The Beautiful Life: TBL
| The Beautiful Life: TBL | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Adam Giaudrone |
| Starring |
Mischa Barton Sara Paxton Ben Hollingsworth Corbin Bleu Nico Tortorella Ashley Madekwe Elle Macpherson |
| Opening theme | "Samurai Showdown" by Shane Newville |
| Composer(s) | Marc Dauer Evan Frankfort |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (4 unaired) (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Ashton Kutcher Jason Goldberg Karey Burke Mike Kelley |
| Location(s) | New York City |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Katalyst Films The Page Fright Company/Mike Kelley Productions Warner Bros. Television CBS Productions |
| Distributor | CBS Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | The CW |
| Original release | September 16 – December 18, 2009 |
The Beautiful Life: TBL (also known as The Beautiful Life) is an American television drama series, which ran on The CW from September 16, 2009 to September 23, 2009. The series starred Mischa Barton, Elle Macpherson, Sara Paxton, and Corbin Bleu. It revolved around a group of male and female models sharing a residence in New York City.Mike Kelley (Swingtown) served as the showrunner for the series, based on the script by former model-turned-writer Adam Giaudrone, and Ashton Kutcher was the executive producer. The CW ordered 13 episodes for the first season.
On September 25, 2009, The Beautiful Life: TBL was canceled after two episodes due to low ratings. This was the first network television cancellation of the 2009-10 television season. Six full episodes were produced, while the cancellation came during the filming of the seventh episode. On November 17, 2009, The New York Daily News reported that the CW planned to air the remaining episodes during the summer months. However, a CW spokesperson stated that "the status of unaired episodes has yet to be determined", and as of now, the remaining episodes remain unaired.
However, all episodes are now airing on YouTube, Kutcher spoke on the development "What we feel like we're doing is creating, in some ways, an industry first.... A show that couldn't find its legs on television, we believe can find its legs on the Web." The five episodes being aired online are sponsored by HP.
Before the show was canceled, Jaime Murray was scheduled to play powerful wardrobe stylist eyeing Isaac,Ed Quinn would have played Claudia's husband, former Miss Israel Gal Gadot was cast to play Olivia, a Gisele Bündchen-type supermodel, and Billy Magnussen was to have had a multiple-episode arc as Alex, brother to Raina. The show's cancellation meant the listed actors never ended up on the series.
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