Mad About You


Mad About You is an American television sitcom starring Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a married couple in New York City as they navigate life together. In later seasons, the couple has a daughter.
It initially aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 24, 1999, winning numerous awards including four Golden Globe Awards and twelve Primetime Emmy Awards. In its final season, the show was dropped from its primetime slot, leading to a sharp decrease in viewership, and subsequently cancelled.
On March 6, 2019, a limited season 8 revival was picked up by Spectrum Originals for 12 episodes. Reiser and Hunt reprised their roles. The revival showed the couple as new empty nesters whose daughter was starting college at NYU. The events of the original series' finale, which showed the events of the next twenty years of the couple's lives, were retconned for the revival.

Plot

The series focuses mainly on newlyweds Paul Buchman, a documentary filmmaker, and Jamie Stemple Buchman, a public relations specialist, as they deal with everything from humorous daily minutiae to major struggles. Near the end of the show's run, they have a baby daughter, whom they name Mabel. They live in Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan. The 2019 limited series focuses on Paul and Jamie as empty nesters as Mabel starts college at New York University, five blocks away.

Production

Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser were paid $1 million per episode for the last season. However, ratings fell sharply that year as the series was shuffled away from its Tuesday slot to prop up a fledgling Monday night line-up of comedies on NBC.
The show's theme song, "Final Frontier", was composed by Reiser and Don Was. It was originally performed by Andrew Gold, with a later version covered by Anita Baker, and finally Lyle Lovett and Kecia Lewis, who both had minor acting roles in the series.
Exterior views of buildings were filmed in Manhattan. Paul and Jamie's New York City Apartment was located at 5th Avenue and 12th Street. The Old Town Bar and Restaurant on 45 E. 18th Street was used for the fictional Riff's Restaurant in the series.

Revival

In April 2018, it was announced that Sony Pictures Television would revive the show with the two lead actors reprising their roles, though Reiser expressed doubt about it in July 2018. In September 2018, Reiser stated that the revival was still on the table, but that "the studio needs to figure out if they know how to do it."
On March 6, 2019, the series was revived for an eighth season by Spectrum Originals, described as a 12-episode limited series, with Reiser and Hunt confirmed to reprise their roles. On September 5, 2019, it was announced that the first six episodes of the revival would premiere on November 20, 2019, and another six episodes would be released on December 18, 2019. The series is available in a traditional manner in Canada, with its episodes airing on the CTV Comedy Channel.
Many of the main and recurring cast members reprised their roles for the revival, which ignored the events of the season 7 finale. The most notable former main cast member not to reprise her role was Leila Kenzle, who played Jamie's best friend, Fran Devanow. Kenzle retired from acting in 2003 and became a psychotherapist. Fran's husband, Mark, does return in the revival, but the character is now remarried.

Cast and characters

Original run (1992–1999)

Main

Main

  • Paul Reiser as Paul Buchman
  • Helen Hunt as Jamie Buchman
  • Anne Ramsay as Lisa Stemple, Jamie's older sister
  • John Pankow as Ira Buchman, Paul's cousin
  • Abby Quinn as Mabel Buchman, Paul and Jamie's daughter
  • Richard Kind as Dr. Mark Devanow
  • Kecia Lewis as Tonya, Mark's new wife
  • Antoinette LaVecchia as Lucia Francavella, Ira's girlfriend then fiancée

    Returning

  • Cynthia Harris as Sylvia Buchman, Paul's mother
  • Jeff Garlin as Marvin
  • Jerry Adler as Mr. Wicker
  • Carol Burnett as Theresa Stemple, Jamie's mother
  • Mo Gaffney as Dr. Sheila Kleinman, psychiatrist

    Recurring

  • Asif Ali as Rishi
  • Sofia Hasmik as Ashta
  • Makena Lei Gordon as Shannon
  • Kimia Behpoornia as Yasmeen

    Other

  • Cloris Leachman as Mrs. Mandelbaum, one of Jamie's therapy patients
  • Jason Alexander as himself
  • Blake Cooper Griffin as Aaron
  • Omar Adam as Craig
  • Jennifer Westfeldt as Donna Lawson
  • Jean Smart as Chelsea Stevens-Kobolakis
  • Isaac Cheung as Waiter
  • Joe Gillette as Vincent Maslin
  • Christina Marie Karis as Mara Buckland
  • Dylan Mattina as a New York City pedestrian
  • Layla Mohammadi as Meg Martin
  • Thomas Daniel Smith as Mark Buckland