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Miss Match is a 2003 American television series created by Jeff Rake and Darren Star and produced by Twentieth Century Fox, Darren Star Productions and Imagine Entertainment. It aired in the U.S. on NBC, Australia on Network Seven, Arena and FOX8, and in the UK on Living, Channel 4 and is currently on E4. The series filmed at least 18 episodes but only 8 aired in the US. The entire series aired in both the UK & Canada.

Starring Alicia Silverstone and Ryan O'Neal, the show garnered poor ratings, which could have been due to its inability to compete in the Friday 8pm ET timeslot (aka "Friday night death slot"). It was based on the real-life story of Samantha Daniels.

Premise[link]

A Los Angeles matrimonial attorney (Alicia Silverstone) doubles as a high-end matchmaker, Kate Fox, even though her own love life is far from perfect.

Characters[link]

Kate Fox (Alicia Silverstone) - Kate Fox is a divorce lawyer by day who ends up becoming a match maker. Her own romantic life is complicated to say the least. Throughout the series she is involved with Michael and later his best friend, Adam. Kate often finds herself getting involved in the relationships she sets up for people. Various characters mention to her that she addicted to love and lives through the lives of others.

Jerry Fox (Ryan O'Neal) - Kate's father who owned the law firm she works for. He was not a perfect father to Kate but they bonded over law. He is shown to still have feelings for Kate's mother but is not hung up on her. Later in the series he is linked with Serena.

Nick Paine (James Roday)- Kate's co-worker who is a womanizer. He and Kate tolerate each other, at best. He later dates Victoria.

Claire (Jodi Long) - Fox & Associates secretary.

Victoria Carlson (Lake Bell) - Kate's best friend who is a bartender. She often overlooks the dates Kate sets people up with. She tends to only have flings with men, like the one she starts with Nick. The only man we see her like as more than a hookup is Adam.

Michael Mendelson (David Conrad) - Kate's on and off again boyfriend after she sets him up on several dates. His ex girlfriend is Lauren who left him for his best friend Adam.

Adam Logan (Nathan Fillion) - Adam comes to town after Lauren hires Kate as her divorce lawyer. He and Michael end up repairing their friendship but he soon becomes involved with Kate and Victoria.

Lauren Logan (Dina Meyer) - Michael's ex girlfriend and Adam's ex-wife. After finding out that Michael & Kate are involved she makes Kate break it off. After finding out Adam & Kate are involved she sues Kate's law firm for malpractice.

Serena Lockner (Charisma Carpenter) - Serena is an old classmates of Kate who comes back into her life. Kate helps her adopt a baby and give it back to the mother when she realizes she made a mistake. She later returns and starts a romance with Kate's father.

NBC had a cross promotion where Galen Gering & McKenzie Westmore, who starred on NBC's soap opera Passions, appeared in an episode of the series.

Nielsen ratings[link]

• Episode 1: Pilot (9/26/03) - Viewers: 7.7 million
• Episode 2: Who's Your Daddy? (10/03/03) - Viewers: 5.9 million
• Episode 3: Something Nervy (10/10/03) - Viewers: 6.0 million
• Episode 4: Kate In Ex-Tasy (10/17/03) - Viewers: 6.5 million
• Episode 5: I Got You, Babe (10/24/03) - Viewers: 6.7 million
• Episode 6: Addicted To Love (11/07/03) - Viewers: 5.9 million
• Episode 7: Jive Turkey (11/14/03) - Viewers: 5.7 million
• Episode 8: The Love Bandit (11/21/03) - Viewers: 5.7 million
• Episode 9: Bad Judgement (12/05/03) - Viewers: 6.8 million
• Episode 10: Santa, Baby (12/12/03) - Viewers: 5.9 million
• Episode 11: Who's Sari Now? (12/19/03) - Viewers: 6.1 million

International broadcasts[link]

See also[link]

• 2003 in television

External links[link]

• Miss Match at the Internet Movie Database
• Miss Match at TV.com
• Miss Match at epguides.com

Nathan Fillion
Fillion at the 2005 premiere of Serenity
Born	(1971-03-27) March 27, 1971 (age 41) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993–present

Nathan Fillion (pronounced /ˈfɪljən/, as in million; born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian actor, currently starring as Richard Castle on the ABC series Castle. He is also known for his portrayal of the lead role of Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the television series Firefly and its feature film continuation, Serenity.

He has acted in traditionally distributed films like Slither and Trucker, Internet-distributed films like Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, voice-over work like the video games Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach, television soap operas and sitcoms, and in the theatre.

Early life[link]

Fillion was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the younger son of Cookie and Bob Fillion, both of whom are retired English teachers.^[1] He has an older brother, Jeff,^[2] and attended Holy Trinity Catholic High School, Concordia University College of Alberta, and the University of Alberta, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Society. According to Fillion, he is descended from Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early.^[3]

Career[link]

1994–2009[link]

After working in several theatre, television and film productions, including Theatresports with Rapid Fire Theatre and the improvised soap opera Die-Nasty, Fillion moved to New York City in 1994 where he acted in the soap opera One Life to Live as Joey Buchanan, for which he was nominated in 1996 for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series. In 1997, he left the series to pursue other projects (but would return for a brief guest appearance in 2007).^[4]

After moving to Los Angeles, he played a supporting role in the sitcom Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place, and was cast as James Frederick "The Minnesota" Ryan in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. Fillion had a recurring role as Caleb in the final season of Joss Whedon's series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In 2002, Fillion starred as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the Joss Whedon science fiction television series Firefly, for which he won the Cinescape Genre Face of the Future – Male award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. Fillion also won the Syfy Genre Awards in 2006 for Best Actor/Television and was runner-up for Best Actor/Movie.^[5] Fillion called his time on Firefly the best acting job he ever had,^[6] and compares every job he has had to it.^[7] Although the show was cancelled, it was adapted to the big screen; he reprised his role as Mal in Whedon's movie Serenity (2005).

Fillion lent his voice to the animated series King of the Hill in 2001, the video game Jade Empire (as the voice of Gao the Lesser), and the animated series Justice League Unlimited (as Vigilante in the episodes "Hunter's Moon" and "Patriot Act") in 2005 and 2006. Fillion starred in James Gunn's 2006 horror film Slither. For his starring role as Bill Pardy, he garnered a 2006 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards nomination in the category of Dude You Don't Wanna Mess With.^[8]

Fillion starred in the romantic comedy film Waitress, written and directed by the late Adrienne Shelly, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2007, and opened in theaters on May 2, 2007. Waitress grossed $22,125,001 in worldwide sales as of May 13, 2008, and $29.22 million in rentals as of January 28, 2008.^[9][10] Fillion starred in White Noise 2: The Light. He made one appearance in the 2006–2007 season of the television show Lost, as Kevin, Kate's ex-husband.

In October 2006, Fillion signed a talent holding contract with the Fox Broadcasting Company, and in December 2006, The Hollywood Reporter^[11] confirmed that Fillion was cast as Alex Tully in the series Drive, which debuted on Fox in the spring of 2007. Drive was created by Fillion's longtime friend and former Angel and Firefly writer Tim Minear. Ivan Sergei played Alex Tully in the original pilot episode of Drive. The first two Drive episodes premiered on April 13, 2007, in Canada (April 15, 2007 in the United States). However, the show did not deliver the ratings Fox desired, and on April 25, 2007, the network announced that the series was cancelled.^[12][13] The final two produced episodes were supposed to air back-to-back on Fox in July 2007 but did not actually become available until July 15 when they were posted on the Drive MySpace page.^[14]

He reprised his 1990s role as One Life to Live's Joey for the series' 9,999th and 10,000th episodes, aired August 16 and 17, 2007.^[15][16][17]

Fillion joined the cast of ABC's Desperate Housewives at the beginning of the fall 2007 season as Dr. Adam Mayfair. His first appearance was in the episode "Now You Know", which aired on September 30, 2007.

He voiced the role of a Marine Sergeant in the Xbox 360 game Halo 3, alongside fellow Firefly stars Alan Tudyk and Adam Baldwin. At one point early in the first mission, he identifies himself as "[Sergeant] Reynolds" over the radio, referring to his character's name from the TV series Firefly. All three actors are given personalities in the game that match those of their characters from Firefly. He provides the voice and portrayed likeness for Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck in the Halo 3 expansion, Halo 3: ODST,^[18] a role he briefly reprised in Halo: Reach.

2009–present[link]

In March 2009, the first episode of the ABC television series Castle aired, in which Fillion stars as the title character Richard Castle, a mystery novelist who helps the NYPD solve crimes. In May 2009, ABC green-lit the production of the series for a second season.^[19] In 2009, Fillion was nominated for Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama for his performance in Castle. On March 30, 2010, ABC announced that Castle had been renewed for its third season with a 22-episode full-season order.^[20] Castle was renewed for a fourth season on January 10, 2011.^[21] On May 10, 2012, Castle was renewed for a fifth season.^[22]

Fillion was featured in a spoof porn web video on Spike called "Nailing Your Wife", part of the PG Porn series.^[23]

Fillion made a brief cameo appearance in the season 5 episode "Revolving Doors" of the web series The Guild.^[24]

In late September 2011, Fillion guest starred as the Action Sports 1 anchor in the comedy web series Husbands.^[25] He will be playing Dogberry in the upcoming independent film Much Ado About Nothing, based on the Shakespeare play of the same name, written and produced by Joss Whedon.^[26][27]

In 2012, he appeared in the episode "The Daly Superheroes" of the web series "The Daly Show." ^[28]

Charity work[link]

Fillion co-founded the non-profit organization Kids Need to Read with author PJ Haarsma in 2007 to help inspire kids' imaginations by getting more books into underfunded libraries.^[29] While speaking at schools around the country, Haarsma discovered that many libraries cannot afford to purchase new books and children pleaded with him to get a copy of his book.

Awards and nominations[link]

Filmography[link]

Nathan Fillion at Paleyfest 2012, in March 2012

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Nathan Fillion at the Internet Movie Database

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David Crawford Conrad (born August 17, 1967) is an American actor. From 2005 to 2010, he starred in the television series Ghost Whisperer alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt.