Sex, Love & Secrets
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| Sex, Love & Secrets | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Running time | 42 Minutes (60 with commercials) |
| Starring | Denise Richards Eric Balfour James Stevenson Lauren German Lucas Bryant Omar Benson Miller Tamara Taylor |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original channel | UPN |
| Original run | September 27, 2005–October 18, 2005 |
| No. of episodes | 8 as of October 18, 2005 |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Sex, Love & Secrets was a television series on the UPN network. It aired in North America during September and October of 2005. Michael Gans & Richard Register created the show. The program was announced as Sex, Lies and Secrets when UPN released the Fall schedule, but the title was changed two months later to replace Lies with Love.
Sex, Love & Secrets aired in the timeslot that belonged to Veronica Mars during the 2004-2005 television season; 9-10 p.m. on Tuesday nights. Unlike Veronica Mars, which had minor promotion and great reviews during its first season, Sex, Love & Secrets had neither advertising nor positive reviews behind it. As a result, when the show premiered on September 27, 2005, it garnered an embarrassing 1.2/2 rating. Next week the show improved slightly to a 1.5/2. At that point UPN pulled the show from production. UPN kept the show on for two more weeks, with it averaging a 1.3/2 in those two weeks. With four episodes left unaired, UPN took the show off its schedule entirely.
The show ended up rated 155th out of 156 shows in the 2005-2006 television season, barely outranking its timeslot replacement before Veronica Mars was shifted back to Tuesday nights for the rest of the season, Get This Party Started [1]. In a strange irony, the show may have ended up attracting more viewers had it stayed on into 2006, due to the tabloid attention focused on the end of Denise Richards' marriage to Charlie Sheen.
According to the website VideoETA.com, there is currently some speculation that Sex, Love & Secrets will be available on DVD from Paramount Home Entertainment.[1]
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[edit] Summary
Set in the small, hip neighborhood of Silver Lake, on the outskirts of Hollywood, this fresh, edgy, new drama explores the intimate and often complex relationships of a tight-knit group of friends finding out who they are and what they want in life, in the new drama Sex, Love & Secrets.
A musician at heart, Hank (James Stevenson), the sexy lead singer of the nouvelle-punk band 'Modern Apes,' has come to a crossroad in his personal and professional world. He is ready for some significant changes in order to make that life-long commitment to his girlfriend, Rose (Lauren German). And while she loves Hank, Rose is preoccupied with her job as a celebrity journalist and finds herself in emotional turmoil when an ex-boyfriend comes back to haunt her. Making matters worse, she is being tormented by the sexy Jolene (Denise Richards), a pushy publicist, who has her eye on Hank.
As the endearing drummer of the band, Hank's buddy Coop (Omar Benson Miller) always puts his friends first. But as the ultimate wingman, he has a hard time getting the girl. Quite the opposite for their friend Charlie (Eric Balfour), the charming playboy who uses his position as a hairdresser to woo women, but can't be tied down to just one. Rounding out the group is Nina (Tamara Taylor), a bright, ob/gyn who has been so career-driven that she has no social life to speak of. After stumbling upon an online ad, she meets the eccentric and mysterious Milo (Lucas Bryant), and uncharacteristically agrees to let him move in as her new roommate.
These twenty-somethings have become a family sharing everything, but as in any family, the need to protect each other can often compel these friends to keep secrets that sometimes do more harm than good.
[edit] Ratings and reviews
The show was one of the lowest-rated shows on network television for its season and was quickly cancelled.
[edit] Trivia
- The show's first title was 'Silver Lake', named after where it took place.
- The shows's name was changed from 'Silver Lake' to 'Sex, Lies, & Secrets,' then the word 'Lies' was replaced with 'Love' to fit the tone of the show about a month before the premier.
- Sex, Love & Secrets was the first announced show on Television Without Pity to be expunged before a recap was ever written for the site.
[edit] Episodes
- Secrets (aired September 27, 2005)
- Ambush (aired October 4, 2005)
- Danger (aired October 11, 2005)
- Molting (aired on October 18, 2005)
[edit] Interviews
- Denise Richards On "Love" CBSNews.com (September 27, 2005)
- Denise Richards' Sexy Secrets CBSNews.com (September 27, 2005)
