The American dramedy television series
WeedsWeeds is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan, produced by Lionsgate Television for the Showtime network.The plot revolves around a widowed housewife from an affluent California suburb who becomes her neighborhood's marijuana dealer to make ends meet...
was created by
Jenji KohanJenji Leslie Kohan is an American television writer, producer and director, and creator of Weeds.-Credits:*Sex and the City*Gilmore Girls*Will & Grace*Weeds*The Stones*My Wonderful Life...
and airs on premium cable channel
ShowtimeShowtime is a subscription television brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States...
.
Mary-Louise ParkerMary-Louise Parker is an American actress. Some of her roles include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, and her current lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin.-Early life and 1980s:Parker was born in Fort Jackson, South...
stars as Nancy Botwin, a suburban widow who begins selling marijuana to support her family.
Elizabeth Perkins-Early life:Perkins was born in Queens, New York City, the daughter of Jo Williams, a drug treatment counselor and concert pianist, and James Perkins, a farmer, writer and businessman. Her paternal grandparents were Greek immigrants from Salonika who anglicized their surname from "Pisperikos" to...
also stars as Nancy's neighbor, Celia Hodes, a demanding
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mother. The show follows a
serialized formatSerials in television and radio are series that rely on a continuing plot that unfolds in a serial fashion, episode by episode. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from traditional episodic television that...
and details Nancy's progressively deeper involvement in illegal activity as she attempts to maintain her suburban image and family.
The ten-episode first season premiered on August 5, 2005 and concluded on October 10.
The American dramedy television series
WeedsWeeds is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan, produced by Lionsgate Television for the Showtime network.The plot revolves around a widowed housewife from an affluent California suburb who becomes her neighborhood's marijuana dealer to make ends meet...
was created by
Jenji KohanJenji Leslie Kohan is an American television writer, producer and director, and creator of Weeds.-Credits:*Sex and the City*Gilmore Girls*Will & Grace*Weeds*The Stones*My Wonderful Life...
and airs on premium cable channel
ShowtimeShowtime is a subscription television brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States...
.
Mary-Louise ParkerMary-Louise Parker is an American actress. Some of her roles include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, and her current lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin.-Early life and 1980s:Parker was born in Fort Jackson, South...
stars as Nancy Botwin, a suburban widow who begins selling marijuana to support her family.
Elizabeth Perkins-Early life:Perkins was born in Queens, New York City, the daughter of Jo Williams, a drug treatment counselor and concert pianist, and James Perkins, a farmer, writer and businessman. Her paternal grandparents were Greek immigrants from Salonika who anglicized their surname from "Pisperikos" to...
also stars as Nancy's neighbor, Celia Hodes, a demanding
PTAIn the U.S. a parent-teacher association or Parent-Teacher-Student Association is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school. Most public and private K-8 schools in the U.S. have a PTA, a...
mother. The show follows a
serialized formatSerials in television and radio are series that rely on a continuing plot that unfolds in a serial fashion, episode by episode. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from traditional episodic television that...
and details Nancy's progressively deeper involvement in illegal activity as she attempts to maintain her suburban image and family.
The ten-episode first season premiered on August 5, 2005 and concluded on October 10. Season two, which comprises 12 episodes, began airing on August 14, 2006 and finished its run on October 30. The series' third season received an order of 15 episodes, premiered on August 13, 2007 and ran until November 19. The 13-episode fourth season premiered early the following summer on June 16, 2008 and concluded on September 15. Seasons one, two and three have been released on
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and Blu-ray formats in
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. At the 2008
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, it was announced that
Weeds had been picked up for fifth and sixth seasons of 13 episodes each.
Sixty-three episodes have aired in all, the most recent on August 31, 2009.
Weeds has steadily gained live viewers from season to season. The first season premiered to 540,000 viewers and averaged 380,000 viewers to become Showtime's highest-rated original series in 2005. Season two averaged 160,000 more viewers than season one after 570,000 viewers tuned in to the premiere; the finale received 626,000 viewers. The third season's debut was watched live by 824,000 viewers and the finale by 737,000 such that viewership was up 19% from the second season. Season four premiered to 1.3 million live viewers in its first airing to become what was at the time "Showtime's most-watched single original telecast in at least four years." The first airing of the finale was watched by 1 million viewers and multiple airings of episodes throughout the week after their initial broadcasts averaged 2.72 million viewers — 16% more than the third.
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Season 1 (2005)
The theme song for the first season of the show was the original track of
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Season 2 (2006)
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