Hot in Cleveland | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Suzanne Martin |
Starring |
Valerie Bertinelli Jane Leeves Wendie Malick Betty White |
Composer(s) |
Ron Wasserman Emerson Swinford |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 128 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Suzanne Martin Sean Hayes Todd Milliner Lynda Obst Larry W. Jones Keith Cox |
Producer(s) | Bob Heath Liz Feldman (season 1) |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | Approx. 22 minutes (without commercials) Approx. 46+ p (hour-long final episode) |
Production company(s) |
Hazy Mills Productions SamJen Productions TV Land Original Productions |
Distributor |
CBS Television Distribution (USA) Endemol (Non-USA) |
Release | |
Original network | TV Land |
Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | June 16, 2010 | – June 3, 2015
External links | |
Website |
Hot in Cleveland is an American sitcom on TV Land starring Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White.
The series, which was TV Land's first original scripted series, premiered on June 16, 2010, and was TV Land's highest rated telecast in the cable network's 14-year history. The series was picked up for ten episodes. On May 1, 2014, TV Land renewed Hot in Cleveland for a sixth season and confirmed the following November it would be the show's last. The series ran for 128 episodes, with the hour-long final episode airing on June 3, 2015.
The series was created by Suzanne Martin and is executive produced by Martin, Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner, through their production companies SamJen Productions and Hazy Mills Productions, and is produced in association with TV Land. The concept behind the show is based on an original idea by Lynda Obst, who serves as executive producer. The series was recorded in front of a live studio audience at CBS's Studio Center in Studio City, California.
The series centers on three aging entertainment industry veterans from Los Angeles, Melanie (Valerie Bertinelli), Joy (Jane Leeves), and Victoria (Wendie Malick). The three women find a more welcoming and less shallow and youth-obsessed community in Cleveland, Ohio, where, as seen in the pilot episode, their Paris-bound plane makes an emergency landing. They decide to stay and lease a home where a sassy caretaker Elka (Betty White) still lives in the guest house.
Guest stars during the first season included Shirley Knight as Melanie's overprotective mother, Loretta;Hal Linden as Victoria's womanizing actor father, Alex; singer Joe Jonas as Melanie's son, Will;Carl Reiner as Max, Elka's boyfriend;Bil Dwyer as Melanie's ex-husband Anders; and Juliet Mills as Joy's critical mother, Philippa. Other first season guest stars include John Schneider, Wayne Knight, Robert Gant, Huey Lewis,Amy Yasbeck, Tim Conway, Mark Indelicato, David Starzyk, Gary Anthony Williams, Dave Foley and Susan Lucci.