Rita Rocks
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Created by | Lifetime |
Release | October 20, 2008 December 7, 2009 | –
Rita Rocks is a
.On 11 January 2010, Lifetime cancelled the series after two seasons due to low ratings.[1]
Plot
A hard-working mom and wife splits her time between a job she doesn’t particularly like, running the kids around and managing the household. She believes that if she can just get a few hours a week to herself, she can figure a few things out. After finding her old guitar in the garage and the prompting of a new friend, they start up a weekly jam session and are joined by a neighbor, the mail-woman and her daughter’s boyfriend for nightly rehearsals. The plot is set in the
In a February 2009 interview on Anytime with Bob Kushell, Sullivan agreed the main character is going through a midlife crisis, but she does not like using the term "midlife".[2]
Characters
Main
- Rita Clemens (garage bandand also the assistant manager of Bed Bath & Max. She was formerly training assistant before her boss learned of her pregnancy.
- Jay Clemens (Richard Ruccolo): Rita’s husband who tries his best to support her band. He sometimes takes care of the household, getting himself into funny situations in the process.
- Patty Mannix (Tisha Campbell-Martin): a postal worker and Rita's best friend who convinces her to take down her guitar and start the band.
- Hallie Clemens (Natalie Dreyfuss): Rita's absent minded and rebellious teenage daughter.
- Shannon Clemens (Kelly Gould): Rita's nine-year-old daughter. She goes to a school for gifted children and is interested in space camp and astronauts.
- Kip (Raviv Ullman): Full name is Skip; Hallie's goofy and likable boyfriend/ex-boyfriend is the drummer in Rita's band. His parents are separated and he spends all of his time at the Clemens' household.
- Max: Rita & Jay's new baby. Rita gave birth to him in the Season 2 finale.
- Owen Delgado Jr. (Ian Gomez): Rita's unemployed neighbor who joins her garage band. He has two kids with wife Audrey. (left in 2009 to join Cougar Town).
Recurring
- Audrey (Lauren Bowles): Owen's wife and mother of his two children who seems to love her job more than her own husband.
- Chuck (Duane Martin): Rita's new neighbor, a former baseball player who is a huge annoyance to Rita and Jay. He and Patty (played by Duane Martin's wife Tisha Campbell-Martin) begin dating in late Season 2.
- Marilyn (Swoosie Kurtz): Rita's mother, who visits and stays for four episodes before leaving at Rita's request to talk to her father.
- Allison (Allie Gonino): Hallie's friend.
- Rusty (Paul Vato): the owner of the bowling alley where Rita's band performs publicly for the first time.
Episodes
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 20 | October 20, 2008 | February 23, 2009 | |
2 | 20 | October 5, 2009 | December 7, 2009 |
Season 1: 2008–09
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Andrew D. Weyman | James Berg & Stan Zimmerman | October 20, 2008 |
2 | 2 | "Lies, Lies, Lies, Yeah-ah" | Shelley Jensen | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | October 21, 2008 |
3 | 3 | "You Gotta Have Friends" | Shelley Jensen | James Berg & Stan Zimmerman | October 22, 2008 |
4 | 4 | "Flirting With Disaster" | Peter Marc Jacobson | Denise Moss | October 23, 2008 |
5 | 5 | "Nobody Does It Better" | Katy Garretson | Bob Nickman | October 24, 2008 |
6 | 6 | "Mother's Little Helper" | Peter Marc Jacobson | Sylvia Green | October 28, 2008 |
7 | 7 | "Take This Job and Shove It" | Emile Levisetti | Nastaran Dibai & Jeffery Hodes | November 11, 2008 |
8 | 8 | "The Crying Game" | Andrew D. Weyman | Sylvia Green | November 18, 2008 |
9 | 9 | "Under Pressure" | Katy Garretson | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | November 25, 2008 |
10 | 10 | "Got No Time" | Shelley Jensen | Denise Moss | December 2, 2008 |
11 | 11 | "Love on the Rocks" | Shelley Jensen | Sylvia Green | December 9, 2008 |
12 | 12 | "I Write The Songs" | Shelley Jensen | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | December 16, 2008 |
13 | 13 | "The Girl Is Mine" | Shelley Jensen | Bob Nickman | January 5, 2009 |
14 | 14 | "Old Friends" | Shelley Jensen | Denise Moss | January 12, 2009 |
15 | 15 | "It's My Party" | Emile Levisetti | Bob Nickman | January 19, 2009 |
16 | 16 | "I Can't Make You Love Me" | Jody Margolin Hahn | Bill Fuller & Jim Pond | January 26, 2009 |
17 | 17 | "Get Off of My Cloud" | Shelley Jensen | Teleplay by : Mark Driscoll Story by : Adam Waring | February 2, 2009 |
18 | 18 | "Killer Queen" | Shelley Jensen | Ellen Byron & Lissa Kapstrom | February 9, 2009 |
19 | 19 | "What's Love Got Do To With It?" | Lynn McCracken | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | February 16, 2009 |
20 | 20 | "We Can Work It Out" | Gerry Cohen | James Berg & Stan Zimmerman | February 23, 2009 |
Season 2: 2009
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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21 | 1 | "A Change is Gonna Come" | Shelley Jensen | Denise Moss | October 5, 2009 |
22 | 2 | "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" | Shelley Jensen | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | October 6, 2009 |
23 | 3 | "Nothing's Gonna Change My World" | Shelley Jensen | Sylvia Green | October 7, 2009 |
24 | 4 | "Welcome to the Working Week" | Andy Cadiff | Denise Moss | October 8, 2009 |
25 | 5 | "Stuck in the Middle with You" | Andy Cadiff | Bob Nickman | October 9, 2009 |
26 | 6 | "The Shape of Things To Come" | Lynn McCracken | Bob Nickman | October 13, 2009 |
27 | 7 | "Mr. Bassman" | Andy Cadiff | Seth Kurland | October 20, 2009 |
28 | 8 | "Mommy's Alright, Daddy's Alright" | Mark Cendrowski | Jennifer Glickman | October 26, 2009 |
29 | 9 | "Vogue" | Lynn McCracken | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | October 26, 2009 |
30 | 10 | "Bad Company" | Shelley Jensen | Sylvia Green | November 2, 2009 |
31 | 11 | "Why Can't We Be Friends?" | Shelley Jensen | Seth Kurland | November 2, 2009 |
32 | 12 | "Mother and Child Reunion" | Shelley Jensen | Denise Moss | November 9, 2009 |
33 | 13 | "Anchors Aweigh" | Leonard R. Garner Jr. | Diane Burroughs & Joey Gutierrez | November 9, 2009 |
34 | 14 | "Shower The People" | Shelley Jensen | Jennifer Glickman | November 16, 2009 |
35 | 15 | "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" | Shelley Jensen | Matt Quezada & Frank Wolff | November 16, 2009 |
36 | 16 | "Sympathy For The Devil" | Leonard R. Garner Jr. | Bob Nickman | November 23, 2009 |
37 | 17 | "Jingle All The Way" | Shelley Jensen | Teleplay by : Seth Kurland Story by : Maxine Lapiduss & Seth Kurland | November 23, 2009 |
38 | 18 | "The Jealous Kind" | Shelley Jensen | Sylvia Green | November 30, 2009 |
39 | 19 | "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" | Shelley Jensen | Denise Moss | November 30, 2009 |
40 | 20 | "Born In The USA" | Shelley Jensen | Bob Nickman | December 7, 2009 |
Home media
Rita Rocks: The Complete 1st Season was released on a 3-disc combo pack on April 27, 2010.[3]
International broadcasting
- Arena TV in Australiaairs the program.
- Citytv in Canada airs the program.
- STAR World in Asiaairs the program.
- Fox Life in Poland, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia airs the program.
- SKY Uno in Italyis going to air in autumn 2009.
- NET 5 in the Netherlands airs the program
- TNT Serie in Germanyairs the program.
- will air the sitcom in 2010.
- Yes Comedy in Israel airs the program.
- TV4 Komedi in Sweden airs the program.
- MTV3 in Finland airs the program.
References
- ^ Lifetime Cancels "Rita Rocks" Archived 2010-01-14 at the Wayback Machine, Entertainment Weekly, 11 January 2010
- ^ "Anytime with Bob Kushell feat. Nicole Sullivan". Anytime with Bob Kushell. Season 1. Episode 12. 2009-02-27.
- ^ "Rita Rocks: Season 1". Amazon. 27 April 2010.
External links
- Rita Rocks at IMDb
- Rita Rocks at Mylifetime.com