letterten 2006-07 fall preview | fox

Fox Thursday 8:30pm

debuts September 7, 8:30pm

concept from	Happy Hour...free buffalo wings ...half-priced drinks...and the time between the end of one relationship and the start of another. Straight arrow Henry Beckman (John Sloan, The OH in Ohio) had it all: a great job, a perfect girlfriend and a sweet apartment. He was a big fish in the small pond of Amsterdam, Missouri. And then he let Heather (Brooke D'Orsay, King's Ransom) talk him into moving to Chicago to work in her family business, where it all went wrong. In the space of one morning, Henry gets dumped by Heather, the girl he thought was the one, learns he can no longer work for Heather's uncle, and gets kicked out of their apartment. It's in this vulnerable state that he meets his new roommate, a vain, flashy, loveable rogue named Larry Cone (Lex Medlin, Still Standing).
stars	John Sloan, Lex Medlin, Nat Faxon, Jamie Denbo, Beth Lacke, Brooke D'Orsay
producers	Jackie Filgo, Jeff Filgo, Tom Werner, Eric Gold, Jimmy Miller
studio	Warner Bros. Television, Werner-Gold-Miller

my take

Let's just say I didn't expect this to live up to its pedigree (as Fox is billing it: from the producers of That '70s Show) in any way at all. Aside from Beth Lacke being beautiful, the clips were pretty damn funny if you like double entendres. Yes, this area has been mined already, but I was very pleasantly surprised. That being said, I can easily see many folks finding the anticipated humor too crude. I don't expect it to last.