“Angie Tribeca” is a Hulu original comedy series created by Steve and Nancy Carell.
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- Angie Tribeca is an American comedy television series.
- It was created by Steve and Nancy Carell.
- It aired on TBS.
- The series is a parody of the police procedural genre.
- Rashida Jones stars as police detective Angie Tribeca.
- Hayes MacArthur, Jere Burns, Deon Cole and Andrée Vermeulen laso star in supporting roles.
- The first season of Angie Tribeca premiered on January 17–18, 2016
- The second season premiered on June 6 of that year.
- The third season premiered on April 10, 2017.
- The fourth and final season was released in its entirety across December 29 and December 30, 2018.
- On May 9, 2019, the series was cancelled after four seasons.
- The series was nominated for 2 Primetime Emmy Awards.
- The series was announced by TBS in mid-2014 with a ten-episode order.
- A few gags presented in the preview reel were cited as similar to the TV cop show satire Sledge Hammer!
- Originally intended to premiere in late 2015,in November 2015 it was announced that the first season of ten episodes would run uninterrupted on the network and be released through video on demand starting on January 17, 2016.
- All 10 episodes of season 1 premiered during a 25-hour TV marathon on January 17–18, 2016.
- A second season of an additional ten episodes premiered on June 6, 2016.
- On July 6, 2016, TBS renewed the series for a third season, which premiered on April 10, 2017.
- The fourth season, which premiered on December 29, 2018, added Bobby Cannavale to the cast.
- Steve Carell is the person screaming in the intro to the show season 1-2
- A recurring joke throughout the show, many of the characters’ names (usually guest stars) are conspicuously named for very famous people, or otherwise well-known pop culture references. Notable entries: Jay Geils (J. Geils Band), Dr. Scholls, Dr. Edelweiss, Wilson Phillips, Jonathan Dough (John Doe), Kobyashi Maru
- Angie’s partner’s name, Jay Giles, is taken from the rock band The J. Geils Band as is the victim Alan Parsons from the Alan’s Parsons Project.
- In November 2015, it was announced that, in an unprecedented move, TBS would air the first season of the series in a 25-hour marathon, beginning on January 17, 2016. It consisted of the first ten episodes of the series, repeated five times over two days.
- For the fourth season, the series switched from conventional police work to an espionage format, mirroring such 1960s-era shows as “77 Sunset Strip” and “Burke’s Law,” which did the same thing in their final seasons
- Heather Graham guest stars on several episodes. She previously worked with Rashida Jones’s mother, Peggy Lipton, on Twin Peaks (1990). In fact, they played sisters.
- Both Rashida Jones and Nancy Carrol have recurring roles in The Office. They appear in several of the same episodes although they do not share any screen time
- Lieutenant Atkins’ (Jere Burns) first name is Pritikin. Both Pritikin and Atkins are names of popular (but controversial) fad diets of the time. Incidentally, his name originally was listed as “Chet Atkins,” named after a popular country singer in the 1940s-60s.
- It’s likely that the name was changed in order to make a more obvious joke name that a wider audience would get.
- John Nance Garner, whose name is a recurring joke throughout the series, was the 32nd Vice President of the United States.
- He served under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
