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Everybody Hates Chris

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Everybody Hates Chris
GenreSitcom
Created by
Based onTeenage years of Chris Rock
Starring
Narrated byChris Rock
Composer(s)Marcus Miller
Country of originUnited States
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes88 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Production location(s)Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time21–23 minutes
Production company(s)
Release
Original network
Original releaseSeptember 22, 2005 (2005-09-22) –
May 8, 2009 (2009-05-08)
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

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Everybody Hates Chris is an American semi-autobiographical sitcom, originally broadcast on UPN and The CW from September 22, 2005 to May 8, 2009. Based loosely on actor and comedian Chris Rock's personal experiences in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of New York City, during the 1980s (1982 to 1987). However, Rock's real adolescence took place between 1978 and 1984, having been born in 1965.[1][2][3][4][5] The title of the series is a parody of the popular sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. The series stars Tyler James Williams and the main cast made up of Terry Crews, Tichina Arnold, Tequan Richmond, Imani Hakim, Vincent Martella and narrated by an adult Chris Rock.

The series was created by Rock and Ali LeRoi[6] and was originally developed to air on FOX before being passed over.[7] It was then shown on UPN, where it aired its first season on September 22, 2005, but was later moved to The CW, where it aired its remaining three seasons. In 2009, Rock announced that the series' ending suited his own past and he felt it was time to end the story.[8][9][10] It received acclaim from both critics and audience for its writing, directing, humor, tone, and performances of the cast.

Characters[edit]

Main article: List of Everybody Hates Chris characters

Synopsis[edit]

The show is a family sitcom, patterned on Chris Rock's recollection of his teenage years growing up in the 1980s with a wholesome, tight-knit, African-American family, while living in drug-and-gang infested Bedford–Stuyvesant, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and also attending a cross-town, all-white public high school.[3][4][7][10][12]

The real-life Chris Rock provides intermittent narration throughout the show, at times interjecting his young self's thoughts or sometimes simply recounting the situation he's describing.

Chris's family is firmly dominated by strong, loving parents: Julius, a hard-working, frugal laborer who works two jobs while remaining carefully loyal to his wife,[2][11][12] Rochelle, a conscientious and powerful housewife and mother who is fiercely protective of the family, while also being fiercely demanding of all in it, especially eldest son Chris.[2][11][12]

The series starts just after the parents have moved their children "out of the [low-income housing] projects," and into a more-upscale two-story apartment in Brooklyn's Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood—known for its roughness as "Bed-Stuy, do-or-die."[3][12]

Chris is a skinny, nerdy young teen.[2][11] His mother decides to send him to a mostly-white school across town ("two bus rides away") in an ethnic-Italian neighborhood to ensure he gets a better education. The school is slyly named "Corleone Junior High School" (an apparent reference to the fictional Corleone mafia family from the movie The Godfather or its real-life parallel, the Corleonesi).[5][3][12]

Chris finds the new school difficult to adjust to because of social ostracism and the ire of a red-haired bully named Caruso. Ms. Morello, a well-meaning white teacher, treats Chris with naive, condescending assumptions derived from crude racial/ghetto stereotypes. The bright spot in school is Chris's best friend, Greg (played by Vincent Martella)—a smaller but similarly nerdy white kid.[2][4][11]

At home, Chris is often left in charge of his siblings—his younger-but-bigger brother, Drew, and an ornery little sister, Tonya.[3][12] Mother Rochelle usually keeps a firm grip on the family, while their exhausted breadwinner father, Julius, struggles to catch a little sleep between jobs.[12]

Chris interacts with various characters in the neighborhood—diverse personalities based on real people Rock would see as a kid in his community. These personalities include some hoodlums who try to take advantage of him, a demented old homeless man nicknamed Kill Moves, a shrewd, miserly-but-grandfatherly storekeeper named Doc, and Doc's neurotic, paranoid, combat-veteran nephew Monk. For several episodes, an overbearing neighbor lady is played by Whoopi Goldberg, grandmother of the pretty girl next door.

The show—laced with comedy and farce—is primarily about adolescence and family life in inner-city poverty, the determined struggles of good, decent parents to provide a better life and values for their family, and the challenges their children present to them, and to each other.[2]

Main article: List of Everybody Hates Chris episodes
Season Episodes Originally aired
First aired Last aired
1 22 September 22, 2005 May 11, 2006
2 22 October 1, 2006 May 14, 2007
3 22 October 1, 2007 May 18, 2008
4 22 October 3, 2008 May 8, 2009


U.S. broadcast history[edit]

UPN

  • September 22, 2005 – May 11, 2006: Thursdays 8:00 PM/7:00 PM (new)

The CW

  • October 1 – 8, 2006: Sundays 7:00 PM/6:00 PM (new)
  • October 16, 2006 – December 10, 2007: Mondays 8:00 PM/7:00 PM (new)
  • March 2, 2008 – May 18, 2008: Sundays 8:00 PM/7:00 PM (new)
  • October 3, 2008 – May 8, 2009: Fridays 8:00 PM/7:00 PM (new)
  • September 2009 – present: syndication[13]

Nielsen stats[edit]

Season Time Slot (ET/PT) Season Premiere Season Finale TV Season Rank Viewers
(in millions)
1 Thursday 8:00 PM September 22, 2005 May 11, 2006 2005–2006 #120 4.3
2 Sunday 7:00 PM October 1, 2006 October 8, 2006 2006–2007 #137 2.7
Monday 8:00 PM October 16, 2006 May 14, 2007
3 Monday 8:00 PM October 1, 2007 December 10, 2007 2007–2008 #198 2.3
Sunday 8:00 PM March 2, 2008 May 18, 2008
4 Friday 8:00 PM October 3, 2008 May 8, 2009 2008–2009 #176 1.7

Syndication[edit]

The show aired regularly on broadcast TV during the week, and aired on Fox, MyNetworkTV and The CW affiliates. The show started airing on September 7, 2009, on Nick at Nite, becoming the youngest syndicated show on Nickelodeon. The series has since aired on TeenNick, TV One, Up, MTV2, VH1, BET, BET Her, and Fuse. The series currently airs on the free-to-air Bounce TV and Laff networks.

In Canada, the show has aired on the networks YTV and Much. In the UK, the show has aired on Channel 5, Paramount Comedy 1 and now Sky Comedy. In Brazil, the series premiered on RecordTV in October 2006 and, as of 2022, reruns are still regularly broadcast on Sundays due to its immense popularity in the country.

Awards[edit]

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Everybody Hates Chris

Everybody Hates Chris won NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series (for Ali LeRoi), Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series (for Tichina Arnold), and Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series (for Tyler James Williams).[14][15] It has also been nominated for a Golden Globe and three Emmy Awards. In December 2008, Entertainment Weekly listed the Kwanzaa episode from this show as seventh on the magazine's "Must List: 10 Holiday Things We Love."[16]

Home media[edit]

All four seasons of Everybody Hates Chris were released on DVD by Paramount (under the label CBS DVD) in Region 1 and Region 2.[17][18][19][20] The complete series was released on DVD on August 18, 2009.[21]

Streaming[edit]

The series is available to stream on Paramount+, Amazon Prime Video (through Paramount+), Hulu and Peacock, and can be streamed for free on Crackle, CW Seed, ITV X, Pluto TV, and Tubi.[22] The series is often streamed with Season 1 incomplete, but Paramount+ and Peacock now have the complete season set.

The series is also available to be purchased on the iTunes Store, Google TV, YouTube, and Vudu.

In Mexico the series is available to stream on HBO Max.

Reboot[edit]

In March 2021, an animated reboot of the series was announced to be in development with Chris Rock returning as narrator.[23] In July 2021, Sanjay Shah, executive producer and co-showrunner of Central Park, was reported to be writing and producing the reboot.[24] In August 2022, it was reported the animated reboot would be titled Everybody Still Hates Chris.[10] It will be released on Comedy Central and Paramount+.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Chris Rock". Yahoo! Movies. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 "Everybody Hates Chris". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on August 5, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Everybody Hates Chris: Pilot {Series Premiere} (TV)". Paley Center. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates Basketball (TV)". Paley Center for Media. Archived from the original on August 3, 2023. Retrieved August 5, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Stanley, Alessandra (2005-09-22). "A Boy Grows in Brooklyn, With a Voice-Over". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on August 5, 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-05. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ "Museum Of Television & Radio, The: 2006 William S. Paley Television Festival: Everybody Hates Chris {Twenty-Third Annual}". Paley Center for Media. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sepinwall, Alan (September 23, 2005). "Chris Rocks". The Spokesman-Review. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ The CW announces fall schedule Archived 2012-09-20 at the Wayback Machine, Entertainment Weekly, 21 March 2009.
  9. ↑ "Chris Rock Ending 'Everybody Hates Chris' After This Season". enewsi.com. 2009-04-24. Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Milligan, Mercedes (August 2, 2022). "MTV Reanimates Chris Rock's Teen Years in 'Everybody Still Hates Chris'". Animation Magazine. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 Herenda, Devin (February 13, 2022). "17 Years Later, The "Everybody Hates Chris" Cast Is Still Killin' It". BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on June 21, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 "Rants & Reviews - The Futon's First Look: "Everybody Hates Chris" (UPN)". TheFutonCritic.com. July 27, 2005. Archived from the original on August 3, 2023. Retrieved August 5, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  13. ↑ "Breaking News - Award-Winning Series Everybody Hates Chris to Join Nick at Nite's Line-Up, Fall 2009". TheFutonCritic.com. March 3, 2008. Archived from the original on August 3, 2023. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  14. ↑ "Ali LeRoi". Humanitas Prize. Archived from the original on August 22, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  15. ↑ "NAACP Image Awards". CBS News. 2006-02-27. Archived from the original on 2015-02-12. Retrieved 2022-08-21. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  16. ↑ "The Must List: Week of December 14, 2008". Entertainment Weekly. No. 1026. December 19, 2008. p. 68. Archived from the original on August 4, 2021. Retrieved August 22, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  17. ↑ "Everybody Hates Chris - The 1st Season DVD Information". TVShowsOnDVD.com. 2015-09-28. Archived from the original on 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2022-08-22. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  18. ↑ "Everybody Hates Chris - The 2nd Season". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 2008-11-04. Retrieved 2022-08-22. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  19. ↑ "Everybody Hates Chris - The 3rd Season". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 2008-10-14. Retrieved 2022-08-22. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  20. ↑ "Everybody Hates Chris - The 4th Season". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-28. Retrieved 2022-08-22. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  21. ↑ "Everybody Hates Chris: The Complete Series". Amazon. August 18, 2009. Archived from the original on August 22, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  22. ↑ "Everybody Hates Chris | Where to Stream and Watch". Decider. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-31. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  23. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (2021-03-16). "'Everybody Hates Chris' Animated Reboot, 'Shtisel' & 'Panther Baby' Adaptations In Works As CBS Studios Enters New Stage Post-Merger". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on March 20, 2021. Retrieved 2021-03-21. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  24. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (2021-07-26). "'Everybody Hates Chris': Sanjay Shah To Write Animated Reboot In Works At CBS Studios". Deadline. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-26. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

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