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8Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter) is an American television sitcom originally starring John Ritter and Katey Sagal as middle-class parents Paul and Cate Hennessy, raising their three children. Kaley Cuoco, Amy Davidson, and Martin Spanjers co-starred as their teenage kids: Bridget, Kerry, and Rory Hennessy. The series ran on ABC from September 17, 2002, to April 15, 2005. The first season focused on Paul being left in charge of the children after Cate takes a full-time job as a nurse, with comedic emphasis on his often strict rules concerning his daughters and dating. The series' name and premise were derived from the book 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter by W. Bruce Cameron.[1]

While 8 Simple Rules was renewed for a second season and production had begun, Ritter's sudden death on September 11, 2003, left the series in an uncertain position. After a hiatus, the series returned and killed off his character. James Garner and David Spade later joined the main cast as Cate's father Jim Egan and her nephew C.J. Barnes. After three seasons, ABC cancelled 8 Simple Rules in May 2005 because of low ratings.

Following Ritter's death, ABC announced that 8 Simple Rules would continue after a hiatus and would incorporate the death of Ritter's character. The three new episodes that Ritter had completed were aired with an introduction by Sagal.

8 Simple Rules returned two months after Ritter's death with a one-hour episode, "Goodbye", which was turned into a tribute to Ritter's character. Subsequent episodes dealt with the family's reaction to his death and how they moved on from it. The first four post-Ritter episodes were shot without a live audience with James Garner and Suzanne Pleshette guest-starring as Cate's strict parents and David Spade guest-starring as Cate's wayward nephew, C.J. Barnes. Garner and Spade later received starring roles in order to fill the void left by Ritter for the remainder of the series' run.

Before Ritter's death, 8 Simple Rules ranked 42nd in the Nielsen ratings. After Ritter's death, it had slipped to 50th, but was renewed for a third season, in which ABC moved the series to Friday at 8:00 p.m. as part of its TGIF comedy line-up. The series' creator and show-runner, Tracy Gamble, left the series for a time over creative differences prior to the third season, but he later returned as a consulting producer midway through the season. Gamble was replaced by Judd Pillot and John Peaslee, who had performed the same role in the final season of Spade's sitcom Just Shoot Me!.[12] The series plunged to 94th in the ratings. Even before the third-season finale's airing, rumors began circulating that 8 Simple Rules was facing cancellation because of Ritter's death and poor ratings. The Friday night "death slot" ratings took their toll on 8 Simple Rules. The third-season finale was not aired for May sweeps. The finale received a 3.9/8 rating share, which gave ABC a third-place finish behind NBC's Dateline (5.8/11) and CBS's Joan of Arcadia (4.9/10), which starred Ritter's son, Jason. ABC officially cancelled 8 Simple Rules in May 2005.[13]

While the ratings for 8 Simple Rules were well above those of the surrounding TGIF shows during the show's third season, ABC canceled it because a perceived inability to sell reruns of the show into syndication; a fourth season would have given the show one hundred episodes, traditionally considered the minimum number of episodes necessary for a show to successfully enter daily syndication.[14][15][16]

In the United Kingdom, the show began airing on the Disney Channel in 2003, with the episodes edited for a children's audience.[19] It was picked up by ABC1, which aired it until the channel's closure in 2007. The same year, Channel 5 began airing Season 1 of the series. From 2008, all three seasons of the show were aired on 5*.[20] The series was aired uncut on subsequent channels following its cancellation by Disney Channel. Both Channel 5 and 5* aired the series in its original widescreen format. In 2017, Comedy Central obtained the rights to the show and started airing it on June 12, 2017.

In the Republic of Ireland, "8 Simple Rules" aired on RT Two. Later, rights to the show were acquired by TG4, which aired the series weeknights at 5:35 p.m. The series was shown on both channels uncut, despite the early time of day, but the show was issued an age rating. On RT Two, it was issued a "PS" rating and, on TG4, a "12" rating.

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8 Simple Rules is an American sitcom television series originally starring John Ritter and Katey Sagal as middle-class parents Paul and Cate Hennessy, raising their three children. Kaley Cuoco, Amy Davidson and Martin Spanjers co-starred as their teenage kids: Bridget, Kerry and Rory Hennessy. The series ran on ABC from September 17, 2002, to April 15, 2005. The first season focused on Paul being left in charge of the children after Cate takes a full-time job as a nurse, with comedic emphasis on his often strict rules concerning his daughters and dating. The series' name and premise were derived from the book 8 Simple Rules by W. Bruce Cameron.

Ritter was best known for his roles in classic sitcoms Three's Company, the spin-off Three's a Crowd, as well as movies like It, Problem Child and Bad Santa. He died unexpectedly after falling ill on the set of 8 Simples Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter.

The Big Bang Theory star Cuoco has vivid memories of Ritter after they worked together on the sitcom 8 Simple Rules together. Ritter played the lead character Paul Hennessy, the father of two teenage daughters, Bridget (Cuoco) and Kerry (Amy Davidson).

Ritter died after falling ill on the set of the sitcom on September 11, 2003. Initially thought to be having a heart attack, he was treated in hospital for that. After his condition worsened, it was identified he had an aortic dissection. He was pronounced dead later that night, six days before his 55th birthday.

Ritter had filmed the first three episodes of Season 2 of 8 Simple Rules, with his final episode airing a month after his death. His character Paul was killed off on the show and the rest of the season dealt with the fall out of his death. 8 Simple Rules was canceled after its third season.

"I'll never forget, there was the mailman at Warner Bros. and he was like, 'I'd like to speak'." She continued, "He goes, 'I used to deliver the mail here. John would always say hi to me' and I was like, 'Of course he did'."

Cuoco has fondly remembered Ritter many times on social media. Last week she shared the preview for Superstar: John Ritter, and encouraged all of her 6.9million followers to watch the documentary all about her friend.

Three years previously, on September 11, 2018, she posted a picture of herself blowing a kiss to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the time she wrote: "15 years .. love you forever, John! you still make me laugh every single day."

On the anniversary of his death last year, Cuoco and the actors who played Ritter's other two children on 8 Simple Rules, Davidson and Martin Spanjers, paid tribute again. Spanjers wrote a long, touching tribute about Ritter and included information about Aortic Dissection Awareness Week.

Jamie Burton is a Newsweek Senior TV and Film Reporter (Interviews) based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on the latest in the world of entertainment and showbiz via interviews with celebrities and industry talent. Jamie has covered general news, world politics, finance and sports for the likes of the BBC, the Press Association and various commercial radio stations in the U.K. Jamie joined Newsweek in 2021 from the London-based Broadcast News Agency Entertainment News (7Digital) where he was the Film and TV Editor for four years. Jamie is an NCTJ-accredited journalist and graduated from Teesside University and the University of South Carolina. Languages: English.

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