Nip/Tuck

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Nip/Tuck
The Nip/Tuck title card.
Format	Medical drama
Created by	Ryan Murphy
Starring	Dylan Walsh Julian McMahon John Hensley Roma Maffia Kelly Carlson Joely Richardson
Opening theme	A Perfect Lie by The Engine Room
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	73 (List of episodes)
Production
Location(s)	Hollywood, California[1]
Running time	42-65 minutes per episode (season premiers are longer)
Broadcast
Original channel	FX Networks
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV)
Original run	July 22, 2003 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Nip/Tuck is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television medical drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks. The show follows the lives of two plastic surgeons, Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Christian Troy (Julian McMahon). The show was set in Miami, Florida in Seasons 1 through to 4 but a plot-related development led to the show moving location to Los Angeles, California from Season 5 onwards. Although previously set in Miami, the show was never filmed there; moving the setting to LA has brought it in line with its place of production.

In its debut season, Nip/Tuck was the highest-rated new series on American basic cable, and the highest rated basic cable series of all time for the 18-49 and 25-54 age demographics. The fourth season of the series premiered on September 5, 2006 on FX Networks.^[2] The latest season to be released on DVD was the fourth on September 4, 2007. The fifth season premiered on October 30, 2007, and was to consist of 22 episodes,^[3] making it the longest season of the show yet, with Joely Richardson returning for 15 of those episodes.^[4] However, due to the WGA Writers Strike, the season was cut short to 14 episodes with a season finale airing on February 19, 2008. The show inspired the creation of the plastic surgery reality show Dr. 90210.^[5]

It has been confirmed that creator Ryan Murphy has come to an agreement with FX that will see the show continue until at least the end of its seventh season.^[6] Murphy has also added that he will remain with the show until it comes to an end.

Taglines:
Tell me what you don't like about yourself...?
A disturbingly perfect new drama.
Beauty isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Change what you can. Hide what you can't.
Beauty is a curse on the world.
Truth is only skin deep
The deeply superficial series returns.

Contents 1 Characters and cast 1.1 Formerly starring 1.2 Antagonists 1.3 Recurring special guests 2 Controversy 3 Awards 4 Real-life basis for surgeries 5 U.S. television ratings 6 Soundtrack 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Characters and cast

Main article: List of Nip/Tuck characters

See also: List of Nip/Tuck episodes

See also: List of Nip/Tuck cast members

• Sean McNamara - Dylan Walsh
• Christian Troy - Julian McMahon
• Julia McNamara - Joely Richardson
• Matt McNamara - John Hensley
• Liz Cruz - Roma Maffia
• Kimber Henry - Kelly Carlson

[edit] Formerly starring

• Annie McNamara - Kelsey Batelaan (Recurring Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
• Grace Santiago - Valerie Cruz (Season 1)
• Quentin Costa - Bruno Campos (Season 2, Regular Season 3)
• Gina Russo (deceased) - Jessalyn Gilsig (Recurring Seasons 1, 2, 4 & 5, Regular Season 3)

[edit] Antagonists

• Escobar Gallardo (deceased) - Robert LaSardo (Seasons 1 and 4)
• Ava Moore - Famke Janssen (Season 2)
• The Carver (Seasons 2 and 3)
• Kit McGraw - Rhona Mitra (Season 3)
• James (deceased) - Jacqueline Bisset (Season 4)
• Eden Lord - AnnaLynne McCord (Season 5)
• Colleen Rose - Sharon Gless (Season 5)

[edit] Recurring special guests

• Dr. Erica Noughton - Vanessa Redgrave (Seasons 2 & 3)
• Ariel Alderman - Brittany Snow (Season 3)
• Nurse Linda - Linda Klein (Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5)
• Dawn Budge - Rosie O'Donnell (Seasons 4 & 5)
• Michelle Landau - Sanaa Lathan (Season 4)
• Marlowe Sawyer - Peter Dinklage (Season 4)
• Poppy - Alanis Morissette (Season 4)
• Aidan Stone - Bradley Cooper (Season 5)
• Freddy Prune - Oliver Platt (Season 5)
• Olivia Lord - Portia de Rossi (Season 5)

[edit] Controversy

Main article: Issues addressed in Nip/Tuck

The Parents Television Council has criticized the show.^[7] The show is, however, shown at a late hour with multiple 'Viewer Discretion Advised' warnings now between every commercial break. A particular scene involving a foursome pushed the PTC into starting a campaign to get the show taken off the air by writing to the sponsors of the show and threatening to boycott their products.^[8][9] Another scene the PTC criticized depicted a funeral home worker removing and assembling body parts from dead women, including his sister's head, then sewing them together to make "the ideal woman." The PTC President described it in a decency hearing as "incestuous necrophilia."^[10]

[edit] Awards

• Emmy Awards (2006):
  • Nominated - Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series
  • Nominated - Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special
  • Nominated - Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic).

• Golden Globe Awards (2005):
  • Won - Best Television Series - Drama.
  • Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama (Julian McMahon)
  • Nominated - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama (Joely Richardson).

• Emmy Awards (2005):
  • Nominated - Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
  • Nominated - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (Jill Clayburgh)
  • Nominated - Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special
  • Nominated - Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic).

• Golden Globe Awards (2004):
  • Nominated - Best Television Series - Drama
  • Nominated - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama (Joely Richardson).

• Emmy Awards (2004):
  • Won - Outstanding Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Prosthetic).
  • Nominated - Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
  • Nominated - Outstanding Main Title Design
  • Nominated - Outstanding Main Title Theme Music
  • Nominated - Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic).

[edit] Real-life basis for surgeries

Series creator Ryan Murphy has stated that the medical cases featured on the show are "100 percent based on fact".^[11]

• In Episode 1.13 ("Escobar Gallardo"), the featured surgery involved a druglord who had his appearance heavily changed. In July 1997, Armando Carrillo Fuentes, one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers at the time, died while having plastic surgery to drastically alter his face (and while having 3 1/2 gallons of fat sucked from his body).^[12]
• In Episode 2.4, ("Mrs. Grubman"), the featured surgery involves a patient addicted to plastic surgery. Plastic surgery addiction is a real phenomenon, and is believed to stem from a psychological condition called Body dysmorphic disorder in many cases.
• In Episode 2.9 ("Rose and Raven Rosenberg"), the featured surgery concerned the separation of two adult conjoined twins (played by Lori and Reba Schappell). While there have been many cases of conjoined twin separation, the surgery featured in this episode shares some details with the 2000 separation of Gracie and Rosie Attard, which resulted in the death of Rosie.^[13]
• In Episode 2.10 ("Kimber Henry"), a surgery in the show involved a male writer/humorist getting breast implants as resource material for a new book. This shares some similarities with the story of Canadian Brian Zembic, who in the year 2000 got breast implants to win a $100,000 USD (£50,000) bet. Unlike the patient on Nip/Tuck, Zembic decided to keep his breasts, and later displayed them to the world on an episode of The Man Show.^[14]
• In Episode 3.1 ("Momma Boone"), the featured surgery appears to have been based on a 480-pound Florida resident Gayle Laverne Grinds, who died after emergency workers tried to separate her from the couch she had lived on for 3 years.^[15]
• In Episode 3.13 ("Joy Kringle"), the featured surgery involves a woman who unknowingly has carried a petrified fetus inside of her for 17 years. Lithopedions (or "stone babies") are a real, albeit rare phenomenon that result when a fetus dies during an ectopic pregnancy. Two recent cases reported in the news include a 49-year-old fetus found in a 76-year-old woman (2000), and a 39-year-old fetus in a 67-year-old (1999).^[16]

[edit] U.S. television ratings

Viewer numbers (based on average total viewers per episode) of Nip/Tuck on FX.

Season	Timeslot	Season Premiere			Season Finale			Viewers Total (in millions)	Viewers Age 18-49 (in millions)
		Date	Viewers Total (in millions)	Viewers 18-49 (in millions)	Date	Viewers Total (in millions)	Viewers 18-49 (in millions)
1st	Tuesday 10:00PM	July 22, 2003	3.7[17]	2.0[17]	October 21, 2003	2.99[18]	2.1[17]	3.25[18]	2.2[18]
2nd		June 22, 2004	3.8[17]	2.7[17]	October 5, 2004	5.2[17]	3.6[17]	3.8[17]	2.6[17]
3rd		September 20, 2005	5.3[17]	3.7[17]	December 20, 2005	5.7[19]	3.9[19]	3.9[19]	2.7[19]
4th		September 5, 2006	4.8[20]	3.4[20]	December 12, 2006	3.38[21]	2.38[22]	3.9	2.75[21]
5th		October 30, 2007	4.3 [23]	3.5	February 19, 2008	???	2.41[24]	???	???

Nip/Tuck became an instant basic cable hit from its 2003 series premiere.

For its third season, FX aired Nip/Tuck solely in the fall of 2005, instead of during the summer season like the two years prior. John Landgraf, president of FX, stated that such a move was a "huge risk" since it stacked up "against the full barrage of fall network competition."^[19] Despite some critical backlash on its third season, like the grade of D+ from Entertainment Weekly,^[25] the story arc involving The Carver attracted an audience to the series larger than any season before, culminating in a December 20, 2005 two-hour season finale, entitled Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, which became the most-watched scripted program in the history of the FX network.

Including Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, three episodes of Nip/Tuck rank as the three most-watched scripted programs ever on FX. The second season finale, entitled Joan Rivers, which aired on October 5, 2004, drew 5.2 million viewers. It was then eclipsed on September 20, 2005 when the third season premiere, entitled Momma Boone, drew roughly 5.3 million viewers.^[26] Exactly three months later on December 20, 2005, the aforementioned third season finale, entitled Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, drew 5.7 million viewers. Of those 5.7 million viewers, 3.9 million viewers were in the 18-49 age group demographic, "making the finale the No. 1 episode among the key advertising demographic of any cable series in 2005. It's also the largest demographic number for any single telecast in the network's history,"^[19] according to Zap2It.

According to the September 8, 2006 Mediaweek column The Programming Insider, "the fourth season-premiere on Tuesday, September 5, 2006, from 10-11:10 pm averaged a stellar 4.8 million total viewers and 3.4 million adults 18-49, building over its season three average by 25 percent and 26 percent, respectively. Nip/Tuck's performance among adults 18-49 ranks as basic cable’s top-rated season-premiere in the demo for 2006, as of September 8, 2006."^[20]

[edit] Soundtrack

For complete listing and details, see Nip / Tuck: Original TV Soundtrack.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Mundofox: Nip/Tuck Official website Lat
• FX Network: Nip/Tuck Official website
• MySpace: Official Nip/Tuck MySpace Page
• Nip/Tuck at the Internet Movie Database
• Warner Video: Nip/Tuck Official website
• Nip/Tuck French Website: Nip/Tuck France
• TVGuide: TVGuide's Nip/Tuck Page
• TV.com: Nip/Tuck TV Show
• CTV.ca Nip/Tuck CTV.ca website

Preceded by 24

Golden Globe - Best Television Series - Drama 2005

Succeeded by Lost

v • d • e Nip/Tuck Main characters Sean McNamara • Christian Troy • Julia McNamara • Matt McNamara • Liz Cruz • Kimber Henry Minor characters Annie McNamara • Grace Santiago • Gina Russo • Adrian Moore • Quentin Costa • Kit McGraw • Burt Landau • Michelle Landau • Marlowe Sawyer • Olivia Lord • Nurse Linda Antagonists Escobar Gallardo • Ava Moore • The Carver • James • Eden Lord • Colleen Rose Other List of Nip/Tuck episodes • Issues addressed in Nip/Tuck