Partners (2012 TV series)

Premise

Although they could not be more different, Louis and Joe are lifelong friends and partners in an architecture firm in New York City. Their "bromance" is tested when Joe gets engaged to Ali and Louis is in a new relationship with Wyatt.

Cast and characters

Main

• David Krumholtz as Joseph "Joe" Goodman, an architect
• Michael Urie as Louis McManus, Joe's best friend and business partner
• Sophia Bush as Alexandra "Ali" Landow, Joe's fiancée
• Brandon Routh as Wyatt Plank, Louis' boyfriend

Recurring

• Tracy Vilar as Ro-Ro, Joe and Louis' secretary
• Jillian Bell as Renata, Ali's hapless cousin and assistant
• Randy Sklar and Jason Sklar as Jordy and Nate Blevins, twin architects who have a friendly rivalry with Joe and Louis

Production

CBS cancelled Partners on November 16, 2012, prior to the planned November 19 airing of episode 7, "Pretty Funny", and announced that the show would be immediately removed from the schedule. The show was replaced with reruns of Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, leaving seven filmed episodes unaired in the USA and Canada. Filming on the final episode concluded a week later, on November 21. Seven episodes remain unaired in the U.S., but all 13 episodes have been aired by South African channel M-Net, Indian channel Zee Café and by HBO Comedy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Within days, the show's page was removed from the CBS website and the show was removed from the People's Choice Awards online ballot for Favorite New TV Comedy.

Episodes

Every episode of the series was directed by James Burrows.

Reception

The show has been met with negative reviews with a collective score of 37/100 from Metacritic.

Critics have noted that the CBS show has many similarities to a 1995 Fox sitcom of the same name. Both shows had the same director, concept, characters with similar occupations, similar name for the main female lead, and even timeslot. In addition, Jeff Greenstein, one of the head writers of the Fox series who also worked on Will & Grace with Kohan and Mutchnick, has claimed they were big fans of the show.

Broadcast

Partners aired concurrently in Canada on City via simultaneous substitution of the CBS broadcast.

The complete series was shown on DSTV's M-Net in South Africa from November 2012.

It was later broadcast by HBO Comedy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia from March 2013, Zee Cafe in India from October 2013, and TVNZ's TV2 in New Zealand from November 27, 2013, late-night.

The Nine Network in Australia were going to air the series prior to cancellation for their late 2012 to early 2013 season, however delayed the complete series for burning off until December 30, 2013, late-night also airing on Thursdays. Also captioning was converted to teletext subtitling by AI Media, which are made available due to ACMA rules – unlike New Zealand and other countries that have very limited legislated broadcasting rules. The series was preempted during the first week of February 2014.

References

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