CUPID (TV SERIES)

'''Cupid''' is a 1998-1999 American comedy-drama series created by Rob Thomas, which featured Paula Marshall as Dr. Claire Allen, a Chicago psychologist who is given charge of a man named Trevor Hale (Jeremy Piven). Hale believes he is Cupid, sent down from Mt. Olympus by Zeus 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.

Contents

Plot

Cast

Regular Cast

Recurring Cast

Recurring Guests

Staff

Writers

Directors

Episodes

Reviews & articles

Production Notes

Notes and trivia

External links

Sources

Plot

Trevor begins in Claire’s singles therapy group, with mixed results. Claire and Trevor become attracted to each other as the show progresses, but are unable and unwilling to act on their feelings: she out of a desire to maintain a professional detachment, he because he believes he cannot form a relationship with a mortal woman, since he would have to leave Earth after completing his penance (also, he would never be able to return to Mt. Olympus if he had sex with a mortal before his task was complete). Viewers are never told whether Trevor is really Cupid, and are given hints both ways.

Cast

Regular Cast

★ Jeremy Piven — Cupid/Trevor Hale

★ Paula Marshall — Dr. Claire Allen

★ Jeffrey D. Sams — Champ

Recurring Cast

★ Paul Adelstein — 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 — Alex (4 episodes)

★ Hollis Resnik — Linda (3 episodes)

Staff

★ Rob Thomas — Creator, executive producer, supervising producer

★ Scott Winant — Executive producer, director

★ Joe Voci — Executive producer

★ Scott Sanders — Executive producer

★ Jeff Reno — Executive producer

★ Ron Osborn — Executive producer

★ Hart Hanson — Co-Executive Producer

★ W.G. “Snuffy” Walden — Composer

Writers

★ Michael Green

★ Ron Osborn

★ Jeff Reno

★ Rob Thomas

★ Elle Triedman

Directors

★ Michael Engler

★ Michael Fields

★ Tucker Gates

★ Michael Katleman

★ Elodie Keene

★ Patrick Norris

★ Peter O’Fallon

★ David Petrarca

★ Scott Winant

★ Deran Sarafian

Episodes

Main articles: List of Cupid episodes

Reviews & articles

★ E! Online named Cupid as #4 on its “Top Ten Shows Cancelled Before Their Time”.

★ Two 1998 articles from Tim Goodman ''San Francisco Examiner'' and Alan Sepinwall ''New Jersey Star-Ledger'' as listed on Rob Thomas’s Site.

Production Notes

★ ''Cupid'' was produced by Columbia TriStar Television and Mandalay Productions.

★ ''Cupid'' was filmed on location in the Chicago, due to Piven’s love for the city.

Notes and trivia

★ “The Children’s Hour,” the last episode broadcast before the show’s cancellation in the U.S., aired shortly before Valentine’s Day 1999; it features Trevor’s ruminations on why the holiday should instead be “Cupid’s Day”.

★ In a December 24 2004, Entertainment Weekly article, creator Rob Thomas mentions that the show would have ended with Trevor and Claire becoming Trevor’s 100th match — and without revealing whether Trevor really was Cupid.[1]

★ Series stars Paula Marshall and Jeffrey D. Sams both had recurring roles on Rob Thomas’s most recent series ''Veronica Mars''. Thomas stated that, given the opportunity, he would have written an episode featuring both of their characters, as well as their ''Cupid'' co-star Jeremy Piven. Additionally, an episode featured a brief glance at a website of high school basketball statistics, with a high school named “Trevor Hale”.[2]

External links

★ Creator Rob Thomas’s site, including show synopsis, reviews and scripts for unaired episodes.

★ Jeremy Piven Home Page, including biography, pictures and information on Jeremy Piven.

★ Entry on epguides.com

Sources

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