''So Little Time'' is an American
sitcom
A sitcom, a Portmanteau, portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troup ...
starring
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in their third television series. It aired on
Fox Family: the first half of the series aired from June 2 to August 15, 2001, and the series then went on a four-month hiatus owing to network management changes. By December 2001, Fox Family had become
ABC Family, and the remaining episodes aired from December 1, 2001, until May 4, 2002. ''So Little Time'' reruns briefly aired on
Nickelodeon
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in 2015 after the network acquired the rights to Mary-Kate and Ashley's video library.
Cast and characters
Main cast
*
Mary-Kate Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is an American businesswoman, fashion designer, equestrian, and former actress. She began her acting career nine months after her birth, sharing the role of Michelle Tanner with her twin sister Ashley Olsen ...
as Riley Carlson
*
Ashley Olsen as Chloe Carlson
*
Clare Carey as Macy Carlson
*
Eric Lutes as Jake Carlson
* Jesse Head as Spartacus Lawrence "Larry" Slotnick
*
Taylor Negron as Manuelo Del Valle
*
Natashia Williams
Natashia Williams-Blach (born August 2, 1978) is an American actress and former Wonderbra campaign model, who is perhaps best known for her role as Shane Phillips in the NBC/ syndicated series ''She Spies''.
Biography
Natashia Williams began h ...
as Tedi
Recurring cast
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Amy Davidson as Cammie Morton
* Wendy Worthington as Ellen Westmore
*
Ben Easter
Ben Easter is an American actor and photographer.
Easter made his film debut in 2000 in ''Cora Unashamed''. He was later a repeated costar of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, appearing alongside them in the film '' Holiday in the Sun'' and the televi ...
as Lennon Kincaid
Broadcasting
In Canada,
Family Channel aired reruns of the series weekdays at 6:00pm until June 28, 2007, when they were replaced by ''
Zoey 101''. In the United Kingdom, the show aired on
BBC One
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22 September 2001 and on the ''Children's Channel''
CBBC
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. Some episodes had a shorter running time than others because of the removal of the "behind the scenes"
featurettes.
Later in the series, the show starts with the crew wandering around the set with the
camera
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following them. They talk about today's events, such as the birthday of an actor on the set.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen usually appear in this segment.
In Italy, the series aired on
Italia 1
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Italia 1 was launched on 3 January 1982 and, originally, was ...
under the name ''
Due gemelle e un maggiordomo'' (''Two Twins and a butler'') from August until September 2002.
A short "behind the scenes"
featurette was sometimes included at the end of an episode as well. Although retained on the
Warner Home Video
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It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Vide ...
VHS and
DVD releases, these were always edited out of the
U.K. terrestrial
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transmissions.
Episodes
Home media
From 2002 to 2003, Warner Bros. and DualStar released 4 separate volumes of the show on DVD and VHS. Each volume contained 6 episodes each for a total of 24 episodes. In 2005, those 4 volumes were packaged together as one box set containing a fifth DVD with the only two episodes that had not yet been released to DVD ("Outbreak" and "Look Who's Talking"). This box set was titled ''So Little Time: 5 DVD Gift Set''. The episodes on the gift set are not presented in air date or production order, because it is simply a repackaging of the individual DVD releases and each release had its own theme.
Although the gift set and individual releases for volumes 1 - 4 have since gone out of print, volumes 1 - 4 were re-released in 2017 as two 2-disc "double feature" sets, the first containing volumes 1 and 2 and the second containing volumes 3 and 4. The bonus disc containing "Outbreak" and "Look Who's Talking" has not been re-released and those two episodes remain only available as part of the ''5 DVD Gift Set'' package.
* ''So Little Time, Volume 1: School's Cool'' (August 13, 2002)
* ''So Little Time, Volume 2: Boy Crazy'' (August 13, 2002)
* ''So Little Time, Volume 3: About A Family'' (August 13, 2002)
* ''So Little Time, Volume 4: Hangin' Out'' (June 3, 2003)
* ''So Little Time: 5 DVD Gift Set'' (September 6, 2005)
Books
Several episodes of ''So Little Time'' were
novelized
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and published in book form by HarperCollins Entertainment. The series also featured new original stories based on the show, which were written by the same authors. As of the spring of 2008, 17 ''So Little Time'' books have been released, following the lives of Chloe and Riley.
# ''How to Train a Boy''
# ''Instant Boyfriend''
# ''Too Good To Be True''
# ''Just Between Us''
# ''Tell Me About It''
# ''Secret Crush''
# ''Girl Talk''
# ''The Love Factor''
# ''Dating Game''
# ''A Girl's Guide to Guys''
# ''Boy Crazy''
# ''Best Friends Forever''
# ''Love is in the Air''
# ''Spring Breakup''
# ''Get Real''
# ''Surf Holiday''
# ''The Makeover Experiment''
Soundtrack
A soundtrack album featuring the show's theme song as well as other music featured in the series was released by
Trauma Records and
Dualstar Records in June 2001, and was made available on
iTunes,
Amazon MP3 and
Spotify
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on June 5, 2010 by
Kirtland Records.
#
Arkarna - "So Little Time"
#Noogie - "Mr. Fabulous"
#Jason Feddy - "The Beautiful Few"
#Joey Kingpin - "Rock It"
#Vienna - "Where I Wanna Be"
#Ritalin - "Stuck Like Glue"
#George Tenen III and James Pennington - "You Make Me Love You More"
#
Lovepie
Nini Camps (born in Miami, Florida) is an American folk rock singer-songwriter, who writes music for film and TV while also performing as lead singer of the all female band Antigone Rising. She currently lives with her family in New York City.
...
- "Thoughts of You"
#The Getaway People - "Superstar"
#Chad Hollister - "Leavin' Home"
#Crashpalace - "Brickwall"
#
The Weekend - "Punk Rock Show"
References
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2000s American teen sitcoms
2001 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
ABC Family original programming
English-language television shows
Fox Family Channel original programming
Television series about families
Television series about sisters
Television series about teenagers
Television series about twins
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Television shows set in Malibu, California
Works about twin sisters