'Til Death

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'Til Death
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Josh Goldsmith Cathy Yuspa
Developed by	Josh Goldsmith Cathy Yuspa
Starring	Brad Garrett Joely Fisher Kat Foster Eddie Kaye Thomas
Country of origin	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	31 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Josh Goldsmith Cathy Yuspa
Producer(s)	Alec Barnow Marc Firek and Annette Sahakian Davis
Camera setup	multiple-camera setup
Running time	30 minutes (with commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	FOX
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 720p (HDTV)
Original run	September 7 2006 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

'Til Death is an American sitcom on the Fox network which premiered on September 7, 2006 and is written and executive-produced by husband-and-wife team Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa. The show that stars film actor Eddie Kaye Thomas and newcomer actress Kat Foster as Newlyweds Jeff and Steph Woodcock, who have been married 12 days, move next door to a couple, Eddie (Brad Garrett) and Joy Stark (Joely Fisher), the parents of a college-aged child named Allie (Krysten Ritter), who have been married for circa 23 years (8,743 days, as shown in the pilot episode). The newlyweds get a surprising look at what their future might hold.

Beginning on March 14, 2007, the show was given the coveted time slot directly following the American Idol results show, which led to an improvement in the ratings.^[1]

On May 11, 2007 the show was renewed for a second season, which premiered on September 19, 2007. ^[2]

The show currently airs on Wednesday nights at 8:30/7:30c on FOX, after Back to You, which features Brad Garrett's former Everybody Loves Raymond co-star, Patricia Heaton. As of November 6, 2007, however, production of the show was halted due to the 2007 Writers' Strike.^[3] The show went on hiatus on November 28, but is scheduled to return on Friday March 7, 2008, in its new timeslot. ^[4]

Contents 1 Cast 2 Recurring cast 3 Episodes 4 Ratings 5 DVD releases 6 Trivia 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Cast

The show centers around Eddie and Joy Stark, who have been married for ages. They live in suburban Philadelphia and are neighbors of a much newer married couple. That newer marriage is between a young couple named Steph and Jeff. Eddie and Joy are represented as more of the unpleasant couple, known for trading barbs between each other, gloating over being right, and immature squabbling. However, Jeff and Steph Woodcock are represented as the happy, optimistic couple who do romantic things together and are sweet towards each other. The main idea of the show is Steph and Jeff Woodcock getting a glimpse of their future as a married couple from Eddie and Joy Stark's marriage.

• Brad Garrett as Eddie Stark. Eddie always thinks he's correct over Joy, and always tries to prove that she's incorrect. Eddie can even hold his own when it comes to talking the talk. Eddie's inconsiderateness often puts off people, including his wife. His mistakes, wackiness, and lack of strengths often cause him to make a fool of himself in the end. The fact that Eddie becomes particularly cocky and overconfident in himself at times, makes it even worse for him when he ends up being wrong or goofing up. Eddie has a pedantic side and a great knowledge for history, possibly due to the fact that he's a teacher. This is something him and Joy do not have in common. Eddie has a small set of guy friends he's sometimes seen hanging out with. Eddie's always full of marital advice on dealing with wives for his neighbor, Jeff Woodcock. Eddie and Joy have one daughter named Ally, who's off in college.

• Joely Fisher as Joy Stark, Eddie's loving wife. Joy too, always thinks she's correct over Eddie, and always tries to prove that he's incorrect. Joy makes valid points, speaks intelligently, and has a way with making Eddie look wrong and feel guilty. This makes it easy for her to appear as the sane, logical, innocent, mature one in the marriage as between her and Eddie. Though Joy initially comes off this way in many situations, it doesn't take long before its revealed that she's equally as badly behaved, in the wrong, immature, wacky, boorish, and off-putting as her husband. Many of the immature behaviors she has in common with her husband frequently annoys everyone who has to deal with them.

• Eddie Kaye Thomas as Jeff Woodcock, a high school principal and neighbor of the Starks. Because Jeff is somewhat of a geeky, laughable, and mediocre individual, not many people understand how he got married to such an attractive woman. Next to all this, there are all of his unusual and odd traits. He sometimes becomes overly excited and makes an idiot of himself. He often finds himself going to Eddie for advice when he doesn't know what to do about certain situations. Jeff is much more responsible than his wife, as he has a job and works hard for a living. He and Eddie are closer than Joy and Steph, partly because they work together.

• Kat Foster as Steph Woodcock. Steph is the cheerful, spirited young lady, married to Jeff Woodcock. Steph has a tendency to be a smart-aleck. She's sometimes too lighthearted and carefree, as she doesn't take furthering herself and getting a career seriously enough. She makes weak efforts at trying to get a career and sometimes won't try at all, which drives Jeff crazy. However, issues like this don't always get resolved because Steph has a way with getting her way in her marriage with Jeff. Steph and Joy don't have very much in common. However, they sometimes consult each other when they're not sure of whether or not they did the right thing in regards to their husbands. Even though Jeff's out of Steph's league, Steph finds him cute and adorable. She had a very dark past as a teenager and a child, with an endless number of boyfriends. Steph admitted to being promiscuous in college because her father wouldn't allow her to do anything growing up.

[edit] Recurring cast

• Krysten Ritter as Allison Stark
• Anthony Anderson as Cofeld
• Margaret Cho as Nicole
• Jerry Lambert as Stan
• Will Sasso as Russ
• Timm Sharp as Doug

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of 'Til Death episodes

[edit] Ratings

Seasonal ratings based on average total viewers per episode of 'Til Death on FOX:

Season	Timeslot (EDT)	Season Premiere	Season Finale	TV Season	Rank	Viewers (in millions)
1	Thursday 8:00 P.M. (September 7 - February 15, 2007) Wednesday 9:30 P.M. (March 14 - April 11, 2007)	September 7, 2006	April 11, 2007	2006-2007	#82	7.1 [5]
2	Wednesday 8:30 P.M. (September 19 - November 14, 2007) Friday 8:00 P.M. (March 7, 2008 - TBA, 2008)	September 19, 2007	TBA, 2008	2007-2008	#89	6.6

[edit] DVD releases

DVD name	Release date	Ep #	Additional information
The Complete First Season	August 21 2007	22	Tour of the set, Featurette: A Marriage Stunt, Bloopers.

[edit] Trivia

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• Movie theaters showed advertisements for the show which featured Brad Garrett trying to "frighten" the viewers by saying that he can "see" them.
• The premiere episode aired on Canadian television on CTV, on September 6, one day before the USA premiere date.
• Two scenes in the pilot show Eddie (Brad Garrett) and Joy (Joely Fisher) watching The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Joely Fisher co-starred with DeGeneres on the sitcom Ellen.
• At the beginning of the episode, it says they have been married for 8,743 days, meaning that they are 17 days away from their 24th wedding anniversary.
• In the pilot, the outside of Abington Memorial Hospital is shown. The hospital is located in Pennsylvania.
• In the episode "The Ring" an outside of a mall is shown. The mall is the Willow Grove Park Mall in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
• In the episode "The Ring", Joy's ring has their home phone number with area code 215 inscribed on it. Area code 215 covers Philadelphia, PA and its northern suburbs.
• Eddie and Joy have been married for 24 years. That means that they got married in 1982. However, Joy says that Eddie proposed to her after watching Top Gun, which was released in 1986.
• Jeff Woodcock's character is based off of Mark Woodcock, a teacher at Cheltenham High School in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, the producer's hometown.
• In the "Daddy's Girl" episode, Eddie and Allie eat at a Lee's Hoagie House, a chain of hoagie restaurant found in southeastern Pennsylvania.
• In "The Hockey Lie", when shown the exterior of a hockey game that Jeff and Steph are attending, it is the Wachovia Spectrum, former home of the Philadelphia Flyers and the Philadelphia 76ers and current home of the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• 'Til Death official Sony Pictures site
• 'Til Death at the Internet Movie Database
• 'Til Death - bridestelevision.comfr:'Til Death

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