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Partners is an American comedy series that ran on CBS from September 24 to November 12, 2012, following the sitcom How I Met Your Mother on Monday nights. The series was created by Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, who also served as the show's executive producers and it stars Michael Urie, David Krumholtz, Sophia Bush, and Brandon Routh.

On November 16, 2012, CBS announced that Partners had been canceled. Within days, the show's page was removed from the CBS website and the show was removed from the People's Choice Awards online ballot for Favorite New TV Comedy.

Premise

Although they could not be more different, Louis and Joe are lifelong friends and partners in an architecture firm. Their "bromance" is tested when Joe gets engaged to Ali and Louis is in a new relationship with Wyatt.

Cast

  • David Krumholtz as Joe Goodman
  • Michael Urie as Louis McManus
  • Sophia Bush as Ali Landow, Joe's fiancée
  • Brandon Routh as Wyatt, Louis's boyfriend

Recurring

  • Tracy Vilar as Ro-Ro

Production

CBS cancelled Partners on November 16, 2012, prior to the planned November 19 airing of episode 7, "Pretty Funny", and announced that the show would be immediately removed from the schedule. The show was replaced with reruns of Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, leaving seven filmed episodes unaired in the USA and Canada. Filming on the final episode concluded a week later, on November 21. It is currently unknown if CBS will ever broadcast the final 7 episodes, however all 13 episodes have been aired by South African channel M-Net.

Series overview

Season Episodes Timeslot Originally aired DVD and Blu-ray release
Season premiere Series finale Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
1 13 Monday 8:30 pm

Episodes

No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production code U.S. viewers
(millions)
ProdCode = 276057 Viewers = 6.56 ShortSummary = Joe and Louis have been best friends since they were young kids and now work together at their own company. When Joe tells Louis he was given a relationship ultimatum by his current girlfriend, Ali, Louis convinces Joe to break up with her. However, Joe has a moment of enlightenment and ends up proposing to Ali. Later, Louis accidentally tells Ali about Joe's original break up plan, and Louis then finds himself not only fixing his best friend's relationship, but their friendship as well. LineColor = 27C4BF }}

ProdCode = 3X7853 Viewers = 5.76 ShortSummary = Louis interferes when Joe confides that he and Ali have not had sex in over a week, encouraging her to take the initiative. He further interferes when he learns she has never cooked dinner for Joe, inducing her to make his zesty lemon chicken recipe. Although angered by Louis's interference, Joe interferes himself by ordering a cake when Louis forgets Wyatt's fifth "sober birthday". The friends agree that each is good at taking care of the other. LineColor = 27C4BF }}

ProdCode = 3X7854 Viewers = 5.71 ShortSummary = Joe becomes upset when, after snooping through the belongings Ali is moving into his apartment, he discovers provocative photographs of her with baseball player Derek Jeter. Ali in turn is upset that Joe again violated her trust by confiding their personal business to Louis. He promises to stop doing so but falls into a trap Ali laid when she proves that he told Louis that she had had sex with Justin Timberlake. Meanwhile, a particularly vicious game of Celebrity leads Wyatt to feel insecure about his relationship with Louis. Louis promises to try to be less intense and competitive. LineColor = 27C4BF }}

ProdCode = 3X7852 Viewers = 6.08 ShortSummary = Louis pretends to become vegan and a teetotaler for Wyatt. Louis walks in on Ali while she is changing her clothes in Joe's apartment. Ali is furious that Louis has a key to Joe's apartment but she does not. Joe gives Ali a key, but Ali wants Louis to give up his. When Joe asks Louis for the key, he refuses but later finds the lock changed. At dinner that night Louis returns everything Joe ever gave him. When the two find a childhood oath swearing eternal friendship, they make up. At the same time, Louis finds out that Wyatt knew all along that Louis was only pretending. LineColor = 27C4BF }}

ProdCode = 3X7858 Viewers = 5.67 ShortSummary = Joe and Louis struggle to gain a client. Meanwhile, Ali has Wyatt help with some remodeling at the shop. When they kiss, Joe gets upset because of Wyatt's looks, but Ali claims that she feels nothing in the kiss. LineColor = 27C4BF }}

ProdCode = 3X7859 Viewers = 5.48 ShortSummary = Joe, at Louis' initial insistence, hires Wyatt to be his personal assistant. Joe is surprising happy, but things don't work out the way Louis wants. Meanwhile, Ali is trying to find a caterer for a party at her shop. LineColor = 27C4BF }} 

(South Africa)
ProdCode = 3X7855 Viewers = N/A ShortSummary = After Louis offers Joe his grandmother's ring to give to Ali as her long-awaited engagement ring, he is shocked when a hurt Wyatt objects. LineColor = 27C4BF }} 

(South Africa)
ProdCode = 3X7856 Viewers = N/A ShortSummary = LineColor = 27C4BF }} 

(South Africa)
ProdCode = 3X7857 Viewers = N/A ShortSummary = Joe is torn as to where he and Ali should socialise when he realises that he doesn't fit in with her friends and she doesn't fit in with Louis' LineColor = 27C4BF }} 

(South Africa)
ProdCode = 3X7860 Viewers = N/A ShortSummary = LineColor = 27C4BF }} 

(South Africa)
ProdCode = 3X7861 Viewers = N/A ShortSummary = LineColor = 27C4BF }} 

(South Africa)
ProdCode = 3X7862 Viewers = N/A ShortSummary = LineColor = 27C4BF }} 

(South Africa)
ProdCode = 3X7863 Viewers = N/A ShortSummary = Ally gets a pregnancy scare, Louis decides to have a baby as well, Joe and Louis' relationship is tested. LineColor = 27C4BF }}

Reception

Critical reception

The show has been met with negative to mixed reviews with a collective score of 37/100 from Metacritic.

Critics have noted that the CBS show has many similarities to a 1995 Fox sitcom of the same name. Both shows had the same director, concept, characters with similar occupations, similar name for the main female lead, and even timeslot. In addition, Jeff Greenstein, one of the head writers of the Fox series who also worked on Will & Grace with Kohan and Mutchnick, has claimed they were big fans of the show.

Broadcast

  • In Canada, the show aired in simultaneous substitution on City.
  • Australian channel Nine Network had picked up the show for its late 2012 to early 2013 season.
  • Shown in South Africa on M-Net on DSTV from November 2012. All 13 episodes were shown on the channel



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