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Kristin aired from June until July 2001 on NBC.

Pint-size ( 4'11") dynamo Kristin ( Kristin Chenoweth) arrived in New York from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, full of spunk and optimism, looking for her big break on Broadway, but after a couple of disastrous auditions decided to find some paying work to tide her over. Her spiritual advisor , The Reverend Thornhill ( Christopher Durang) of a small Lower East Side chapel, got her a job with Tommy Ballantine ( Jon Tenney), a powerful and handsome real estate developer who was having some image problems. Her clean-cut, superhonest, midwestern morality might be just the thing to " reform" this morally bankrupt, self-centered tycoon. It turned out that Tommy wasn't such a bad guy underneath, but the clash of their styles was the centerpiece of this comedy. Everytime he tried to slip some underhanded deal by her , he discovered she was not as naive as he thought. Others in the swank offices of Ballantine Enterprises included Aldo ( Larry Romano), his slick, Brooklyn-accented right-hand man; Tyrique ( Dale Godboldo), the hip, dreadlocked messenger who could get anything done; and Santa Clemente ( Ana' Ortiz), the Latin sexpot who was Tommy's director of sales, and jealous of Kristin's new influence over him.

All these city slickers learned a little from the newly arrived hick. As Tommy remarked, " You are one savvy Christian.

A Review from Entertainment Weekly

TV Review
C+ By Ken Tucker

If you watch Kristin, you'll be hard pressed to figure out why this show -- scheduled for a limited summer run, or as it's so kindly called in the biz, burnoff -- failed to make the cut as fall TV fare. Not that it's a classic or anything: ''Kristin'' has a charming star but too few laughs. Still, what makes it worse than 80 percent of the rest of the stuff that gets -- and stays -- on the air? Compared with, say, ''Yes, Dear'' or ''Just Shoot Me,'' I'd watch ''Kristin'' any old time -- in fact, I watched four episodes without experiencing any significant pain,unless you count the time a Native American character set up a punchline about ''firewater'' that's about as funny as it is politically correct.

The sitcom stars Tony award winning fireball Kristin Chenoweth (''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'') as a personal assistant to a Manhattan real estate developer played by Jon Tenney (''Brooklyn South''). That concept is as old as the recently deceased Ann Sothern's 1950s comedy ''Private Secretary'' -- smart underling woman always saves the dim male boss' bacon -- but Chenoweth, working with writer - creator John Markus (''Cosby''), delivers lines both snappy and sappy with pinpoint timing. But the element that makes ''Kristin'' unique -- the singular sparkle of Chenoweth as an Oklahoma naíf, a church raised gal who won't stand for big city lyin' and cheatin' -- does not extend to the rest of the cast. Beyond Tenney (who's paid to do a Donald Trump knockoff), the show is filled with Italian and Latino ethnic stereotypes. Loading up on cheap shot jokes is often a sign that a show doesn't know what to do with either its star or its premise.

At its best, though, you can see ''Kristin'' straining to burst the bounds of its genre; it fails, but it's an intriguing failure.

For The Official Kristin Chenoweth Website go to http://www.kristinchenoweth.com/

For another Kristin Chenoweth site go to http://kchenoweth.net/

For a Website dedicated to Jon Tenney go to http://www.jon-tenney.com/

For a Jon Tenney Picture Gallery go to http://www.galleryofcelebrities.com/tenney.htm

For The Official Larry Romano Website go to http://www.larryromano.com/