An American Short Runner Sitcom that follows a Denver advertising executive (Tom Selleck) as he gets fired and starts a new ad agency with several other fired employees (Edward Asner, David Krumholtz, Suzy Nakamura, and Penelope Ann Miller), while coping with a recent divorce and parenting his feisty teenage daughter (Hedy Burress).
It aired on CBS from February 23 to May 4, 1998.
Tropes for this series:
- Character Title: "Dobbs Takes a Holiday".
- Elite School Means Elite Brain: Averted with Erica, who in spite of her Ivy League credentials is The Ditz much of the time.
- Fatal Flaw: One of Jack's problems is his competitiveness, as he refused to lose to the President of the United States and it results him and several others getting fired.
- Firing Day: In the first episode, due to Jack losing the military accounts, he gets fired, along with Carl, Bruno, Beverly, and Erica, who had just started that very day.
- I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: John Webber, who worked with Krumholtz on Chicago Sons, appears in "My Best Friend's Funeral".
- One-Word Title: "Pilot".
- Shout-Out:
- "Dobbs Takes a Holiday", to Death Takes a Holiday.
- "My Best Friend's Funeral", to My Best Friend's Wedding.
