Love Monkey
| Love Monkey | |
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| Based on | Love Monkey by Kyle Smith |
| Starring |
Tom Cavanagh Daniel Sunjata Katherine La Nasa Christopher Wiehl Jason Priestley Larenz Tate |
| Opening theme | "Someone Who's Cool" by Odds (episodes 1-3) "For You I Will (Confidence)" by Teddy Geiger (episodes 4-8) |
| Composer(s) | John Bissell |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (5 unaired) |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Mark Johnson Michael Rauch John Wirth |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | 34 Films Gran Via Productions Paramount Television Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | January 17 – February 7, 2006 |
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Love Monkey is an American comedy-drama television series created by Michael Rauch and based on the book of the same name, by Kyle Smith.
Its first episode aired on January 17, 2006 on CBS, attracting an audience of about 8.6 million viewers. By its third episode on February 7, viewership was down to 6.2 million, and CBS pulled it from the schedule, with no plans for its return.
At the end of March, VH1 announced plans to re-broadcast the three episodes broadcast on CBS and air the five remaining unaired episodes. The last episode aired on May 16, 2006 on VH1.
CBS has one episode available free for online viewing via its new Innertube website and intends to make the other 7 episodes available for viewing there as well.
As it was bought for syndication by VH1, it now airs on MuchMoreMusic in Canada.
In the summers of 2009 and 2010, the series was shown on the Universal HD cable network.
It was a co-production of Paramount Television and Sony Pictures Television.
On MuchMoreMusic, the theme song remains as "Someone Who's Cool" by Odds on all episodes. Although the show was cancelled after eight episodes, Geiger's theme song "For You I Will (Confidence)" became a hit single, reaching #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 2006.
The show guest stars established musicians (often in bit roles) and also features fictional musicians (in italics).
Tom gets fired from his job at a record company after making an unwise comment. He then gets dumped by his girlfriend after being told they are not compatible. Meanwhile, he tries his best to convince a new talented singer, Wayne, found in the small town of Monroe, Michigan, to sign with him. Tom eventually gives up on Wayne because he doesn't have enough money to sign him, but at the end of the episode Tom accepts a new job at True Vinyl, a small indie record company, only to find that this company has signed Wayne (largely because Wayne wants to work with Tom).
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