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On the Spot aired from March until April 2003 on the Wb.

The rundown Sun Spot Hotel in Malibu California, was the setting for this series , an unusual mix of sitcom and improvisational comedy. Hyperactive Mr. Henderson ( Tim Conway) ran the company that owned the hotel, and when the Sun Spot's manager died unexpectedly , he gave the job to enthusiastic young Jeff (Jeff B. Davis), formerly the mail clerk. This did not sit well with Brenda ( Erinn Carter), the ambitious assistant manager who was convinced she deserved the promotion. Others working at the Sun Spot were Caramel ( Arden Myrin), the spaced out maid; Monty ( Jordan Black), the bartender and Fifi and the Professor (Mindy Sterling, Michael Hitchcock), the hotel's weird and long-in-the-tooth but excessively amorous lounge act. Lance Barber and Lindsey Stoddart played various characters on the show, depending on the episode.

What made On the Spot unique was its improvisational component. Host Chip Esten , who also provided narration to move the plot along, sat with the studio audience on bleacher-type seats adjacent to the set. At various points in the show the action would stop and he would ask the audience for suggestions on how the story line should proceed-which the actors would then incorporate . Among the familiar faces who showed up in guest appearances were Andy Dick, Robert Wagner, Drew Carey and Jack Black.

Dweezil Zappa was the bandleader.

An Article from the Orlando Sentinel

COPYRIGHT 2003 The Orlando Sentinel

Byline: Hal Boedeker

HOLLYWOOD _ The network of "Dawson's Creek," "Smallville" and "Gilmore Girls" is making room for Tim Conway _ a little room, that is.

WB has put up glossy, orange-toned photographs of its young actors all over a Hollywood hotel's ballroom. Five-time Emmy winner Conway, who will star in WB's upcoming comedy "On the Spot," doesn't receive the glamour treatment. He doesn't mind.

"I've very surprised to be here," he says. "As you know, my career is over. I'm really actually surprised to be anywhere."

Television critics howl at Conway's deadpan antics. WB would like the same reaction from its target audience of viewers 12 to 34 years old.

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