''Kelly Kelly'' is an American television

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created by David Kendall, starring

Shelley Long Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and comedian. Long portrayed Diane Chambers on the hit sitcom '' Cheers'' and received five Emmy nominations, winning in 1983 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Se ...

and

Robert Hays Robert Hays (born July 24, 1947) is an American actor, known for a variety of television and film roles since the 1970s. He came to prominence around 1980, co-starring in the two-season domestic sitcom '' Angie'', and playing the central role of ...

, that aired on

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from April 20 to June 7, 1998.

Plot

Kelly Novak is an

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English literature professor who meets widowed

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Doug Kelly. The two get married and she becomes Kelly Kelly. They live together in his Secaucus, New Jersey, house with his three sons and one daughter.

Cast

as English professor Kelly Novak. *

as widowed firefighter Doug Kelly. * Ashley Johnson as 13-year-old Maureen Kelly. *

Will Estes William Estes (; born October 21, 1978) is an American actor known for his role on CBS police drama '' Blue Bloods'' as Jameson "Jamie" Reagan, a New York City Police Department officer and the youngest son of the police commissioner, played by ...

as 17-year-old Sean Kelly. *

Bug Hall Brandon "Bug" Hall (born February 4, 1985) is an American actor. He is best known for his childhood roles as Alfalfa Switzer in ''The Little Rascals'' (1994), Newt Shaw in ''The Big Green'' (1995), and Buster Stupid in ''The Stupids'' (1996). ...

as middle son Brian Kelly. *Gemini Barnett as 6-year-old Casey Kelly.

Production

Columbia TriStar Television Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. (abbreviated as CTT) was an American television production and distribution company that was active from 1994 to 2002. It was operated as the third name of the early television studio Screen Gems and the fourth ...

had originally developed the series, and produced a pilot, before handing over production of the show to

Warner Bros. Television Warner Bros. Television Studios (operating under the name Warner Bros. Television; formerly known as Warner Bros. Television Division) is an American television production and distribution studio of the Warner Bros. Television Group division of ...

. During filming of the first episode, Shelley Long broke a finger while catching a football.

Episodes

After airing two episodes to low ratings,

moved the series from Mondays to Sundays. Seven episodes are registered with the United States Copyright Office.

Reception

Howard Rosenberg of the ''

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'' called the series "routine sitcomdom" with "some occasional bright dialogue". John Carman of the ''

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'' was also unimpressed, and thought the show was "almost an exact copy of '' It Had to Be You''", which lasted a month. Matthew Gilbert of ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

'' said the series was "neither horrible nor promising, just kind of generic and bland". David Bianculli of the '' Daily News'' rated the series one and a half stars, and called the scripts "painfully predictable and not even sporadically amusing". Kevin D. Thompson of ''

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'' also rated the series one and a half stars saying that the show is "a bland family comedy we've seen too many times before". Elaine Liner of the '' Boston Herald'' gave the series no stars, as well as grading it "an F as a two-alarm failure".

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly Kelly (Tv Series) 1990s American sitcoms 1998 American television series debuts 1998 American television series endings English-language television shows Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios The WB original programming Television shows set in New Jersey