''Under One Roof'' is a

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starring musician and ''

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'' star

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and comic actor

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best known for his work on ''One on One''. The series is written by Danielle Quarles. It premiered on

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on April 16, 2008 at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central. ''Under One Roof'' was one of the last first-run primetime shows to air on MyNetworkTV before the network's change to a syndicated programming service.

Pilot

Calvester (

) and Winston Hill (

) act like they are from opposite sides of the track when they actually just grew up on opposite sides of the room. Years later, Winston is a successful and wealthy real estate developer with a perfect and privileged family, but his life gets interrupted when his street smart, older brother Calvester finally gets out of prison and moves into the mansion since his brother owes him a favor due to an incident where Calvester took the blame for his brother's car crash. It’s not long before Calvester begins parading his old prison cronies through the house driving the Hill family crazy - butting heads with Winston’s trophy wife Ashley (

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); 17-year-old daughter, Heather (Marie Michel); and housekeeper Su Ho (

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). Calvester even teaches Winston’s 16-year-old son, Winston Jr. (Jesse Reid) to be a gangster rapper.

Cast

as Calvester "Cali Cal" Hill *

as Winston Hill *

as Ashley Hill * Marie Michel as Heather Hill
Jesse Reid
as Winston Hill Jr. *

as Su Ho

Episodes

Ratings

References

External links

Under One Roof on MyNetwork TV
*
Under One Roof Official Website
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