Jack & Jill
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Jack & Jill |
| Original title | Jack & Jill |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1999-2001 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 32 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Drama , comedy |
| Theme music |
Pancho's Lament - Truth About Romeo |
| idea | Randi Mayem Singer |
| First broadcast | September 26, 1999 (USA) on The WB |
| German-language first broadcast |
January 6, 2004 on ORF eins |
| occupation | |
Jack & Jill is an American television series ( Dramedy ), which was very popular in America at the beginning, but ran only with moderate ratings in Germany on Nick and from January 2007 briefly on Comedy Central .
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Jacqueline "Jack" Barrett dreams of the perfect life by the side of the perfect man. But when, on the day of their perfect wedding, she finds out that the man of her life has spent the night with her best friend and bridesmaid, this dream shatters. Completely disaffected, Jack flees to New York to her former friend Audrey. The dancer is happy to take them on. She also meets her neighbor Jill in Audrey's apartment building, with whom she immediately becomes very sympathetic. When visiting a bar in the evening, Jack and Jill even kiss. In addition, Jill's roommate, Bartholomew "Barto" Zane, meets Audrey there and the medical student falls in love with her immediately.
But Jack continues to try to get her life under control and begins an internship with a local news channel. There she immediately befriends the editor Elisa Cronkite, who raves about her boyfriend, the toy designer David, with whom she is about to move in together. Unfortunately, he actually turns out to be David Jillefsky, called Jill by everyone except Elisa. A short time later, Jill separates from Elisa by mutual agreement.
The next series deals with the fluctuating relationships between Jack and Jill, Audrey and Barto and at the same time suggests the feelings that may still arise between Elisa and Jills and Barto's permanent guest, the bartender Michael "Mikey" Russo. In particular, the neurotic Jack and the self-proclaimed pub philosopher Mikey manage to give the series a comical edge.
Due to poor ratings in the US, the series was canceled after only 13 episodes in the second season. During the last episode, while preparing for Jack and Jill's wedding, Jack discovers that she is pregnant. But before she can tell Jill about it, he decides their relationship has developed too quickly and calls off the wedding to slow things down. A third season was no longer produced.
occupation
| role | actor | Voice actor | consequences |
|---|---|---|---|
| David "Jill" Jillefsky | Ivan Sergei | Oliver Field | 20th |
| Jacqueline "Jack" Barrett | Amanda Peet | Nana Spier | 20th |
| Audrey Griffin | Jaime Pressly | Dascha Lehmann | 19th |
| Elisa Cronkite | Sarah Paulson | Anna Carlsson | 19th |
| Bartholomew "Barto" Zane | Justin Kirk | Sven Hasper | 19th |
| Michael "Mikey" Russo | Simon Rex | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss | 19th |
| Eddie Naiman | Gary Marks | 11 | |
| Jonathon Appel | Chad Willett | Axel Malzacher | 10 |
| Matt Prophet | Josh Hopkins | Nicolas Boell | 9 |
| Peter McCray | Ed Quinn | Oliver Siebeck | 6th |
| Mrs. Cecilia Barrett (Jack's mother) | Victoria Principal | Beate Menner | 3 |
Trivia
- The title track was Truth About Romeo from Pancho's Lament, a band project by the American songwriter Jeff Cohen , who also worked for example. B. worked for Dawson's Creek . At the same time, however, the episodes were often initiated and ended by a group of black street singers who sang in front of or in the characters' homes.
- Jamie Pressly (Audrey) was in a relationship with Mikey actor Simon Rex while filming.
- Amanda Peet (Jack) and Sarah Paulson (Elisa) later played together in the US series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- The series first aired in the US was strategically very convenient after the popular Felicity series , and later broadcast direct to Dawson's Creek .
- The series was nominated in 2000 for the "Best Casting Award" in the television series category.
- Randi Mayem Singer, the screenwriter and producer of numerous series and films (e.g. Mrs. Doubtfire - The Prickly Nanny with Robin Williams ), was so angry about the cancellation of the series that it published on the Internet how it should have ended .
- "Jack" and "Jill" are common fairy tale and historical characters in Anglo-American countries. But Jack is always male and Jill female. It's also a nursery rhyme :
- Jack and Jill went up the hill
- To fetch a pail of water.
- Jack fell down and broke his crown,
- And Jill came tumbling after.
Web links
- Jack & Jill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Links and information on fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See imdb.com
- ↑ Randi Mayem Singer's The Big Tease ( Memento from March 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )