The Knights of Prosperity

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The Knights of Prosperity
Logo for The Knights of Prosperity
Genre	Sitcom
Creator(s)	Rob Burnett Jon Beckerman
Starring	Donal Logue Sofía Vergara Lenny Venito Maz Jobrani Kevin Michael Richardson Josh Grisetti
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	9
Production
Running time	30 minutes (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 720p (HDTV)
Original run	January 3, 2007 – February 28, 2007
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The Knights of Prosperity was a TV comedy series that premiered on ABC in the United States on Wednesday, January 3, 2007. It was created by Rob Burnett and Jon Beckerman, who also created the NBC dramedy Ed. The show follows a group of misfits—the titular Knights—who attempt to rob various celebrities, the first being Mick Jagger. The attempt to rob his luxury apartment failed, however and after pitching various celebrities they decided on robbing Kelly Ripa. In only one episode they realized they could not follow through with this plan, however, because of Eugene's feeling for Kelly and thus moved on to Ray Romano who insulted Kelly before a Live with Regis and Kelly episode.

On January 26, 2007, ABC announced some changes to their Wednesday night lineup: The Knights Of Prosperity would now air at 8:30 PM ET / PT, with According to Jim airing at 9:00 PM ET / PT. The change was made in order to keep The Knights of Prosperity out of competition against FOX's hit series, American Idol.^[1]

On March 5, 2007, ABC pulled the series from its primetime schedule effective immediately. No return date was announced.^[2]^[3]^[4]

It is currently unknown whether or not the remaining 4 episodes will air, or if the show will be renewed for a second season.

ABC has released a list of eleven shows that are being renewed, and that list does not include The Knights of Prosperity. However, ABC has said that even though a show is not on the list, that does not mean they will go missing.^[5]

1 Name changes and scheduling
2 Marketing
3 Cast and characters
- 3.1 Guest stars
4 Episodes
5 Notes
6 External links

[edit] Name changes and scheduling

The series has gone through several name changes: the original title was Let's Rob Jeff Goldblum, later changed to Let's Rob Mick Jagger once Goldblum committed to the NBC drama Raines. ABC announced the series for its fall schedule as Let's Rob... in May, and the final name change to Knights was reported in July 2006.^[6] During the TCA Tour, executive producer Rob Burnett indicated that the title might change again before the show debuts,^[7] but the show debuted under the "Knights" name.

Originally scheduled to debut on October 17, 2006 at 9:00 PM, it was pulled from the schedule on October 3 in favor of at least two additional 90-minute episodes of its intended lead-in, Dancing with the Stars. ABC later announced that the program would be shelved^[8] and rescheduled for a January 2007 airdate due to the network now making another sitcom, Big Day, a priority for the Tuesday night schedule.^[9] On November 9, 2006, ABC began running promos for the show in advance of its January airdate. On December 5, 2006, ABC announced that the program would premiere on January 3, 2007 at 9:00 PM. Although the show was scheduled to air the following week at 9:00, a primetime address by the President of the United States caused the second episode of the show to air at 9:30 PM. The show returned to its normal 9:00 time slot the following week. The show was rescheduled to 8:30 beginning on January 31, 2007, and remained there until being removed from the schedule.

[edit] Marketing

On December 26, to generate buzz for the show, ABC distributed wallets bearing the monogram "KOP" in a number of markets. The wallets contained a receipt from "Enterprise Luxury Goods Ltd." for millions of dollars in purchases, a claim check for a platinum wristwatch, and an invitation to join a promotional group via text message.^[10]

On March 5, 2007 an online group titled "Save The Knights" was formed. It's an online petition which will be sent to ABC hoping for a second season. The web site is http://antoniodab.wetpaint.com.

Sometime around April 2, 2007, ABC had removed the show's official website from the network's website. Sometime around April 7, the website re-appeared. It is unknown if this is an indication that the show will be back on the air or not.

[edit] Cast and characters

Donal Logue as Eugene Gurkin
Sofia Vergara as Esperanza Villalobos
Lenny Venito as Francis "Squatch" Squacieri
Maz Jobrani as Gourishankar "Gary" Subramaniam
Kevin Michael Richardson as Rockefeller Butts
Josh Grisetti as Louis Plunk

[edit] Guest stars

Reiko Aylesworth as Simone Cashwell
Ben Bailey as Ralph Carnucci
Dustin Diamond as himself
Mick Jagger as himself
Sally Jessy Raphaël as herself
Kelly Ripa as herself
Ray Romano as himself

[edit] Episodes

Episode #	Title	Air Date	Rating	Share	18-49	Viewers
1	Pilot	January 3, 2007	4.4	7	3.0	7.4 million
2	Operation: Seduce Simone	January 10, 2007	3.2	5	2.0	5.2 million
3	Operation: Fighting Shape	January 17, 2007	2.6	4	1.5	4.1 million
4	Operation: Deliver the Case	January 24, 2007	2.4	4	1.4	3.8 million
5	Operation: Ralph	January 31, 2007	3.2	5	1.9	5.1 million
6	Operation: Caught on Tape	February 7, 2007	3.5	5	2.1	5.6 million
7	Operation: Save Esperanza	February 14, 2007	3.2	5	2.1	5.3 million
8	Operation: Panic Room	February 21, 2007	2.8	4	1.6	4.1 million
9	Operation: Oswald Montecristo	February 28, 2007	2.9	4	1.7	4.2 million
10	Operation: Rent Money	Unaired
11	Operation: Steal the Safe	Unaired
12	Operation: Open the Safe	Unaired
13	Operation:	Unaired