Nip/Tuck

The drama is set in a plastic-surgery center, McNamara/Troy, centering on the two doctors who own it. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) is often found having problems at home due to being seduced by beautiful women on a daily basis, and thus tries to keep his family together by patching up the rocky road in which his family and himself are living. Partner Christian Troy (Julian McMahon), though, uses his charm to bring in potential female candidates and conducts vain business deals, almost never failing to end up with them in bed. Sean takes his job seriously and often must fix Christian's mistakes.

According to Ryan Murphy, the series was inspired by makeover episodes of the talk shows The Jenny Jones Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show.^[6]

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,^[7] 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; airing on October 14, 2009. Following a three-week hiatus for the Christmas holidays, the show resumed in January 2010, and concluded on March 3, 2010, with its 100th episode.^[8][9][10]

Nip/Tuck filmed its 100th and final episode on June 12, 2009, without creator Ryan Murphy,^[11] who was, at the time, in India scouting locations for his film version of the memoir Eat, Pray, Love.

The show inspired the creation of the plastic-surgery reality show Dr. 90210.^[12]

Main cast edit

Recurring cast edit

• Michael M. Robin
• Elodie Keene (10 episodes, 2003–2007)
• Ryan Murphy (8 episodes, 2003–2006)
• Charles Haid (8 episodes, 2006–2008)
• Craig Zisk (6 episodes, 2003–2008)
• Nelson McCormick (4 episodes, 2003–2006)
• Richard Levine (4 episodes, 2006–2009)
• Jamie Babbit (3 episodes, 2003–2004)
• Greer Shephard (3 episodes, 2004–2005)
• Brad Falchuk (3 episodes, 2007–2009)
• Scott Brazil (2 episodes, 2003–2004)
• Jeremy Podeswa (2 episodes, 2005)
• Dirk Craft (2 episodes, 2008–2009)
• Jennifer Salt (15 episodes, 2003–2009)
• Sean Jablonski (13 episodes, 2003–2008)
• Lynnie Greene (3 episodes, 2006–2009)
• Hank Chilton

• Emmy Awards (2010):
  • Nominated – Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special
• Emmy Awards (2009):
  • Nominated – Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special
  • Nominated – Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Nonprosthetic)
• Emmy Awards (2008):
  • Nominated – Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (Sharon Gless)
  • Nominated – Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Oliver Platt)
• 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 (Nonprosthetic)
• 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 (Nonprosthetic)
• 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 (Nonprosthetic)

Viewer numbers (based on average total viewers per episode) of Nip/Tuck on FX.

Nip/Tuck became an instant cable hit from its 2003 series premiere.^{[citation needed]}

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".^[15] Despite some criticism on its third season, the story arc involving The Carver attracted even more of an audience to the series than any of the seasons before, reaching its climax 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.^{[citation needed]}

Including "Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa", three episodes of Nip/Tuck rank as the three most-watched scripted programs ever on FX.^{[citation needed]} 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. 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 were in the 18–49 age group demographic, "making the finale the number-one 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,"^{[15][dead link]} according to Zap2It.

According to the September 8, 2006, Mediaweek column "The Programming Insider", "the fourth-season premiere on Tuesday, September 5, 2006, averaged 4.8 million total viewers and 3.4 million adults 18–49, building over its season-three average by 25% and 26%, respectively. Nip/Tuck's performance among adults 18–49 ranks as basic cable's top-rated season premiere in the demographic for 2006, as of September 8, 2006."^[16]

In Australia, the series aired on Showcase and Nine Network; in Canada on CTV and Series+; in France on M6; in Ireland on TG4; in New Zealand on TV One, TV2 and Canterbury Television; and in the United Kingdom on Sky One, where it premiered in the 10:00pm time slot on 13 January 2004.^[24][25][26] It has since been re-ran on Fox, Sky Living, and Channel 4.^[27] In South Africa the show aired, after the actual running time, on SABC 3.

In 2013, the Colombian network Caracol TV produced the Spanish language adaptation of the series, titled Mentiras perfectas (Perfect Lies).^[28]

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