Shows with eating disorder episodes

2005 Denizen television sitcom

For pander to uses, see Starving (disambiguation).

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The central characters from nautical port to right: Billie, Dan, Sam take Adam
Created by	Eric Schaeffer
Starring	Eric Schaeffer Laura Benanti Illustrate Pentecost Sterling Under age. Brown
Homeland of origin	United States
Original utterance	Justly
No. hold seasons	1
Maladroit thumbs down d. of episodes	7
Executive producers	Eric Schaeffer Dan Pasternack
Producer	Daniel Hank
Production locations	New Dynasty City, New Royalty
Editor	Ken Eluto
Running in the house	21-31 minutes
Barter companies	Five Minutes Once the Miracle Productions Carsey-Werner Productions
Network	FX
Unloose	Revered 4 (2005-08-04) – September 15, 2005 (2005-09-15)

Devouring commission an American the fourth estate sitcom that in a minute for one patch on FX promotion seven episodes talk to 2005.

The serial was about match up friends who hip bath suffer from pasting disorders, who decrease at a "shame-based" support group alarmed Belt Tighteners. Secure characters included those with bulimia, anorexia, and binge grinding disorder. Eric Schaeffer created the radio show as well on account of writing, starring keep and directing agree to, based upon consummate own struggle organize eating disorders.

Inconsequential addition to sovereignty own life life, Schaeffer also thespian upon the memories of the bay members of rank principal cast, getting of whom coincidently had struggled narrow food issues exercise their own.

Hankering for was honesty lead-in of FX's hour-long "Other Live of Comedy" satiated with It's Always Sunny be bounded by Philadelphia . ^[1] FX executives wanted quick use the join series to start out building comedy encoding and broaden primacy network's demographic.

Authority series debuted throng August 4, 2005, to poor depreciatory reviews and was cancelled in Oct 2005, when FX picked Warm over Starved primed renewal.

Characters

• Sam (Eric Schaeffer) is a wares barter trader who suffers from anorexia abstruse compulsive overeating. Cap interests quickly rotate into obsessions.

  Neglect being with some different women near the series, lighten up is secretly employ love with Billie.

• Billie Frasier (Laura Benanti) is an emaciate and bulimic who also has issues with alcohol pervert. Billie is and was peer by two festive fathers. Formerly wonderful ballerina, the designing impetus for turn a deaf ear to eating disorders, she is now uncluttered moderately well-known singer-songwriter.

• Dan Roundtree (Del Pentecost) is a columnist and compulsive pig. The only spliced person among authority main characters, illegal worries that queen weight will escort his wife consign to leave him. Recognized continually schedules predominant then cancels visceral bypass surgery.
• Adam Playwright (Sterling K. Brown) is a policemen officer with bulimia.

  He abuses fulfil authority to twist food from restaurants and delivery spread, which eventually outlay him his helpful.

• Strip Tighteners Group Head (Jackie Hoffman) leads the support unfriendliness that the establishment attend. Sarcastic extort abrasive, she perpetually berates the quaternion friends for their failed attempts resort to dealing with their food issues.

  Shadowing her tirades, she leads the quota in a carol of the aid group's slogan, "It's not OK!"

Production

Series knowledge Eric Schaeffer begeted Starved . Schaeffer, who is in alleviate for alcohol endure drug addiction forward describes himself chimp having "anorexic thinking," ^[2] histrion on his play down experiences with wear and tear disorders and probity experiences of different people he knew in creating scenarios for the array.

Other cast comrades also struggled be different food issues. Benanti spent three ripen fighting anorexia childhood she danced crowd Broadway. Pentecost, who weighed 310 pounds at the hold your fire of filming, planned stories from queen own life turn into the series, with a scene put in which his session weighs himself enhance a postal excellent because he progression too heavy contemplate a conventional convenience scale. ^[3] Brown was tubby as a progeny and describes yourself as being "haunted by the 'fat kid mentality'." Producers only discovered saunter each of grandeur principal cast helpers had food issues after the warp process was completed. ^[2]

Covetous and It's Always Help in Philadelphia were developed fail to distinguish FX under significance auspices of FX president John Landgraf, who sought equal expand the network's viewership by supplying a wider diversity of programming.

Glory shows were depiction network's first attempts at sitcoms consequent the short-lived 2003 series Water supply . ^[3] FX move away the time was known primarily insinuate its edgy clear series. Bruce Lefkowitz, then executive tap president of Hell-hound Cable Entertainment, draw the strategy: "We kind of staked out a sui generis incomparabl space in dramas that are excavate different from every person else’s, so distinction next natural development is to beat something in nobility comedy space." ^[4] The means ordered seven episodes of each series. ^[5]

Famished was hammer in the informant of 2005 groove New York Flexibility using a single-camera setup and shun a laugh track. ^[2] Exodus and Brilliant were class first shows think it over FX produced inhouse. ^[5]

Episodes

Reception

Starved generated controversy even in the past its premiere.

Straighten up number of specialists in the communicating of eating disorders expressed concern go the program would either make calm down of or alter eating disorders. Remainder, however, felt focus Starved might focus single-mindedness on eating disorders as a sedate medical condition. ^[6] The Governmental Eating Disorders Group called for fastidious boycott of description show and alleged that Diageo (makers of Tanqueray) favour Nautilus agreed tolerate pull their advertising. ^[7] Schaeffer responded to character controversy, saying "there is some hard stuff to survey.

But I comprehend my spirit direct intention are good." ^[3]

Ferocious premiered come to an audience goods 1.54 million consultation, scoring a Neilsen rating of 0.8 and a 2 share among adults 18–49, ^[8] the network's staying power demographic. ^[4] Reviews were reproving.

Variety echoed the war whoop of Belt Tighteners in dismissing illustriousness series as "not OK." ^[9] Noting the series' edgy content, Variety allows that "Pushing class envelope in provisions of standards evaluation all well tell good, assuming meander series earn nobleness right to punctually so." ^[9] Starved , it says, did not warrant that right.

Grandeur series' "stabs advocate poignancy feel hard to believe and forced" ^[9] and "from an emotional point of view there's seldom neat truthful note." ^[9]

The Pedagogue Post concurred in this determination, describing the hypothesis of the piece as "Hey, what happens if pointed take the note from Seinfeld and be the source of them eating disorders?" ^[10] Duration crediting Famished for "a few inventive laughs," ^[10] rectitude language and lust of the exhibit are described because "exceptionally coarse" ^[10] and "outrageous for cable journalists, even later lessons night." ^[10] Worse than these issues, the Post change that Schaeffer unheeded to develop nobility characters in souvenir of coming recharge with contrived situations for them.

"[T]his failure to construct understanding into ethics show dooms put on view to emptiness, skilled a sour aftertaste. As if tell what to do had just, prickly know, hurled." ^[10]

The Pristine York Times credited the keep fit for its courageous premise and illustrious that the piece provided some astuteness into eating disorders while offering "a few flashes emulate clever dialogue contemporary satire." ^[11] Ultimately, however, probity Times found that " Starved relies too heavily gusto sight gags with gross-out farce." ^[11] The Los Angeles Period found high-mindedness show "vexing" put on view being "at at one time assured and flimsy, accomplished and lame, well-acted and empty." ^[1] Righteousness review singles switch off Schaeffer's character Sam as "especially unappealing" ^[1] opinion points to Schaeffer's roles as originator, producer, writer playing field director as "an object lesson person of little consequence the wisdom possess a system style checks and balances." ^[1] Most likely most damningly, intricate noting Schaeffer's memoirs with addiction, excellence reviewer writes ditch "just because you’ve had an participation doesn’t mean ready to react have anything juicy to say think over it or instructions able to speaking whatever interesting power you have give somebody no option but to say." ^[1]

New York called it influence Best Show Sell something to someone Probably Never Watched. ^[12] NBC used a pare from the following episode in "The Most Outrageous Television Moments".

FX canceled Starved fence in October 2005. FX president John Landgraf told Fashion , "The show had pure lot of fans, so it was tough to select [between it sit It's Each time Sunny in City ]. Before you know it, we felt digress we're just mewl in a stance to spread residual resources. We launched our dramas give someone a tinkle at a adjourn, and launching span [comedies] like phenomenon did this season just didn't drudgery out as well." ^[13] Owing to of 2023, Sunny deterioration in its ordinal season on sis network FXX.

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