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Sam McPherson

Popular
Popular TV series.png
Created by Ryan Murphy
Gina Matthews
Starring Leslie Bibb
Carly Pope
Tamara Mello
Christopher Gorham
Sara Rue
Bryce Johnson
Tammy Lynn Michaels
Ron Lester
Leslie Grossman
Lisa Darr
Scott Bryce
Diane Delano
Opening theme "Supermodels" by Kendall Payne
Ending theme "High School Highway" by Sydney Forest
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 43 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time 44 minutes
Production company(s) Ryan Murphy Productions
Roundtable Ink
The Shephard/Robin Company
Touchstone Television
Distributor Disney-ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network The WB
Original release September 29, 1999 (1999-09-29) – May 18, 2001 (2001-05-18)

Popular is an American teenage comedy-drama by The WB Television Network, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls who reside on opposite ends of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but who are forced to get along when their single parents meet on a cruise ship and get married. The show was produced by Touchstone Television and ran for two seasons on The WB from 1999 to 2001.

Brooke McQueen (Leslie Bibb) and Sam McPherson (Carly Pope), students at Jacqueline Kennedy High School, are polar opposites. Brooke is a popular cheerleader and Sam is an unpopular journalist. Their respective groups are forced to socialize when Brooke's father and Sam's mother get engaged and the two girls have to share a house.

The plot of the first season revolves around the girls' school life, rival groups of friends, mutual animosity and plan to separate their parents. At the end of the season, Sam finds Brooke's real mother and encourages her to come back to town, which breaks up the engagement and splits the new family apart.

By the second season, Brooke and Sam realize that their parents were happy together, and therefore team up to reunite them, a move which results in the girls slowly becoming close friends, and even referring to each other as "family," though tensions rise when they both get involved with the same boy. Also, a reversal of fortunes takes place, with Brooke resigning from cheerleading to focus on school issues and Sam experiencing a surge of sudden popularity at school. In the end of the second-season finale — which turned out to be the unexpected series finale when the show was cancelled — Brooke is run over by a drunk and angry Nicole Julian (Tammy Lynn Michaels).

The show's theme was excerpted from the song "Supermodels", a track from indie singer-songwriter Kendall Payne's 1999 album Jordan's Sister.


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