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This NBC movie will feature an
unflinching glimpse behind the scenes of the troubled and turbulent
sexy 1970s series that titillated audiences as it instantly bounced
to the top of the television ratings. Joyce DeWitt, who portrayed
Janet Wood in the original series, guest-stars in the insider’s look
at the unfunny side of comedic success on network television.
-- NBC
Media Village
The sitcom's dirty laundry drives
this 2003 tattletale, which features comments by cast member Joyce
DeWitt.
Chronicling the
hit's 1977-84 run, the teleplay pulls no punches in detailing the
backstage strife. Bret Anthony, Jud Tylor and Melanie Deanne Moore
play John Ritter, Suzanne Somers and DeWitt, who go from cozy
costars to off-screen foes, as Somers' wily manager (Wallace Langham)
and husband (Christopher Shyer) angle to cash in on her rising star.
And as tempers flare between the trio, ABC honcho Fred Silverman
(Brian Dennehy) jumps ship, amid a rash of lawsuits and cast changes
that proved to be the series' undoing.
-- tvguide.com
A story of the behind-the-scenes
betrayals and rivalries of the popular 1970s sitcom. Joyce DeWitt
hosts.
-- tvguide.ca
'Three's
Company', the comedy centered on two attractive, young women who
made the rent on their Santa Monica beach-side apartment by taking
in a third roommate - a male forced to pretend he's gay to fool the
landlords and the girls' parents. The series rocketed in the ratings
as an instant hit - despite the outcry of critics and moralists -
who objected to the double-entendres and quasi-sexual hijinks on the
show. However, the true behind-the-scenes story of 'Three's Company'
will expose a once idyllic workplace that deteriorated into a
battleground beset by business dealings, contact disputes, cast
rivalries, clashes between producers and network executives and
finally, a round of cast replacements which hastened the demise of
the show.
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