The Show Will Be Missed - Trust Me

Personally, this is very disturbing. This is one of my favorite shows currently on TV. What a shame.

According to the New York Times:

“Trust Me,” a comedy-drama about a make-believe advertising agency in Chicago, was canceled by TNT on Friday after a single season. It “achieved creative success,” said Michael Wright, executive vice president and head of programming for TNT, TBS and TCM in Atlanta. “It just didn’t find an audience.”

According to ratings data from TNT, a Time Warner cable channel, “Trust Me” drew only about 1.4 million viewers for each episode during its 13-episode season, which started in January and ended on Tuesday. The series featured Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh as creative executives at the imaginary agency. “People sometimes lament there’s so much drama built around doctors and lawyers and police,” Mr. Wright said, but it may be that the world of advertising is “not as accessible a subject as other subjects on television.”

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Trust Me - Recap & Review - You Got Chocolate in My Peanut Butter

Trust Me
You Got Chocolate in My Peanut Butter

Original Air Date: April 7, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

In the first part of the last two episodes of the season, Sarah and Mason fly to L.A. to shoot her Dove commercial. Conner is acting like he’s handling his break up with Mason better than would be expected but, as my friend said, “He looks like he had a day.”

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Trust Me - Recap & Review - What's The Rush?

Trust Me
“What’s The Rush?”

Original Air Date: March 17, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, we get a double dose of Trust Me and I, for one, like it. The first episode introduces us to Diane Cooper, head of marketing for Hydrenaline, an energy drink of the Red Bull variety. At their first meeting, she’s flirting with Mason as if her life depends on it. After the meeting, Mason brings this up to Conner, who barely looks up from his phone to tell Mason he doesn’t think she was. The surprising thing is not how Conner can be so oblivious but how okay the two of them are, considering last week’s major blowout. That’s Conner and Mason for you though. Somehow, they fight like sworn enemies and then brush it off.

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Trust Me - Recap & Review - Promises, Promises

Trust Me
“Promises, Promises”

Original Air Date: March 2, 2009

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

I wouldn’t leave Conner in charge of a cat for the weekend, let alone in charge of the entire Mink Group that has to work all weekend to come up with ideas for a Chicago Olympic bid. Unfortunately, Mason doesn’t have much of a choice. He’s promised his wife, Erin, that they’ll have a wonderful weekend staycation, booked in a hotel in town, full of spa treatments and apparently, outrageous sex.

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Trust Me - Recap & Review - Way Beyond The Call

Trust Me
“Way Beyond The Call”

Original Air Date: Feb 23, 2009

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

We’ve spent a lot of time with dear Arc Mobile. You could say the gang at The Mink Group at Rothman, Greene and Mohr need Arc Mobile like I need the classic nachos when I go to Chili’s. That’d be a lot. So what happens when the all-important Arc Mobile account gets put into review? Well, the usually laid back Tony asks for his employees to put their Arc Mobile phones into a tote bag he’s emptied out and taken from one such employee. They all do so, except for Conner who has a different cell phone carrier. It’s a good thing too because Tony takes the bag, slams it into a desk and then beats it on the floor and repeatedly stomps on it before locking himself in his office. Yikes.

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Trust Me - Recap & Review - Au Courant

Trust Me
Au Courant

Original Air Date: Feb 16, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com


This week, Mason and Conner are told that Rothman, Teens and More, a subdivision of the agency, will be helping out on their account with Mark Shale because their campaign that was geared toward 35 to 50 year olds just isn’t selling to teens. Conner refers to Rothman, Teens and More as a virus, saying they help on one project and then try to take over other accounts. Mason seeks advice on reaching the teen market from his daughter, Haley, played by Vanessa Marano (Luke’s daughter on Gilmore Girls). From their conversation, Mason ends up pitching ads in the middle of downloadable books, which the client laughs at. Uh, oh.

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Trust Me - Recap & Review - But Wait, There’s More

Trust Me
But Wait, There’s More

Original Air Date: Feb 9, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com


This week, the whole gang goes to an advertising award ceremony and arch-enemy Simon Cochran wins. Sarah’s ad with her old agency wins but another person takes credit for it. Mason and Conner try to stop her but she storms the stage, saying nothing. Conner leaves, saying he can’t watch and runs into Carrie, an ex of his who he clearly still has feelings for. She’s pregnant and married but the real trouble is that it doesn’t seem to stop Conner, who calls her the one that got away.

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Trust Me - Recap & Review - All Hell The Victors

Trust Me
All Hell The Victors

Original Air Date: Feb 2, 2009

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

Last week’s golden tagline “What can you do with one hand?” gets shot down by a focus group who thinks it’s about masturbation. The group sets about thinking of the next new line, while Mason tries to find an art director to partner with Sarah. Instead of thinking of a new line, Conner busies himself with fighting for the killed line and hooking up with a woman he just met, during business hours, nonetheless. Also, Mason’s new promotion means he gets a new title and nice, new business cards but not the raise he was looking forward to or the boat Conner wanted him to buy.

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Live Chat with the Cast of "Trust Me"

The stars of TNT’s new series Trust Me want to talk to YOU!

Immediately after an the all-new episode airing February 9th, you can log onto TNT for a little webchat with Eric McCormack, Tom Cavanagh, Monica Potter, Griffin Dunne, Sarah Clarke, Mike Damus, and Geoffrey Arend about the popular new series.

For more information, visit the official Trust Me website here...

Trust Me - Recap & Review - Before and After

Trust Me
“Before and After”

Original Air Date: Jan 26, 2009

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

Trust Me follows Mason McGuire and his copywriting partner Conner in the world of advertising. Conner is all about the one tagline and he and Mason bounce ideas and images off of each other like they're playing a highly caffinated game of tennis. They're working to come up with a good campaign for cell phone company Arc Mobile and Conner has come up with Spar-text-icus, which I kept insisting was a terrible idea. Conner didn't listen but I didn't expect him to.

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"Trust Me" Premieres on TNT Tonight

Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh star as best friends who work together in the cutthroat world of advertising in TNT’s all-new series TRUST ME, from the executive producers of THE CLOSER

“Before & After” – Premieres Monday, Jan. 26, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT)

Rothman, Greene & Mohr art director Mason McGuire and copywriter Conner are called back to Chicago from a business trip in Los Angeles to rush a new campaign into production. The product they are selling is a new cell phone, and their quick-tempered boss, Stu, is determined to present a campaign that will blow the client’s socks off. But when fate steps in, Mason and Conner find themselves competing with other creative groups within the agency for dibs on the account. Complicating their creative flow is the fact that Stu’s boss, Tony Mink, has chosen to promote Mason, which doesn’t sit well with Conner. Meanwhile, new girl on the block Sarah Krajicek-Hunter, an award-winning copywriter who was supposed to be partnered with Stu, feels adrift without the office she was promised or an assignment worthy of her talents.