Mr. Box Office
| Mr. Box Office | |
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Byron Allen |
| Starring |
Bill Bellamy Jon Lovitz Vivica A. Fox Tim Meadows Gary Busey Rick Fox Essence Atkins Tony T. Roberts |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 36 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Byron Allen Scott Satin Carolyn Folks Jennifer Lucas Bill Bellamy Barry Katz |
| Camera setup |
Videotape; Multi-camera |
| Running time | 19 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Entertainment Studios |
| Distributor | Entertainment Studios |
| Release | |
| Original network | First-run syndication |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | September 22, 2012 – April 25, 2015 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Mr. Box Office is an American sitcom that debuted in first-run syndication in the United States on September 22, 2012. The show was created by Byron Allen and produced by his production company, Entertainment Studios.
The series centers on movie star Marcus Jackson (Bill Bellamy), who ends up getting sentenced to community service after engaging in an altercation with a paparazzo, forcing Marcus to put his film career on hold. Due to the fact that he has a teacher's license (since he originally aspired to work as a teacher), the judge presiding in his case orders him to serve a six-month stint as a teacher for underprivileged high school kids in Los Angeles' South Central neighborhood. In doing so, Marcus has to deal with his agent Bobby Gold (Jon Lovitz), who constantly attempts to get his client back into film, when he discovers that Marcus has decided that he wants to remain working at the school and help improve his students. Marcus also deals with the mishaps of his best friends and roommates Tony (Tony T. Roberts) and Jamal (Alex Thomas).
Mr. Box Office is primarily syndicated to stations affiliated with The CW and MyNetworkTV and to independent stations for broadcast in weekend primetime timeslots. The series was originally slated to produce a total of 104 episodes, borrowing a similarly-formatted episode order as several sitcoms produced and distributed by Debmar-Mercury, such as Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Anger Management, in which the vast majority of the episodes would be produced in one season. The series, which was sold as part of a two-hour comedy block with The First Family, was initially picked up by stations owned by Tribune Broadcasting, Weigel Broadcasting and CBS Television Stations; by May 2012, the program had been sold to stations covering approximately 85% of all U.S. markets. Production of the series slowed after the first 28 episodes were produced; the series has since produced less than five new episodes per year in 2014 and 2015.
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