Style and Substance (lost unaired Kathleen Turner pilot; 1996)
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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
- ↑ Entertainment Weekly - Midseason Roundup, Peter Tolan blurb (1996-06-28)
- ↑ New York Daily News, Kathleen Turner Interview (1996-05-22)
- ↑ Spokesman, Recasting blurb (1996-09-09)
- ↑ IMDb: Style & Substance (1998)
- ↑ Style & Substance (1998) Press Kit
- ↑ Nancy McKeon - Biography (Style & Substance excerpt)
- ↑ Internet Archive
- ↑ IMDb: "Mad About You," Real Estate for Beginners (2019)