Central Park West (TV series)

• Mädchen Amick: Carrie Fairchild
• John Barrowman: Peter Fairchild
• Melissa Errico: Alex Bartoli
• Lauren Hutton: Linda Fairchild
• Justin Lazard: Gil Chase
• Michael Michele: Nikki Sheridan
• Kylie Travis: Rachel Dennis
• Mariel Hemingway: Stephanie Wells

• Tom Verica: Mark Merill
• Raquel Welch: Dianna Brock ( Episode 14-21 )
• Gerald McRaney: Adam Brock ( Episode 14-21 )

Central Park West is an American soap opera that was produced from 1995 to 1996.

Action

Stephanie Wells gets a job as editor in chief of a rather weak circulation lifestyle magazine called communiqué offered in Manhattan, where she moves with her husband Mark, an unsuccessful writer.

Allen Rush, the owner of the magazine, calls for bewältigtem move stress an increase in sales and kicking his stepdaughter Carrie who is employed there as an editor. Stephanie recruits from the British Vogue fashion editor Rachel Dennis to upgrade the magazine something, but without knowing that she and Carrie know each other and are friends. Carrie is now trying to take revenge on Stephanie and does approached her husband Mark.

Genesis

Was invented, named after the Avenue Central Park West series by Darren Star, the creator of many hit shows such as Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place.

After his departure in 1995 as a television writer from Melrose Place, he designed a new series concept without Aaron Spelling and shifted the venue on the east coast of America, to Manhattan on Central Park. Central Park West was thus born and filming began in Spring 1995.

The U.S. broadcaster CBS immediately ordered 13 episodes of the prime-time and felt confirmed when the pilot episode was the most watched show of the day. But even with the third episode plunged the audience from huge and CBS moved to nine episodes the emergency brake. Nevertheless, it held on to the series and ordered eight more episodes. The episodes 10-13 were not aired on CBS and it only returned in June 1996 with the remaining episodes, a change in the cast and the new short title CPW on the air back. But this time a flop was pre-programmed and CBS presented the series finally after a 21 episode.

Nominations

Although the show was canceled after only 21 episodes because the audience interest was limited, she was nominated twice for an Emmy Award in 1996.