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Originally titled The Dad, the half-hour ABC sitcom According to Jim starred Jim Belushi as the title character, a middle-aged husband and father who found himself literally surrounded by women. Having long ago learned to adopt the least line of resistance, Jim was eternally acquiescent to his wife, Cheryl (Courtney Thorne-Smith), and an overgrown kid at heart to his sister-in-law, Dana (Kimberly Williams) and his three children -- Ruby (Taylor Atelian), Gracie (Billi Bruno) and Kyle (Conner Rayburn). The laughs arose whenever Jim tried to exercise some macho-man authority, only to be figuratively (and sometimes literally) shouted down by the feminist majority in his household. Slated to debut on September 26, 2001, According to Jim was moved to October 3 due to late-breaking news events. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Credit

Andy Cadiff - Director, Jonathan Stark - Executive Producer, Tracy Newman - Executive Producer, Marc Gurvitz - Executive Producer, Suzanne Bukinik - Executive Producer, Jonathan Wolff - Composer (Music Score), Jonathan Stark - Screenwriter, Tracy Newman - Screenwriter

Episodes

According to Jim: Season 01 (2001)
  • Pilot Episode
  • No N.
  • The Cat Came Back
  • Anniversary
  • Unruly Spirits
  • The Crush
  • Cheryl's Old Flame
  • The Turkey Bowl
  • Andy's Girlfriend
  • An According to Jiminy Christmas
  • Bad Word
  • Model Behavior
  • The Money
  • Blowup
  • Racquetball
  • Under Pressure
  • Date Night
  • Birthday Boys
  • The Receipt
  • Old Friends
  • Cheryl's Day Off
  • No Surprises
According to Jim: Season 02 (2002)
  • The Importance of Being Jim
  • Cars and Chicks
  • The Baby Monitor
  • The Pizza Boy
  • The Closet
  • Punch and Ruby
  • The Bachelor
  • Father Disfigure
  • Thanksgiving Confidential
  • The Christmas Party
  • The Brother-in-Law
  • Moral Dilemma
  • You Gotta Love Somebody
  • The Smell of Success
  • Slumber Party
  • The Ring
  • Wonder Woman
  • The Pass
  • Dana Gets Fired
  • Bo Diddley
  • Deal with the Devlins
  • The Helmet
  • No Harm, No Fowl
  • About a Girl
  • Mom's Boyfriend
  • Vegas, Baby
According to Jim: Season 03 (2003)
  • The Errand
  • The Packer Ball
  • We Have a Bingo
  • Getting to Know You
  • The Lemonade Stand
  • ABC's & 123's
  • Dana Dates Jim
  • Scary Movie
  • The Imaginary Friend
  • Paintball
  • The Empty Gesture
  • Rules of Engagement
  • Secret Santa
  • House for Sale
  • Dana Dates the Reverend
  • The Best Man
  • Cheryl Sings
  • When You Wish to Be a Star, Part I
  • When You Wish to Be a Star, Part II
  • No Crime, but Punishment
  • The Baby
  • Who's the Boss?
  • The Truck
  • The Toilet
  • Trashed
  • The Marriage Bank
  • Everyone Gets Dumped
  • The Swimming Pool
  • A Vast Difference
According to Jim: Season 04 (2004)
  • A Hole in One
  • The Effort
  • The Grill
  • The Garage Door
  • Dress to Kill Me
  • Father-Daughter Dance
  • Plot Twist
  • The Hunters
  • Poking the Bear
  • Stalking Santa
  • Sympathy from the Devlins
  • The Nanny-Cam
  • The Jealous Husband
  • A Crying Shame
  • Guess Who's Cooking Your Dinner?
  • The Wedding Dress
  • The Mustache
  • Shall We Dance?
  • Take My Wife, Please
  • Spelling Bee
  • Kentucky Fried Beltzman
  • The Clock
  • The Competition
  • The Bachelorette Party
  • Geronimo Jim
  • The Scrapbook
  • Wedding Bell Blues
According to Jim: Season 05 (2005)
  • Foul Ball
  • The Tale of the Tape
  • Charity Begins at Hef's
  • The Race
  • Anec-Don'ts
  • The Chick Whisperer
  • James and the Annoying Peach
  • The Dream
  • Lean on Me
  • The Gift of the Maggie
  • Sex Ed Fred
  • Renewing Vows
  • The Stick
  • Mr. Right
  • Get Your Freak On
  • The Grumpy Guy
  • Polite Jim
  • Daddy Dearest
  • The Thin Green Line
  • Jim's Best Friend
  • Belaboring the Point
According to Jim: Season 06 (2007)
  • The Punch
  • The Flannelsexual
  • Guinea Pygmalion
  • Hoosier Daddy
  • Good Grief
  • All the Rage
  • Cheryl Gone Wild
  • Deliverance
  • Dino-mite
  • Separate Ways
  • In Case of Jimergency
  • Coach Jim
  • The At-bat
  • What Lies Beneath
  • The Grill II
  • Devlin in Disguise
  • Any Man of Mine
  • Jim's Birthday
According to Jim: Season 07 (2008)
  • Jim Almighty
  • The Hot Wife
  • Safety Last
  • The Perfect Fight
  • Cheryl Goes to Florida
  • Ruby's First Date
  • Period Peace
  • The Rendezvous
  • Goodwill Hunting
  • All Dolled Up
  • Pregnancy Brain
  • The Gift Certificate
  • I Drink Your Milkshake
  • The Chaperone
  • The Six Week Curse
  • The Cheater
According to Jim: Season 08 (2008)

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According to Jim
ATJcast.jpg
The cast of According to Jim
Format Sitcom
Created by Tracy Newman
Jonathan Stark
Starring James Belushi
Courtney Thorne-Smith
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Larry Joe Campbell
Taylor Atelian
Billi Bruno
Conner Rayburn
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 8
No. of episodes 182 (List of episodes)
Production
Camera setup Multi-camera setup
Running time 22 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Picture format 480i (SDTV),
720p (HDTV)
Original run October 3, 2001 (2001-10-03) – June 2, 2009 (2009-06-02)

According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 3, 2001 to June 2, 2009.

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Synopsis

Jim is an abrasive but lovable suburban father. Much like his real life counterpart, Jim's character is noted as a fan of blues music, as well as the Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bulls and the Chicago Blackhawks. Together with his wife Cheryl, whose middle name is Mabel, they have three children, daughters Ruby and Gracie and son Kyle. In the seventh season they become parents of a pair of twins Jonathan and Gordon.

Jim often finds himself in messy situations because his laziness inclines him to search for alternative ways of doing things with least effort. While Cheryl's brother Andy may be Jim's best friend, her sister Dana frequently teams up with Cheryl against Jim. He also prefers to lie to Cheryl and Dana to do his own activities but they end up backfiring on him. He hates losing to women (e.g. Hot Dog Eating Contests, Hamburger Eating Contests, Pizza Eating Contests, Pot Pie Eating Contests), especially if Cheryl or Dana find out. He doesn't like people interrupting him when he talks, so he speaks over them to shut them up. Jim often makes an example of Andy, who doesn't have a girlfriend.

History

The show first aired following the surprise hit comedy My Wife and Kids and quickly developed an audience of its own. For its second season ABC placed it on its revitalized Tuesday line-up, which also included John Ritter's 8 Simple Rules, Bonnie Hunt's Life with Bonnie and Sara Rue's Less Than Perfect. Week by week, the show attracted more and more viewers, becoming ABC's second most watched sitcom. The show performed so well that the network made a risky move: putting Jim opposite the NBC juggernaut Frasier. Although Jim did not beat the competition, it performed well enough to secure itself that spot on the 2003 fall schedule.

On May 15, 2007, it was announced that According to Jim would not be renewed for another season. ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson said, "We are talking to the studio to see if there's something financially, a deal that would make sense for us".[1] But on June 27, 2007, ABC renewed the show for a seventh season with 18 episodes.[2][3]

According to Jim returned to ABC's schedule on Tuesday January 1, 2008 with two episodes at 9 pm and 9:30 pm. After that, the series moved to its regular time slot at 8 pm. Despite the writer's strike, ABC announced that the show would produce all 18 episodes ordered for this season.[4]

On February 27, 2008, it was reported that ABC was close to renewing According to Jim for an eighth season.[5] On May 13, 2008, ABC officially renewed the series and season eight began airing on December 2, 2008.[6] Kimberly Williams-Paisley left the show's regular cast at the beginning of season eight,[7] making only a guest appearance in the season finale.

In December 2008, co-star Larry Joe Campbell said that the sets had been destroyed, indicating that the series was cancelled, but that a series finale had been recorded.[8] After the first six episodes of Season 8 all aired in December, According to Jim returned to ABC's schedule on April 14, 2009 for the final 12 episodes.[9] The series finale of According to Jim aired on June 2, 2009 on ABC, and was titled "Jim Burns in Hell".

Cast

Co-starring
  • Mitch Rouse – Ryan Gibson (Seasons 4–6, guest season 8)
  • Mo Collins – Emily (Seasons 7–8)
  • Jackie Debatin – Mandy (Season 8)

Episodes

Main article: List of According to Jim episodes

DVD releases

Lionsgate Home Entertainment (under license from ABC Studios) has released the first five seasons on DVD in Region 1.

DVD Name Ep# Release Date
The Complete First Season 22 October 21, 2008 (2008-10-21)
The Complete Second Season 28 May 4, 2010 (2010-05-04)
The Complete Third Season 29 May 3, 2011
The Complete Fourth Season 27 July 5, 2011
The Complete Fifth Season 22 October 4, 2011
The Complete Sixth Season 18 TBA 2012
The Complete Seventh Season TBA 2012
The Complete Eighth Season TBA 2012/2013

U.S. television ratings

Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of According to Jim on ABC.

Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps.

Season Season premiere Season finale TV season Ranking Viewers (in millions)
1st October 3, 2001 May 15, 2002 2001–2002 #55[10] 10.0[10]
2nd October 1, 2002 May 20, 2003 2002–2003 #51[11] 10.3[11]
3rd September 23, 2003 May 25, 2004 2003–2004 #51[12] 9.9[12]
4th September 21, 2004 May 17, 2005 2004–2005 #44[13] 10.0[13]
5th September 20, 2005 May 2, 2006 2005–2006 #90[14] 6.7[14]
6th January 3, 2007 May 16, 2007 2006–2007 #90[15] 6.3[15]
7th January 1, 2008 May 27, 2008 2007–2008 #146[16] 5.3[16]
8th December 2, 2008 June 2, 2009 2008–2009 #104[17] 5.6[17]

Weekly rankings of According to Jim, Season 8 on ABC.

Episode # Title Air Date Timeslot Viewers (m)
1 "The Blankie" December 2, 2008 Tuesday 9:00 6.15[18]
2 "The New Best Friend" December 2, 2008 Tuesday 9:30 5.51[19]
3 "Jamie McFame" December 9, 2008 Tuesday 9:00 5.05[20]
4 "Andy's Proposal" December 9, 2008 Tuesday 9:30 5.34[20]
5 "Two for the Money" December 16, 2008 Tuesday 9:00 5.13[21]
6 "Cabin Boys" December 30, 2008 Tuesday 9:30 3.77[22]
7 "The Ego Boost" April 14, 2009 Tuesday 8:00 4.70[23]
8 "The Yoga Bear" April 14, 2009 Tuesday 8:30 4.25[23]
9 "Kyle's Crush" April 21, 2009 Tuesday 8:00 3.73[24]
10 "The Meaningful Gift" April 21, 2009 Tuesday 8:30 3.71[24]
11 "The Daddy Way" April 28, 2009 Tuesday 8:00 3.43[25]
12 "Physical Therapy" April 28, 2009 Tuesday 8:30 3.71[25]
13 "The Cooler One" May 12, 2009 Tuesday 8:00 3.94[26]
14 "Happy Jim" May 12, 2009 Tuesday 8:30 3.90[26]
15 "King of the Nerds" May 26, 2009 Tuesday 8:00 3.87[27]
16 "I Hate the High Road" May 26, 2009 Tuesday 8:30 3.87[27]
17 "Diamonds are a Ghoul's Best Friend" June 2, 2009 Tuesday 8:00 4.10[28]
18 "Heaven Opposed to Hell" June 2, 2009 Tuesday 8:30 4.10[28]

Syndication

Notes

  1. ^ 2007 Cancelled Shows: ABC Cuts Some Beloved Series[dead link], TV Series Finale, May 15, 2007
  2. ^ ABC Renews "According to Jim", TV Week, June 27, 2007
  3. ^ ABC renews "According to Jim"[dead link], Yahoo!, June 28, 2007
  4. ^ Breaking News – 'Jim' to Finish Out Season for ABC | TheFutonCritic.com
  5. ^ Ausiello on Heroes, "Bubble Show" Mystery, Lost and More! – Ask Ausiello | TVGuide.com[dead link]
  6. ^ Breaking News – ABC UNVEILS 2008–09 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE | TheFutonCritic.com
  7. ^ Breaking News – ABC Sets Return Date for "Jim," End Date for "Boston" | TheFutonCritic.com
  8. ^ According to Jim: ABC Sitcom Ending After Eight Years, No Season Nine | TV Series Finale
  9. ^ Breaking News – According to Jim to Return to ABC Tuesdays | TheFutonCritic.com
  10. ^ a b "How did your favorite show rate?". USA Today. May 28, 2002. http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/2002/2002-05-28-year-end-chart.htm. Retrieved January 9, 2010. 
  11. ^ a b "Rank And File". Entertainment Weekly Published in issue No. 713 Jun 06, 2003. June 6, 2003. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,455439,00.html. 
  12. ^ a b "I. T. R. S. Ranking Report: 01 Thru 210". ABC Medianet. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070930171419/http://www.abcmedianet.com/Web/progcal/dispDNR.aspx?id=060204_11. Retrieved May 25, 2007. 
  13. ^ a b "Primetime series". The Hollywood Reporter (Nielsen Business Media). May 27, 2005. Archived from the original on January 26, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5n54XbKha. Retrieved September 12, 2009. 
  14. ^ a b "Series". The Hollywood Reporter (Nielsen Business Media). May 26, 2006. Archived from the original on July 16, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080716115645/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002576393. Retrieved July 3, 2009. 
  15. ^ a b "2006–07 primetime wrap". The Hollywood Reporter (Nielsen Business Media). May 25, 2007. Archived from the original on April 19, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080419021013/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/features/e3ifbfdd1bcb53266ad8d9a71cad261604f?pn=2. Retrieved July 3, 2009. 
  16. ^ a b "Season Program Rankings from 09/24/07 through 05/25/08". ABC Medianet. May 28, 2008. http://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=052808_06. Retrieved July 3, 2009. 
  17. ^ a b "Season Program Rankings from 09/22/08 through 05/17/09". ABC Medianet. May 19, 2009. Archived from the original on June 23, 2009. http://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=051909_05. Retrieved July 3, 2009. 
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