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Accidentally on Purpose tv series

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Original title

Accidentally on Purpose

Year

2009

Running time

20 min.

Country

United States

Director

Claudia Lonow (Creator), Pamela Fryman, Ted Wass, Andrew D. Weyman, David Trainer, John Pasquin, Barnet Kellman, Gail Mancuso

Screenwriter

Franklin Hardy, Shane Kosakowski, Alison McDonald, Claudia Lonow, David Holden, Andrea Abbate, Bill Kunstler, Vince Calandra, Cynthia Greenburg, Gregg Mettler, Mike Dieffenbach, Kevin Bonani, Jenn Lloyd, D.J. Nash, David S. Rosenthal. Novel: Mary F. PolsSee 12 More

Cast

Music

John Swihart

Cinematography

Wayne Kennan

Producer

BermanBraun. Broadcast by: CBS

Genre

TV Series. Comedy. Romance | Romantic Comedy. Sitcom

Synopsis

TV Series (2009-2010). 1 season. 18 episodes. Billie (Jenna Elfman), a San Francisco movie critic in her 30s, who gets pregnant after an affair with a man named Zack (Jon Foster), a chef who is in his 20s, this after they meet at a local bar and had a one-night stand at a friend's apartment. To make matters more complicated, Billie has decided to keep both her baby and her new beau. And on top of that, she just broke up with her boss, James, who wants to resume their relationship after being humiliated (She was hoping that he would ask her to marry him, but he told her that he wasn't ready because he was married once before). Thanks to this unexpected arrival, Billie and Zack have agreed to live together platonically, since the only place that Zack has called home was his van. While Billie receives encouragement and advice from her party girl best friend (and fellow journalist) Olivia and her conventional younger married sister Abby, she also has to deal with Zack's freeloading friend Davis, among others, when they start turning her place into a frat house, leaving Billie to question whether she's living with a boyfriend, a roommate, or if she just has a second child to raise.

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Critics' reviews

"Sadly, Elfman's personal efforts go for naught, because there is no verisimilitude anyway in 'Accidentally on Purpose.'"

Jonathan Storm: Philadelphia Inquirer
"All in all, it's yet another excuse for Elfman to go in for a lot of mugging and overselling of jokes in an attempt to keep things afloat."

Emily St. James: AV Club
"At the very least, the pregnancy plot offers reasonably ripe territory to mine in a semi-serialized way."

Brian Lowry: Variety
"What saves the show is some genuinely clever and funny dialogue."

Linda Stasi: New York Post
"What you have here is a show that serves no one well, including its star, and is ill-served by the star in turn".

Robert Bianco: USA Today
"'Accidentally on Purpose' is so contrived, you feel as though you've seen it already while you're watching it for the first time."

Matthew Gilbert: Boston Globe

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