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Just Shoot Me!
Just Shoot Me! is an American sitcom television series originally aired on NBC from March 4, 1997, to August 16, 2003, and later in syndication from November 24 to November 26, 2003, with a total of 145 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons, including 3 episodes aired on syndication. The show, created by Steven Levitan, one of the show's executive producers, is set in the office of a fictional fashion magazine called Blush, comparable to the real-life magazine Vogue. The show's story revolves around several staff members at the magazine, including Jack Gallo, the owner and publisher; his daughter Maya, a writer for the magazine; secretary Finch; former model and now-fashion correspondent Nina; and photographer Elliot.
Early on, the series was a very competitive hit, consistently winning its time slot. The first season of six episodes was all aired by NBC in a single month in March 1997. It was renewed for a 13-episode second season and fitted at 9:30 p.m. after Frasier, and then was moved in the spring to Thursdays between Friends and Seinfeld. After just two of these airings, the order was bumped up to a full season. When Seinfeld ended in 1998, Just Shoot Me! was one of the contenders to take the coveted 9:00 p.m. Thursday slot. Frasier instead won the slot, and Just Shoot Me! was instead given Frasier's 9:00 p.m. Tuesday slot.
Just Shoot Me! was never given a definitive time slot during its series run. The show ended up being moved around on the NBC schedule. It still retained good ratings, though; in its fourth season, it was the top-rated show for NBC Tuesday nights and had an average rating/share of 6.1/16 in the 18–49 demographic.
The character of Maya Gallo is portrayed by Laura San Giacomo. In the pilot, Maya is largely characterised as a hot-tempered, sassy journalist who takes on a job at the fictional glamour fashion magazine Blush, owned by her father Jack Gallo, after she was fired for tampering with an anchorwoman's teleprompter and making her cry on the air. She is shown to have headstrong smarts despite her naïveté about life. Though she is seen as attractive and uses this if a situation calls for it, Maya frowns upon men looking at women solely as objects of sexual desire, and in keeping with her feminist views, instead encourages people to admire women for their intelligence or other attributes. However, this view puts her at odds with most of the magazine's staff, thus providing much of the comedic conflict of the series.
She is commonly mistaken for being Puerto Rican. Her birthday is January 1, but her father Jack is unable to remember it. (Ep. "Sweet Charity").
Maya is often seen dating other characters on the show. She and Elliot are shown as a couple for quite some time, and they are briefly engaged. However, Elliot's fear of commitment causes him to instantly have a panic attack moments after he proposes to her. Among her other dates were Michael Tenzer (David Rasche), Chris (Dean Cain), Ray Liotta, and another man named Chris (Joe Rogan). Although she is involved in several relationships, she is never depicted getting legally married in the series. She is also very skilled at pitching; when she pitches a softball to Dennis Finch, he thinks his hand is broken. However, if Maya starts pitching, she can't stop.
The character of Jack Gallo, portrayed by George Segal, is the owner and publisher of Blush. During his daughter Maya's childhood, Jack was an absent workaholic. The relationship between the two of them develops throughout the series, reaching its pinnacle when he hands the magazine over to Maya in the series finale after retiring. When extolling the virtues of an assistant to Maya, he notes that an assistant (in his case, Finch) can even become one's "best friend," although the sentiment was slightly dulled by his use of the pronoun "it" to refer to the hypothetical assistant (and therefore to Finch).
Jack is four times divorced, although he was married to Maya's high school classmate Allie for the first half of the series. They have a daughter (Maya's half-sister) named Hannah who was born in the first episode, "Back Issues." Jack showers Hannah with affection, prompting Maya's jealousy. This resentment disappears when Jack explains that he does not want to repeat with Hannah the mistakes he made with Maya. Jack has a running contest with Donald Trump as to who is, among other topics, the smartest, the richest, and the best gift giver.
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Just Shoot Me!
Just Shoot Me! is an American sitcom television series originally aired on NBC from March 4, 1997, to August 16, 2003, and later in syndication from November 24 to November 26, 2003, with a total of 145 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons, including 3 episodes aired on syndication. The show, created by Steven Levitan, one of the show's executive producers, is set in the office of a fictional fashion magazine called Blush, comparable to the real-life magazine Vogue. The show's story revolves around several staff members at the magazine, including Jack Gallo, the owner and publisher; his daughter Maya, a writer for the magazine; secretary Finch; former model and now-fashion correspondent Nina; and photographer Elliot.
Early on, the series was a very competitive hit, consistently winning its time slot. The first season of six episodes was all aired by NBC in a single month in March 1997. It was renewed for a 13-episode second season and fitted at 9:30 p.m. after Frasier, and then was moved in the spring to Thursdays between Friends and Seinfeld. After just two of these airings, the order was bumped up to a full season. When Seinfeld ended in 1998, Just Shoot Me! was one of the contenders to take the coveted 9:00 p.m. Thursday slot. Frasier instead won the slot, and Just Shoot Me! was instead given Frasier's 9:00 p.m. Tuesday slot.
Just Shoot Me! was never given a definitive time slot during its series run. The show ended up being moved around on the NBC schedule. It still retained good ratings, though; in its fourth season, it was the top-rated show for NBC Tuesday nights and had an average rating/share of 6.1/16 in the 18–49 demographic.
The character of Maya Gallo is portrayed by Laura San Giacomo. In the pilot, Maya is largely characterised as a hot-tempered, sassy journalist who takes on a job at the fictional glamour fashion magazine Blush, owned by her father Jack Gallo, after she was fired for tampering with an anchorwoman's teleprompter and making her cry on the air. She is shown to have headstrong smarts despite her naïveté about life. Though she is seen as attractive and uses this if a situation calls for it, Maya frowns upon men looking at women solely as objects of sexual desire, and in keeping with her feminist views, instead encourages people to admire women for their intelligence or other attributes. However, this view puts her at odds with most of the magazine's staff, thus providing much of the comedic conflict of the series.
She is commonly mistaken for being Puerto Rican. Her birthday is January 1, but her father Jack is unable to remember it. (Ep. "Sweet Charity").
Maya is often seen dating other characters on the show. She and Elliot are shown as a couple for quite some time, and they are briefly engaged. However, Elliot's fear of commitment causes him to instantly have a panic attack moments after he proposes to her. Among her other dates were Michael Tenzer (David Rasche), Chris (Dean Cain), Ray Liotta, and another man named Chris (Joe Rogan). Although she is involved in several relationships, she is never depicted getting legally married in the series. She is also very skilled at pitching; when she pitches a softball to Dennis Finch, he thinks his hand is broken. However, if Maya starts pitching, she can't stop.
The character of Jack Gallo, portrayed by George Segal, is the owner and publisher of Blush. During his daughter Maya's childhood, Jack was an absent workaholic. The relationship between the two of them develops throughout the series, reaching its pinnacle when he hands the magazine over to Maya in the series finale after retiring. When extolling the virtues of an assistant to Maya, he notes that an assistant (in his case, Finch) can even become one's "best friend," although the sentiment was slightly dulled by his use of the pronoun "it" to refer to the hypothetical assistant (and therefore to Finch).
Jack is four times divorced, although he was married to Maya's high school classmate Allie for the first half of the series. They have a daughter (Maya's half-sister) named Hannah who was born in the first episode, "Back Issues." Jack showers Hannah with affection, prompting Maya's jealousy. This resentment disappears when Jack explains that he does not want to repeat with Hannah the mistakes he made with Maya. Jack has a running contest with Donald Trump as to who is, among other topics, the smartest, the richest, and the best gift giver.