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Mr. Robinson (TV series)

Mr. Robinson
Genre Comedy
Created by Owen Ellickson
Developed by
Starring
Composer(s) Ryan Beveridge
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 6 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Robb Cullen
  • Mark Cullen
  • Howard Klein
  • Mark Schulman
  • Andy Ackerman
Cinematography Patti Lee
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s)
Distributor NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network NBC
Original release August 5 (2015-08-05) – August 19, 2015 (2015-08-19)
External links
Website

Mr. Robinson is an American sitcom television series created by Owen Ellickson, and developed by Robb Cullen and Mark Cullen, which ran from August 5 through August 19, 2015, on NBC. The series stars Craig Robinson as a high school music teacher and part-time musician.

On September 14, 2015, the series was cancelled.

The original pilot was created by Owen Ellickson and was in development at NBC for the 2013–14 United States network television season. It also starred Robinson, and included a cast of Jean Smart, Larenz Tate, Amandla Stenberg and Amanda Lund. Greg Daniels served as executive producer.

NBC placed a six-episode order for the series on January 6, 2014, with Mark Cullen and Robb Cullen as showrunners, replacing Owen Ellickson, and several characters recast.

Mr. Robinson has received generally negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the series has a rating of 21%, based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 3.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Mr. Robinson is held back by too many sitcom tropes, bad plots, and stock characters, wasting its appealing star." On Metacritic, the series has a score of 41 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Dominic Patten of Deadline said that the show is not funny. Bruce R. Miller of the Sioux City Journal said, "Mr. Robinson just does not work". Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly gave the show a grade of C-.


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