The Jamie Foxx Show aired from August 1996 until September 2001 on The WB.
Jamie ( Jamie Foxx), was an aspiring actor in Los Angeles, working and living at King's Tower, the small hotel owned by his Uncle Junior and Aunt Helen ( Garrett Morris, Ella English). On the staff were Fancy ( Garcelle Beauvais), the sexy woman who worked the front desk; Braxton ( Christoper B. Duncan), an accountant; and Dennis( Andy Berman), the clumsy white bellboy.Jamie was infatuated with Fancy who, after training him, told him she didn't believe in office romances. Uncle Junior was a compulsive gambler. In a February 1998 episode, Fancy finally relented and slept with Jamie but he was so nervous he couldn't prerform-and he left her apartment totally embarrassed. At the beginning of March he moved in with Braxton and accidentally started a fire that forced both of them into King's Tower, Braxton in his own room, and Jamie with his Aunt and Uncle. A year later in the season finale, Jamie got a gig with the rap group K-Ci and JoJo, and as the episode ended , was about to embarkon a year-long tour-not realizing that Fancy was in love with him.
That fall Jamie had a falling out with the group and returned to L.A. broke . Fancy had been dating others and, although their was still chemistry between them, she and Jamie no longerr dated. Braxton's social life , however, had picked up. He was dating Cameron ( Susan Wood), the attractive blonde delivery person for GPS. In the May 1999 season finale Fancy was on the verge of marrying Dr. Silas Landry ( Alan F. Smith) when Jamie told her he loved her and she admitted she loved him too.
In October 1999 Junior and Helen promoted Braxton to General Manager and Fancy to director of sales. Jamie, whose acting/singing career was going nowhere took a job with Jingles 2000, a small advertising agency that specialized in commercial jingles. Bob ( Blake Clark), was his new boss; Phil, Mouse, Curtis and Nicole ( Alex Thomas, Suli McCullough, Chris Spencer, Rhona Bennett), his co-workers.Jamie and Fancy were having an affair, but he was still living at King's Tower. In January, out of guilt, he decided to start paying rent for his room, and at the end of the month he was promoted to supervisor at the jingle company. In May Jamie got fired for working on a demo tape for a recording contract at the company's studio. He and Nicole performed as a duo in Vegas and she put the moves on him-which created serious problems when Fancy showed up. Jamie was forced to choose between her and his singing career with Nicole.
At the start of the 2000-2001 season, Jamie decided to pursue his singing career but not to tour with Nicole. Although he broke up with Fancy, they eventually got back together on a tentative basis, while still dating others. In December Jamie proposed and she accepted. Junior and Helen decided to retire and announced they were giviving 75% ownership of the hotel to Jamie and his soon-to-be-bride. This bent Braxton-he had assume that he'd be in charge-out of shape. It also forced Fancy to tell everyone she had been offered a job as marketing director for a New York based hotel chain, which was a surprise to everyone. In the last original episode, which aired in mid January 2001, Jamie and Fancy got married and he gave her the key to the apartment in New York, where he had decided they would live, so she could take her big job. He also, with the Kings aproval, appointed Braxton to run the hotel and gave him 25% ownership.
During the show's first season, Star Jamie Foxx also played the recurring role of Tyrone Koppel, an arrogant local tv news personality.
A Review from The New York Times
Sitcoms Wrapped Around Comedians
By CARYN JAMES
Published: August 28, 1996
''The Jamie Foxx Show'' also constructs a situation that should have allowed the star to let loose, but turns out to be surprisingly strained. Mr. Foxx plays an actor named Jamie who moves to Hollywood and takes a job at a hotel owned by his kindly aunt (Ellia English) and gambler uncle (Garrett Morris). The show treats Jamie as if he were wacky and irrepressible, but there's not much evidence of that. Mr. Foxx drops in a Nat King Cole impression and a sight gag about Michael Jackson, but the episode focuses on its hokey plot. Jamie has to find a way to raise $10,000 in two days, or his uncle's bookie will take over the hotel. He decides to put on a show. The characters think it's a wild success, but it doesn't look that way from the other side of the television screen.
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