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Beggars and Choosers
Season 1
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The amusing trials of the executive staff of a television network.
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22 Episodes
The Mountainmen (1)
E1
The Mountainmen (1)
The Mountainmen (2)
E2
The Mountainmen (2)
Once More Unto the Breach
E3
Once More Unto the Breach
Police probe Kendall's disappearance; scripts are needed.
The Hat Trick
E4
The Hat Trick
The network faces a $25 million sexual-harassment suit.
The Ethel Merman Story
E5
The Ethel Merman Story
The Deal
E6
The Deal
Sex, Drugs & Videotape
E7
Sex, Drugs & Videotape
Unsafe Sex
E8
Unsafe Sex
Rob gets caught between the wishes of E.L. (Bill Morey) and L.L. (Carol Kane).
The Velvet Curtain
E9
The Velvet Curtain
Touched by an Angel
E10
Touched by an Angel
Is It Good or Bad for the Jews?
E11
Is It Good or Bad for the Jews?
White Woman's Burden
E12
White Woman's Burden
Lori stops at nothing to get the rights to a Russian mobster's story.
Shakedown in Puerto Vallarta
E13
Shakedown in Puerto Vallarta
Don't Try This at Home
E14
Don't Try This at Home
Star Whores
E15
Star Whores
Casey takes over when Lori is arrested for delinquent parking tickets.
Always Leave 'Em Laughing
E16
Always Leave 'Em Laughing
Faith, Hope & Chastity
E17
Faith, Hope & Chastity
Russian Roulette
E18
Russian Roulette
Death in Malibu
E19
Death in Malibu
Fasten Your Seatbelts
E20
Fasten Your Seatbelts
Disinformed Sources
E21
Disinformed Sources
The Cherry Orchard (aka The Cherry Orchard, pt. 2)
E22
The Cherry Orchard (aka The Cherry Orchard, pt. 2)
Cast of Season 1
Brian Kerwin
Rob Malone
Isabella Hofmann
Cecile Malone
William McNamara
Brad Advail
Paul Provenza
Parker Meridian
Charlotte Ross
Lori Volpone
Keegan Connor Tracy
Audrey Malone
Tuc Watkins
Malcolm Laffley
David Shore
Producer
Lilly Tartikoff
Producer
Season 1 Ratings & Reviews
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rob Owen
Where the pilot was predictable, later episodes have gone in unexpected directions. In the pilot, the characters came off as one-dimensional; now they're well-rounded.
New York Magazine/Vulture
John Leonard
While it's not as witty as Sports Night, it's got Brian Kerwin as the head of programming whose world is falling apart... I particularly like the idea of a late-night series called Unregistered Nurses.
New York Post
Michele Greppi
We must caution you that this all sounds sexier, funnier and more savage than it is.
San Francisco Chronicle
Tim Goodman
You'll have to check your own budget to see if it's worth it, but strictly on a quality level the network has struck gold with Beggars and Choosers, which is as smart and well-drawn as anything in the past five years or so.
TIME Magazine
Ginia Bellafante
Hollywood still can't get over the venality and dim-wittedness of the TV business... Never mind, because this satirical hour-long series about the shenanigans at a major network, LGT, is worth watching.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Tom Jicha
Only a premium cable network could have done justice to Beggars and Choosers... It isn't just that the series is profane and flesh-baring, although this does enhance the fun. It's the overall tone, which is anti-commercial TV.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Scott D. Pierce
This is satire without humor. Sure, it's a nasty look at the business of network television, but it is by no means an inspired one.
Christian Science Monitor
Lisa Leigh Parney M.S. Mason, and Suman Bandrapalli
This new series is insightful and warmly funny, but there's some unnecessary nudity.
Chicago Tribune
Allan Johnson
If someone who writes about television for a living finds Beggars and Choosers, Showtime's new comedy-drama about the cutthroat television industry, just mildly interesting, then people who casually watch TV may consider it a bore.
People Magazine
Mike Lipton
As Rob, Brian Kerwin makes a bland and obtuse hero, and his colleagues -- Hollywood carnivores glued to their cell phones -- are the hoariest of stereotypes.
Los Angeles Times
Howard Rosenberg
Although Beggars and Choosers doesn't approach the twisted brilliance of the late, very great The Larry Sanders Show on HBO, it does chip a few slivers from that TV-biz block by getting celebrities to mock themselves.
Variety
Ray Richmond
It's the best kind of farce in that, like [The Larry Sanders Show], it keeps reality percolating just underneath the surface while nearly always defying expectations.
Washington Post
Tom Shales
Beggars and Choosers is probably the savviest savage satire of the TV business since Paddy Chayefsky's barnstormer Network in 1976. Beggars and Choosers is not in Chayefsky's league and not as corrosively entertaining, but it comes close.
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