow of the Darling family all his life, but as an adult he leads the perfect life of an idealistic lawyer. At least until his father, who worked for years as the Darling family's personal lawyer and thereby neglected his own family, is mysteriously killed. After the death of Nick's father, Tripp, the head of the Darling family, asks Nick to take over his father's post as personal lawyer for the wealthy family. Nick doesn't like it at first, but when he learns how much money the Darlings would give him to do good deeds, he accepts the job and plunges into a world ruled by power, privilege, and money .
occupation
main characters
| role | actor | Voice actor | Seasons | Role description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick George | Peter Krause | Götz Otto | 1.01-2.13 | Nick is an idealistic lawyer. He is the husband of Lisa George, the father of Kiki George, and the son of the Darlings' personal family lawyer, Devlin George. Nick grew up under difficult circumstances, as his mother left the family when he was seven and even after his father's job he only ever played second fiddle in his father's life. Although he had vowed never to follow in his father's footsteps, after his death he finally decided to become the family's personal lawyer to solve the mysterious death of his father and, with the money he earned, good in the world to effect. |
| Tripp darling | Donald Sutherland | Jochen Striebeck | 1.01-2.13 | Tripp is the head of the Darling family. He is over 60 and has achieved extreme wealth in his life, owning vineyards and land all over the world. He raised five children with his wife Leticia. |
| Letitia Darling | Jill Clayburgh | Heidi Treutler | 1.01-2.13 | Letitia is the matriarch of the Darling family. She is a respected celebrity in affluent New York society. The death of long-time family friend Devlin "Dutch" George has troubled her and her daughter Karen finally brings to light their long-term affair with him. |
| Patrick Darling | William Baldwin | Jacques Breuer | 1.01-2.13 | Patrick is the firstborn child of Tripp and Letitia. He is over 40 and is the New York District Attorney. He is married and has two children. Patrick is a rising politician and intends to run for New York Senator. There is only one problem: his affair with a transsexual (Carmelita), which he cares about very much. |
| Karen Darling | Natalie Zea | Claudia Lössl | 1.01-2.13 | Karen is the Darlings' eldest daughter. She has been married three times and runs the family's charitable institution. In her youth she was with Nick and lost her virginity to him. She always imagined that she would be married to Nick one day and takes no pleasure in the fact that this has not happened. |
| Brian Darling | Glenn Fitzgerald | Manou Lubowski | 1.01-2.13 | Brian is a priest and the middle child of the Darlings. He is over 30 and has an illegitimate child, which he does not recognize as his. He has had an aversion to Nick George and his father since childhood. As it turns out in later episodes, he is actually the son of Devlin George. His mother kept this from him for a long time. |
| Jeremy Darling | Seth fork | Paul Sedlmeir | 1.01-2.13 | Jeremy, along with his twin sister Juliet, is the youngest member of the Darlings family. He's a spoiled kid who always gets into trouble and can't imagine that there is a life harder than his. He feels like the black sheep of the family and doesn't feel respected by his father. |
| Juliet Darling | Samaire Armstrong | Annina Braunmiller | 1.01-1.10, 2.07 | Juliet is the youngest member of the Darling family, along with her twin brother Jeremy. Spoiled, moody and dependent on her family's money, she would like to be taken seriously as an actress, which is why she is appalled to learn that she only got the role in her first major theater production with her father's money. |
| Lisa George | Zoe McLellan | Angela Wiederhut | 1.01-2.13 | Lisa is Nick's loving, attractive wife. She is the mother of his seven-year-old daughter Kiki and patiently gives Nick support in his crazy, Darling-ruled world. She fears that she will lose her husband to the Darlings. |
| Simon Elder | Blair Underwood | Ole Pfennig | 1.04-2.13 | Simon is the third richest man in the world thanks to his invention of a super-fast computer processor. In contrast to the Darlings, who live their lives conspicuously in luxury, he has a simple, empty loft. He is intelligent and uses his money charitable. He is Tripp's serious, mysterious rival whose real intentions are difficult to see through ... |
| Nola Lyons | Lucy Liu | Stephanie waiter | 2.01-2.13 | A lawyer who represents Nick's competitor in proceedings against the Darlings. |
Supporting characters
- Carmelita ( Candis Cayne )
Carmelita is Patrick's transsexual lover. She is intelligent, loves him and incites Patrick to step out of the shadow of his father and live the life he wants to live.
- Natalie Kimpton ( Tamara Feldman )
Juliet's former best friend, who fell out with her. She also starts a relationship with Jeremy.
- Ellen Darling ( Bellamy Young )
Patrick's wife. She is a determined woman who wants to benefit from her life with her husband, a member of one of the richest families in the world.
- Mei Ling Hwa Darling ( Michelle Krusiec )
Brian's wife and mother of his two daughters. After learning of an affair about Brian's illegitimate child, she considers forgiving him.
Production history
development
The script for the first episode, written by Emmy-nominated series creator Craig Wright, took its first steps into production in July 2006 when ABC bought the rights. The project was developed at Berlanti Television and Greg Berlanti stepped in as a co-producer of Wright. In January 2007 the project was christened "Dirty Sexy Money" and a first episode was officially ordered by ABC. Employees were searched in the same month that Emmy-nominated director Peter Horton agreed to direct the series' first episode. Before ABC's official screening on May 11, 2007, the series finally received early acceptance for 13 episodes.
Casting
Casting for the central roles in the series began in February 2007. Seth Gabel was the first actor to be cast on the series. He got the role of Jeremy Darling. The producers found their main actor in Peter Krause, for whom the role of Nick George was originally written. After initially turning down the role, he finally decided on the role after being convinced by Craig Wright, the creator of the series, with whom he had already worked on Six Feet Under. Finally, Glenn Fitzgerald, Jill Clayburgh, Natalie Zea, Samaire Armstrong, Zoe McLellan and William Baldwin were also cast. Golden Globe winner Donald Sutherland rounds off the ensemble.
Charisma
Filming for the first season of the series began on July 17, 2007, while the series premiered on September 26 on the American television channel ABC and was broadcast there every Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. Due to the writers' strike that began in November 2007, which prematurely interrupted production of the series, the series was replaced by Cashmere Mafia in January 2008.
For Germany, the pay-TV channel FOX Channel has rights to the series. The FOX Channel has aired the series since October 30, 2008. In Austria, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation presented the series for ORF 1's program in the 2008/09 season. The free TV broadcast in Germany will take place from March 24, 2011 every Thursday at 8:15 p.m. on ZDFneo .
Writers strike
On November 16, 2007, ABC ordered a full season of the series. A few weeks earlier, the Hollywood writers' strike began in 2007 and made Dirty Sexy Money the first series to be ordered for a full season after the strike began. A total of 13 episodes were completed, of which, however, only 10 episodes were broadcast in the 2007 TV season. On February 11, 2008, ABC announced that it had ordered a second season of the series for the fall 2008 program, but would not broadcast any more episodes in the 2007/2008 TV season. The three episodes of the first season that were not broadcast would be revised again because the authors had rushed the episodes through the production in the face of the impending strike and would like to give the episodes the necessary fine-tuning.
Behind the scenes changes in Season 2
For the second season of the series, it was decided to make numerous changes behind the scenes to hit the right note and attract more viewers to the show, as the series struggled with viewer losses towards the end of the first season. Initially, Daniel Cerone ( Dexter ) was hired as a showrunner , which should add more tension to the series. For reasons unknown, the decision was made to make Samaire Armstrong, who starred in the first season, a recurring guest star instead and hired Lucy Liu as the new lead actress. In June, Daniel Cerone finally resigned as showrunner because the producers of the series and the broadcaster found him incompatible with the series. The first two episodes of him had not been well received by audiences at test screenings and were labeled too gloomy. Then Jon Harmon Feldman ( Tru Calling ) took over the post of showrunner. It was decided not to broadcast the last three episodes of the first season, which were written and produced in a hurry shortly before the writers' strike. It was also decided to restructure and redevelop the first episodes of the second season that had already been filmed.
perception
Dirty Sexy Money was able to inspire American critics even before the start of the series and received good reviews. Entertainment Weekly called the series "one of the most interesting shows of the fall [2007]". The New York Times wrote, "Everyone is having too much fun, this will involve the viewer."
Audience ratings
On September 26, 2007, the series started with disappointing but passable audience numbers. In the weeks that followed, the series lost viewers, but was then able to keep the number of its viewers fairly stable and at the same time keep the majority of the viewers of the supporting program.
| episode | Episode (total) |
title | First broadcast | Target group values (18–49, rating / share) |
Viewers in millions | German title | First broadcast (Germany) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | September 26, 2007 | 3.6 / 12 | 10.44 | "Pilot" | October 30, 2008 |
| 2 | 2 | "The Lions" | October 3, 2007 | 3.6 / 11 | 9.61 | "The Lions" | November 6, 2008 |
| 3 | 3 | "The Italian Banker" | October 10, 2007 | 3.5 / 10 | 8.63 | "The Italian Banker" | November 13, 2008 |
| 4th | 4th | "The Chiavennasca" | October 17, 2007 | 3.1 / 11 | 8.67 | "The Chiavennasca" | November 20, 2008 |
| 5 | 5 | "The Bridge" | October 24, 2007 | 3.3 / 10 | 8.56 | "The bridge" | November 27, 2008 |
| 6th | 6th | "The Game" | October 31, 2007 | 2.9 / 10 | 8.38 | "The game" | December 4, 2008 |
| 7th | 7th | "The Wedding" | November 14, 2007 | 2.9 / 10 | 7.90 | "The wedding" | December 11, 2008 |
| 8th | 8th | "The Country House" | November 21, 2007 | 2.0 / 8 | 6.52 | "The cottage" | December 18, 2008 |
| 9 | 9 | "The Watch" | November 28, 2007 | 2.6 / 8 | 7.15 | "The clock" | December 25, 2008 |
| 10 | 10 | "The Nutcracker" | December 5, 2007 | 2.4 / 8 | 6.91 | "The Nutcracker" | December 25, 2008 |
| episode | Episode (total) |
title | First broadcast | Target group values (18–49, rating / share) |
Viewers in millions | German title | First broadcast (Germany) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | "The Birthday Present" | October 1, 2008 | 4.8 / 8 | 7.15 | "The birthday present" | October 5, 2009 |
| 2 | 12 | "The Family Lawyer" | October 8, 2008 | 4.1 / 7 | 5.85 | "The family lawyer" | October 12, 2009 |
| 3 | 13 | "The Star Witness" | October 22, 2008 | 4.0 / 7 | 5.86 | "The main witness" | October 19, 2009 |
| 4th | 14th | "The Silence" | October 29, 2008 | 4.1 / 7 | 6.08 | "The silence" | October 26, 2009 |
| 5 | 15th | "The Verdict" | November 5, 2008 | TBA | TBA | "The decision" | November 2, 2009 |
| 6th | 16 | "The Injured Party" | November 19, 2008 | TBA | TBA | "The victim" | November 9, 2009 |
| 7th | 17th | "The Summer House" | December 3, 2008 | TBA | TBA | "The summer house" | November 23, 2009 |
| 8th | 18th | "The Plan" | December 10, 2008 | TBA | TBA | "The plan" | November 30, 2009 |
| 9 | 19th | "The Organ Donor" | December 17, 2008 | TBA | TBA | "Organ donation" | December 7, 2009 |
| 10 | 20th | "The Facts" | March 9, 2008 | TBA | TBA | "The facts" | November 16, 2009 |
| 11 | 21st | "The Convertible" | February 5, 2008 | TBA | TBA | "Family outings" | December 14, 2009 |
| 12 | 22nd | "The Unexpected Arrival" | February 13, 2008 | TBA | TBA | "Intruders" | December 21, 2009 |
| 13 | 23 | "The Bad Guy" | March 3, 2008 | TBA | TBA | "The evil" | December 28, 2009 |
Awards
Nominated
- 2008 - Golden Globe Awards - Donald Sutherland - Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, TV Movie, or Miniseries
Web links
- Dirty Sexy Money in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website at ABC (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ tvseriesfinale.com: Dirty Sexy Money: ABC “Cancels” Peter Krause TV Show ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 21, 2008
- ↑ quotemeter.de: Fox Channel shows Dirty Sexy Money
- ↑ quotemeter.de: ProSiebenSat.1 extends contract with Disney
- ↑ DWDL.de: “ZDFneo is rebuilding its series Thursday” , accessed on March 24, 2011
- ^ The Futon Critic: Development Updates, February 26-28, 2008
- ^ The Futon Critic: Development Updates, April 23, 2008
- ↑ Televisionista: Major Dirty Sexy Money Scoop
- ^ The Futon Critic: Development Updates June 18, 2008
- ↑ USA Today: For MONEY extra time to find itself pays off
