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Nip/Tuck
Title card
Created byRyan Murphy
StarringDylan Walsh
Julian McMahon
Joely Richardson
John Hensley
Roma Maffia
Kelly Carlson
Jessalyn Gilsig
Bruno Campos
Valerie Cruz
Opening theme"A Perfect Lie" by The Engine Room
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons7
No. of episodes92 (list of episodes)
Production
Production locationHollywood, California[1]
Running time42-65 minutes per episode (season premieres sometimes longer)
Original release
NetworkFX
ReleaseJuly 22, 2003 (2003-07-22) –
March 3, 2010 (2010-03-03)

Nip/Tuck is an American television drama series created by Ryan Murphy and broadcast on FX Networks. The show is set at the McNamara/Troy plastic surgery practice, and follows the professional and personal lives of its owners, Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy (played by Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon respectively). Sean McNamara and Christian Troy are two plastic surgeons running a partnership in Miami, Florida with different issues to life. Sean is a wishy-washy, weak-kneed, family man who distances himself with work to avoid his dysfunctional home life which includes his needy and spiteful wife Julia, his rebellious teenage son Matt and young daughter Annie. The slicker Christian is an arrogant, narcissistic, unethical, ladies man who worships wine, women, and the all mighty dollar, and will do just about anything to get what he wants (lie, cheat, steal, blackmail and seduce) and has no qualms about practically anything.

The first four seasons of the show were set in Miami, but the characters relocated to Los Angeles for the fifth to seventh seasons. The show aired its seventh and final season premiere on January 6, 2010. The series will conclude with its 100th episode on March 3, 2010.[2][3]. The show is known for its graphic depictions of sex, violence and surgical operations.[4]

Overview

This drama is set in a south Florida plastic surgery center, McNamara-Troy, centering around the two doctors who own it. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) is having problems at home, trying to keep his family together, trying to patch up the rocky road he and his wife Julia (Joely Richardson) are experiencing. On the other hand, sex-craving Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) uses his charm to bring in potential female candidates and conducts shady business deals, often for the love of money. While Sean takes his job seriously, he often has to fix Christian's mistakes. During the first season, Sean and Christian got mixed up with Escobar Gallardo, a Colombian drug lord who forced the two to do free surgery whenever he wanted them to. Sean's marriage with Julia began to wear thin, and Sean had an affair with a patient named Megan O'Hara. Julia went back to school, but it was interrupted by a miscarriage of a child Sean and Julia were trying to have. Christian learned he is the father of a baby with a woman named Gina, who he met at Sexaholics Anonymous. When the baby was born, we learn that the baby is African-American, and therefore not his. Julia questions Matt's paternity.

The second season begins with Sean and Christian both turning 40, and Christian playing father for Wilbur, whom Gina is letting him take care of, until Wilbur's real father fights him for custody. Sean and Julia are quite happy together again until Christian's loneliness after Wilbur is taken away from him causes her to reveal that Matt is really his son. The secret ripples and eventually Sean finds out, causing a separation between Sean and Julia. He and Christian find a way to stay friends. A serial rapist named the Carver has been raping victims around Miami, and slices their face, and Sean makes a commitment to fixing their faces. Ava, a life coach for Sean and Julia, forms a sexual relationship with Matt, which is doomed from the beginning due to a wide age gap and Ava's screwed up son Adrian.[5]

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 fifth season premiered on October 30, 2007[6], though production was affected by the 2007 Writers Strike. Accordingly, the second half of the fifth season was not screened until January 6, 2009 in the U.S. Another 19 episodes were picked up by FX, which began airing on October 14, 2009. After a 3-week hiatus for the Christmas holidays, the show will resume in January 2010 and conclude on March 3, 2010 with its 100th episode. [7][8][9] Ryan Murphy will remain as a showrunner throughout the final episodes. Nip/Tuck finished filming its 100th and final episode on June 12, 2009, without the attendance of creator Ryan Murphy[10], who at the time was in India scouting locations for his upcoming film version of the memoir Eat, Pray, Love.

The show inspired the creation of the plastic surgery reality show Dr. 90210.[11]

Characters and cast

Main article: List of Nip/Tuck characters
See also: List of Nip/Tuck cast members

Main cast

Character Actor Information
Sean McNamara Dylan Walsh All Seasons
Christian Troy Julian McMahon All Seasons
Julia McNamara Joely Richardson All Seasons
Matt McNamara John Hensley All Seasons
Liz Cruz Roma Maffia Seasons 2+ (Season 1, recurring)
Kimber Henry Kelly Carlson Seasons 3+ (Seasons 1-2, recurring)
Gina Russo Jessalyn Gilsig Season 3 (Seasons 1-2, recurring; 4-5, guest)
Quentin Costa Bruno Campos Season 3 (Season 2, guest)
Grace Santiago Valerie Cruz Season 1

Major supporting characters

Character Actor Information
Annie McNamara Kelsey Batelaan all Seasons (recurring)
Wilber Troy Joshua & Josiah Henry Seasons 2 & 4+ (recurring)
Nurse Linda Linda Klein all Seasons (recurring)

Major recurring characters

Character Actor Information
Escobar Gallardo Robert LaSardo (Seasons 1 & 4, recurring; 2, guest)
Mrs. Hedda Grubman Ruth Williamson (Season 1, recurring; 2 & 4, guest)
Dr. Merrill Bobolit Joey Slotnick (Season 1, recurring; 2 & 4, guest)
Jude Sawyer Phillip Rhys (Season 1, recurring; 2-3, guest)
Megan O'Hara Julie Warner (Season 1, recurring; 2 & 4, guest)
Dr. Erica Noughton Vanessa Redgrave (Seasons 2-3, recurring; 6, guest)
Ava Moore Famke Janssen (Season 2, recurring; 3 & 6, guest)
Adrian Moore Seth Gabel (Season 2, recurring)
Kit McGraw Rhona Mitra (Season 3, recurring)
Ariel Alderman Brittany Snow (Season 3, recurring)
Michelle Landau Sanaa Lathan (Season 4, recurring)
James Jacqueline Bisset (Season 4, recurring)
Marlowe Sawyer Peter Dinklage (Season 4, recurring)
Dawn Budge Rosie O'Donnell (Seasons 4-5, recurring)
Kate Tinsley Paula Marshall (Season 5, recurring)
Olivia Lord Portia de Rossi (Season 5, recurring)
Eden Lord AnnaLynne McCord (Season 5, recurring)
Colleen Rose Sharon Gless (Season 5, recurring)
Dr. Theodora 'Teddy' Rowe Katee Sackhoff and Rose McGowan (Seasons 5-6, recurring)

Episodes

Main article: List of Nip/Tuck episodes

Main crew

Controversy

The Parents Television Council (PTC) has criticized the show.[12] The show is shown at a late hour with multiple 'Viewer Discretion Advised' warnings 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.[13][14] 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."[15] More recently, the PTC took issue with an episode featuring a woman, whose mother and sister died of breast cancer, performing a mastectomy on herself using an electric turkey carving knife in the middle of the McNamara/Troy lobby.

Awards and nominations

  • Emmy Awards (2009):
    • Nominated - Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special
    • Nominated - Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic).
  • Emmy Awards (2007):
    • Nominated - Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special
  • 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).

Real-life basis for surgeries

Series creator Ryan Murphy has stated that the medical cases featured on the show are "90 percent based on fact".[16]

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 10:00 PM 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 - Part I October 30, 2007 4.3 [23] 3.5 February 19, 2008 ??? 2.41[24] ??? ???
5th - Part II January 6, 2009 3.1[25] 2.4[25] March 3, 2009 3.8 2.4 ??? ???
6th Wednesday 10:00 PM October 14, 2009 2.9 TBD March 3, 2010 TBD TBD TBD TBD

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,[26] 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. 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, 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]

References

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  3. ^ Joyce Eng. "FX Sets Midseason Schedule". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
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  6. ^ February 16, 2007. "'Nip/Tuck' Creator Cuts New Deal - Murphy stays with FX show, will develop for FOX - Zap2it". Zap2it.com. Retrieved 2008-12-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  11. ^ "Dr. Robert Ray - The Women in the Life of Dr Robert Rey". Dentalplans.com. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  12. ^ "NIP/TUCK - Parents Television Council Family TV Guide Show Page". Parentstv.org. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  13. ^ Traditional Values Coalition. "Sleazy 'Nip/Tuck' Show Back On FX". Traditionalvalues.org. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  14. ^ ":: Nip/Tuck Advertiser Letter ::". Parentstv.org. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  15. ^ "Press Center". Industryears.com. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  16. ^ Entertainment Weekly
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  18. ^ a b c "The Futon Critic: Cable Movies, Series Not Unhinged by Fall Season". October 23, 2003. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |source= ignored (help)
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  21. ^ a b By. "'Survivor' finale cooks in ratings - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety". Variety.com. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  22. ^ Fitzgerald, Toni. "Media Life Magazine". Medialifemagazine.com. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  23. ^ "Top 20 Cable TV Show Weekly Nielsen Ratings October 29-November 4, 2007". Tvbythenumbers.com. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  24. ^ Fitzgerald, Toni. "Media Life Magazine - 'Envelope, Please: Gary Busey for . . .'". Medialifemagazine.com. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
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  26. ^ "Entertainment Weekly: TV Review: Nip/Tuck, Grade: D+". December 2, 2005. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |source= ignored (help)
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