Bunheads
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Bunheads (pilot) title card
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| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Created by |
Amy Sherman-Palladino Lamar Damon |
| Starring |
Sutton Foster Kelly Bishop Kaitlyn Jenkins Julia Goldani Telles Bailey Buntain Emma Dumont |
| Composer(s) | Sam Phillips |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 18 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Amy Sherman-Palladino John Ziffren |
| Producer(s) | Maria L. Melograne Salli Newman Daniel Palladino Timothy Marx Helen Pai (associate producer) |
| Cinematography | Anette Haellmigk Alex Nepomniaschy |
| Editor(s) | Jill Savitt Raul Dávalas Mark Hartzell |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions ABC Family Original Productions |
| Distributor | Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC Family |
| Original release | June 11, 2012 – February 25, 2013 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Bunheads is an American comedy-drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and Lamar Damon, that aired on ABC Family from June 11, 2012 to February 25, 2013. Starring Sutton Foster, the show centers on a Las Vegas showgirl who gets married on a whim and winds up teaching alongside her new mother-in-law at her ballet school.
On July 22, 2013, ABC Family canceled the series after one season.
Bunheads is the tale of Michelle Simms, a former ballerina 'bunhead' (a slang term for women who put their long hair into a bun while dancing) who wound up as a Las Vegas showgirl. Seeing her life and career at a dead end, she impulsively takes up the offer of marriage from her persistent admirer, Hubbell Flowers (played by Alan Ruck), and moves to his sleepy coastal town, the fictional town of Paradise in Southern California, thirty miles south of Ojai, California. Once there, Hubbell is killed in a car accident and Michelle struggles to adjust to life in a small town and teaching alongside her mother-in-law, Fanny Flowers (played by Kelly Bishop), at her ballet school: the Paradise Dance Academy.
In addition to recurring actors that carried over from Gilmore Girls, including Kelly Bishop, Liza Weil, Gregg Henry, and Rose Abdoo, numerous other known actors, as well as Broadway actors, also appeared in episodes of Bunheads.
Bunheads first appeared on the development slate at ABC Family in September 2010, under the title Strut, when the show received a cast-contingent pilot order. Lamar Damon wrote the script, and production was originally expected to begin in fall 2010. In September 2011, it was reported that the series was being retooled by Amy Sherman-Palladino, who would serve as executive producer. The series was given a pilot order under the new name Bunheads.
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