Style and Substance (lost unaired Kathleen Turner pilot; 1996)
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Style and Substance is a 1996 workplace comedy pilot starring Kathleen Turner as Chelsea Stevens. Loosely patterned after Martha Stewart, Chelsea is an abrasive homemaker who heads a media empire. Created by Peter Tolan and directed by Robby Benson, the show costars Melinda McGraw as her office manager, Lisa Rieffel as her daughter, Danny Zorn as her secretary, plus Anthony Mangano, Scott Stevens, and JoNell Kennedy.[1] Michael Eisner and ABC executives loved the pilot and penciled the show in on the ABC fall schedule,[2] but things fell apart in test screenings.[3] The original pilot was never broadcast.
The script was reworked, it was shopped around to other actresses[4] and reshot the following year with Jean Smart[5] and Nancy McKeon. That version managed to get on the air at CBS in January 1998,[6][7] but they ran afoul of Stewart, who'd made a home for herself on the network,[8] so it was quickly and quietly canceled. Copies of that series' 13 episodes are easily found online.[9] Smart later reprised the role of Chelsea in a 2019 episode of "Mad About You."[10]
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References
- ↑ IMDb: "Style & Substance" (1996)
- ↑ New York Daily News, Kathleen Turner Interview (1996-05-22)
- ↑ Entertainment Weekly - Midseason Roundup, Peter Tolan blurb (1996-06-28)
- ↑ Spokesman, Recasting blurb (1996-09-09)
- ↑ Smart Choice: Giving sitcoms another try, USA Today (1998-01-05)
- ↑ 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)