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Cupid

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1998-1999
1 Season
ABC
Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
TV-14

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Trevor Hale is attractive, witty, and uncommonly intelligent--and he may be Cupid, the Greco-Roman god of erotic love. Probably not, but he thinks so. Trevor's insistence that he is Cupid lands him in a mental hospital, where he meets psychologist Claire Allen, a renowned authority on romance. Trevor tells Claire that he has been stripped of his godly powers by Zeus, and exiled from Mount Olympus as a punishment for arrogance. To win his way back among the gods, Trevor must unite 100 couples in everlasting love--without his bow and arrows. Claire does not believe in Cupid, but she risks her career by releasing Trevor from the hospital and assuming responsibility for his behavior. Trevor finds work as a bartender, and regularly disrupts Claire's group therapy sessions, all while he plots his campaign to promote romance, and earn his way back to Olympus. While encouraging sexual abandon in others, Trevor remains celibate, believing that engaging in sex with a mortal will confine him to Earth forever.

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Cast & Crew See All

Jeremy Piven

Cupid

Paula Marshall

Dr. Claire Allen

Jeffrey D. Sams

Albert 'Champ' Terrace

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Episode 1

Pilot

Sat, Sep 26, 1998

A psychologist, Dr Claire Allen, is ready to abandon her plans for her latest book on love and romance when a colleague introduces her to an institutionalised patient claiming to be Cupid. After a weeks of therapy sessions, the man "remembers" his "real" name: Trevor Hale. Believing that he is cured, the state mental health board agrees to release Trevor's on the condition that Claire continue to monitor his progress.

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Awards

1999 - TCA Award - Outstanding New Program of the Year - nominated
1999 - Young Artist Award - Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series - Guest Starring Young Actress - winner
2000 - Young Artist Award - Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series - Guest Starring Young Performer - nominated
1999 - OFTA Television Award - Best New Drama Series - nominated

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It took a bit longer than anyone would have liked, but in mid-November CBS finally gave a green light to a full season of Gary Unmarried (Wednesdays at 8;30 pm/ET), its freshman sitcom starring Jay Mohr and Paula Marshall as exes dealing with new significant Os. Marshall shared with TVGuide.com why the good news made her "mad," previews this week's riotous Thanksgiving episode, comes clean about "Californicating" with David Duchovny, and offers her take on TV's new shot at Cupid.

Wed, Nov 26, 2008

How Cupid Paired Paula Marshall with Gary Unmarried

Pilot News: Paulson Puts Cupid on the Couch

Sarah Paulson, whose last regular TV gig was on Studio 60 and who next can be seen on the bigger screen in Frank Miller's The Spirit, has landed the female lead opposite Bobby Cannavale in ABC and Rob Thomas' reboot of Cupid, says the Reporter. Paulson will fill "the Paula Marshall role" of a psychiatrist specializing in affairs of the heart.  Matt Mitovich

Wed, Jun 11, 2008

Pilot News: Paulson Puts Cupid on the Couch

Pilot News: Bobby Cannavale Plays Cupid

Meet the new Jeremy Piven. Bobby Cannavale, an Emmy winner during his run on Will & Grace and an upcoming guest star on Cold Case, will play the epitome of a "wing man" as the star of ABC's Cupid pilot. In Rob Thomas' update of his 1990s series of the same name, Cannavale is Trevor Hale, a guy who believes he is the Roman god of love and has been banished to Earth until he can secure ABC Studios a syndication deal match up 100 couples.  MWMRelated: ABC's in Love, Greenlights Rob Thomas' Cupid  Veronica Mars Boss in Love with Cupid Again

Tue, Apr 8, 2008

Pilot News: Bobby Cannavale Plays Cupid

ABC's in Love, Greenlights Rob Thomas' Cupid

Criminy, run and buy a lottery ticket, Rob! On Thursday, just hours after news broke about the Veronica Mars creator possibly bringing Beverly Hills, 90210 back to life for the CW, ABC gave a green light to the pilot for Thomas' new version of Cupid, the romantic comedy he gave the tube back in the '90s. Back then, Cupid starred Jeremy Piven as a man who believed it was his mission to help Zeus boost romantically challenged mortals. The update is being pegged as a "reinvention."BecauseCupid has been in development since the fall, the Reporter says, it is in "first position"  that is, Thomas' priority  should both the comedy and the CW's new-0210 (if penned by him) get picked up.Related: Veronica Mars Boss in Talks to Pen 90210 Spin-off

Fri, Mar 14, 2008

Veronica Mars Boss in Love with Cupid Again

ABC has pacted with Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas to develop a new version of Cupid, Thomas' short-lived yet well-liked 1998-99 series about a man who believes he was sent to Earth by Zeus to assist romantically challenged couples. "For the last couple years, I've been talking to ABC about how to do an anthological romantic comedy à la Cupid or Love Boat," Thomas tells Variety. "We kept coming back to Cupid as the best of the group, so they said, 'Why not... do Cupid again?'"Thomas will now pen an all-new pilot, but stresses, "I'm not going to reinvent it. What they're buying is the show." That said, Jeremy Piven's titular role will, of course, be recast.

Wed, Oct 3, 2007

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