Guys with Kids

Guys with Kids is an American comedy series from Jimmy Fallon, Charlie Grandy and Amy Ozols about three grown men who raise together with their partners their babies in a modern environment. It was produced by Universal Television in association with Charlie Grandy Productions for the U.S. television network NBC and includes a season with 17 episodes. The first broadcast in the United States took place on 12 September 2012 at NBC, while the German -language broadcasting on September 15, 2013 began at Comedy Central Germany.

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Guys with Kids is about three neighbors and friends in their thirties who are all just become a father, even though they themselves are still quite childish. The successful lawyer Chris is recently divorced and has therefore despite his great self-confidence problems towards women. In addition, he shares custody of his nine -month-old son with his ex Gary, a former successful real estate broker and now a full- time father of four children, takes home the domestic tasks. The third is Nick, to obtain an advertising film director who tries his job, his marriage and two children under one roof.

Production

Charlie Grandy, in October 2011, he was still untitled series project the NBC ago, after Grandy along with Jimmy Fallon and Amy Ozols wrote a screenplay. The NBC announced in January 2013 the green light for the production of a pilot episode. As a director for the pilot episode Scott Ellis was hired, followed by the signing of Zach Cregger as the first leading man. In March 2012, Jamie -Lynn Sigler, Anthony Anderson, Jesse Bradford, Tempestt Bledsoe and Courtney Henggeler more lead roles were given. A few days after the signing of Courtney Henggeler it was end of March 2012 replaced by Sara Rue. In May 2012, NBC announced under the title Guys with Kids a first season with 13 episodes in order. A month later, Sara Rue was in turn replaced by Erinn Hayes as Rue's role in the series Malibu Country of ABC took precedence.

After the NBC had increased in November 2012, the number of episode of the first season from 13 to 17, he gave in May 2013, the setting of the series known.

Instrumentation and synchronization

The German synchronization was created by a dialogue book by Florian Kramer and dialogue, directed by Pierre Peters - Arnolds by the synchronous Cinephon film production company GmbH in Berlin.

Broadcast

Following the series order in May 2012, NBC announced a first for the September 12, 2012 for a new edition of America's Got Talent. The preview was seen by 6.25 million viewers, which led to a target rating of 2.2. The subsequent time slot premiere two weeks later, now without an established pre-program coincided with about 4.8 million and a rating of 1.6 sobering. Ratings of the subsequent episodes reached with the broadcast of 21 November 2012, only 3.47 million viewers (rating of 1.1 ) a temporary low. The first season finale, which also represents the series finale, was shown on 27 February 2013. Even if the odds had improved somewhat in the meantime, they remained to the end of the broadcast on a weak level.

In May 2013 NBC introduced the series one after one season and 17 episodes.

In Germany the free channels Comedy Central series showed up on the Christmas episode of 15 September to 1 December 2013. These celebrated its premiere in Germany on 17 February 2014 VIVA.

Episode List

Reception

The series received generally negative criticism, and has in a Metacritic Metascore of 38/100 based on 25 reviews. One of the few good reviews came from Glenn Garvin of the Miami Herald, who wrote that " Guys with kids a perfect combination of witty dialogue and slapstick " possess. Matt Zoller Seitz wrote of the New York magazine that he " would expect Guys with kids to hate, his hostility [but] faded after about five minutes it became clear that the show was not terrible ." The criticism in Time magazine James Poniewozik of judged the series as " a cheap, stale, stereotyped addicted sitcom where no one, male or female, good or particularly sympathetic comes over, except maybe the babies ."

The NAACP Image Awards 2013 Anthony Anderson was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. The series received at the People's Choice Awards 2013 Nomination for Best New Comedy Series, but lost final against another comedy series from NBC, The New Normal.