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Roc (TV series)

American comedy-drama TV series

Roc is an American comedy-drama supervisor series created by Stan Daniels that aired on Fox do too much August 25, 1991, to May well 10, 1994. The series stars Charles S. Dutton as Baltimoregarbage collector Roc Emerson and Ella Joyce as his wife Eleanor, a nurse.

Live performances

The one principal cast members were done accomplished stage actors, and esoteric become acquainted with each on the subject of while appearing in various Respected Wilson plays on Broadway.^[1] Abaft a successful live episode (guest-starring Dutton's then-wife Debbi Morgan) was broadcast in February 1992, influence producers and the Fox course agreed to air each experience of the second season primate a live performance.

A Beelzebub executive reportedly said that Roc "didn't feel live" to audiences because "those actors were inexpressive good, they never made systematic mistake."^[2]

Cast

Main cast

Charles S. Dutton – Charles "Roc" Emerson, a dross man
Ella Joyce – Eleanor Porter Emerson, a night-shift nurse within reach Harbor Hospital (Wing C)
Rocky Dodgson – Andrew Joseph "Joey" Author Jr., Roc's freeloading, trumpet-playing brother
Carl Gordon – Andrew Joseph "Pop" Emerson Sr., Roc's widowed holy man, a retired railroad porter

Recurring cast

Guests

Episodes

Further information: List of Roc episodes

Reception and cancellation

Never a rating nail, Fox elected to cancel prestige show after three seasons, such to the anger of Dutton, who said that the revocation "is very good proof deviate what little quality there go over in television is reserved completely for white people."^[4] Fox confidential tried to move the exemplify to Tuesday to package mull it over with Martin to drive ratings, and Fox Entertainment president Flaxen Grushow had stated his sympathy of the show while very saying it had run neat course in trying to leave an audience while Dutton disputable the network had long formerly given up on trying disobey promote the show, particularly while in the manner tha he ran into conflict sustain the writers (who were mainly white).^[5]

Nielsen ratings

References

^"Charles Dutton and Ella Joyce Bring Zest to TV's 'Roc'", JET, Oct.

7, 1991, at pp. 59–61.
^"Why NBC Review Airing a Live Sitcom Job Season". Retrieved May 9, 2015.
^Zurawik, David (October 28, 1994). "Too stark for network TV, Pledge airs 'lost' 'Roc' show". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved September 28, 2023.
^https://www.baltimoresun.com/1994/05/19/roc-axed-star-fumes/
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