"Profit" (1996) TV series

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

8 April 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Jim Profit works for a multinational company, and isn't above using any means necessary to get ahead...

Plot Keywords:

Falsely Convicted | Scandal | Sabotage | Black Comedy | Psychopath

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Adrian Pasdar	...	Jim Profit (8 episodes, 1996-1997)
Lisa Darr	...	Gail Koner (8 episodes, 1996-1997)
Lisa Blount	...	Bobbi Stakowski (8 episodes, 1996-1997)
Jack Gwaltney	...	Pete Gracen (8 episodes, 1996-1997)
Allison Hossack	...	Nora Gracen (8 episodes, 1996-1997)
Keith Szarabajka	...	Charles Henry "Chaz" Gracen (8 episodes, 1996-1997)
Lisa Zane	...	Joanne Meltzer (8 episodes, 1996-1997)
Sherman Augustus	...	Jeffrey Sykes (7 episodes, 1996-1997)

Runtime:

45 min (7 episodes) | 90 min (pilot)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

New World Television

Trivia:

Profit's exploration of Gracen&Gracen's interface is done through a 3D-image rendering interface, which represents the entire company as a building with a series of offices. This is VRML (Virtual Realilty Modeling Language) which was, at the time, believed to be the way that future websites would be built.

Quotes:

Jim Profit: [voice-over] The key to real success is to take all your fears and put them in a box and lock them away. Of course not every evil can be tied up in a neat little package. But that's the challenge - to face our own personal darkness and to put our demons where they can't hurt us any more, to do what we can to make the world
[spoken]
Jim Profit: a better place.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Cement (1999)

Brilliant But Cancelled

Caught this series for the first time after waiting for it to be rerun, and could not believe a show of this calibre was killed. Adrian Pasdar's performance as lethal executive Jim Profit is magnificent evil and carnal lust in a polished, yuppie, corporate mode. Each of the nine episodes brings Profit closer to a one man corporate take-over the old fashioned way, by killing off the competition and climbing the upwardly mobile ladder corpse by corpse. Black humor abounds.

Outstanding performances by entire supporting cast, but it's Pasdar's show, esp. at the end of the day as Profit climbs back into a Grayson and Grayson box after a hard day at the office...chilling and adult. Definitely not what the networks wanted. Offensive to the maudlin tastes of mainstream TV viewers, nevertheless this is one program that was just too good for the masses.