Nip/Tuck

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Nip/Tuck
The Nip/Tuck title card.
Format	Medical drama
Created by	Ryan Murphy
Starring	Dylan Walsh Julian McMahon John Hensley Joely Richardson Valerie Cruz Roma Maffia Bruno Campos Kelly Carlson Jessalyn Gilsig
Opening theme	"A Perfect Lie" by The Engine Room
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	87 (List of episodes)
Production
Location(s)	Hollywood, California[1]
Running time	42-65 minutes per episode (season premieres sometimes longer)
Broadcast
Original channel	FX Networks
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV)
Original run	July 22, 2003 – present
External links
Official website

Nip/Tuck is an American television drama series created by Ryan Murphy and broadcast on FX Networks. The show is set at the McNamara/Troy plastic surgery practice, and follows the professional and personal lives of its owners, Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy (played by Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon respectively). The first four seasons of the show were set in Miami, but the characters relocated to Los Angeles for the fifth and sixth season.

The show is known for its graphic depictions of sex, violence and surgical operations.^[2]

Overview

In its debut season, Nip/Tuck was the highest-rated new series on American basic cable, and the highest rated basic cable series of all time for the 18-49 and 25-54 age demographics. The fourth season of the series premiered on September 5, 2006, on FX Networks.^[3] The fourth season DVD was released in North America on September 4, 2007; The fifth and longest season premiered on October 30, 2007^[4]. The show inspired the creation of the plastic surgery reality show Dr. 90210.^[5]

The remaining eight unaired episodes of season five premiered January 6, 2009 in the U.S., and will premiere in the UK in November 2009. Another 19 episodes were picked up by FX, and will be split into two halves airing from both October 14, 2009^[6] and from a later date (likely fall 2010 or early 2011^[7]), marking the end of the series with an even 100 episodes.^[8] Ryan Murphy will remain as a showrunner throughout the final episodes. Nip/Tuck finished filming its 100th and final episode on June 12, 2009, without attendance of creator Ryan Murphy^[9], who at the time was in India scouting locations for his upcoming film version of the memoir Eat, Pray, Love.

Characters and cast

Main cast

Major supporting characters

Major recurring characters

Episodes

Main crew

• Michael M. Robin
• Elodie Keene (10 episodes, 2003-2007)
• Ryan Murphy (8 episodes, 2003-2006)
• Charles Haid (8 episodes, 2006-2008)
• Craig Zisk (6 episodes, 2003-2008)
• Nelson McCormick (4 episodes, 2003-2006)
• Richard Levine (4 episodes, 2006-2009)
• Jamie Babbit (3 episodes, 2003-2004)
• Greer Shephard (3 episodes, 2004-2005)
• Sean Jablonski (3 episodes, 2006-2008)
• Brad Falchuk (3 episodes, 2007-2009)
• Scott Brazil (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
• Jeremy Podeswa (2 episodes, 2005)
• Lynnie Greene (2 episodes, 2006-2009)
• Dirk Craft (2 episodes, 2008-2009)
• Jennifer Salt (15 episodes, 2003-2009)
• Sean Jablonski (13 episodes, 2003-2008)
• Lynnie Greene (13 episodes, 2003-2007)
• Richard Levine
• Hank Chilton

Controversy

The Parents Television Council (PTC) has criticized the show.^[10] The show is shown at a late hour with multiple 'Viewer Discretion Advised' warnings between every commercial break. A particular scene involving a foursome pushed the PTC into starting a campaign to get the show taken off the air by writing to the sponsors of the show and threatening to boycott their products.^[11][12] Another scene the PTC criticized depicted a funeral home worker removing and assembling body parts from dead women, including his sister's head, then sewing them together to make "the ideal woman." The PTC President described it in a decency hearing as "incestuous necrophilia."^[13] More recently, the PTC took issue with an episode featuring a woman, whose mother and sister died of breast cancer, performing a mastectomy on herself using an electric turkey carving knife in the middle of the McNamara/Troy lobby.

Awards and nominations

• Emmy Awards (2009):
  • Nominated - Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special
  • Nominated - Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic).

• Emmy Awards (2008):
  • Nominated - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (Sharon Gless)
  • Nominated - Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Oliver Platt)

• Emmy Awards (2007):
  • Nominated - Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special

• Emmy Awards (2006):
  • Nominated - Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series
  • Nominated - Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special
  • Nominated - Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic).

• Golden Globe Awards (2005):
  • Won - Best Television Series - Drama.
  • Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama (Julian McMahon)
  • Nominated - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama (Joely Richardson).

• Emmy Awards (2005):
  • Nominated - Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
  • Nominated - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (Jill Clayburgh)
  • Nominated - Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special
  • Nominated - Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic).

• Golden Globe Awards (2004):
  • Nominated - Best Television Series - Drama
  • Nominated - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama (Joely Richardson).

• Emmy Awards (2004):
  • Won - Outstanding Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Prosthetic).
  • Nominated - Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
  • Nominated - Outstanding Main Title Design
  • Nominated - Outstanding Main Title Theme Music
  • Nominated - Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic).

Real-life basis for surgeries

Series creator Ryan Murphy has stated that the medical cases featured on the show are "90 percent based on fact".^[14]

U.S. television ratings

Viewer numbers (based on average total viewers per episode) of Nip/Tuck on FX.

Nip/Tuck became an instant basic cable hit from its 2003 series premiere.

For its third season, FX aired Nip/Tuck solely in the fall of 2005, instead of during the summer season like the two years prior. John Landgraf, president of FX, stated that such a move was a "huge risk" since it stacked up "against the full barrage of fall network competition."^[17] Despite some critical backlash on its third season, like the grade of D+ from Entertainment Weekly,^[24] the story arc involving The Carver attracted an audience to the series larger than any season before, culminating in a December 20, 2005 two-hour season finale, entitled Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, which became the most-watched scripted program in the history of the FX network.

Including Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, three episodes of Nip/Tuck rank as the three most-watched scripted programs ever on FX. The second season finale, entitled Joan Rivers, which aired on October 5, 2004, drew 5.2 million viewers. It was then eclipsed on September 20, 2005 when the third season premiere, entitled Momma Boone, drew roughly 5.3 million viewers. Exactly three months later on December 20, 2005, the aforementioned third season finale, entitled Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, drew 5.7 million viewers. Of those 5.7 million viewers, 3.9 million viewers were in the 18-49 age group demographic, "making the finale the No. 1 episode among the key advertising demographic of any cable series in 2005. It's also the largest demographic number for any single telecast in the network's history,"^[17] according to Zap2It.

According to the September 8, 2006 Mediaweek column The Programming Insider, "the fourth season-premiere on Tuesday, September 5, 2006, from 10-11:10 pm averaged a stellar 4.8 million total viewers and 3.4 million adults 18-49, building over its season three average by 25 percent and 26 percent, respectively. Nip/Tuck's performance among adults 18-49 ranks as basic cable’s top-rated season-premiere in the demo for 2006, as of September 8, 2006."^[18]

References

External links

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