Hot in Cleveland (2010– )

Three 40-something best friends from Los Angeles are flying to Paris when their plane makes an emergency landing in Cleveland. Realizing that all the norms from Los Angeles don't apply anymore, they decide to celebrate a city that values real women and stay where they're still considered hot.

Creator:

Suzanne Martin

Stars:

Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 8 wins & 9 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Valerie Bertinelli	...	Melanie Moretti (72 episodes, 2010-2013)
Jane Leeves	...	Joy Scroggs (72 episodes, 2010-2013)
Wendie Malick	...	Victoria Chase (72 episodes, 2010-2013)
Betty White	...	Elka Ostrovsky (72 episodes, 2010-2013)

Storyline

Three 40-something best friends from Los Angeles are flying to Paris when their plane makes an emergency landing in Cleveland. Realizing that all the norms from Los Angeles don't apply anymore, they decide to celebrate a city that values real women and stay where they're still considered hot.

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Plot Keywords:

girl talk | rented house | girlfriend | female | author | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

CTV [ca] TV Land [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Ludnica u Clevelandu

Filming Locations:

CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hazy Mills Productions, SamJen Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min 30 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In season 2 both Millicent Martin (Gertrude Moon) and Peri Gilpin (Roz Doyle) guest star in Hot in Cleveland making it a total of 4 actresses from the show Frasier.

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Quotes

Joy Scroggs: Let's kill him!

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Connections

Referenced in Chelsea Lately: Episode #6.18 (2012)

User Reviews

Fantastic and Realistic

When I heard about this show, I figured it would be "cute." What I was not prepared for was how spot-on it really is. I've lived in the L.A. area off and on for over 20 years, and all the L.A. references are painfully HONEST.

Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves, Valerie Bertinelli and Betty White are hysterical!

The story lines are very realistic ...L.A. is really a very SADLY over-rated place to live, for many reasons. The sunshine is nice, but even that gets boring after a while. Between the high price of living, the traffic and the shallow people, it's really an awful place to live for any "average" person. Ironically, this show comes at a time in my life when I have decided to relocate to my home town of Chicago.

I routinely experience just about all of the ones depicted on this show whenever I go back to Chicago. While it is true that there are shallow people everywhere in the world, L.A. seems to be the U.S. capital of "the beautiful people." Living here is very exclusionary; everything is about money, status, power and looks. If you have those things, you'll be included; if not, you are SOL, no matter how good or nice a person you are.

It is true that in Chicago - and other Midwestern cities, most of the real men are not salaciously panting after women 1/2 their age. It is true that in other places, mature women are appreciated more than merely discarded after the age of 30.

My only regret about this show is that it is not on a major network ... it would get more exposure that way! So glad that it got picked up for more episodes.

If you're a fan, let's all get the word out and keep this show on the air!