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Grosse Pointe
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Darren Star
Starring	Irene Molloy William Ragsdale Al Santos Lindsay Sloane Bonnie Somerville Kohl Sudduth Kyle Howard
Theme music composer	Mousse T. Errol Rennalls
Opening theme	"Sex Bomb (Peppermint Disco Mix)" byTom Jones andMousse T.
Composer	Mark Mothersbaugh
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	17
Production
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	21 minutes
Production companies	Darren Star Productions Artists Television Group Columbia TriStar Television Distribution
Original release
Network	The WB
Release	September 22, 2000 (2000-09-22) – February 18, 2001 (2001-02-18)

Grosse Pointe is an Americansitcom television series which aired onThe WB from September 22, 2000, to February 18, 2001. Created byDarren Star, it was asatire depicting the behind-the-scenes drama on the set of a television show, and was inspired largely by Star's experiences as creator and producer of the nighttimesoapBeverly Hills, 90210.

The series takes place inLos Angeles, on the set of a fictitious WB nighttime soap, also calledGrosse Pointe, and several characters were based on real-life actors. The fictitiousGrosse Pointe ("a misguided90210 rip-off", as Star describes it) is set in thewealthy Michigan suburb, and was very much a parody of teenage nighttime soaps.

Reportedly,Beverly Hills 90210 producerAaron Spelling called WB executiveJamie Kellner to complain about Lindsay Sloane's character Marcy Sternfeld, who in the original pilot was a thinly veiled parody of Spelling's daughter, actressTori Spelling.^[1][2]

Darren Star asked several actors from Spelling-produced shows to appear on the series.Jason Priestley andJoe E. Tata fromBeverly Hills, 90210 appeared in separate episodes, with Priestley directing the episode in which he appeared.Kristin Davis fromMelrose Place also appeared in an episode.Katie Wagner, who hosted aBeverly Hills, 90210 special in 1993, also appeared on the show as herself for one episode. FormerSaved by the Bell teen starElizabeth Berkley appeared in the series finale.

In addition, several actors from other WB series appeared as themselves onGrosse Pointe, such asLeslie Bibb andCarly Pope ofPopular andSarah Michelle Gellar ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer.

Grosse Pointe was on the WB's Friday line-up in betweenSabrina the Teenage Witch andPopular. The show lost much of the lead-in audience, and was moved to Sundays (a joke in the episode "The Opposite of Sex" references this, as the fictional show garners its highest ratings ever but fails to "beatSabrina").Grosse Pointe was canceled in February 2001 after 17 episodes.

• Irene Molloy as Hunter Fallow, who plays Becky Johnson on the primetime soapGrosse Pointe, a parody ofShannen Doherty and her90210 characterBrenda Walsh
• Al Santos as Johnny Bishop, who plays Becky's brother Brad Johnson onGrosse Pointe, a parody ofJason Priestley and90210'sBrandon Walsh
• Lindsay Sloane as Marcy Sternfeld, who plays Becky's best friend Kim Peterson, then her long-lost sister Lynn onGrosse Pointe, originally a parody ofTori Spelling and90210'sDonna Martin
• Bonnie Somerville as Courtney Scott, who plays Becky and Brad's orphaned cousin Laura Johnson, a parody ofTiffani-Amber Thiessen's90210 characterValerie Malone, areplacement character
• Kohl Sudduth as Quentin Barbary King, who plays Becky's boyfriend Stone Anders, a parody ofLuke Perry and90210'sDylan McKay
• Kyle Howard as Dave May, the stand-in who later gets a role on the show, a parody ofBrian Austin Green and90210'sDavid Silver
• William Ragsdale as Rob Fields, producer, a parody ofDarren Star
• Joely Fisher as Hope Lustig (episode 1, recurring episodes 2–5), producer, in opening credits in pilot only then credited as "special guest star" as Fisher left the show to star in the sitcomNormal, Ohio
• Nat Faxon as Kevin (episodes 14–17, recurring 1–13),^[3] production assistant

• Michael Hitchcock as Richard Towers, who plays Becky and Brad's father Ted Johnson onGrosse Pointe, secretly lusts after his on-screen son, a parody ofJames Eckhouse and his90210 character Jim Walsh

Critics were largely positive towardsGrosse Pointe.Time wrote that it was "nicely cast and smartly paced, it's a sassy, catty riot."^[2] TheNew York Daily News wrote that it was "the funniest, smartest comedy" that the WB has ever had.^[4] It was the only WB comedy to receive an "A" grade fromEntertainment Weekly.^[5]

Despite this, the series struggled with low ratings. In its Friday night timeslot, it typically lost an average of one million viewers from its lead-in,Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Though the network tried to find an audience for it by moving it around the schedule,Grosse Pointe ultimately failed to attract enough viewers to sustain it past one season.

On the DVDaudio commentary for theGrosse Pointe pilot episode, Star explained that the behind-the-scenes antics on the set of90210 were often more interesting than the show itself, and that the idea of creating a comedy based on this had been kicking around in his head for years.

In January 2006,Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced thatGrosse Pointe would be released on DVD on March 14, 2006.^[6] The DVD was later quietly taken off the schedule, and several months later, it was announced that it would be released as anAmazon.com exclusive on November 7, 2006. However, it was delayed yet again,^[7] but the DVD finally shipped in late November.

On December 4, 2006, Sony announced that the DVD would be widely released on February 13, 2007.^[8]

The opening titles and theme song only appear once on each disc of the DVD set, in the pilot episode for disc 1 and in "Puppet Master" for disc 2, because the use of "Sex Bomb" by Tom Jones was deemed too expensive to use in every episode. All other episodes had to be reedited to remove the opening titles. The cast credits, along with episode names, are shown over each episode's opening scene instead. The version of the titles that is used on DVDs is the standard version seen throughout the series not the original pilot version which featuredJoely Fisher or the final version which included Nat Faxon.

DVD extras include an interview with Darren Star and commentary tracks on the following episodes:

• "Pilot" (with Darren Star)
• "Devil in a Blue Dress" (with Darren Star and co-executive producer Robin Schiff)
• "Satisfaction" (with Darren Star and Robin Schiff)
• "Secrets and Lies" (with Darren Star and Robin Schiff)

The DVD release jacket of disc 2 has a misprint with two of the episode descriptions.Star Wars's description says that Marcy gets a restraining order to stop Quentin's harassment; it is actually Hunter who gets the restraining order.End of the Affair's description says that Dave looks for the courage to break up with Marcy; again, it is actually Hunter that he is trying to break up with.

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• 2000 American television series debuts
• 2001 American television series endings
• 2000s American high school television series
• 2000s American satirical television series
• 2000s American single-camera sitcoms
• 2000s American teen sitcoms
• American English-language television shows
• American television series about teenagers
• Television series about television
• Television series by Sony Pictures Television
• Television shows set in Los Angeles
• Television series created by Darren Star
• The WB sitcoms
• Television shows scored by Mark Mothersbaugh

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