Happily Divorced
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Happily Divorced |
| Original title | Happily Divorced |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2011-2013 |
| length | approx. 22 minutes |
| Episodes | 34 in 2 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Sitcom |
| Theme music | Happily Divorced - Gavin Lurssen |
| idea | Peter Marc Jacobson, Fran Drescher |
| production | Keith Cox, Larry W. Jones |
| music | Gavin Lurssen |
| camera | George Mooradian |
| First broadcast | June 15, 2011 (USA) on TV Land |
| German-language first broadcast |
July 10, 2013 on Glitz * |
| occupation | |
Happily Divorced is an American sitcom designed by Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson and inspired above all by their experiences , about a florist from Los Angeles who finds out after 18 years of marriage that her husband is gay . The series was broadcast between 2011 and 2013 on the US cable channel TV Land . It is the third specially produced show by TV Land after Hot in Cleveland and Retired at 35 .
The series was discontinued in August 2013.
action
Fran Lovett runs a flower shop in Los Angeles, and her husband Peter is a real estate agent. One night he wakes her up and tells her that he's gay. The two are getting a divorce. But they find that their house has lost so much in value due to the collapse of the real estate market in the USA that they could not finance two apartments with the proceeds. So inevitably they still live together after the divorce and try - each in his own way - to find the man for life. They are supported by Fran's parents, their school friend Judi and Fran's employee Cesar.
occupation
main actor
The main characters are:
- Fran Drescher as Fran Lovett (née Newman), a Los Angeles florist
- John Michael Higgins as Peter Lovett, a real estate agent and Fran's ex-husband
- Tichina Arnold as Judi Mann, Frans best friend
- Valente Rodriguez as Cesar, Fran's employee from Mexico
- Rita Moreno as Dori Newman, Fran's mother
- Robert Walden as Glenn Newman, Fran's father
Guest actor in recurring roles
- Donald. W. Moffett as Elliot, Fran's fiancé
- Renée Taylor as Marilyn, a neighbor and friend & rival of Dori
- Joan Collins as herself, Peter is her personal assistant
- Harry Van Gorkum as Neill, the neighbor
Guest actor
- Ian Ziering as Robert, self-help group leader (season 1, episode 5)
- Lou Diamond Phillips as David, Judis Date (Season 1, Episode 8)
- Robert Gant as Marc, Peters Date (Season 1, Episode 8)
- Charles Shaughnessy as Gregory Sherwood, a well-known writer (season 1, episode 10)
- Morgan Fairchild as Jill, Fran's archenemy from college (Season 2, Episode 1)
- Ann Guilbert as Myrna Kapelmaster, Marilyn's mother (Season 2, Episode 4)
- John Schneider as Adam, Fran's Adventure Date (Season 2, Episode 7)
- Rosie O'Donnell as Katy, a high school friend of Fran (season 2, episode 9)
- Dan Aykroyd as Harold, Frans Blind-Date and a Therapist (Season 2, Episode 10)
- Judy Reyes as Teresa, Cesar's wife (Season 2, Episode 11)
- Ralph Macchio as Frankie, Pizza Man from New York and Frans Date (Season 2, Episodes 12 & 13)
- Robert Wagner as Elliot's father (season 2, episode 14)
- Florence Henderson as Elliot's mother (Season 2, Episode 14)
- Debi Mazar as Jan, Peter's potential roommate when Fran moves out (Season 2, Episode 15)
- Cyndi Lauper as Kiki, daughter of Marilyn and Frans sandpit friend (season 2, episode 17)
- Colin Ferguson as Chris, Peter's friend (Season 2, Episode 20 & 24)
- Molly Shannon as Peggy, Peter's sister and Fran's Nightmare (Season 2, Episode 21)
synchronization
Peter Minges, who also wrote the dialogue book, is responsible for the German version of the series.
| role | Season (episode) |
actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fran | 1.01-2.24 | Fran Drescher | Susanna Bonaséwicz |
| Peter | 1.01-2.24 | John Michael Higgins | Frank Röth |
| Judi | 1.01-2.24 | Tichina Arnold | Anke Reitzenstein |
| Cesar | 1.01-2.24 | Valente Rodriguez | Nico Mamone |
| Dori | 1.01-2.24 | Rita Moreno | Isabella Grothe |
| Glenn | 1.01-2.24 | Robert Walden | Bodo Wolf |
Development and production
- United States
Happily Divorced is inspired by the life stories of the series creators Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson. The two were already a couple in high school and married in 1978. In 1999 they got divorced. Jacobson later came out to Drescher as gay, but the two remained good friends. In 2010, the couple, who previously worked together on Drescher's hit sitcom The Nanny , began developing the new show based on their life experiences. Originally Drescher only planned to write and produce Happily Divorced , but has decided to take on the lead role. In November 2010, TV Land gave the green light for a Pilot episode. On March 21, 2011, the broadcaster announced that it would produce a first 10-episode season. The show was recorded in front of a live audience at CBS Radford Studios in "Studio City" near Los Angeles. As with Fran Drescher's sitcom The Nanny , the opening credits are animated with specially composed music and introduce the couple's story (getting to know each other, wedding, coming out, divorce, living together). In this sitcom - also as in The Nanny - Drescher does without another role name and is called "Fran" here as well. The series premiered on June 15, 2011 after the show Hot in Cleveland .
On July 20, 2011, TV Land announced that it would produce a second, twelve-episode season of Happily Divorced , which aired on March 7, 2012. On April 29, 2012, on the day of the TV Land Awards 2012, the broadcaster announced that it would extend the second season originally planned for twelve episodes by twelve more episodes, so that the second season formed a full season with a total of 24. The second half aired between November 28, 2012 and February 13, 2013.
In August 2013, TV Land announced that the series would be discontinued.
- Germany
The German-language first broadcast took place from July 10, 2013 on the pay-TV channel Glitz * .
For the first time on free TV, all 34 episodes ran on October 16, 2014 in the ARD program Einsfestival .
- International
Endemol has sold Happily Divorced to several countries. The show was sold by SBS 6 in the Netherlands , SABC in South Africa , Shaw TV in Canada , Comedy Central in Italy, MTV in South America and TVNZ in New Zealand . Similar negotiations with a German company for Happily Divorced will be announced in the future. There are also advanced negotiations in India , Poland and Sweden .
reception
Even before it was first broadcast, there was a lot of excitement about the new show in the USA, because with The Nanny , Drescher created one of the successful formats of the 1990s. The first episode of Happily Divorced was just as successful: it was watched by a total of 4.4 million viewers on the small channel TV Land and was more than four times the channel average. Happily Divorced made a significant contribution to making June 15, 2011 TV Land's second most successful day.
First reviews are mixed. David Hinckley wrote for the New York Daily News that "a very interesting story is likely to develop, even though the number of one-liners that was uncharacteristically untypical for a series premiere." Brian Lowry of Variety found the series " all too obviously gay Filled with prejudices, but a must for Drescher fans ”. Mark A. Perigard's review in The Boston Herald was thoroughly empathic; he thinks that "TV Land, as a young and still quite small broadcaster, has finally found a perfect format with Happily Divorced alongside the huge success Hot in Cleveland ."
DVD release
- United States
- Season 1 was released on March 6, 2012
- Germany
- Season 1 + 2 was released in June 2015 in 3 boxes on DVD
Web links
- Happily Divorced in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official website of TV Land
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bernd Michael Krannich: Happily Divorced: TV Land does not order a 3rd season . In: Serienjunkies.de . August 24, 2013. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
- ↑ AfterElton Briefs: Daniel Radcliffe is a Hero, Chord Overstreet's Tight End, Introducing Fran Drescher's Gay TV Ex, and More!
- ^ TV Land Orders 10 Episodes Of Fran Drescher's Happily Divorced . In: On Top Magazine . February 22, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jordan Zakarin: Fran Drescher's 'Happily Divorced' Close To TV Land Pickup . In: Huffington Post . March 15, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ↑ Fran Drescher Outs Ex Hubby, Says They're Still Great Friends ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2010 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.
- ↑ TV Land greenlights two scripted pilots
- ↑ Andrea Morabito: TV Land Greenlights Two New Sitcoms . Broadcasting & Cable. March 21, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
- ↑ [2] , [3]
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2012 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.
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- ↑ http://www.tvland.com/video-clips/happily-divorced/hot-in-cleveland-and-happily-divorced-are-back ( Memento from February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ [5]
- ↑ Happily Divorced Film & Series . October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ↑ a b [6] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) 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.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2015 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.
- ^ David Hinckley: Fran Drescher's New TV Land Series Uses One-liners, Gay-friendly Jokes . In: The New York Daily News . June 14, 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
- ^ Brian Lowry: TV Review> Happily Divorced . In: Variety . June 15, 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
- ^ Mark A. Perigard: Fran Drescher Borrows From Life For Divorced Comedy . In: Boston Herald . June 15, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
