''Windfall'' is an American
serial drama television series about a group of people in an unnamed small city who win almost
$400 million in a lottery. The series was created by Laurie McCarthy and Gwendolyn M. Parker and premiered on June 8, 2006, on
NBC, taking the time slot occupied by ''
ER'' during the rest of the year.
On August 31, 2006, NBC announced the show's cancellation by stating on its website that the episode that night would be the series finale. NBC also gave local affiliates the option of showing pre-season football instead and showing the final episode at each affiliates discretion. Many affiliates took them up on this, planning to show it either much later that night or at other odd days/times during the Labor Day weekend (for example,
WNBC-TV in
New York
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Film and television
* '' ...
planned to show the episode at 12:30pm on September 3, 2006).
In the United Kingdom and
Middle East the show has been picked up by
Five Life
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and
Showtime Arabia respectively. It is also shown in Ireland on the channel
3e weekdays at 3pm.
Cast members
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Sarah Wynter as Beth Walsh
*
Jason Gedrick as Cameron Walsh
*
Jon Foster as Damian Brunner
*
Alice Greczyn as Frankie McMahon
*
Jaclyn DeSantis as Maggie Hernandez
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Lana Parrilla as Nina Schaefer
*
Luke Perry as Peter Schaefer
*
D.J. Cotrona
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Early life
Cotrona was bo ...
as Sean Mathers
*
Nikki DeLoach as Sunny van Hattern
*
Peyton List
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as Tally Reida
*
Malinda Williams as Kimberly George
* Sarah Rose Glassman as Daisy Schaefer
* Emma Prescott as Violet Schaefer
*
Tembi Locke as Addie McMahon
*
Larissa Drekonja as Galina Kokorev
*
Jonathan LaPaglia as Dave Park
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Sarah Jane Morris as Zoe Reida
*
Cheyenne Haynes as Isabel Hernandez
Production
The show was developed in early 2005 by
Regency Television for
Fox
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. At the time the show was known as ''Ticket To Ride''. After ordering the pilot Fox decided to pass on the series. In June 2005 it was announced that NBC had picked up the series and would be shooting a new pilot. It was also confirmed that co-creator Gwendolyn Parker would no longer be involved with the show as she had moved on to work on ''
Without a Trace''.
Episode list
''Windfall'' ranked 164 for the 2005-06 television season with an average of 5.510 million viewers.
Due to the finale episode being preëmpted in many markets it is not even counted among the shows aired in primetime that week and thus there is no ratings for it.
See also
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''The Millionaire'' (TV series)
* ''
Lottery!''
*
''Lucky 7'' (TV series)
References
External links
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2000s American drama television series
2006 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
Serial drama television series
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television shows set in Los Angeles