“Not Dead Yet” is an American television sitcom starring Gina Rodriguez.
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- Not Dead Yet is an American television sitcom
- It is created by David Windsor and Casey Johnson for ABC
- The series premiered on February 8, 2023
- In May 2023, the series was renewed for a second season
- The show focuses on Nell Serrano, an accident-prone American newspaper reporter who left her last job five years ago to move to the United Kingdom with a lover
- She returns to the US when the relationship ends and tries to resume her journalism career as a newly single woman
- Serrano is assigned to write obituaries by her new employer, and begins to encounter ghosts of the people whose obituaries she is writing, whom only she can see and hear
- The ghosts begin to have conversations with Serrano, and offer her advice on how to rebuild her life while also helping her write their obituaries by telling her their stories
- The ghosts then disappear after their obituaries are published
- On February 14, 2022, Not Dead Yet was given a pilot order by ABC
- It is based on Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter
- On May 13, 2022, Not Dead Yet was picked up to series by ABC
- The series is created by David Windsor and Casey Johnson who are expected to executive produce alongside Rodriguez, McG, Mary Viola and Corey Marsh
- 20th Television and Wonderland Sound and Vision serve as production companies for the series. Dean Holland directed the pilot
- On March 29, 2022, Gina Rodriguez was cast in the lead role
- On April 5, 2022, Josh Banday, Jessica St. Clair, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Angela Gibbs, and Rick Glassman joined the cast as series regulars
- On May 14, 2022, it was reported that Rodriguez, Banday, and Gibbs are the starring cast members to stay on the series as series regulars due to creative tweaks
- Glassman is set to continue on the series, but not as a series regular
- In August 2022, Hannah Simone and Lauren Ash were cast as series regulars
- On January 11, 2023, it was announced that Martin Mull, Ed Begley Jr., Mo Collins, Deborah S. Craig, Telma Hopkins, Don Lake, Rhea Perlman, Paula Pell, Tony Plana, Brittany Snow, and Julia Sweeney would appear in different episodes as ghosts
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 47% approval rating
- ith an average rating of 6.3/10
- Βased on 15 critic reviews
- The website’s critics consensus reads, “While an always engaging Gina Rodriguez is enough to ensure that this supernatural comedy isn’t dead on arrival, it’ll need more spark to survive viewer disinterest”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 58 out of 100
- Βased on 15 critics
- Ιndicating “mixed or average reviews”
- The premiere episode of Not Dead Yet had about 7.6 million viewers
- Αnd a 1.76 rating among the 18-49 demographic in the seven days after its premiere across linear and digital platforms
- It is the most-watched comedy debut on ABC in nearly four years
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