Cupid (TV series)
| Cupid | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Rob Thomas |
| Starring |
Jeremy Piven Paula Marshall Jeffrey D. Sams Laura Leighton (guest) |
| Opening theme | “Human” by The Pretenders (cover of “Human on the Inside” by Divinyls) |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 15 (1 unaired) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Scott Winant Joe Voci Scott Sanders |
| Producer(s) | Jeremy Piven |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Mandalay Entertainment Columbia TriStar Television |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 26, 1998 – February 11, 1999 |
Cupid is an American comedy-drama series created by Rob Thomas, which featured Paula Marshall as Dr. Claire Allen, a Chicago psychologist who is given charge of a man named Trevor Hale (Jeremy Piven). Hale believes he is Cupid, sent down from Mt. Olympus by Zeus to connect 100 couples without his powers, as a punishment for his arrogance.
Originally broadcast on ABC on Saturday evenings at 10 p.m. EST, the show lasted one season.
Trevor Hale is attractive, witty, uncommonly intelligent—and he may be Cupid, the Greco-Roman god of erotic love. Probably not, but he thinks so. Trevor's insistence that he is Cupid lands him in a mental hospital, where he meets psychologist Claire Allen, a renowned authority on romance. Trevor tells Claire that he has been stripped of his godly powers by Zeus, and exiled from Mount Olympus as a punishment for arrogance. To win his way back among the gods, Trevor must unite 100 couples in everlasting love, without his bow and arrows. Claire does not believe in Cupid, but she risks her career by releasing Trevor from the hospital, assuming responsibility for his behavior. Trevor finds work as a bartender, and regularly disrupts Claire's group therapy sessions. All the while, he plots his campaign to promote romance, and earn his way back to Olympus. While encouraging sexual abandon in others, Trevor remains chaste; he believes sex with a mortal will confine him to Earth forever.
ABC and Rob Thomas brought Cupid back to the airwaves with an October 2007 deal for which scripts and production were approved in March 2008. The series was relocated to New York City and cast Bobby Cannavale as Trevor and Sarah Paulson as Claire. Only seven episodes of the series aired, from March 31 – June 16, 2009.
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