''Mr. Robinson'' was a short-lived American

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television series created by Owen Ellickson, and developed by

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and Mark Cullen, which ran from August 5 through August 19, 2015, on

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Premise

The series stars Craig Robinson as a high school music teacher and part-time musician.

Cast

Main

* Craig Robinson as Craig Robinson *

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as Jimmy Hooper *

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as Ben Robinson *

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as Ashleigh Fellows *

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as Halle Foster *

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as Principal Eileen Taylor

Recurring

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as Victoria Wavers *

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as Supervisor Dalton * Asif Ali as Samir Panj * Dante Brown as Deandre Hall *

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as Quan Phook * Franchesca Maia as Maria

Production

Development

The original pilot was created by Owen Ellickson and was in development at NBC for the 2013–14 United States network television season. It also starred Robinson, and included a cast of

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and Amanda Lund. Greg Daniels served as executive producer.

placed a six-episode order for the series on January 6, 2014, with Mark Cullen and

as showrunners, replacing Owen Ellickson, and several characters recast. The series debuted in August 2015.

Cancellation

On September 14, 2015, the series was cancelled after one season and six episodes.

Episodes

Reception

''Mr. Robinson'' has received generally negative reviews from critics. On

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the series has a rating of 19%, based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 3.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "''Mr. Robinson'' is held back by too many sitcom tropes, bad plots, and stock characters, wasting its appealing star." On

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, the series has a score of 41 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Dominic Patten of ''Deadline'' said that the show is not funny. Bruce R. Miller of the ''

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'' said, "''Mr. Robinson'' just does not work". Jeff Jensen of ''Entertainment Weekly'' gave the show a grade of C−.

References

External links

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