Bonnie (also known as "The Bonnie Hunt Show") was a Syndication network comedy series created by Bonnie Hunt & Rob Burnett, starring Bonnie Hunt in the lead role.
The show aired from September 22, 1995 to April 7, 1996, lasting for one season & 13 episodes.
It was produced by Bob & Alice Productions and Worldwide Pants Incorporated.
Plot[]
The series centered on Bonnie Kelly, a television reporter who moves from Wisconsin to Chicago, Illinois to take a job with a local TV station where she encounters an eclectic group of coworkers.
In addition to the stories surrounding Bonnie's personal life and her life at the TV station, each episode showed one of Bonnie's television news features, where she would interview real people who were attending (or otherwise involved in) current real local events; these scenes were improvised.
Cast[]
- Bonnie Hunt as Bonnie Kelly
- Mark Derwin as Bill Kirkland
- Brian Howe as Sammy Sinatra
- Don Lake as Keith Jedzik
- Tom Virtue as Tom Vandoozer
- Holly Wortell as Holly Janovsky
Production[]
The series premiered as "The Bonnie Hunt Show" in September of 1995, and aired under that title for the first six episodes before being put on hiatus in November.
Upon returning to the air in March, the show was retitled Bonnie, and ran for an additional five episodes; a further two episodes were produced, but never broadcast.
As with Bonnie Hunt's previous short-run 1993 sitcom series, "The Building", the show had a theatrical sensibility wherein minor mistakes, accidents and forgotten lines were often left in the aired episode.