Yes, Dear
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Yes, Dear is an American television sitcom which aired from 2000 to 2006 on CBS. It stars Anthony Clark, Jean Louisa Kelly, Mike O'Malley and Liza Snyder. The generic nature of the show and the fact that all these performers had recently starred in their own failed sitcoms led critics to savage it as one of the worst new shows of the season and a likely candidate for first cancellation of the season. Instead, Yes, Dear scored average ratings for CBS over the next four seasons, in spite of little promotion and a number of timeslot switches.
Finally, in spring 2004, CBS pulled the plug on the program, but then ordered an additional 13 episodes to be shown later in the year. With the cancellation of the John Goodman sitcom Center of the Universe, CBS began airing the new Yes, Dear episodes on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 in the 9:30 p.m. EST timeslot. The show did better than many expected (expectations were low) and CBS ordered an additional season of 22 episodes for 2005-2006, but that order was later cut to 13.
Thanks to an untimely pre-emption, the Season Five finale was not aired in May 2005. Instead, it was aired in September of 2005 a week before the "official" start of the season. Thus, many fans were unaware that a new episode was being broadcast. Another episode held over from Season Five due to a pre-emption was finally aired in January of 2006. Thanks to these pre-emptions and the recycled style of comedy, continuity for the series was thrown into disarray.
CBS confirmed to The Washington Post that the show will not return in the 2006-2007 season [link].
Yes, Dear is currently aired in syndication on cable station TBS as well as locally in many markets.
Cast
- Anthony Clark as Greg Warner
- Jean Louisa Kelly as Kim Warner
- Mike O'Malley as Jimmy Hughes
- Liza Snyder as Christine Hughes
Recurring cast members
- Brendon Baerg as Logan Hughes
- Anthony Bain as Sam Warner
- Michael Bain as Sam Warner
- Madison Poer as Emily Warner
- Marissa Poer as Emily Warner
- Christopher Berry and Nicholas Berry as Logan Hughes
- Jerry Van Dyke as Big Jimmy
- Tim Conway as Tom Warner
- Vicki Lawrence as Natalie Warner
- Beth Grant as Kitty Hughes
- Dan Hedaya as Don Ludke
- Alley Mills as Jenny Ludke
- Billy Gardell as Billy Colivita
- Joel Homan as Dominic Hughes
- Phill Lewis as Roy
- Brian Doyle-Murray as Mr. George Savitsky
Trivia
- All of the main characters in the series moved to Los Angeles from Maryland. All of the actors playing the roles were born near the East coast - O'Malley, Kelly and Snyder were all born in Massachusetts, and Clark was born in Virginia.
- Anthony Clark and Mike O'Malley appeared in the Alan Jackson music video "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues", somewhat parodying their roles as Greg Warner and Jimmy Hughes, respectively.
- The show featured two musical performances - one from Rascal Flatts singing "God Bless the Broken Road" and a performance from Travis Tritt and Trace Adkins singing "Jailhouse Rock".
- Clark, O'Malley and Kelly presented an award at the 2004 CMA awards.
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