Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane

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Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane
Genre	sitcom
Creator(s)	Daniel Paige Sue Paige
Starring	Selma Blair David Moscow Michael Rosenbaum Azura Skye
Country of origin	US
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	30 min
Broadcast
Original channel	The WB
Original run	January 1, 1999 – June 1, 2000
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Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane was a US teen sitcom starring Selma Blair, David Moscow, Michael Rosenbaum, and Azura Skye that premiered in 1999 on The WB network (now known as CW).

It was later retitled Zoe... (pronounced Zoe Dot Dot Dot) during the show's second season.

The series centered on four high school friends in New York City who could be considered social misfits or outsiders.

Zoe Bean: A coy, boy-crazy daydreamer.
Duncan Milch: An anxious oddball. A Woody Allen type.
Jack Cooper: Handsome but egotistical and selfish.
Jane Cooper: Jack's twin sister. Sarcastic and cynical.

The show also starred Mary Page Keller as Zoe's single mother Iris during the first season.

During the first season, the show centered on the four teenagers as high school students and included guests such as Scott Foley as a college boy Zoe had a crush on, Sara Rue as a wheelchair-bound bully, Will Friedle as a charming stoner who dated Zoe, and Jacinda Barrett as a girl who liked both Duncan and Jack.

When the show returned for a second season, it had been retooled heavily. The friendship between the four friends remained intact but now they were adult college students. Gone was Keller as Zoe's mom while Omar Gooding joined the cast as the foursome's friend Doug Anderson. The title had also been shortened to simply Zoe... out of fear that the former title was turning off potential viewers.

The series was unique in that it molded itself after the popular '90s sitcom Seinfeld rather than other teen-oriented sitcoms such as Saved by the Bell or Boy Meets World. But when the show was retooled during the second season it took on a more Two Guys A Girl and A Pizza Place type of tone.

The series ran for 26 episodes (13 each season).

[edit] Trivia

The first season theme song was "Charmed" by My Friend Steve.
Scott Foley, fresh off of Dawson's Creek, appeared in the pilot with the intention of having him star in the series as Zoe's love interest. But once the pilot finally got picked up, Foley had already moved on to Felicity.
After the series was cancelled, Michael Rosenbaum expressed disappointment with the fact that the network had cut his character's name out of the title for the second season. ^[1]
Azura Skye would later guest star on Michael Rosenbaum's hit series Smallville.
The songs "Under the Influence" and "Long Walk Home" by Citizen King were used to promote the first season of the show.