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'''Style and Substance''' is a workplace comedy pilot starring Kathleen Turner as Chelsea Stevens. Loosely patterned after Martha Stewart, Chelsea is a homemaker with a media empire. Created by Peter Tolan, directed by Robby Benson, and costarring Melinda McGraw, Lisa Rieffel, Anthony Mangano, JoNell Kennedy, and Danny Zorn, the show came close to securing a spot on the 1996 ABC fall lineup,<ref>https://ew.com/article/1996/06/28/mid-season-tv-roundup/ Entertainment Weekly - Midseason Roundup, Peter Tolan blurb (1996-06-28)</ref> but test audiences reportedly deemed Turner's character too abrasive.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/473801583/ New York Daily News, Kathleen Turner Interview (1996-05-22)</ref> The original pilot was never broadcast.  
'''Style and Substance''' is a workplace comedy pilot starring Kathleen Turner as Chelsea Stevens. Loosely patterned after Martha Stewart, Chelsea is a homemaker with a media empire. Created by Peter Tolan, directed by Robby Benson, and costarring Melinda McGraw, Lisa Rieffel, Anthony Mangano, JoNell Kennedy, and Danny Zorn, the show came close to securing a spot on the 1996 ABC fall lineup,<ref>[https://ew.com/article/1996/06/28/mid-season-tv-roundup/ Entertainment Weekly - Midseason Roundup, Peter Tolan blurb (1996-06-28)]</ref> but test audiences reportedly deemed Turner's character too abrasive.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/473801583/ New York Daily News, Kathleen Turner Interview (1996-05-22)]</ref> The original pilot was never broadcast.  


The script was reworked, it was shopped around to other actresses<ref>[https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/sep/09/go-ahead-deepak-and-make-me-dazed/ Spokesman, Recasting blurb (1996-09-09)</ref> and reshot the following year with Jean Smart and Nancy McKeon - that version managed to get on the air at CBS in 1998,<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117769 IMDb: Style & Substance (1998)</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/StyleAndSubstance1998PressKit Style & Substance (1998) Press Kit]</ref> but they ran afoul of Stewart, who'd made a home for herself on the network, so the show was quickly and quietly canceled.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux80Ktqkz-4 Nancy McKeon - Biography (Style & Substance excerpt)</ref> Copies of that series are easily found online.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/StyleAndSubstance1998 Internet Archive]</ref> Smart later reprised the role of Chelsea in a 2019 episode of "Mad About You."  
The script was reworked, it was shopped around to other actresses<ref>[https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/sep/09/go-ahead-deepak-and-make-me-dazed/ Spokesman, Recasting blurb (1996-09-09)]</ref> and reshot the following year with Jean Smart and Nancy McKeon - that version managed to get on the air at CBS in 1998,<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117769 IMDb: Style & Substance (1998)]</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/StyleAndSubstance1998PressKit Style & Substance (1998) Press Kit]</ref> but they ran afoul of Stewart, who'd made a home for herself on the network, so the show was quickly and quietly canceled.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux80Ktqkz-4 Nancy McKeon - Biography (Style & Substance excerpt)]</ref> Copies of that series are easily found online.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/StyleAndSubstance1998 Internet Archive]</ref> Smart later reprised the role of Chelsea in a 2019 episode of "Mad About You."<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10927684/reference/ IMDb: "Mad About You," Real Estate for Beginners (2019)]</ref>


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Style and Substance is a workplace comedy pilot starring Kathleen Turner as Chelsea Stevens. Loosely patterned after Martha Stewart, Chelsea is a homemaker with a media empire. Created by Peter Tolan, directed by Robby Benson, and costarring Melinda McGraw, Lisa Rieffel, Anthony Mangano, JoNell Kennedy, and Danny Zorn, the show came close to securing a spot on the 1996 ABC fall lineup,[1] but test audiences reportedly deemed Turner's character too abrasive.[2] The original pilot was never broadcast.

The script was reworked, it was shopped around to other actresses[3] and reshot the following year with Jean Smart and Nancy McKeon - that version managed to get on the air at CBS in 1998,[4][5] but they ran afoul of Stewart, who'd made a home for herself on the network, so the show was quickly and quietly canceled.[6] Copies of that series are easily found online.[7] Smart later reprised the role of Chelsea in a 2019 episode of "Mad About You."[8]

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References

  1. ↑ Entertainment Weekly - Midseason Roundup, Peter Tolan blurb (1996-06-28)
  2. ↑ New York Daily News, Kathleen Turner Interview (1996-05-22)
  3. ↑ Spokesman, Recasting blurb (1996-09-09)
  4. ↑ IMDb: Style & Substance (1998)
  5. ↑ Style & Substance (1998) Press Kit
  6. ↑ Nancy McKeon - Biography (Style & Substance excerpt)
  7. ↑ Internet Archive
  8. ↑ IMDb: "Mad About You," Real Estate for Beginners (2019)
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