Hope & Faith | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Joanna Johnson |
Starring |
Faith Ford Kelly Ripa Ted McGinley Nicole Paggi Megan Fox Macey Cruthird Jansen Panettiere Paulie Litt |
Theme music composer | Jon Gilutin & David Rice John Swihart & Alissa Moreno Scott Schreer |
Composer(s) | Scott Schreer |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 73 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Joanna Johnson Emile Levisetti Gil Junger Guymon Casady Geyer Kosinski Nastaran Dibai Jeffrey B. Hodes |
Camera setup | Film; Multi-camera |
Running time | 22 minutes (approx.) |
Production company(s) | Industry Entertainment Touchstone Television |
Distributor | Disney-ABC Domestic Television |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
Original release | September 26, 2003 | – May 2, 2006
Hope & Faith is an American television sitcom, starring Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa as Hope Shanowski and Faith Fairfield. Hope is a homemaker and mother of three and Faith is her sister, a soap opera star whose character is killed off, leading her to move in with Hope and her family in the fictional town of Glen Falls, Ohio. It originally aired on ABC from September 26, 2003 to May 2, 2006. During its first and second seasons, the series was part of the revived TGIF comedy block.
Hope & Faith was created and produced by Joanna Johnson, who loosely based the premise on her own life as a former cast member of The Bold and the Beautiful. The series was primarily filmed at New York City's Silvercup East, a sister studio to Silvercup Studios. In May 2006, ABC announced that Hope & Faith had been cancelled after three seasons.
ABC announced on January 18, 2006 that it was benching Hope & Faith for the February sweeps to make room for an expanded edition of Dancing with the Stars. The show began to air its remaining episodes from March 21, 2006 on Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. ET against American Idol. In May 2006, ABC announced that the show would be cancelled when it unveiled its fall 2006 line up.
All 73 episodes were picked up by the U.S. television network WE tv.
Hope & Faith was shown for a short time in the UK on the digital-only channel ABC1, which closed in 2007. The show is also shown in Latin America, Fiji, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark and in Ireland on RTÉ. In Australia, Hope and Faith airs reruns on Channel Ten's Afternoon schedule.