Mr. Box Office

Mr. Box Office
Genre Sitcom
Created by Byron Allen
Starring Bill Bellamy
Jon Lovitz
Vivica A. Fox
Tim Meadows
Gary Busey
Rick Fox
Essence Atkins
Tony T. Roberts
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 36 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Byron Allen
Scott Satin
Carolyn Folks
Jennifer Lucas
Bill Bellamy
Barry Katz
Camera setup Videotape;
Multi-camera
Running time 19 minutes
Production company(s) Entertainment Studios
Distributor Entertainment Studios
Release
Original network First-run syndication
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original release September 22, 2012 (2012-09-22) – present
External links
Website

Mr. Box Office is an American sitcom that debuted in first-run syndication in the United States on September 22, 2012. Created by Byron Allen and produced by Allen's production company Entertainment Studios, the series (along with The First Family, which debuted the same weekend and is also produced by Entertainment Studios) are the first situation comedies to air in first-run syndication since the 2000 cancellation of Malibu, CA.

Plot

The series centers on movie star Marcus Jackson (Bill Bellamy), who ends up getting sentenced to community service after engaging in an altercation with a paparazzo, forcing Marcus to put his film career on hold. Due to the fact that he has a teacher's license (since he originally aspired to work as a teacher), the judge presiding in his case orders him to serve a six-month stint as a teacher for underprivileged high school kids in Los Angeles' South Central neighborhood. In doing so, Marcus has to deal with his agent Bobby Gold (Jon Lovitz), who constantly attempts to get his client back into film, when he discovers that Marcus has decided that he wants to remain working at the school and help improve his students. Marcus also deals with the mishaps of his best friends and roommates Tony (Tony T. Roberts) and Jamal (Alex Thomas).

Cast

Main cast

Recurring cast

Episodes

Season Episodes Originally aired (U.S. dates)
Season premiere Season finale
1 26 September 23, 2012 (2012-09-23) August 17, 2013 (2013-08-17)
2 TBA November 22, 2013 (2013-11-22) TBA

Production

Mr. Box Office is primarily syndicated to stations affiliated with The CW and MyNetworkTV and to independent stations for broadcast in weekend primetime timeslots. The series will produce a total of 104 episodes, borrowing a similarly-formatted episode order as several sitcoms produced and distributed by Debmar-Mercury, such as Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Anger Management (though the aforementioned Debmar-Mercury produced programs operated under a syndication model where the programs were sold to cable networks with an initial ten-episode order, and obtained an additional order of at least 90 episodes if the series was successful).[1][2] The series, which was sold as part of a two-hour comedy block with The First Family, was initially picked up by stations owned by Tribune Broadcasting, Weigel Broadcasting and CBS Television Stations; by May 2012, the program had been sold to stations covering approximately 85% of all U.S. markets.[3]

Syndication

On April 4, 2013, Centric acquired the cable syndication rights to all past and future episodes of The First Family, along with Mr. Box Office, with both series expected to begin airing on the channel starting April 19, 2013.[4]

In Canada, the series airs on M3.

References

  1. ↑ Bill Bellamy, Jon Lovitz, Vivica A. Fox to Star in Syndicated Sitcom, The Hollywood Reporter, September 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Comedy Series Starring Bill Bellamy Eying 100-Episode Order, Fall Launch, Deadline.com, May 3, 2012.
  3. ↑ Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Clears Syndicated Sitcom Block For Fall ’12 Launch, Deadline.com, May 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ BET Networks Acquires Sitcoms 'The First Family' and 'Mr. Box Office'; Series to Air on Centric, TV by the Numbers, April 4, 2013.

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