The Anna Nicole Show
| The Anna Nicole Show | |
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First season DVD
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| Also known as | The Anna Nicole Smith Show |
| Genre | Reality |
| Starring |
Anna Nicole Smith Daniel Smith Howard K. Stern Kim Walther |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 28 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Jeffrey Shore |
| Producer(s) | Darren Ewing Kevin Hayes Mark McDermott |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
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| Original network | E! |
| Original release | August 4, 2002 – October 7, 2004 |
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The Anna Nicole Show is an American reality sitcom starring former model and Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith. The series debuted on August 4, 2002 on the E! entertainment television network and ran for three seasons.
The show follows the exploits of Anna Nicole Smith and her entourage; much of the focus of the series was on the fact that Smith had gained weight after falling out of the public eye, no longer received regular modeling or acting work, and, at the time of the series' debut, was in a precarious financial state after lavish spending sprees and the battle against her stepson for her deceased husband's fortune. Story arcs included Smith's alleged period of unwilling celibacy (which Smith referred to as "the dry spell"); her struggle to cure her miniature poodle's habit of attempting intercourse with inanimate objects; her love-hate relationship with her toothless, redneck cousin; and her "fashion feud" with interior decorator Bobby Trendy.
Although termed a reality show, many, if not all, of the episodes began with situations contrived by the producers (i.e., Smith goes to a dating service; Smith participates in a game show based on The Bachelorette); the show was a "reality show," however, to the degree that Smith's and the other individuals' interactions and reactions to the events occurring around them were unscripted.
In addition to Smith, the show also featured:
Although it has become a cult classic, mainly among college students, The Anna Nicole Show was never a solid ratings success. Though ratings premiered in the top forty, the show's ratings dropped continuously, week by week, which ended its run nearly out of the top seventy. This continuous rating decline caused E! to cancel the series in February 2004, after just two seasons and 27 episodes. Before the cancellation, season 3 was starting to get aired, but only the episodes that had already been filmed.
Though most cites have said the show was cancelled due to "creative differences", it is likely that the series was cancelled due to a severe rating decline. Afterward Anna Nicole appeared as a spokesperson for Trimspa, (in order to publicize her weight loss), and made three other film appearances (two of which were bit roles as herself), before her death.
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