Teachers (U.S. TV series)

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Teachers
Format	Comedy (sitcom)
Created by	Matt Tarses
Starring	Justin Bartha Sarah Alexander Phil Hendrie Deon Richmond Kali Rocha Sarah Shahi Matt Winston
Country of origin	USA
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	22 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	March 28, 2006 – May 2, 2006
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Teachers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC. The show ran for six episodes until its cancellation on May 2, 2006. Loosely based upon a UK series of the same name, it was developed by Matt Tarses, co-executive producer of the medical comedy Scrubs.

1 Characters
2 Production
3 Cast
4 Episodes
- 4.1 Nielsen ratings
5 Trivia
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Characters

Set in New Jersey, Teachers stars Justin Bartha as Jeff Cahill, a skilled, idealistic young English teacher at the fictitious Filmore High School, whose apparent apathy toward his job masks his actual wisdom concerning teaching at an underfunded school. Sarah Alexander co-stars as idealistic British history teacher Alice Fletcher, his only kindred spirit on the faculty, for whom Jeff also has romantic feelings. Alice does not reciprocate these feelings, but she is becoming fonder of him. Radio personality Phil Hendrie plays Dick Green, an apathetic phys-ed and physics teacher, who spends his afternoons behind the gym. Deon Richmond plays Calvin Babbitt, the drama teacher whose attitude about teaching falls somewhere between Jeff's and Dick's. He often gets caught up in Jeff's schemes. Kali Rocha stars as the uncaring, rule-abiding Principal Emma Wiggins. Matt Winston stars as Mitch Lenk, math teacher and lap dog to Principal Wiggins. It is implied that he is romantically interested in her. Sarah Shahi stars as Tina Torres, an attractive teacher from Mexico. She is Alice's possible rival for Jeff's affections, though it seems Jeff prefers Alice. It is revealed in Episode 05 ("Testing 1-2-3") that she does not have her teaching license, having gone to school, but taking jobs before she took her finals. However, she stated later in the episode that she will be taking them.

[edit] Production

Episode 1, entitled "Substitute", aired March 28, 2006.

Like many American sitcoms, Teachers was shot before a studio audience.

The series began development under the title Filmore Middle, which reflected its original middle school setting.

Though adapted for American television by Matt Tarses, a writer and producer of the critically-lauded series Sports Night and Scrubs, Teachers has been panned by many critics (including the San Francisco Chronicle's Tim Goodman) as unoriginal and clichéd. The show was quickly canceled by NBC, the news coming on May 15.^[1]

[edit] Cast

Justin Bartha as Jeff Cahill
Sarah Alexander as Alice Fletcher
Phil Hendrie as Dick Green
Deon Richmond as Calvin Babbitt
Kali Rocha as Emma Wiggins
Sarah Shahi as Tina Torres
Matt Winston as Mitch Lenk

[edit] Episodes

Episode #	Title	Airdate	Rating	Viewers in Millions
1	"Substitute"	March 28, 2006	4.4/7	6.71
2	"Field Trip"	April 4, 2006	3.7/6	5.67
3	"Schoolympics"	April 11, 2006	3.4/5	5.04
4	"Golf"	April 18, 2006	3.0/4	unknown
5	"Testing 1-2-3"	April 25, 2006	3.1/5	4.75
6	"Prom "	May 2, 2006	3.2/5	4.61

[edit] Nielsen ratings

Based on average total viewers per episode of Teachers on NBC:^[2]

Season	Timeslot (EDT)	Series Premiere	Series Finale	TV Season	Rank	Viewers (in millions)	18-49 Rating/Share (rank)
1	Tuesday 9:30 P.M. (March 28, 2006 - May 2, 2006)	March 28, 2006	May 2, 2006	2005-2006	#108	5.3	2.5/6 (#86)

[edit] Trivia

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