| Wasteland | |
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| Image:Wasteland.jpg Wasteland promotional photo |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Kevin Williamson |
| Starring | Sasha Alexander Marisa Coughlan Rebecca Gayheart Eddie Mills Dan Montgomery Jr. Brad Rowe |
| Opening theme | In Walks You |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Running time | approx. 43 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | October 7, 1999 – October 21, 1999 |
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| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Wasteland was an American television drama on ABC network created by Kevin Williamson. The show debuted in 1999, a Miramax Films production. College, Friend, Human Relationship, Gay Interest and Closeted Homosexual are examples of themes explored. It aired only three episodes in October 1999 before ABC canceled it.
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Plot summary
What happens after college for six friends with individual lifes. Dawnie, a graduate student writing a thesis on the "lost generation" and at 27 she is standing strong as a virgin. Along side is her two best female friends. Sam, a sassy social worker and Jesse, a publicist obsessed with the downtown dating scene. Then there is Vandy, a musician in the day, bartender in the night. He still carries a torch for Sam. Ty, who reappears after dating Dawnie who he dumped for not "giving out" and was the college roommate of Russell. Russel is a gay soap opera star terrified of being out. They have six individual lives, six interesting sex lifes, and one common friendship that will last for life.
Cast
- Sasha Alexander as Jesse Presser
- Marisa Coughlan as Dawnie Parker
- Rebecca Gayheart as Samantha 'Sam' Price
- Eddie Mills as Vandy
- Dan Montgomery Jr. as Russell Baskind
- Brad Rowe as Tyler 'Ty' Swindell
- Jeffrey D. Sams as Vincent 'Vince' Lewis
Notable guest appearances
- Adam Scott as Phillip The Coffee Boy
- Benjamin Markham as Gothic Bill
Trivia
- The mortuary where the dead roommate's ashes were taken was called "Steadlawn Mortuary" an anagram of "Wasteland" - gallows humor since that was the last filmed episode and everyone on the team knew the show was about to be axed.
- The working title of the show was "wasteLAnd", which was suppose to take place in Los Angeles (hence the capital letters) but the when it was rewritten, the story setting was changed to New York instead.
- The show is referenced in the introductions of 2 episodes of Clerks: The Animated Series.
- Sam Price was originally written as an NYPD Detective; after negative test-audience feedback was centered around her character's profession and accent, her scenes in the pilot were re-shot to make the character a social worker and the second episode dealt with Sam learning how to speak without a Southern accent.
