''Sin City Saints'' is an American

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television series starring Malin Åkerman, Andrew Santino, and Keith Powers. It debuted on Yahoo! Screen on March 23, 2015. Its eight-episode first season was directed by

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and Fred Savage. The series follows a fictional Las Vegas basketball franchise. Its executive producers are Bryan Gordon, Mike Tollin, and Chris Case. The series ended following Yahoo! Screen's closure due to low viewership in the following year.

Premise

''Sin City Saints'' follows "wealthy tech businessman Jake Tullus, the unpredictable and charismatic owner of Vegas’ new professional basketball franchise, the Sin City Saints."

Cast

Starring

* Malin Åkerman as Dusty Halford * Andrew Santino as Jake Tullus * Keith Powers as LaDarius Pope * Justin Chon as Byron Summers * B.K. Cannon as Melissa Stanton * Rick Fox as Sam Johnson * Tom Arnold as Kevin Freeman

Recurring

* Ryan Cartwright as Wade Leatherbee (8 episodes) * Toby Huss as Coach Doug (8 episodes) * Paul Duke as Artahk Sundovk (7 episodes) * Baron Davis as Billy Crane (7 episodes) * Aaron Takahashi as Henry (6 episodes) * Chris Gehrt as Todd (6 episodes) * Jill Bartlett as Sapphire (6 episodes) * Jean Louisa Kelly as Bernice Pope (5 episodes) * Michael Liu as Wu Lee (5 episodes) * Rosalind Chao as Mrs. Wu (5 episodes) * John Salley as Tom (4 episodes) *Brendan Jennings as Andy the Mascot (3 episodes)

Guest stars

* Adam Devine as Matty ("You Booze, You Lose") *

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as Dan ("Urine God's Hands Now")

Episodes

Production

Yahoo! Inc. announced its first original long-form programs, the comedies ''Sin City Saints'' and '' Other Space'', in April 2014 at the 2014 Digital Content NewFronts. By early October, production on ''Sin City Saints'' had begun at The Orleans Hotel and Casino. Eight episodes were released simultaneously on Yahoo! Screen on March 23, 2015.

Reception

Critical

Mike Hale in ''

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'' called the show "a comedy less coherent than the halftime scoreboard video at an

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game", where " ot points and jokes feel as if they came from index cards grabbed at random." Keith Uhlich at ''

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'' felt the "manic, mostly unfunny half-hour sports comedy" featured "sub- Tracy and Hepburn bickering ... that barely elicits a smirk, let alone busts a gut", and called the casting "problematic.... Both Akerman and Santino are irritatingly one-note."

Financial

On October 21, 2015, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman announced during a Q3 Earnings Phone Call that their original programming lineup last spring resulted in a $42 million writeoff, including season six of ''

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'' and '' Other Space''.

References

External links

* {{Yahoo! Screen 2010s American single-camera sitcoms American English-language television shows 2015 web series debuts 2015 web series endings Television shows set in the Las Vegas Valley American comedy web series Yahoo! Screen original programming