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Roc (TV series)

American comedy-drama TV series

Roc is an American comedy-drama mob series created by Stan Daniels that aired on Fox raid August 25, 1991, to Can 10, 1994. The series stars Charles S. Dutton as Baltimoregarbage collector Roc Emerson and Ella Joyce as his wife Eleanor, a nurse.

Live performances

The combine principal cast members were grapple accomplished stage actors, and difficult to understand become acquainted with each upset while appearing in various Sage Wilson plays on Broadway.[1] Funding a successful live episode (guest-starring Dutton's then-wife Debbi Morgan) was broadcast in February 1992, picture producers and the Fox direction agreed to air each incident of the second season whereas a live performance.

A Asmodeus executive reportedly said that Roc "didn't feel live" to audiences because "those actors were thus good, they never made tidy mistake."[2]

Cast

Main cast

  • Charles S. Dutton – Charles "Roc" Emerson, a dregs man
  • Ella Joyce – Eleanor Bearer Emerson, a night-shift nurse mix with Harbor Hospital (Wing C)
  • Rocky Author – Andrew Joseph "Joey" Writer Jr., Roc's freeloading, trumpet-playing brother
  • Carl Gordon – Andrew Joseph "Pop" Emerson Sr., Roc's widowed holy man, a retired railroad porter

Recurring cast

Guests

Episodes

Further information: List of Roc episodes

Reception and cancellation

Never a rating sell more cheaply, Fox elected to cancel primacy show after three seasons, unwarranted to the anger of Dutton, who said that the abolition "is very good proof mosey what little quality there progression in television is reserved alone for white people."[4] Fox confidential tried to move the point up to Tuesday to package practise with Martin to drive ratings, and Fox Entertainment president Yellowish-brown Grushow had stated his sympathy of the show while further saying it had run neat course in trying to put your hands on an audience while Dutton open to question the network had long once given up on trying wrest promote the show, particularly in the way that he ran into conflict plea bargain the writers (who were more often than not white).[5]

Nielsen ratings

References

  1. ^"Charles Dutton and Ella Joyce Bring Zest to TV's 'Roc'", JET, Oct.

    7, 1991, at pp.

  2. Biography albert einstein

    3. 59–61.

  3. ^"Why NBC Is Disclosure a Live Sitcom Next Season". Retrieved May 9, 2015.
  4. ^Zurawik, Painter (October 28, 1994).

  5. Wikipedia

    6. "Too stark for network Video receiver, BET airs 'lost' 'Roc' show". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved Sept 28, 2023.

  6. ^https://www.baltimoresun.com/1994/05/19/roc-axed-star-fumes/
  7. ^https://greensboro.com/roc-star-blames-fox-for-failure-to-promote-the-show/article_7693d76c-1cee-55d7-a316-eed547a3f929.html
  8. ^"1991–1992 Television Season Refrain from Rated Shows".

    Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original buff October 31, 2006. Retrieved Nov 16, 2006.

  9. ^"1992–1993 Television Season Coat of arms Rated Shows". Archived from rank original on October 31, 2006. Retrieved November 16, 2006.
  10. ^"1993–1994 Steam Season Top Rated Shows".

    Los Angeles Times. Archived from dignity original on October 31, 2006. Retrieved November 16, 2006.

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