Watching Ellie

Watching Ellie

2002
Watching Ellie
Watching Ellie

Watching Ellie

6.1 | en | Comedy

A single woman, Ellie Riggs, tries to navigate her way through the Los Angeles music scene and her own messy personal life.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP6  Feud
May. 20,2003
Feud

Ellie meets ""Family Feud"" host, Richard Karn at one of her club performances and Ellie gets the idea of being a contestant on the show in the hopes of winning a free vacation. Ellie gets a ""family"" of her own together with her sister Susan and a few adoptees. Ben, Don, and Edgar when the Riggs family gets ready to play the feud.

EP5  Fruit Shots
May. 13,2003
Fruit Shots

Ellie reluctantly takes a gig doing a commercial for a fruit juice containing alcohol that seems to be targeting teenagers. Meanwhile, Don Zimmerman and Ingvar get Ellie and Ben in on a sure bet - a race horse who is certain to win at the track thanks to a special veterinarian ""elixir"" that causes the horse to bolt.

EP4  Buskers
May. 06,2003
Buskers

Ellie runs into an old singing rival of hers who appears to be at the top of her career. In Ellie's zeal to be one step ahead of her rival, she lies about a future gig for Steven Spielberg, yet in reality her next gig turns out to be ""underground"" at the subway in Los Angeles.

EP3  Date
Apr. 29,2003
Date

Ellie and Don are filled with anticipation when they each return to the dating world with hopeful aspirations. On the heels of her break up with Ben, Ellie is bubbling with excitement over her date with a man she met six months earlier, who turns out to be full of surprises. While Don believes he's met his soulmate, Ben tries to get Edgar to reveal where Ellie's date is so he can try to stop it.

EP2  TV
Apr. 22,2003
TV

Ellie gets carried away with dreams of celebrity when a hard nosed ad exec seems to reward her commercial work with a lavish gift -- but must put up with Edgar's jealously. Meanwhile, Ben and Dr. Zimmerman get hooked on a game of Nerf basketball when they notice that every time they make a basket a wish appears to come true.

EP1  Shrink
Apr. 15,2003
Shrink

Ellie encourages her boyfriend Ben to rent an apartment in her building—before she learns that the neighbor's visiting niece, Klinka, a stunning, blonde Icelandic beauty, is right next door. Ellie's lack of self-esteem drives her to her shrink, and soon she becomes consumed with Ben's whereabouts and determined to catch him cheating.

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Released: 2002-02-26 | Released Producted By: NBC Studios , Hammond's Reef Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

A single woman, Ellie Riggs, tries to navigate her way through the Los Angeles music scene and her own messy personal life.

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Cast

Julia Louis-Dreyfus , Darren Boyd , Steve Carell

Director

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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NBC Studios , Hammond's Reef

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ewatts1980-1 I thought Watching Ellie was a great show and I loved watching it -- I even taped every episode! It may have been a spin off on the Seinfeld character Elaine but I thought it was a good one. I enjoyed watching Ellie scatter around hysterically during the show. I also enjoyed that the show only had one commercial break. The fellows in her apartment building, such as Dr. Zimmerman, were funny and her boyfriend at the the time the show ended was very handsome. Why the show ended/disappeared, I have no idea.To fill the space this site requires, I'll go on. Julia's sister was on the show and I thought that their relationship was a little funny also. I think that this show, unlike Kraemer's and George's, was a success and should have continued. Julia Louis Dreyfus proved that she could survive in the business after Seinfeld ended. I could relate to Ellie/Elaine and miss them both!!~Missing Ellie
lune78 It's too bad this show got cancelled so quickly, because personnally, I liked it a lot. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a remarkable actress and the supporting cast is just as awesome, especially Steve Carell who played Ellie's arrogant, annoying but hilarious ex-boyfriend Edgar (lucky for us, we got to see him play an equally arrogant guy in Bruce Almighty) . I'm afraid the pilot, which was just OK, dissuaded many from keeping watching "Ellie": during the first episodes, the show was trying to find itself, trying to be original but it still had that Seinfeld feel at the same time (the fact that Ellie would sing at the end of the first few episodes was quite reminiscent of Jerry's opening and closing monologues), and I have to admit that at first, it was hard to tell Ellie and Elaine apart. But eventually, the show slightly changed its concept and got better and funnier, and I'm told it was a whole lot more watchable than the Micheal Richards show and Bob Peterson, Jason Alexander's sitcom. Seinfeld Curse? Not in Julia's case, who has the talent to be an even better headliner than Jerry ever was. Too bad, just too bad...
mdschill Most of these comments show exactly why interesting and innovative shows, or indeed any show that's not in the same mold as every other show, don't get made. Or if they get made, they don't attract viewers quickly enough for the networks and they get dumped, whereas junk like "Veronica's Closet" just keeps getting renewed. "Action" was brilliant, and i'm glad it had its short perfect run. "Freaks and Geeks" was great. "Undeclared" is great. "Once and Again" had the best-written teens on televison, maybe ever. "The Tick" took a brilliant cartoon and somehow made it even better in live-action. And they all failed, because the American people want jokes in their comedy, jokes that come at regular intervals. They don't want comedy that's closer to drama, or to "real life", or to tragedy. They want a laugh track to tell them when something's funny. "Watching Ellie" is really funny, mostly because Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a brilliant physical comedienne. You watch her expressions, what she does with her eyes and mouth and hands, reacting to the frustrations of life, and she is just brilliant. The 22-minute limit is a gimmick, but it's actually fun to see what new situation the writers come up with to attach the ticking clock to. This show is going to die a quick death, and in five years it's going to come out on DVD and everyone will declaim its brilliance. Too bad it's a network show. Cheers to Julia Louis-Dreyfus (and even to Brad Hall).
Kevbo1987 "Watching Ellie" is simply the worst show ever made. It is horrible! It's plotline stinks every week. The show just seems to drone on forever. The 22 minutes it is on every week is like torture. They count down the 22 minutes of the show in the bottom of the screen, and while watching it, I look at the clock the entire time. I can't wait for the show to be over. It should be cancelled immediately. I'm telling you, DON'T WATCH THIS SHOW! It is a waste of valuable time, and you will feel dumber after watching it. I know I did.