EMILY'S REASONS WHY NOT

'''Emily's Reasons Why Not''' is a television series starring Heather Graham. The show, which was based on the
novel of the same name,
aired its only episode on January 9, 2006. The show was aired on ABC.
The series centers on Emily, an author of self-help books who is unable to find success in romance. In the premiere episode she ends a bad relationship and adopts a new rule for her romances: if she can list five reasons to break up with a guy then she does so. Emily gets help from her friends, among them Josh whose character is strongly based on gay stereotypes. The show was widely considered a less risqué copycat of ''Sex and the City''.[1][2]
Despite heavy promotion by both Sony and ABC, the show was pulled after the first episode due to drawing only 6.2 million viewers. Production was stopped after taping six episodes. ABC was said to have spent millions on promotion, including airtime, billboards and radio ads, and considered ''Emily'' to be the 'linchpin' of their post-football Monday night schedule. The promotion was so heavy and the cancellation so abrupt that some magazines found themselves carrying cover stories about a cancelled show. It was reported that ABC committed to the show and its promotion before seeing a script. After viewing it, ABC's entertainment president suggested that they considered the show lackluster and unlikely to improve.[3][4]
''Emily'' is one of the few primetime TV shows to last only one episode. One television critic said there are "over a million 'reasons why not' for this sorry show." Another, writing in the ''New York Times'', said the cancellation was due in part to the extremely unappealing nature of the main character and the portrayal by Heather Graham.[5]
As of September 2006, the show is currently being aired, in full, on Spain's pay-TV channel Cosmopolitan.[6] It has also been shown on Sony Entertainment Television (Latin America).[7]
The Show's 7 episodes are also aired in Austria (ORF 1), every Tuesday starting on September 4th 2007.

Contents

Cast

See also

Episodes

External links

Cast

★ Emily Sanders (Heather Graham)

★ Reilly (Nadia Dajani)

★ Josh (Khary Payton)

★ Glitter Cho (Smith Cho)

See also

★ List of television series cancelled after one episode

Episodes

Episode #	Title	Date Aired
1	Pilot	January 9, 2006
2	Why Not to Date Your Gynecologist	Unaired
3	Why Not to Cheat on Your Best Friend	Unaired
4	Why Not to Date a Twin	Unaired
5	Why Not to Hire a Cute Male Assistant	Unaired
6	Why Not to Look at Bridal Magazines	Unaired
7	Why Not to Invite Your Vacation Date Home	Unaired

External links

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★ List of links to reviews of Emily's Reasons Why Not

★ Washington Post article in which the programming chief at ABC discusses why the show was cancelled and why it got as far as it did.