That's Life (1998 TV series)

That's Life
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Eric Gilliland; Brian Burns
Directed by	Michael Lembeck
Starring	Gerry Red Wilson; Kellie Overbey; Nadia Dajani; Ron Livingston; Pauley Perrette
Composer(s)	Mark McAdam; Jonathan Wolff; Paul Buckley
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6 (1 unaired)[1]
Production
Executive producer(s)	Eric Gilliland; Sid Youngers
Producer(s)	Lisa Albert
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Eric Gilliland Productions; 20th Century Fox Television
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	March 10 –; April 7, 1998

That's Life is an American television sitcom that premiered March 10, 1998, on ABC. The series is about a blue-collar family living in Queens.

Summary

Mike (Gerry Red Wilson) is head of the meat department at the supermarket. He has been married to Patty (Kellie Overbey) for ten years, and the two live in their own duplex in Queens. Patty's sister Catherine (Nadia Dajani) and her son Kieran (Michael Charles Roman) move into the apartment above Mike and Patty. Lisa (Pauley Perrette) is Patty's college-aged sister. Mitch (Ron Livingston) is Mike's best friend.[2]

Cast

Gerry Red Wilson as Mike
Kellie Overbey as Patty
Nadia Dajani as Catherine
Ron Livingston as Mitch
Pauley Perrette as Lisa
Michael Charles Roman as Kieran

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"The First One"	Michael Lembeck	Teleplay by: Eric Gilliland Story by: Brian Burns & Eric Gilliland	March 10, 1998 (1998-03-10)
2	"The Second One, Believe It or Not"	TBA	Pat Bullard & Rich Kaplan	March 17, 1998 (1998-03-17)
3	"Actually, the Third One"	TBA	Norma Vela & Lisa Albert	March 24, 1998 (1998-03-24)
4	"94 to Syndication"	TBA	Janet Leahy & Lisa Albert & Pat Bullard & Rich Kaplan	March 31, 1998 (1998-03-31)
5	"The Easter Story"	Michael Lembeck	Eric Gilliland	April 7, 1998 (1998-04-07)
6	"The Sixth One to Air"	TBA	Sid Youngers & Norma Vela & Stacie Lipp & Mark McAdam	Unaired

Reception

Rick Lyman of The New York Times called the series "an affable car wreck of a sitcom".[3] Ray Richmond of Variety said that it is "an uncomfortably crude" series that "looks to be a jarringly insular, Hollywood vision of how the gentiles must live".[2] In response to the Easter episode, which aired on April 7, 1998, the series was denounced by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights as "the most anti-Catholic television show ever".[4]

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gollark: I ran out of names a thousand dragons ago somehow. It's a shame.

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References

Flint, Joe (April 17, 1998). "On The Air: April 17, 1998". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
Richmond, Ray (March 9, 1998). "That's Life". Variety. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
Lyman, Rick (March 10, 1998). "Television Review; Erin Go Brawl: Feuds And Fussing in Queens". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
Carter, Bill (April 17, 1998). "Catholic Lay Group Accuses ABC of Biased Programming". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-23.

External links

That's Life on IMDb
That's Life at TV.com

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[1] Flint, Joe (April 17, 1998). "On The Air: April 17, 1998". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-04-23.

[richmond-2] Richmond, Ray (March 9, 1998). "That's Life". Variety. Retrieved 2009-04-23.

[3] Lyman, Rick (March 10, 1998). "Television Review; Erin Go Brawl: Feuds And Fussing in Queens". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-23.

[4] Carter, Bill (April 17, 1998). "Catholic Lay Group Accuses ABC of Biased Programming". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-23.