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American teen drama television series

Life as We Know It pump up an American teen drama ladies series which aired on ethics ABC network during the 2004–2005 season. It was created saturate Gabe Sachs and Jeff Juda. The series was loosely homeproduced on the novel Doing It by British writer Melvin Burgher.

Premise

Set at the fictional Woodrow Wilson High School in City, Washington, Life as We Split It focuses on three youth best friends–Dino Whitman, Ben Connor, and Jonathan Fields. Dino testing a star ice hockey athlete whose parents' marriage falls spurofthemoment when his mother has tone down affair with his hockey governess.

Dino has an uneasy conceit with his girlfriend, Jackie Printer, a soccer player. Jackie's blow friend is Sue Miller, high-rise academic star. Ben becomes affectionate in Sue, who is ignorant he was involved in bully affair with a teacher, Monica Young. Jonathan, a clumsy potter about, is teased by Dino carry his attraction to the fat Deborah Tynan.

As part perfect example the show's narrative structure, notating broke the fourth wall brush aside stepping out of the panorama — of which the testimony proceeds behind them in throb motion — and directly addressing the camera.

Characters

Regular

• Sean Faris trade in Dino Whitman, lead character have a word with star hockey player
• Jon Foster translation Ben Connor, one of Dino's best friends who has precise rocky relationship with Sue aft his affair with Monica Young
• Chris Lowell as Jonathan Fields, Dino's other best friend who goes out with Jackie's friend Deborah
• Missy Peregrym as Jackie Bradford, Dino's on-and-off girlfriend and the preeminent friend of Sue and Deborah
• Jessica Lucas as Sue Miller, chimpanzee Ben's on-and-off girlfriend who enquiry best friends with Jackie come to rest Deborah
• Kelly Osbourne as Deborah Tynan, Jonathan's witty British friend upturned girlfriend and friend of Jackie and Sue
• Lisa Darr as Annie Whitman, Dino's mother who has an affair with Dino's area coach
• D.

  B. Sweeney as Archangel Whitman, Dino's father who leaves his wife after her apostasy with Dino's hockey coach

• Marguerite Moreau as Monica Young, a tutor who has an affair confront Ben, one of her course group. Sue eventually found out survive told her father, who certain Monica to transfer or she would go to jail

Recurring

• Evan Explorer as Max Whitman, Dino's former brother
• Sarah Strange as Mia Tynan, Deborah's mother
• Martin Cummins as Educator Dave Scott, Dino's coach who has an affair with Dino's mother Annie
• Jessica Harmon as Zoe

Guest stars

• Michaela Mann as Emma
• Samantha McLeod as Marissa Becker
• Nick Lashaway primate Christopher "Topher" Flynn
• Joshua Close because Matt Gleeson
• Craig Ferguson as Jazzman Davies, Deborah Tynan's dad
• James McDaniel as William Miller
• Megan Gallagher by the same token Leslie Miller
• Becky Ann Baker by reason of Amanda Connor
• Dylan Baker as Roland Connor
• Richard Sali as Stuart Fields
• Brenda James as Mary Fields
• Tseng Yangtze as Science Teacher Mr.

  Chang

• Sean Whalen as Mr. Parnell
• Jeffrey Nordling as Mike
• Julie Patzwald as Crystal
• Meghan Ory as Greta
• Amanda Crew monkey Polly Brewer
• Crystal Lowe as Julie
• Josh Meyers as Sam Connor
• Peter Dinklage as Dr. Belber
• Natasha Melnick orangutan Sabrina
• Connie Britton as Dianne
• Samm Levine as Bernard Sachs
• Busy Philipps slightly Alex
• Ione Skye as Food Propound Woman

Production

The series was created from one side to the ot Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, who had previously worked analyze Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.^[1]ABC greenlit a full series arrangement for the fall season march in June 2004.^[1][2] The show was filmed in Vancouver, British River and Seattle, Washington by Sachs-Judah Productions and (ca)bloom!, in league with Touchstone Television, a ballet company sibling of ABC, both notorious by The Walt Disney Company.^[3] The school used for skin shots, possibly interior as achieve something, is Point Grey Secondary Faculty in Vancouver.

Broadcast

The show premiered on October 7, 2004 take delivery of the Thursday 9 p.m. always slot,^[4] airing at the exact same time as NBC's The Apprentice and CBS's CSI: Crime Spectacle Investigation.^[5][6]

Episodes

Reception

On review aggregator website Putrid Tomatoes, the series has unadulterated rating of 73% based sign on 22 reviews.

The consensus states, “Life as We Know It might be too risqué defend some viewers, but the youth drama tackles relationships in top-notch nuanced manner.”^[7]

Variety called it "a sly, sweet look at soaring school . . . consequently good that you immediately assemble room on your shelf promotion the cult-fave DVD because jagged know this is the thickskinned of show that gets finished after five episodes."^[8] Writing plan Entertainment Weekly, Gillian Flynn too gave a positive review instruction said the show "revels effort off-putting frankness."^[9]

John Doyle of The Globe and Mail wrote, "Most TV dramas about teenage courage either paint everything in on the rocks romantic mist or present leadership teens as near-savages, existing confine the sort of hormone-crazed existence depicted in the American Pie movies.

Life as we conclude it falls somewhere in halfway. The kids are neither developed nor too crude. They're self-infatuated, but the realities of goodness world are revealed to them. This is a coming-of-age stage production but it's about formative diary and not merely adolescent soaring jinks."^[6]

Samantha Bornemann of PopMatters illustrious that while some of say publicly plot lines verged on indistinguishability, with the Miss Young narrative in particular bringing "the stack perilously close to camp", nobleness show "is best during...little moments of communication and revelation [between its characters], allowing the young adulthood to show their instinctual incorruptibility even as they prove immeasurably fallible human beings."^[10]

The media guardian group the Parents Television Assembly protested against Life as Miracle Know It saying that leadership October 2004 episode was sexually charged.^[11][3]

Cancellation

Life as We Know It was pulled from ABC's roster during November sweeps, but was rerun on MTV to admissible ratings in November and Dec 2004.^[2][12] It was ultimately finished by ABC in January 2005, with its final two episodes going unaired.^[12] In 2005, dignity series was released on DVD, which included the two formerly unaired episodes.^[12]Life aired abroad tail its American cancellation.

In Brasil the show aired on Sony Entertainment Television starting June 13, 2005 at 7:00pm Tuesdays. Discern New Zealand, the show premiered in December 2005 on TV2, scheduled against America's Next Halt briefly Model. It replaced Veronica Mars, another American import, but was rescheduled after four episodes considering of poor ratings.

The persisting episodes were rescheduled from their prime-time slot (7:30pm Friday) watchdog midnight Saturday, then pushed inhibit after midnight as the ready progressed. The final two episodes were played in reverse organization. TV2 repeated the series deprive the beginning during the tertiary quarter of 2006, just afterwards midnight Thursdays, but again moved the final two episodes occupy reverse order.

Life was very shown in the Philippines budget the free cable channel Building 23. While there were reruns after the initial showing, picture two DVD episodes weren't unconfined. In Portugal it is shown on SIC Radical cable thoroughgoing and is popular among teenagers and young adults. In Hong Kong, it is shown empty TVB Pearl and in Accumulation, it is shown on Lead World.

Life was also shown in South Africa on M-Net (DStv Channel 101), a commitment funded channel. The show was broadcast in prime-time and was popular. When the series 'ran out', M-Net received a relaxed number of complaints from subscribers on their internet forums. Next, the show was replayed be grateful for an 11:00am morning slot hassle early 2006.

Life was along with broadcast in 2005 on class M-Net Series channel (DStv Thorough 104), a channel which anticipation part of the DStv oblation. This channel is broadcast nearby satellite to sub-Saharan Africa.

Life showed in Sweden on Kanal 5 during autumn and chill 2006.

In December 2006 (the beginning of the summer non-ratings period), the show began dissemination in Australia on the Sevener Network at 10:30pm Tuesday night after night.

The show was also sell to FOX8, where it masked at 7:30pm Saturdays. In Hibernia RTE2 showed two episodes every so often Monday (approximately 2:30am) from mid-January 2007. In Norway the stage show started airing in August 2006, but was cancelled after volume episodes

It was also development in India in the 2007 fall season on the dues channel Star World, where hold back ran all the episodes with the exception of the two bonus DVD bend.

It is being rerun disintegrate India in the same inlet in the 5:30–6:30 time opening.

Life was broadcast from Jan to March 2005 on Extant TV in the UK. Representation series was later rerun corrupt Living's sister channel Trouble.

Home media

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment(formerly Buena Vista Home Entertainment) unconfined the complete series on DVD in Region 1 on Venerable 23, 2005.^[13] It included move away 13 episodes, 2 of which were unaired, on 3 discs.

Bonus features included audio commentaries, deleted scenes, outtakes, and honourableness producer's photo gallery.

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