'Til Death
Promotional cast photo; clockwise from top left: Jeff (Eddie Kaye Thomas) and Steph (Kat Foster) Woodcock, and Joy (Joely Fisher) and Eddie (Brad Garrett) Stark
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Josh Goldsmith Cathy Yuspa
Starring	Brad Garrett Joely Fisher Kat Foster Eddie Kaye Thomas
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	22
Production
Executive producer(s)	Josh Goldsmith Cathy Yuspa
Producer(s)	Alec Barnow Marc Firek and Annette Sahakian Davis
Running time	30 minutes (with commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	FOX
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 720p (HDTV)
Original run	September 7, 2006 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

'Til Death is an American sitcom on the Fox network which premiered on September 7, 2006 and is written and executive-produced by husband-and-wife team Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa. The show that stars film actor Eddie Kaye Thomas and newcomer actress Kat Foster as Newlyweds Jeff and Steph Woodcock, who have been married 12 days, move next door to a couple, Eddie (played by Emmy Award-winning comedian Brad Garrett) and Joy Stark (played by veteran character actress Joely Fisher), the parents of a college-aged child named Allie (played by actress Krysten Ritter), who have been married for circa 23 years (8,743 days, as shown in the pilot episode). The newlyweds get a surprising look at what their future might hold.

Beginning on March 14, 2007, the show was given the coveted time slot directly following the American Idol results show, and ratings have improved accordingly[1]. On May 11, 2007 it was announced that the show would return for a second season.^[1]

[edit] Cast

• Brad Garrett as Eddie Stark
• Joely Fisher as Joy Stark
• Kat Foster as Steph Woodcock
• Eddie Kaye Thomas as Jeff Woodcock

[edit] Recurring cast

• Krysten Ritter as Allison Stark
• Anthony Anderson as Cofeld
• Margaret Cho as Nicole
• Jerry Lambert as Stan
• Will Sasso as Russ

[edit] DVD Releases

According to FOX and Tvshowsondvd.com, 'Til Death: The Complete First Season will be released on August 21, 2007.

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of 'Til Death episodes

[edit] Ratings

Seasonal ratings based on average total viewers per episode of 'Til Death on FOX:

[edit] International Broadcasters

• South Africa: SABC3, debuted Monday 26 February 2007, currently airs at 8.00pm

• Malaysia: RTM2

• Latin America: Sony Entertainment Television

• Australia: Nine Network

[edit] Trivia

• Jeff Woodcock (Eddie Kaye Thomas) is the vice principal of a fictitious high school; Fox has posted a mock website for the school at http://www.mywoodcock.com/.

• Movie theaters showed advertisements for the show which featured Brad Garrett trying to "frighten" the viewers by saying that he can "see" them.

• The show aired on Canadian television on CTV, on September 6, one day before the USA premiere date.

• Two scenes in the pilot show Eddie (Brad Garrett) and Joy (Joely Fisher) watching The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Joely Fisher co-starred with DeGeneres on the sitcom Ellen.

• At the beginning of the episode, it says they have been married for 8,743 days, meaning that they are 11 days away from their 24th wedding anniversary.

• In the pilot, the outside of Ambington Memorial Hospital is shown. The hospital is located in Pennsylvania.

• In the episode "The Ring" an outside of a mall is shown. The mall is the Willow Grove Park Mall in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.

• In the episode "The Ring", Joy's ring has their home phone number with area code 215 inscribed on it. Area code 215 covers Philadelphia, PA.

• Eddie and Joy have been married for 24 years. That means that they got married in 1982. However, Joy says that Eddie proposed to her after watching Top Gun, which was released in 1986.

• Jeff Woodcock's character is based off of Mark Woodcock, a teacher at Cheltenham Highschool in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, the producer's hometown.

• In the "Daddy's Girl" episode, Eddie and Allie eat at a Lee's Hoagie House, a chain of hoagie restaurant found in southeastern Pennsylvania.

• In "The Hockey Lie", when shown the exterior of a hockey game that Jeff and Steph are attending, it is the Wachovia Spectrum, former home of the Philadelphia Flyers and the Philadelphia 76ers and current home of the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• 'Til Death official Sony Pictures site
• 'Til Death at the Internet Movie Database