Sin City Saints
| Sin City Saints | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Chris Case Bryan Gordon Michael Tollin |
| Directed by | Bryan Gordon Fred Savage |
| Starring | Malin Åkerman Andrew Santino Keith Powers Justin Chon B. K. Cannon Rick Fox Tom Arnold |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Chris Case Bryan Gordon Michael Tollin |
| Producers | Alec Chorches Billy Crawford Dan Kaplow Brendan Finnigan |
| Production location | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Cinematography | Anthony R. Palmieri |
| Editor | Les Butler |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 20-23 minutes[1] |
| Production companies | Mandalay Sports Media Yahoo! Studios |
| Original release | |
| Network | Yahoo! Screen |
| Release | March 23, 2015 |
Sin City Saints is an American sitcom television series starring Malin Åkerman, Andrew Santino, and Keith Powers. It debuted on Yahoo! Screen on March 23, 2015. Its eight-episode first season was directed by Bryan Gordon and Fred Savage. The series follows a fictional Las Vegas basketball franchise.
Its executive producers are Bryan Gordon, Mike Tollin, and Chris Case.[1] The series ended following Yahoo! Screen's closure due to low viewership in the following year.[2]
Premise
Sin City Saints follows "wealthy tech businessman Jake Tullus, the unpredictable and charismatic owner of Vegas’ new professional basketball franchise, the Sin City Saints."[3]
Cast
Starring
- Malin Åkerman as Dusty Halford
- Andrew Santino as Jake Tullus
- Keith Powers as LaDarius Pope
- Justin Chon as Byron Summers
- B.K. Cannon as Melissa Stanton
- Rick Fox as Sam Johnson
- Tom Arnold as Kevin Freeman
Recurring
- Ryan Cartwright as Wade Leatherbee[4] (8 episodes)
- Toby Huss as Coach Doug (8 episodes)
- Paul Duke as Artahk Sundovk (7 episodes)
- Baron Davis as Billy Crane[5] (7 episodes)
- Aaron Takahashi as Henry (6 episodes)
- Chris Gehrt as Todd (6 episodes)
- Jill Bartlett as Sapphire (6 episodes)
- Jean Louisa Kelly as Bernice Pope (5 episodes)
- Michael Liu as Wu Lee (5 episodes)
- Rosalind Chao as Mrs. Wu (5 episodes)
- John Salley as Tom (4 episodes)
- Brendan Jennings as Andy the Mascot[4] (3 episodes)
Guest stars
- Adam Devine as Matty ("You Booze, You Lose")
- Dan Bakkedahl as Dan ("Urine God's Hands Now")
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Fool Monty" | Bryan Gordon | Chris Case | March 23, 2015 | |
League attorney Dusty Halford arrives in Las Vegas to oversee Sin City Saints owner Jake Tullus following the injury of star player LaDarius Pope. Magician-comedian Penn Jillette and standup comic Carrot Top cameo as themselves.[6] | |||||
| 2 | "Smoke and Mirrors" | Bryan Gordon | Chris Case | March 23, 2015 | |
The Saints recruit former star Billy Crane, who now runs a burger franchise. | |||||
| 3 | "Gone Catfishing" | Bryan Gordon | Chris Case | March 23, 2015 | |
Jake believes that a fiancee LaDarius has never met except online may not be real. | |||||
| 4 | "Mrs. Wu's Tang" | Bryan Gordon | Ken Cheng | March 23, 2015 | |
Jake and Dusty each try to recruit Chinese star Wu Lee, who is managed by his domineering mother. | |||||
| 5 | "A Basket Full of Rainbows" | Fred Savage | Chris Case | March 23, 2015 | |
A locker-room rant by Coach Doug goes viral, prompting Jake to ask for his resignation. | |||||
| 6 | "You Booze, You Lose" | Fred Savage | Chris Case | March 23, 2015 | |
Taunted by a radio-show host, Jake vows not to use drugs, drink alcohol or have sex until the Saints win a game. | |||||
| 7 | "Urine God's Hands Now" | Bryan Gordon | Jack Amiel | March 23, 2015 | |
Seeking funding for a new arena, Jake woos a conservative-Christian city councilman. A recovered Darius must pass a urine test. | |||||
| 8 | "Because Vegas" | Bryan Gordon | Chris Case & Noelle Valdivia | March 23, 2015 | |
When the stock of Jake's technology company, Matterhorn, tanks, Jake must find a way to keep the team. | |||||
Production
Yahoo! Inc. announced its first original long-form programs, the comedies Sin City Saints and Other Space, in April 2014 at the 2014 Digital Content NewFronts.[7] By early October, production on Sin City Saints had begun at The Orleans Hotel and Casino.[8] Eight episodes were released simultaneously on Yahoo! Screen on March 23, 2015.[9]
Reception
Critical
Mike Hale in The New York Times called the show "a comedy less coherent than the halftime scoreboard video at an NBA game", where "[p]lot points and jokes feel as if they came from index cards grabbed at random."[4] Keith Uhlich at The Hollywood Reporter felt the "manic, mostly unfunny half-hour sports comedy" featured "sub-Tracy and Hepburn bickering ... that barely elicits a smirk, let alone busts a gut", and called the casting "problematic.... Both Akerman and Santino are irritatingly one-note."[6]
Financial
On October 21, 2015, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman announced during a Q3 Earnings Phone Call that their original programming lineup last spring resulted in a $42 million writeoff, including season six of Community and Other Space.[10]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Sin City Saints". Yahoo! Screen. March 20, 2015. Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
- ^ Pena, Jessica (January 5, 2016). "Community, Sin City Saints, Other Space: Yahoo Closes Yahoo Screen". TV Series Finale. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
- ^ Noonan, Kevin (9 October 2014). "Malin Akerman Cast in Yahoo Scripted Series 'Sin City Saints'". Variety. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ a b c Hale, Mike (March 22, 2015). "Review: 'Sin City Saints,' a Yahoo Basketball Comedy". The New York Times. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
- ^ Emery, Debbie (April 8, 2015). "How Yahoo Screen Comedy 'Sin City Saints' Made NBA Star Baron Davis 'Miss Playing' Basketball". TheWrap.com. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
- ^ a b Uhlich, Keith (March 23, 2015). "'Sin City Saints': TV Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
- ^ "Yahoo Gives First Look at its New Video and Digital Content Programming" (Press release). Yahoo! via TheFutonCritic.com. April 28, 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
- ^ "Yahoo & Mandalay Sports Media Head to Vegas for "Sin City Saints"" (Press release). Yahoo! via TheFutonCritic.com. October 9, 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
- ^ "Sin City Saints: Official Trailer" (Press release). Yahoo! via TheFutonCritic.com. March 12, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
- ^ Brouwer, Bree (21 October 2015). "Yahoo Lost $42 Million On 'Community' and Two Other Originals". TubeFilter. Retrieved 22 October 2015.