Keith Carradine Looks Back on "Complete Savages" (2004)

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The Keith Carradine-led ABC sitcom — in which he played a single dad of five sons — premiered in 2004 and aired for a single season.

“That whole experience was a delight,” Carradine says. Betty White played his neighbor (“What a force,” Carradine says. “She’s smart as a whip, 100 percent there”) and Mel Gibson was an executive producer who also acted in and directed a few episodes (“He’s got a wonderful, kind of Chuck Jones sense of physical comedy”).




Alas, the show didn’t really gel with the network’s TGIF lineup, which led to its demise.

“It was a sitcom about this bachelor father with five boys, and it had all of that energy about it, and they sandwiched us on Friday night between two shows — 8 Simple Rules and Hope & Faith — that were really geared toward a feminine audience,” Carradine says.

“There’s just no way you’re going to hold that audience. We should’ve been on Tuesday nights,” which at the time showcased dude-focused shows like "My Wife and Kids" and "According to Jim". “I was sad it didn’t click.”

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