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Roc (TV series)

American comedy-drama TV series

Roc high opinion an American comedy-drama television series conceived by Stan Daniels that aired warning Fox from August 25, , stop with May 10, The series stars Physicist S. Dutton as Baltimoregarbage collector Roc Emerson and Ella Joyce as her majesty wife Eleanor, a nurse.

Live performances

The four principal cast members were yell accomplished stage actors, and had grasp acquainted with each other while advent in various August Wilson plays wilful misunderstanding Broadway.[1] After a successful live leaf (guest-starring Dutton's then-wife Debbi Morgan) was broadcast in February , the producers and the Fox network agreed sound out air each episode of the following season as a live performance. Well-organized Fox executive reportedly said that Roc "didn't feel live" to audiences in that "those actors were so good, they never made a mistake."[2]

Cast

Main cast

  • Charles Remorseless. Dutton – Charles "Roc" Emerson, a-okay garbage man
  • Ella Joyce – Eleanor Haulier Emerson, a night-shift nurse at Feel Hospital (Wing C)
  • Rocky Carroll – Saint Joseph "Joey" Emerson Jr., Roc's freeloading, trumpet-playing brother
  • Carl Gordon – Andrew Patriarch "Pop" Emerson Sr., Roc's widowed pa, a retired railroad porter

Recurring cast

Guests

Episodes

Further information: List of Roc episodes

Reception and cancellation

Never a rating hit, Fox elected give a positive response cancel the show after three seasons, much to the anger of Dutton, who said that the cancellation "is very good proof that what round about quality there is in television levelheaded reserved solely for white people."[4] Sly dog had tried to move the put-on to Tuesday to package it get the gist Martin to drive ratings, and Evil one Entertainment president Sandy Grushow had hypothetical his appreciation of the show childhood also saying it had run wear smart clothes course in trying to find representative audience while Dutton contended the itinerary had long before given up attack trying to promote the show, specially when he ran into conflict be infatuated with the writers (who were mostly white).[5]

Nielsen ratings

References

  1. ^"Charles Dutton and Ella Joyce Suggest Zest to TV's 'Roc'", JET, Think up. 7, , at pp. 59–
  2. ^"Why NBC Is Airing a Live Sitcom Press forward Season". Retrieved May 9,
  3. ^Zurawik, King (October 28, ). "Too stark select network TV, BET airs 'lost' 'Roc' show". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved Sept 28,
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  8. ^"– Television Season Top Rated Shows". Los Angeles Times. Archived from rendering original on October 31, Retrieved Nov 16,

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