Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio (now Universal Media Studios). The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also served as executive producer alongside showrunner/Head Writer Oliver Goldstick.^[1] The pilot was directed by Gary Winick.^[2]

Production[link]

The show premiered on February 7, 2008 as a midseason replacement taking over ER's spot at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central.^[3] The series was slated to have 13 episodes per season. However, due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, only 7 episodes were originally produced for the first season. The first season also competed indirectly with ABC's Cashmere Mafia, created by Bushnell's former creative partner from Sex and the City, Darren Star.

On February 24, 2008, NBC ordered 6 additional scripts of Lipstick Jungle.^[4]

On April 2, NBC renewed Lipstick Jungle for a second season when they announced their Fall 2008 lineup. The second season premiered on September 24, airing at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central on Wednesdays. One month later, NBC announced that Lipstick Jungle would move to Fridays at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central effective October 31, 2008.

On November 13, rumors emerged that NBC would cancel the show due to low ratings and it was unclear if the remaining episodes would be aired in the current time slot.^[5]

On November 21, NBC moved Lipstick Jungle to Fridays at an hour earlier 9:00 pm Eastern/8:00 pm Central beginning December 5, for the remainder of the season.^[6]

On January 9, 2009 the last produced episode of Lipstick Jungle aired, and it was advertised as the season finale.

On January 15, 2009 it was announced that the show is not yet canceled and could be brought back for episodes based on how the new pilots are received.^[7]

On January 27, 2009 NBC announced that the show would get the "Friday Night Lights Treatment" implying that the show will return on another of NBC Universal's networks for a third season and then replay on NBC midseason.^[8]

On February 25, 2009 the future of Lipstick Jungle was once again put into uncertainty when it was announced that Lindsay Price was cast in the pilot for ABC's new drama Eastwick. However, had Lipstick Jungle received an official third season pick-up from NBC, Price would have pulled out of Eastwick in order to fulfill her contractual obligation to Lipstick Jungle.^[9]

On March 28, 2009 Entertainment Weekly reported that the show was officially canceled.^[10]

Plot[link]

Lipstick Jungle is a dramedy following the professional and personal lives of three best friends, all of whom are top professionals in their respective careers. Victory Ford (Price) is a fashion designer, Nico Reilly (Raver) is the editor-in-chief of Bonfire Magazine, and Wendy Healy (Shields) is the former president of Parador Pictures, currently producing independently. These three powerful women are always there to support one another and navigate the crazy, romantic, and sometimes scary, world that is New York City.

Characters[link]

Main characters[link]

• Brooke Shields – Wendy Healy, former president of Parador Pictures
• Kim Raver – Nico Reilly, editor-in-chief of Bonfire Magazine
• Lindsay Price – Victory Ford, fashion designer
• Paul Blackthorne – Shane Healy, British musician; Wendy's husband
• Robert Buckley – Kirby Atwood, photographer, Nico's on-again off-again lover/boyfriend
• Andrew McCarthy – Joe Bennett, powerful but cynical billionaire, engaged to Victory

Recurring characters[link]

• Rosie Perez – Dahlia Morales, the PR Maven for Victory (Season 2 only)
• Marcia DeBonis – Ellen, Joe's personal assistant
• David Alan Basche – Mike Harness, Wendy and Nico's co-worker
• Mary Tyler Moore – Joyce, Wendy's mother (Season 2 only)
• David Noroña – Salvador Rosa, Wendy's friend and co-worker
• Matt Lauria – Roy Merritt, Victory's personal assistant
• James Lesure – Griffin Bell runs 'Matrick-Warner', the parent company that oversees Parador Pictures and Bonfire Magazine. He eventually became Nico's temporary lover (Season 2 only)
• Vanessa Marcil – Josie Scotto, Shane's agent/manager for his new career as a composer/musician, who seems to be threatening Wendy and Shane's relationship (Season 2 only)
• Uma Incrocci – Nora, Janice's (Lorraine Bracco) hapless assistant
• Sarah Hyland – Maddie Healy, Wendy and Shane's headstrong teenage daughter
• Dylan Clark Marshall – Taylor Healy, Wendy and Shane's son
• Seth Kirschner – "Josh"
• Carlos Ponce – Rodrigo Vega, Victory's contractor and love interest (Season 2 only)

Former characters[link]

• Julian Sands – Hector Matrick, Nico & Wendy's boss (appearing only in season one)
• Christopher Cousins – Charles Stern, Nico Reilly's husband who died at the beginning of season two.

Episodes[link]

Music[link]

See List of Lipstick Jungle music

U.S. Nielsen Ratings[link]

UK Ratings[link]

Below is a table of ratings for UK digital channel Living TV, the network showing Lipstick Jungle.

Season 1[link]

Season 1 of Lipstick Jungle began airing on September 22, 2008 on Mondays at 10 pm, following one of Living's most popular US imports America's Next Top Model. The network soon brought in a name for their Monday night schedule, 'I Heart NY Mondays', as both shows are set in New York.

Season 2[link]

The second season of the show began airing immediately after the first run's seven episodes had finished.

Merchandise[link]

DVD releases[link]

International distribution[link]

The series was broadcast on Living in the UK,^[17] TG4 in the Republic of Ireland, Domashniy in Russia,^[18] and 7 Network in Australia.^[19][20] CTV Television Network aired the show in Canada,^[21] and broadcast by TV3 in New Zealand.^[22]

Country	TV Network(s)	Series Premiere	Weekly schedule (local time)
Australia	Seven Network	June 29, 2008/May 5, 2009 (Season 2)	Tuesday 10:30 pm
Austria	ORF 1	September 21, 2009	Monday 9.55 pm
Brazil	Rede Record	December 8, 2010	Thursday 00.30 am
United Kingdom	Living TV	September 22, 2008	Monday 10.00 pm
Hungary	TV2 (Hungary)	January 28, 2009	Friday 9.00 pm
Hong Kong	Star World	May 30, 2009	Saturday 10.00 pm
Israel	Yes Stars Drama	2008	Sunday 09.45 pm
Bulgaria	Nova Television	December 27, 2008	Season 1 – Saturday and Sunday 3.00 pm Season 2 – Monday to Friday 10.00 pm
Germany	ProSieben	September 16, 2009	Wednesday 8.15 pm Wednesday 9.15 pm
Canada	Cosmopolitan TV	October 3, 2009	Saturday 10.30 pm
Greece	Alter Channel	October 16, 2009	Wednesday 10.05 pm
Italy	Fox Life	February, 2009	Thursday 9.00 pm
Ireland	TG4	October 6, 2008	Monday 10.30 pm
Latvia	TV3 Latvia , TV3+ Latvia	January 5, 2009	Monday 11:05 pm
Lithuania	TV3	December 29, 2008 (Both seasons)	Monday 10.00 pm
Macedonia	Sitel	February 8, 2012	Monday to Friday 23:15
Netherlands	RTL 5	September 22, 2008	Monday 8.30 pm
New Zealand	TV3	October 21, 2008	Tuesday 9.30 pm
Poland	TVP1	November 23, 2008	Sunday 8.15 pm
Portugal	RTP2	September 12, 2008	Friday 10.40 pm
Slovenia	POP TV	September 8, 2008	Monday 9.40 pm
Serbia	Fox Life	May 24, 2011	Tuesday 21:10
Turkey	DiziMax	July 31, 2008	Thursday 9.00 pm
Chile	Fox Latin America Mega	June 22, 2008 December 2008	Tuesday 10.00 pm Sundays 0.00 am
Venezuela	Globovisión	September 2, 2008	Tuesday 8.00 pm (HK/SIN) Tuesday 7.00 pm (THAI/WIB)
Norway	Canal + TV3	September 27, 2008 August 3, 2009	Saturday 10.00 pm Monday 09.30 pm
Sweden	TV 3		Monday 8.00 pm
Brazil	Fox Rede Record	August 25, 2008 January 7, 2010	Thursday 10.00 pm Thursday 00.30 am
Finland	MTV3	January 13, 2009/August 25, 2009 (Season 2)	Tuesday 09:00 pm
Spain	Fox Divinity	2008 2011	Tuesday 10.20 pm Monday 10.00 pm
South Africa	SABC3		Mondays – Wednesday 9.00 pm
Hungary	TV2	February 3, 2009	Tuesday 10.20 pm
Puerto Rico	WKAQ-TV	2009	Saturday 10.00 pm
Estonia	TV3	January 16, 2009	Wednesday 8.50 pm
Mexico	Fox	2009	Thursday 10.00 pm
Russia	Domashniy	August 3, 2009	Monday – Friday 10.00 pm
Czech Republic	TV Prima	January 11, 2010	Wedensday, 22:00
The Middle East	ShowSeries (part of Showtime Arabia Cable Network)	India	2009
Indonesia	Trans 7	2010	Sunday & Monday 2:30 pm
Belgium	VIJFtv	November 13, 2010	Friday 7:50 pm
Switzerland	RSI La 2	May 24, 2011	Tuesday 21:10
Georgia	Rustavi 2	February 19, 2012	Saturday-Sunday 17:00 (2nd Season)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lipstick Jungle at the Internet Movie Database
• Lipstick Jungle at TV.com

Lipstick Jungle may refer to:

• Lipstick Jungle (novel), by Candace Bushnell
• Lipstick Jungle (TV series), an American drama series based on the novel

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Lindsay Price
Price in June 2009
Born	(1976-12-06) December 6, 1976 (age 35) Arcadia, California
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1984–2011
Partner	Curtis Stone (2009–present)

Lindsay Jaylyn Price (born December 6, 1976) is an American television actress, best known for her roles as Janet Sosna on Beverly Hills, 90210 and as Victory Ford on Lipstick Jungle. She also is known for her work on soap operas such as All My Children and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Career[link]

Price's early appearances include a 1980s Toys-R-Us television commercial, a 1989 episode of The Wonder Years titled "Walk Out," and an episode of the game show I'm Telling! with her older brother, Bryan. She played An Li Chen on the daytime soap All My Children and as Michael Lai on The Bold and the Beautiful.

She joined the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 in January 1998 as Janet Sosna, a graphic designer at the Beverly Beat newspaper, working with Brandon Walsh and Steve Sanders, eventually marrying Sanders and giving birth to their daughter, Madeline. She remained on the show through its finale in May 2000. She then reprised the role as Michael Lai on The Bold and the Beautiful from June 2000 to August 2000, April 2005 to August 2005, and November 2009.

Price also starred on the short-lived American version of Coupling, and had a recurring role on Becker, where she played Amanda, Jake Malinak (Alex Désert)'s girlfriend, a role that spanned three seasons. Price wrote and performed on a self-titled album in 2005.

Price in January 2008

In 2006 she co-starred on The WB television show Pepper Dennis, opposite Rebecca Romijn, in the role of Kimmy Kim. She appeared in the short-lived American remake of the British series, Coupling, in addition to singing the show's theme song, a cover of "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps." She guest starred in NCIS for two episodes as a neurotic fling of main character, Anthony DiNozzo.

From 2008 to 2009 she starred in the NBC drama Lipstick Jungle as Victory Ford, an up-and-coming fashion designer in New York City. She guest-starred in episodes of TV series' How I Met Your Mother, and played Joanna Frankel in the short-lived ABC television series Eastwick.

Personal life[link]

Her mother is of Korean descent, and her father is of German-Irish descent; they are also adopted siblings (Price's mother was adopted into Price's father's family).^[1]

Price married Shawn Piller, creator of the television show The Dead Zone, in July 2004 at a ranch in Malibu.^[2] They later divorced.

Price subsequently began dating actor Josh Radnor in August 2008; they first met a year and a half prior to that when Price guest-starred on Radnor's TV show How I Met Your Mother.^[3] The couple split in November 2009.^[4]

Price has been dating Australian chef Curtis Stone since late 2009.^[5] The couple have a son, Hudson, born on November 6, 2011.^[6][7]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lindsay Price at the Internet Movie Database

Andrew McCarthy
Born	Andrew Thomas McCarthy (1962-11-29) November 29, 1962 (age 49) Westfield, New Jersey, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Carol Schneider (m. 1999–2005; 1 child) Dolores Rice (m. 2011–present; 1 child)

Andrew Thomas McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the 1980s films St. Elmo's Fire, Mannequin, Weekend at Bernie's, Pretty in Pink, and Less Than Zero, and more recently for his role in the television shows Lipstick Jungle, White Collar and Royal Pains.

Career[link]

McCarthy gained recognition in Hollywood during the 1980s. His boyish good looks continually had him placed as the sincere and kind leading man. His breakout role was in the 1983 theatrical film Class. He also played the lead role in The Beniker Gang, a Disney film about escaped orphans trying to become a family together, based on the novel "Dear Lola," a children's novel about an 18 year old boy who takes over the writing of an Advice Columnist when she dies." As McCarthy's career grew, he involuntarily became a member of the '80s Hollywood group of young actors known as the "Brat Pack"; McCarthy's better-known films include the Brat Pack films St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink. During the filming of St. Elmo's Fire, McCarthy took up smoking, a habit he dropped in 1995.^[1] He starred in the 1987 box office hits, Mannequin and Less Than Zero, a theatrical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' popular novel. Years after the filming of Pretty in Pink, co-star and fellow Brat Pack member Molly Ringwald admitted to having a huge crush on Andrew during the filming. She found him "incredibly cute" and "dreamy."^[2] In 1985, McCarthy starred with Donald Sutherland and Kevin Dillon in Heaven Help Us (also known as Catholic Boys) playing Michael Dunn. In 1985, McCarthy made his Broadway debut in The Boys of Winter. He quickly returned to Hollywood in 1988 to star in several films, such as Fresh Horses and Kansas.

He had another hit in the 1989 comedy film Weekend at Bernie's. In 1991, he played the lead role in the motion picture, Year of the Gun, a thriller which received mixed reviews from critics. In 1992, he starred in the romantic comedy film Only You. In 1993, he reprised the lead role of Larry Wilson in the sequel to the box office hit Weekend at Bernie's, Weekend at Bernie's II, the sequel was successful in the box office. He also had a supporting role in the critically acclaimed The Joy Luck Club. In 1994, he starred in the motion pictures Getting In, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle and Dead Funny. In 1996, he starred in the motion picture I'm Losing You, a theatrical adaptation of the novel I'm Losing You. He also starred in the period piece, Mulholland Falls. In 1997, he starred in the motion picture Stag. He also starred in the 1999 theatrical film A Twist of Faith as a police detective.

He returned to Broadway theatre to star in Side Man, McCarthy's version of the play won a Tony Award for Best Play in 1999. In 2003, McCarthy was set to guest star in two episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Due to bad relations with actor Vincent D'Onofrio, series creator Dick Wolf decided against it. Wolf later stated, "Mr. McCarthy engaged in fractious behavior from the moment he walked on the set." McCarthy fired back in a statement of his own saying, "I was fired because I refused to allow a fellow actor to threaten me with physical violence, bully me and try to direct me."^[3] Despite this incident, he later guest starred in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (with Chris Noth, not D'Onofrio) that originally aired in November 2007.^[4] In 2004, he played Dr. Hook in Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital. Since 2005, he has appeared with some regularity in episodes of the television series E-Ring. In 2008, he starred in the NBC television series Lipstick Jungle as a billionaire, but was eventually cancelled, and had a minor role in The Spiderwick Chronicles. He is ranked #40 on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars of all time list. Mccarthy recently directed several episodes of the hit CW television series, Gossip Girl, including Touch of Eva of the fourth season. In 2010 and 2011, he also appeared in the hit USA show White Collar; he was praised by several critics for his performance in the episodes. He returned to the series in the next season to direct the episode "Neighborhood Watch".

Personal life[link]

McCarthy with wife Dolores Rice at the premiere of Shrek Forever After.

McCarthy was born in Westfield, New Jersey.^[5] His mother worked for a newspaper and his father was involved in investments and stocks.^[5] McCarthy moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, as a teenager and attended the Pingry School.^[6]

In 1999, McCarthy married his college sweetheart Carol Schneider, 20 years after they first dated. He later stated his reasons for tracking her down: "I ran into someone who said they had seen Carol and her boyfriend and they seemed really happy, and for some reason it bothered me for a week. I called her and asked her if she was really with this guy and asked her out for a coffee."^[3] In 2002, Schneider gave birth to a son. In 2005, the couple divorced. On August 28, 2011 he married Dolores Rice. They have a daughter.^[7]

In 2004, he announced that he had once had a serious alcohol problem, which began at age 12. In 1992, he entered a detoxification program and has been sober since.^[8]

In 2010, McCarthy was escorted out of an underground church in Lalibela, Ethiopia, for entering the site without documentation. He had been in the church on assignment for the travel magazine, Afar.^[9]

Filmography[link]