Cupid is a 1998–1999
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series created by
Rob ThomasRob Thomas is an American author, producer, and screenwriter, best known as the author of the 1996 novel Rats Saw God and creator of the television program Veronica Mars.-Education and early career:...
, which featured
Paula MarshallPaula Marshall is an American actress.-Personal life:Marshall was born in Rockville, Maryland, and graduated in 1982 from Robert E. Peary High School in Rockville, where she had pursued a love of photography...
as Dr. Claire Allen, a
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who is given charge of a man named Trevor Hale (
Jeremy PivenJeremy Samuel Piven is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Ari Gold in the hit HBO series, Entourage, for which he has won the Emmy award for Best Supporting Actor on three occasions and a Golden Globe Award....
). Hale believes he is
CupidIn Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of erotic love and beauty. He is also known by another one of his Latin names, Amor...
, sent down from Mt. Olympus by
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to connect 100 couples without his powers, as a punishment for his arrogance.
Originally broadcast on ABC on Saturday evenings at 10 p.m. EST, the show lasted only one season.
Trevor Hale is attractive, witty, uncommonly intelligent—and he may be Cupid, the Greco-Roman god of erotic love.
Cupid is a 1998–1999
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
comedy-dramaComedy-drama, also called dramedy or seriocomedy, is a style of television, theatre and film in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content.-Theatre:...
series created by
Rob ThomasRob Thomas is an American author, producer, and screenwriter, best known as the author of the 1996 novel Rats Saw God and creator of the television program Veronica Mars.-Education and early career:...
, which featured
Paula MarshallPaula Marshall is an American actress.-Personal life:Marshall was born in Rockville, Maryland, and graduated in 1982 from Robert E. Peary High School in Rockville, where she had pursued a love of photography...
as Dr. Claire Allen, a
ChicagoChicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with more than 2.8 million people, the 3rd largest city in the United States...
psychologistA psychologist is someone who studies the human mind and behavior. Research psychologists study human perception, cognition, attention, emotion, motivation, personality, behavior and interpersonal relationships...
who is given charge of a man named Trevor Hale (
Jeremy PivenJeremy Samuel Piven is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Ari Gold in the hit HBO series, Entourage, for which he has won the Emmy award for Best Supporting Actor on three occasions and a Golden Globe Award....
). Hale believes he is
CupidIn Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of erotic love and beauty. He is also known by another one of his Latin names, Amor...
, sent down from Mt. Olympus by
ZeusIn Greek mythology, Zeus is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the...
to connect 100 couples without his powers, as a punishment for his arrogance.
Originally broadcast on ABC on Saturday evenings at 10 p.m. EST, the show lasted only one season.
Plot
Trevor Hale is attractive, witty, uncommonly intelligent—and he may be Cupid, the Greco-Roman god of erotic love. Probably not, but he thinks so. Trevor's insistence that he is Cupid lands him in a mental hospital, where he meets psychologist Claire Allen, a renowned authority on romance. Trevor tells Claire that he has been stripped of his godly powers by Zeus, and exiled from Mount Olympus as a punishment for arrogance. To win his way back among the gods, Trevor must unite 100 couples in everlasting love, without his bow and arrows. Claire does not believe in Cupid, but she risks her career by releasing Trevor from the hospital, assuming responsibility for his behavior. Trevor finds work as a bartender, and regularly disrupts Claire's group therapy sessions. All the while, he plots his campaign to promote romance, and earn his way back to Olympus. While encouraging sexual abandon in others, Trevor remains celibate; he believes sex with a mortal will confine him to Earth forever. (Imdb.com)
Regular cast
- Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Ari Gold in the hit HBO series, Entourage, for which he has won the Emmy award for Best Supporting Actor on three occasions and a Golden Globe Award....
– Cupid/Trevor Hale
- Paula Marshall
Paula Marshall is an American actress.-Personal life:Marshall was born in Rockville, Maryland, and graduated in 1982 from Robert E. Peary High School in Rockville, where she had pursued a love of photography...
– Dr. Claire Allen
- Jeffrey D. Sams
Jeffrey D. Sams is an American actor known primarily for his television work.A native of Ohio, Sams has been a main cast member of several television series, few of which have made it past their first season...
– Champ Terrace
Recurring cast
- Paul Adelstein
Paul Adelstein is an American television and film actor, best known for the role of Agent Paul Kellerman in the television series, Prison Break, and his current role as pediatrician Cooper Freedman in the series Private Practice, the spin-off of the award-winning television show, Grey's...
– Mike
- Noelle Bou-Sliman – Tina
- Daniel Bryant – Laurence
- Melanie Deanne Moore – Jaclyn
- Jeff Parise – Nick
- Geryll Robinson – Chris
Recurring guests
- Kevin Scott Greer – Single Guy (4 episodes)
- Joe Flanigan
Joe Flanigan is an American television actor best known as Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard in Stargate Atlantis.-Early life:Flanigan was born Joseph Dunnigan III in Los Angeles, California...
– Alex (4 episodes)
- Hollis Resnik
Hollis Resnik is an American singer and actress.Born in 1955, and raised in Euclid, Ohio , as a young girl she studied piano and took voice lessons and performed with the Cleveland Symphony Children's Choir. Attending Russell H. Erwine Elementary and Shore Junior High School, she graduated from...
– Linda (3 episodes)
- Laura Leighton
Laura Leighton is an American Actress. She is best-known for the role of Sydney Andrews, introduced in the '90s television series Melrose Place. She reprised the role in the 2009 series of the same name.-Career:...
Staff
- Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas is an American author, producer, and screenwriter, best known as the author of the 1996 novel Rats Saw God and creator of the television program Veronica Mars.-Education and early career:...
– Creator, executive producer, supervising producer
- Scott Winant
Scott Winant is an American television director and producer of network and premium cable series. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild of America...
– Executive producer, director
- Joe Voci – Executive producer
- Scott Sanders – Executive producer
- Jeff Reno – Executive producer
- Ron Osborn – Executive producer
- Hart Hanson
Hart Hanson is a Gemini Award winning American television writer and producer.Hanson's family moved to Canada when he was a child. He received a B.A. from the University of Toronto and a MFA from the University of British Columbia, where he taught briefly...
– Co-Executive Producer
- W.G. "Snuffy" Walden – Composer
Writers
- Michael Green
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- Ron Osborn
- Jeff Reno
- Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas is an American author, producer, and screenwriter, best known as the author of the 1996 novel Rats Saw God and creator of the television program Veronica Mars.-Education and early career:...
- Elle Triedman
Directors
- Michael Engler
Michael Engler is an American theatre and television director. His Broadway credits include Eastern Standard and I Hate Hamlet. His direction of the 2003 off-Broadway production of the Alan Bennett play Talking Heads garnered him a nomination for the Outer Critics Circle Award.Engler began his...
- Michael Fields
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- Tucker Gates
Tucker Gates is an American television director and producer. He has directed several episodes of the J. J. Abrams shows, Alias and Lost, including the very last episode of Alias...
- Michael Katleman
Michael Katleman is an American director and producer. He has worked on Smallville, Tru Calling, and Gilmore Girls as well as many other programs.-Director:* Primeval * Tru Calling * Smallville * China Beach...
- Elodie Keene
Elodie Keene is an American television director, producer and film editor. She has won three Emmy Awards, two for best dramatic series for and one for best editing in a single camera series, all for her work on L.A. Law.-Director:...
- Patrick Norris
-Directing Credits:Chuck,Friday Night Lights, Gossip Girl, Hidden Palms, Related, Bones, Fertile Ground, North Shore, The Division, The O.C., Boston Public, Enterprise, The Twilight Zone, American Dreams, Roswell, V.I.P., Once and Again, Jack & Jill, Xena: Warrior Princess, Wasteland, Cupid, The...
- Peter O’Fallon
- David Petrarca
David Petrarca is a director and producer of theatre, television , and film. He was director at the Goodman Theatre from 1988 until 2005...
- Scott Winant
Scott Winant is an American television director and producer of network and premium cable series. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild of America...
- Deran Sarafian
Deran Sarafian is an American actor, film and television director.Sarafian has directed several episodes of the FOX series House and was made a co-executive producer of the show for the 2007/08 season...
Reviews and articles
Production notes
- Cupid was produced by Columbia TriStar Television and Mandalay Productions
Mandalay Entertainment is a film production company, founded in 1995. They partner with Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures and others for most of their films .They also own, via their Mandalay Sports Entertainment subsidiary, a number of minor league baseball teams, notably...
.
- Cupid was filmed on location in Chicago, due to Piven’s love for the city.
Show resurrection
- On October 2, 2007, Variety
Variety is a weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the Daily...
broke the story that ABC had given Rob Thomas the "green light" to bring Cupid back to the airwaves. The project is one of two scripts Thomas has in the works via a one-year development deal with ABC Studios. The new Cupid will also relocate from Chicago to Los Angeles, allowing for more high-profile stunt casting. Jeremy Piven will not be involved in the new version.
- On March 14, 2008 The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter is an American trade publication of the entertainment industry. During the last century it was one of the two major publications — the other being Variety. Today both newspapers cover what is now more broadly called the entertainment industry.- History :The Hollywood Reporter...
reported that ABC had received scripts and approved production for the new Cupid series.
- Bobby Cannavale
Robert M. "Bobby" Cannavale is an American Emmy Award-winning actor noted for his role as Bobby Caffey on the critically acclaimed television series Third Watch.-Personal life:...
has been cast as Trevor Hale in the new series.
- Sarah Paulson
-Early life and career:Paulson was born in Tampa, Florida, but was raised in Brooklyn, and Maine. Shewas a series regular on the cult television show American Gothic and the WB series Jack & Jill , playing the character "Elisa Cronkite"...
has been cast as Dr. Claire Allen.
- Singer Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis is an English pop/R&B singer and songwriter. Lewis rose to fame in 2006 as the winner of the third series of the British television series The X Factor....
will make her acting debut on the show according to IMDB .
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