| Nip/Tuck | |
|---|---|
| Format | Medical drama |
| Created by | Ryan Murphy |
| Starring | Dylan Walsh Julian McMahon Joely Richardson John Hensley Roma Maffia Kelly Carlson Jessalyn Gilsig Bruno Campos Valerie Cruz |
| Opening theme | "A Perfect Lie" by The Engine Room |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 100 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Ryan Murphy Brad Falchuk Lyn Greene Michael M. Robin Richard Devine Sean Jablonski Jennifer Salt |
| Location(s) | Miami, Florida (seasons 1–4) Hollywood, California (seasons 5–6)[1] |
| Running time | 41–50 minutes per episode (60-70 mins season premieres) |
| Production company(s) | Ryan Murphy Productions The Shephard-Robin Company Warner Bros. Television |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | FX |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
| Original run | July 22, 2003 – March 3, 2010 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Nip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy. Each episode typically involves the cosmetic procedures of one or more patients, and also features the personal and professional lives of its main cast.
The show began in 2003, and the sixth and final season started airing October 14, 2009, and concluded the series on March 3, 2010, with the 100th episode.[2] While the show was initially set in Miami, at the end of the fourth season the practice was relocated to Los Angeles and many of the characters have followed. The show had 45 award nominations, winning a Golden Globe and an Emmy.[3] Series creator Ryan Murphy has said that the medical cases on the show are "100 percent based on fact".[4]
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This drama is set in a plastic surgery center, McNamara/Troy, centering around the two doctors who own it. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) is having problems at home, trying to keep his family together, trying to patch up the rocky road he and his family are living. On the other hand, sex-craving Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) uses his charm to bring in potential female candidates and conducts shady business deals, often for the love of money. While Sean takes his job seriously, he often has to fix Christian's mistakes.
In its debut season, Nip/Tuck was the highest-rated new series on American basic cable, and the highest rated basic cable series of all time for the 18–49 and 25–54 age demographics. The fifth season premiered on October 30, 2007,[5] though production was affected by the 2007 Writers Strike. Accordingly, the second half of the fifth season was not screened until January 6, 2009 in the U.S. Another 19 episodes were picked up by FX, which began airing on October 14, 2009. After a 3-week hiatus for the Christmas holidays, the show resumed in January 2010 and concluded on March 3, 2010 with its 100th episode.[6][7][8] Nip/Tuck filmed its 100th and final episode on June 12, 2009, without creator Ryan Murphy,[9] who was, at the time, in India scouting locations for his film version of the memoir Eat, Pray, Love.
The show inspired the creation of the plastic surgery reality show Dr. 90210.[10]
| Character | Actor | Information |
|---|---|---|
| Sean McNamara | Dylan Walsh | All Seasons |
| Christian Troy | Julian McMahon | All Seasons |
| Julia McNamara | Joely Richardson | All Seasons |
| Matt McNamara | John Hensley | All Seasons |
| Grace Santiago | Valerie Cruz | Season 1 |
| Liz Cruz | Roma Maffia | Seasons 2-6 (Season 1, recurring) |
| Kimber Henry | Kelly Carlson | Seasons 3–6 (Seasons 1–2, recurring) |
| Gina Russo | Jessalyn Gilsig | Season 3 (Seasons 1–2, recurring; 4–5, guest) |
| Quentin Costa | Bruno Campos | Season 3 (Season 2, guest) |
| Character | Actor | Information |
|---|---|---|
| Annie McNamara | Kelsey Batelaan | All Seasons (recurring) |
| Wilber Troy | Joshua & Josiah Henry | Seasons 2, 4–6 (recurring) |
| Nurse Linda | Linda Klein | All Seasons (recurring) |
| Character | Actor | Information |
|---|---|---|
| Escobar Gallardo | Robert LaSardo | (Seasons 1 & 4, recurring; 2,5 & 6 guest) |
| Mrs. Hedda Grubman | Ruth Williamson | (Season 1, recurring; 2 & 4, guest) |
| Dr. Merrill Bobolit | Joey Slotnick | (Season 1, recurring; 2 & 4, guest) |
| Jude Sawyer | Phillip Rhys | (Season 1, recurring; 2–3, guest) |
| Megan O'Hara | Julie Warner | (Season 1, recurring; 2 & 4, guest) |
| Dr. Erica Noughton | Vanessa Redgrave | (Seasons 2–3, recurring; 6, guest) |
| Ava Moore | Famke Janssen | (Season 2, recurring; 3 & 6, guest) |
| Adrian Moore | Seth Gabel | (Season 2, recurring) |
| Kit McGraw | Rhona Mitra | (Season 3, recurring) |
| Ariel Alderman | Brittany Snow | (Season 3, recurring) |
| Michelle Landau | Sanaa Lathan | (Season 4, recurring) |
| James LeBeau | Jacqueline Bisset | (Season 4, recurring) |
| Marlowe Sawyer | Peter Dinklage | (Season 4, recurring) |
| Dawn Budge | Rosie O'Donnell | (Seasons 4–5, recurring) |
| Dr. Mike Hamoui | Mario Lopez | (Seasons 4–6, recurring) |
| Kate Tinsley | Paula Marshall | (Season 5, recurring) |
| Aidan Stone | Bradley Cooper | (Season 5, recurring) |
| Olivia Lord | Portia de Rossi | (Season 5, recurring) |
| Eden Lord | AnnaLynne McCord | (Season 5, recurring) |
| Colleen Rose | Sharon Gless | (Season 5, recurring) |
| Ram Peters | John Schneider | (Season 5, recurring) |
| Dr Theodora "Teddy" Rowe | Katee Sackhoff | (Seasons 5, recurring) |
| Dr Theodora "Teddy" Rowe | Rose McGowan | (Seasons 6, recurring) |
| Dr Curtis Ryerson | George Newbern | (Season 6, recurring) |
| Ramona Perez | Melonie Diaz | (Season 6, recurring) |
The Parents Television Council (PTC) has criticized the show.[11] The show is shown at a late hour with multiple 'Viewer Discretion Advised' warnings between every commercial break. A particular scene involving a foursome pushed the PTC into starting a campaign to get the show taken off the air by writing to the sponsors of the show and threatening to boycott their products.[12][13] Another scene the PTC criticized depicted a funeral home worker removing and assembling body parts from dead women, including his sister's head, then sewing them together to make "the ideal woman." The PTC President described it in a decency hearing as "incestuous necrophilia."[14] The PTC also took issue with an episode featuring a woman, whose mother and sister died of breast cancer, performing a mastectomy on herself using an electric turkey carving knife in the middle of the McNamara/Troy lobby.
Viewer numbers (based on average total viewers per episode) of Nip/Tuck on FX.
| Season | Timeslot | Season Premiere | Season Finale | Viewers Total (in millions) |
Viewers Age 18–49 (in millions) |
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| Date | Viewers Total (in millions) |
Viewers 18–49 (in millions) |
Date | Viewers Total (in millions) |
Viewers 18–49 (in millions) |
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| 1st | Tuesday 10:00 PM | July 22, 2003 | 3.7[15] | 2.0[15] | October 21, 2003 | 2.99[16] | 2.1[15] | 3.25[16] | 2.2[16] |
| 2nd | June 22, 2004 | 3.8[15] | 2.7[15] | October 5, 2004 | 5.2[15] | 3.6[15] | 3.8[15] | 2.6[15] | |
| 3rd | September 20, 2005 | 5.3[15] | 3.7[15] | December 20, 2005 | 5.7[17] | 3.9[17] | 3.9[17] | 2.7[17] | |
| 4th | September 5, 2006 | 4.8[18] | 3.4[18] | December 12, 2006 | 3.38[19] | 2.38[20] | 3.9 | 2.75[19] | |
| 5th – Part I | October 30, 2007 | 4.3 [21] | 3.5 | February 19, 2008 | ??? | 2.41[22] | ??? | ??? | |
| 5th – Part II | January 6, 2009 | 3.1[23] | 2.4[23] | March 3, 2009 | 3.8 | 2.4 | ??? | ??? | |
| 6th | Wednesday 10:00PM | October 14, 2009 | 2.9[24] | 1.9[25] | March 3, 2010 | 1.8 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Nip/Tuck became an instant basic cable hit from its 2003 series premiere.
For its third season, FX aired Nip/Tuck solely in the fall of 2005, instead of during the summer season like the two years prior. John Landgraf, president of FX, stated that such a move was a "huge risk" since it stacked up "against the full barrage of fall network competition."[17] Despite some critical backlash on its third season, like the grade of D+ from Entertainment Weekly,[26] the story arc involving The Carver attracted an audience to the series larger than any season before, culminating in a December 20, 2005 two-hour season finale, entitled Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, which became the most-watched scripted program in the history of the FX network.
Including Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, three episodes of Nip/Tuck rank as the three most-watched scripted programs ever on FX. The second season finale, entitled Joan Rivers, which aired on October 5, 2004, drew 5.2 million viewers. It was then eclipsed on September 20, 2005 when the third season premiere, entitled Momma Boone, drew roughly 5.3 million viewers. Exactly three months later on December 20, 2005, the aforementioned third season finale, entitled Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, drew 5.7 million viewers. Of those 5.7 million viewers, 3.9 million viewers were in the 18–49 age group demographic, "making the finale the No. 1 episode among the key advertising demographic of any cable series in 2005. It's also the largest demographic number for any single telecast in the network's history,"[17] according to Zap2It.
According to the September 8, 2006 Mediaweek column The Programming Insider, "the fourth season-premiere on Tuesday, September 5, 2006, averaged a stellar 4.8 million total viewers and 3.4 million adults 18–49, building over its season three average by 25 percent and 26 percent, respectively. Nip/Tuck's performance among adults 18–49 ranks as basic cable’s top-rated season-premiere in the demo for 2006, as of September 8, 2006."[18]
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