Sin City Saints

Sin City Saints is an American sitcom television series starring Malin Åkerman, Andrew Santino, and Keith Powers. It debuted on Yahoo! Screen on March 23, 2015. Its eight-episode first season was directed by Bryan Gordon and Fred Savage. The series follows a fictional Las Vegas basketball franchise.
Its executive producers are Bryan Gordon, Mike Tollin, and Chris Case. The series ended following Yahoo! Screen's closure due to low viewership in the following year.

Premise

Sin City Saints follows "wealthy tech businessman Jake Tullus, the unpredictable and charismatic owner of Vegas’ new professional basketball franchise, the Sin City Saints."

Cast

Starring

Malin Åkerman as Dusty Halford
Andrew Santino as Jake Tullus
Keith Powers as LaDarius Pope
Justin Chon as Byron Summers
B.K. Cannon as Melissa Stanton
Rick Fox as Sam Johnson
Tom Arnold as Kevin Freeman

Recurring

Ryan Cartwright as Wade Leatherbee
Toby Huss as Coach Doug
Paul Duke as Artahk Sundovk
Baron Davis as Billy Crane
Aaron Takahashi as Henry
Chris Gehrt as Todd
Jill Bartlett as Sapphire
Jean Louisa Kelly as Bernice Pope
Michael Liu as Wu Lee
Rosalind Chao as Mrs. Wu
John Salley as Tom
Brendan Jennings as Andy the Mascot

Guest stars

Adam Devine as Matty
Dan Bakkedahl as Dan

Production

Yahoo! Inc. announced its first original long-form programs, the comedies Sin City Saints and Other Space, in April 2014 at the 2014 Digital Content NewFronts. By early October, production on Sin City Saints had begun at The Orleans Hotel and Casino. Eight episodes were released simultaneously on Yahoo! Screen on March 23, 2015.

Reception

Critical

Mike Hale in The New York Times called the show "a comedy less coherent than the halftime scoreboard video at an NBA game", where "lot points and jokes feel as if they came from index cards grabbed at random." Keith Uhlich at The Hollywood Reporter felt the "manic, mostly unfunny half-hour sports comedy" featured "sub-Tracy and Hepburn bickering... that barely elicits a smirk, let alone busts a gut", and called the casting "problematic.... Both Akerman and Santino are irritatingly one-note."

Financial

On October 21, 2015, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman announced during a Q3 Earnings Phone Call that their original programming lineup last spring resulted in a $42 million writeoff, including season six of Community and Other Space.