The New Adventures of Old Christine

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The New Adventures of Old Christine
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Christine
Genre	Sitcom
Creator(s)	Kari Lizer
Starring	Julia Louis-Dreyfus Clark Gregg Hamish Linklater Trevor Gagnon Emily Rutherfurd Tricia O'Kelley Alex Kapp Horner Wanda Sykes
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	30 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	approx. 23 minutes (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	March 13, 2006 – present
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The New Adventures of Old Christine is a CBS situation comedy that debuted as a midseason replacement on March 13, 2006, after the highly rated sitcom, Two and a Half Men. The show, a Warner Bros. Television production, was created by writer Kari Lizer, who is also the show's executive producer.

1 Background
2 Ratings and reviews
3 Cast
4 DVD Releases
5 International Broadcasters
6 Episodes
7 Awards
8 References
9 External links

[edit] Background

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.

[edit] Ratings and reviews

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] On October 3, 2006, The Futon Critic announced that the show had been given a full 22-episode order.

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

“

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.

”

Series Ratings: #29 in the 2005-2006 season - 12.5m viewers, 4.1/9

[edit] Cast

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

[edit] DVD Releases

DVD Name	Cover Art	Release Date	Ep #
The Complete First Season		TBA	13
The Complete Second Season		TBA	22

[edit] International Broadcasters

Country	TV Network(s)	Series Premiere	Weekly Schedule
United States	CBS Television	March 13, 2006	Mondays 8:30pm ET
Canada	CH	March 13, 2006	Mondays 8:30pm ET
Australia	Nine Network	13th July 2006	wednesday's 8:00pm Nine Network
Brazil	Warner Channel	November 1, 2006	Wednesdays at 12.00am ; Tuesdays at 8:00pm
Peru	Warner Channel	November 1, 2006	Tuesdays at 8.00pm ; Fridays at 8:00pm
Argentina	Warner	November 1, 2006	Tuesdays and Fridays at 8:00pm
Iceland	Stöð 2	November 5, 2006	Saturdays at 8.10pm
Israel	yesSTARS	August 10, 2006	Thursdays at 9:05pm
New Zealand	TV2	???? 2006
Norway	TV2	September 5, 2006	Tuesdays at 22:30
Philippines	ETC 2nd Avenue	January 2007
Sweden	Kanal 5	August 30, 2006	Tuesdays at 9:55pm
Turkey	CNBC-e	February 26, 2007	Mondays at 8:30pm
United Kingdom	UKTV Gold	???? 2007
Ireland	Channel 6	? ?	Wednesdays at 8:30pm
Finland	MTV3	May 6, 2007	Sundays at 19:30