The New Adventures of Old Christine

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The New Adventures of Old Christine
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Christine
Genre	Sitcom
Running time	approx. 23 minutes (per episode)
Creator(s)	Kari Lizer
Starring	Julia Louis-Dreyfus Clark Gregg Hamish Linklater Trevor Gagnon Emily Rutherfurd Tricia O'Kelley Alex Kapp Horner
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	CBS
Original run	March 13, 2006–present
No. of episodes	24
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The New Adventures of Old Christine is a CBS situation comedy that debuted as a midseason replacement on March 13, 2006. The show, a Warner Bros. Domestic Television production, was created by writer Kari Lizer, who is also the show's executive producer.

The show stars Seinfeld alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Christine Campbell, a divorced mother and owner of a women's gym. The program revolves around Christine trying to keep pace with everyone around her, including the judgmental stay-at-home moms at her son's private school and her ex-husband Richard (Clark Gregg). She is jokingly known as "Old Christine" because Richard has a girlfriend also named Christine (Emily Rutherfurd). Hamish Linklater plays Matthew, (Old) Christine's live-in brother.

The show premiered to and maintained good ratings, apparently the first example of a show breaking the "Seinfeld curse" (after the failures of The Michael Richards Show, Bob Patterson, Listen Up, and Louis-Dreyfus' own Watching Ellie)^[1]. In May 2006, CBS renewed the show for the Fall 2006-2007 TV season. On October 3, 2006, The Futon Critic announced that the show had been given a full 22-episode order.

1 Reviews
2 Cast
3 International Broadcasters
4 Episodes
5 Awards
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Reviews

The review website Metacritic.com which tabulates critics reviews gave it a 64 equating to their summary of "generally positive reviews"[1] with 16 out of 26 critics reviews deemed as positive. A Los Angeles Times review ^[2] noted that "Louis-Dreyfus makes Christine feel fresh and real" and the show has a "dry charm and a nice tone of affectionate irony." The review continued:

While it occasionally runs to the absurd — a blind date who won't eat food other people have touched and brings his own chicken to a restaurant — it stays for the most part within the realm of recognizable human relations, and lets you feel something for its characters. This was not a luxury Seinfeld ever afforded anyone, and it's nice to see the star getting to play something less cerebrally conceived, less obsessive-compulsive and more ordinarily well-rounded.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Julia Louis-Dreyfus	"Old" Christine Campbell
Clark Gregg	Richard Campbell
Hamish Linklater	Matthew
Emily Rutherfurd	"New" Christine
Trevor Gagnon	Richard "Ritchie" Campbell
Tricia O'Kelley	Marly Ehrhardt
Alex Kapp Horner	Lindsay
Wanda Sykes	Barb

[edit] International Broadcasters

Country	TV Network(s)	Series Premiere	Weekly Schedule
United States	CBS Television	March 13, 2006	Mondays 9:30pm ET
Canada	CH	March 13, 2006	Mondays 9:30pm ET
Australia	Nine Network	13th July 2006	Returned December 5th 8.30
Brazil	SBT and Warner	November 1, 2006	Wednesdays at 12.00am ; Tuesdays at 8:00pm
Iceland	Stöð 2	November 5, 2006	Saturdays at 8.10pm
Israel	yesSTARS	???? 2006	Thursdays at 10:05pm
New Zealand	TV2	???? 2006
Norway	TV2	September 5, 2006	Tuesdays at 11:30pm
Sweden	Kanal 5	August 30, 2006	Tuesdays at 11:25pm
United Kingdom	UKTV Gold	???? 2006