Nip/Tuck

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Nip/Tuck is an American medical drama television series created by Ryan Murphy that aired on FX in the United States for six seasons from 2003 to 2010. The series, which also incorporates elements of crime, black comedy, family drama, satire, and psychological thriller, focuses on "McNamara/Troy", a cutting-edge, controversial plastic surgery center, and follows the personal and professional lives of its founders Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy (portrayed by Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon, respectively).[1] Each episode features graphic, partial depictions of the plastic surgeries on one or more patients, as well as developments in the doctors' personal lives. Focus is also given to McNamara/Troy's anesthesiologist Dr. Liz Cruz, Christian's many sexual partners, and Sean's family. With the exception of the pilot, each episode of the series is named after one of the patients scheduled to receive plastic surgery.

Unlike most medical dramas, Nip/Tuck used serial storytelling and often had story arcs spanning multiple seasons; for example, seasons two and three focused on a serial rapist known as The Carver, who often mutilates his victims' faces, leading McNamara/Troy to provide pro bono surgery to the victims.

The show premiered on July 22, 2003, and concluded on March 3, 2010, with the 100th episode.[2] Despite being initially set in Miami, at the end of the fourth season, it was relocated to Los Angeles, and many of the characters followed along. The show earned 45 award nominations, winning one Golden Globe and one Emmy Award.[3] Series creator Ryan Murphy said that the medical cases on the show are "100 percent based on fact".[4]

Overview

The drama is set in a plastic-surgery center, McNamara/Troy, centering on the two doctors who own it. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) is often found having problems at home due to being seduced by beautiful women on a daily basis, and thus tries to keep his family together by patching up the rocky road in which his family and himself are living. Partner Christian Troy (Julian McMahon), though, uses his charm to bring in potential female candidates and conducts vain business deals, almost never failing to end up with them in bed. Sean takes his job seriously and often must fix Christian's mistakes.

Production

According to Ryan Murphy, the series was inspired by makeover episodes of the talk shows The Jenny Jones Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show.[5]

In its debut season, Nip/Tuck was the highest-rated new series on American basic cable, and the highest-rated basic cable series of all time for the 18–49 and 25–54 age demographics.

The fifth season premiered on October 30, 2007,[6] though production was affected by the 2007 Writers Strike. Accordingly, the second half of the fifth season was not screened until January 6, 2009, in the U.S. Another 19 episodes were picked up by FX; airing on October 14, 2009. Following a three-week hiatus for the Christmas holidays, the show resumed in January 2010, and concluded on March 3, 2010, with its 100th episode.[7][8][9]

Nip/Tuck filmed its 100th and final episode on June 12, 2009, without creator Ryan Murphy,[10] who was, at the time, in India scouting locations for his film version of the memoir Eat, Pray, Love.

The show inspired the creation of the plastic-surgery reality show Dr. 90210.[11]

Cast and characters

Main cast

Actor Character Seasons
1 2 3 4 5 6
Dylan Walsh Sean McNamara colspan="6" Template:CMain
Julian McMahon Christian Troy colspan="6" Template:CMain
John Hensley Matt McNamara colspan="6" Template:CMain
Joely Richardson Julia McNamara colspan="6" Template:CMain
Valerie Cruz Grace Santiago Template:CMain
Roma Maffia Liz Cruz Template:CRecurring colspan="5" Template:CMain
Kelly Carlson Kimber Henry colspan="2" Template:CRecurring colspan="4" Template:CMain
Jessalyn Gilsig Gina Russo colspan="2" Template:CRecurring Template:CMain colspan="2" Template:CGuest
Bruno Campos Quentin Costa Template:CGuest Template:CMain

Recurring cast

Actor Character Seasons
1 2 3 4 5 6
Kelsey Batelaan Annie McNamara colspan="6" Template:CRecurring
Linda Klein Nurse Linda colspan="6" Template:CRecurring
Robert LaSardo Escobar Gallardo Template:CRecurring Template:CGuest Template:CRecurring Template:CGuest
Ruth Williamson Mrs. Hedda Grubman Template:CRecurring Template:CGuest Template:CGuest
Joey Slotnick Dr. Merrill Bobolit Template:CRecurring Template:CGuest Template:CGuest
Phillip Rhys Jude Sawyer Template:CRecurring colspan="2" Template:CGuest
Julie Warner Megan O'Hara Template:CRecurring Template:CGuest Template:CGuest
Joshua & Josiah Henry Wilber Troy Template:CRecurring colspan="3" Template:CRecurring
Vanessa Redgrave Dr. Erica Noughton colspan="2" Template:CRecurring Template:CGuest
Famke Janssen Ava Moore Template:CRecurring Template:CGuest Template:CGuest
Seth Gabel Adrian Moore Template:CRecurring
Willam Belli Cherry Peck Template:CRecurring
Rhona Mitra Kit McGraw Template:CRecurring
Brittany Snow Ariel Alderman Template:CRecurring
Sanaa Lathan Michelle Landau Template:CRecurring
Jacqueline Bisset James LeBeau Template:CRecurring
Peter Dinklage Marlowe Sawyer Template:CRecurring
Rosie O'Donnell Dawn Budge colspan="2" Template:CRecurring
Mario Lopez Dr. Mike Hamoui Template:CGuest Template:CRecurring
Paula Marshall Kate Tinsley Template:CRecurring
Bradley Cooper Aidan Stone Template:CRecurring
Portia de Rossi Olivia Lord Template:CRecurring
AnnaLynne McCord Eden Lord Template:CRecurring
John Schneider Ram Peters Template:CRecurring
Sharon Gless Colleen Rose Template:CRecurring
Katee Sackhoff (season 5)
Rose McGowan (season 6) 		Dr. Theodora "Teddy" Rowe colspan="2" Template:CRecurring
George Newbern Dr. Curtis Ryerson Template:CRecurring
Melonie Diaz Ramona Perez Template:CRecurring

Episodes

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Main crew

Awards and nominations

Year Award Date of the ceremony Category Recipients Result Template:Refh
2004 Golden Globe Awards 25 January 2004 Best Television Series – Drama Nip/Tuck Template:Nom [12]
Best Actress – Television Series Drama Joely Richardson Template:Nom
Satellite Awards 21 February 2004 Best Television Series – Drama Nip/Tuck Template:Nom [13]
Best Actor – Television Series Drama Julian McMahon Template:Nom
Best Actress – Television Series Drama Joely Richardson Template:Nom
GLAAD Media Awards 12 April 2004 Outstanding Drama Series Nip/Tuck Template:Nom [14]
Primetime Emmy Awards 19 September 2004 Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Ryan Murphy (for "Pilot") Template:Nom [15]
Outstanding Main Title Design Eric Anderson, Vince Haycock, Paul Matthaeus and Paul Schneider Template:Nom
Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music Jeffrey Cain, Cedric Lemoyne and Gregory Slay Template:Nom
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman and James MacKinnon (for "Pilot") Template:Won
Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic) Eryn Krueger Mekash, Stephanie A. Fowler, Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman (for "Adelle Coffin) Template:Nom
2005 Golden Globe Awards 16 January 2005 Best Television Series – Drama Nip/Tuck Template:Won [16]
Best Actor – Television Series Drama Julian McMahon Template:Nom
Best Actress – Television Series Drama Joely Richardson Template:Nom
Producers Guild of America Awards 22 January 2005 Best Episodic Drama Nip/Tuck Template:Nom [17]
Satellite Awards 23 January 2005 Best Television Series – Drama Template:Won [18]
Best Actress – Television Series Drama Joely Richardson Template:Nom
Costume Designers Guild 19 February 2005 Excellence in Contemporary Television Lou Eyrich Template:Nom [19]
Saturn Awards 3 May 2005 Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series Nip/Tuck Template:Nom [20]
Best Actor on Television Julian McMahon Template:Nom
BMI Film & TV Awards 18 May 2005 BMI Cable Award James S. Levine Template:Won
Primetime Emmy Awards 18 September 2005 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Jill Clayburgh (for "Bobbi Broderick" and "Naomi Gaines") Template:Nom [21]
Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer and Robert J. Ulrich Template:Nom
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup Eryn Krueger Mekash, Stephanie A. Fowler, Mary Kay Morse, Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman (for "Christian Troy") Template:Nom
Outstanding Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Eryn Krueger Mekash and Stephanie A. Fowler (for "Julia McNamara") Template:Nom
Satellite Awards 17 December 2005 Best Television Series – Drama Nip/Tuck Template:Won
Best Actor – Television Series Drama Dylan Walsh Template:Nom
Best Actress – Television Series Drama Joely Richardson Template:Nom
2006 Writers Guild of America Awards 4 February 2006 Television: Episodic Drama Jennifer Salt (for "Rhea Reynolds") Template:Nom [22]
Costume Designers Guild 25 February 2006 Excellence in Contemporary Television Lou Eyrich Template:Nom [23]
Young Artist Awards 25 March 2006 Best Performance in a TV series – Guest Starring Young Actor (Comedy or Drama) Tanner Richie Template:Nom [24]
Saturn Awards 2 May 2006 Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series Nip/Tuck Template:Nom [25]
Best Actor on Television Julian McMahon Template:Nom
Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 19 August 2006 Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series Liz Kay and Ellen Brill (for "Ben White") Template:Nom [26]
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup Eryn Krueger Mekash, Stephanie A. Fowler, Mary Kay Morse, Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman (for "Cherry Peck") Template:Nom
Outstanding Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Eryn Krueger, Stephanie Fowler, Debbie Zoller, and Michele Tyminski (for "Quentin Costa") Template:Nom
2007 NAACP Image Awards 2 March 2007 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Sanaa Lathan Template:Nom [27]
Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 8 September 2007 Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup Eryn Krueger, Stephanie Fowler, Bill Corso, Mary Kay Witt, Christopher Nelson, and Christien Tinsley (for "Conor McNamara") Template:Nom [28]
AACTA Awards 6 December 2007 Best Actor – International Julian McMahon Template:Nom
Satellite Awards 16 December 2007 Best DVD Release of a TV Show Nip/Tuck Template:Nom [29]
2008 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 13 September 2008 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Oliver Platt Template:Nom [30]
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Sharon Gless Template:Nom
2009 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 12 September 2009 Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup David Dupuis, Thomas R. Burman and Bari Dreiband-Burman (for "Budi Sabri") Template:Nom [31]
Outstanding Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Eryn Krueger Mekash and Stephanie A. Fowler (for "Giselle Blaylock And Legend Chandler") Template:Nom
2010 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 21 August 2010 Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman, Thomas Floutz, Stephanie A. Fowler, Bart Mixon, Michele Tyminski Schoenbach, Vincent Van Dyke, and Michele Tyminski Schoenbach (for Enigma") Template:Nom [32]

U.S. television ratings

Viewer numbers (based on average total viewers per episode) of Nip/Tuck on FX.

Season Time slot Season premiere Season finale Viewers
Total
(in millions) 		Viewers
Age 18–49
(in millions)
Date Viewers Total
(in millions) 		Viewers
18–49
(in millions) 		Date Viewers Total
(in millions) 		Viewers
18–49
(in millions)
1st Tuesday 10:00 pm July 22, 2003 3.7[33] 2.0[33] October 21, 2003 2.99[34] 2.1[33] 3.25[34] 2.2[34]
2nd June 22, 2004 3.8[33] 2.7[33] October 5, 2004 5.2[33] 3.6[33] 3.8[33] 2.6[33]
3rd September 20, 2005 5.3[33] 3.7[33] December 20, 2005 5.7[35] 3.9[35] 3.9[35] 2.7[35]
4th September 5, 2006 4.8[36] 3.4[36] December 12, 2006 3.38[37] 2.38[38] 3.9 2.75[37]
5th – Part I October 30, 2007 4.3[39] 3.5 February 19, 2008 N/A 2.41[40] N/A N/A
5th – Part II January 6, 2009 3.1[41] 2.4[41] March 3, 2009 3.8 2.4 N/A N/A
6th Wednesday 10:00 pm October 14, 2009 2.9[42] 1.9[43] March 3, 2010 1.8

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For its third season, FX aired Nip/Tuck solely in the fall of 2005, instead of during the summer season, like the two years prior. John Landgraf, president of FX, stated that such a move was a "huge risk", since it stacked up "against the full barrage of fall network competition".[35] Despite some criticism on its third season, the story arc involving The Carver attracted even more of an audience to the series than any of the seasons before, reaching its climax in a December 20, 2005, two-hour season finale, entitled "Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa", which became the most-watched scripted program in the history of the FX network.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Including "Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa", three episodes of Nip/Tuck rank as the three most-watched scripted programs ever on FX.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The second-season finale, entitled "Joan Rivers", which aired on October 5, 2004, drew 5.2 million viewers. It was then eclipsed on September 20, 2005, when the third-season premiere, entitled "Momma Boone", drew roughly 5.3 million viewers. Three months later on December 20, 2005, the aforementioned third-season finale, entitled "Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa", drew 5.7 million viewers. Of those 5.7 million viewers, 3.9 million were in the 18–49 age group demographic, "making the finale the number-one episode among the key advertising demographic of any cable series in 2005. It's also the largest demographic number for any single telecast in the network's history,"[35]Template:Dead link according to Zap2It.

According to the September 8, 2006, Mediaweek column "The Programming Insider", "the fourth-season premiere on Tuesday, September 5, 2006, averaged 4.8 million total viewers and 3.4 million adults 18–49, building over its season-three average by 25% and 26%, respectively. Nip/TuckTemplate:'s performance among adults 18–49 ranks as basic cable's top-rated season premiere in the demographic for 2006, as of September 8, 2006."[36]

Broadcast

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In the United Kingdom, Sky One acquired the series just a few weeks ahead of its US debut, on 8 July 2003, and premiered in the 10:00pm time slot on 13 January 2004.[46][47] In August 2004, Nip/Tuck began airing on Channel 4, who had already acquired the free-to-air rights to the series before Sky announced they had the first-run pay TV rights. They only aired the first two seasons before dropping the show from its lineup.[48] In 2007, Nip/Tuck moved from Sky One to the British version of the show's home network, FX.[49] It has also since aired on Sky Living.

In South Africa the show aired, after the actual running time, on SABC 3.

Home media

Title Release date Special features
Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
The Complete First Season June 15, 2004 September 20, 2004 October 20, 2004
  • 3 making-of documentaries
    • Giving Melodrama a Facelift
    • Realistic Expectations: The Practice of Plastic Surgery
    • Are They Real or Fake?: Miraculous Makeup Effects of Nip/Tuck
  • Severed Parts gag reel
  • Cutting room floor deleted scenes
  • A Perfect Lie music video. Teaser trailer.
The Complete Second Season August 30, 2005 May 30, 2005 July 13, 2005
  • Cutting room floor: Deleted scenes
  • Featurette: Recurring Pain: Three Women and Their Man
The Complete Third Season August 29, 2006 May 8, 2006 May 2, 2007
  • Severed Parts - unaired scenes
  • 2 featurettes
    • Chasing the Carver
    • The Perfect Look: Set Design.
The Complete Fourth Season September 4, 2007 August 13, 2007 July 2, 2008
  • Cutting Room Floor - unaired scenes
  • Clever casting: The season's guest stars
  • Sizzle: the sexuality of Nip/Tuck.
  • The cutting edge: how real-life dramas are incorporated into the show
  • Severed parts: gag reel
The Complete Fifth Season December 30, 2008 (part 1)
October 6, 2009 (part 2) 		January 18, 2010 October 28, 2009
  • Hollywood Hedonism: The Transition from Miami to Hollywood
  • Cutting Room Floor: Unaired scenes
  • Severed parts: gag reel
  • Featurette: The Science of Beauty
The Complete Sixth and Final Season June 8, 2010 September 6, 2010 February 2, 2011
  • Deleted scenes
  • Featurette
  • Gag reel
The Complete Series November 2, 2010 N/A N/A
  • Special features from individual season box sets

International adaptation

In 2013, the Colombian network Caracol Televisión produced the Spanish language adaptation of the series, titled Mentiras perfectas (Perfect Lies).[50]

References

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