Less Than Perfect

Less Than Perfect
Season Four title card
Created by	Terri Minsky
Starring	Sara Rue Sherri Shepherd Andrea Parker Zachary Levi Eric Roberts Andy Dick Will Sasso Patrick Warburton
Theme music composer	Cary R. Beare Jason Thomas Gordon Sky Nicholas Dan Northchild
Composer(s)	Jonathan Wolff Rich Ragsdale (2002-04) Scott Clausen (2004-06)
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	81 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Nina Wass Eugene Stein Terri Minsky (2002-03) Christine Zander (2003-06)
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Wass/Stein Productions Touchstone Television
Distributor	Disney-ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 720p (SDTV)
Original release	October 1, 2002 (2002-10-01) – June 6, 2006 (2006-06-06)

Less Than Perfect is an American sitcom created by Terri Minsky and starring Sara Rue and Sherri Shepherd which originally aired on ABC from October 1, 2002 to June 6, 2006. It follows Claude (Rue), who works at a television network named GNB, as well as her friends and colleagues.

The show centers on Claude (Sara Rue), who works at a television network called GNB. Though at first a temp who fills in on other assignments, in the pilot Claude is hired by anchor Will Butler (Eric Roberts) as his assistant. Comedians Andy Dick, Will Sasso, and Sherri Shepherd play her co-workers and friends, while Zachary Levi and Andrea Parker play her rivals at work. Patrick Warburton joined the cast in Season 2, playing a news anchor who dates Parker's character while trying to climb the ladder at GNB.

Much was made at the time of the show's premiere about the central character of the show being a "full figured" woman, and that the title correlated to Claude being "Less Than Perfect." Over the course of the series, Rue lost 30 pounds (14 kg; 2.1 st). She has since become a spokesperson for Jenny Craig and lost a total of 50 pounds (23 kg; 3.6 st).

Less Than Perfect debuted in a Tuesday evening time-slot and received steady ratings for its first two seasons. When the series was moved in its third season to a Friday-night time-slot, ratings began to fall sharply, and the show was considered to be in danger of cancellation.

TVGuide.com featured the show on a list of "Endangered Series." Ratings in the coveted 18–49 demographic were high enough, and the show was near the threshold for number of episodes needed for syndication, so a limited fourth season of 13 episodes was ordered.

After a long hiatus from ABC's schedule, the show returned as a late-season replacement for ABC with its fourth season premiere on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 9:30 p.m.