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List Price: $29.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 22173
Released: September 20, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
What happens when two people hate each other at first sight? They get married, of course, in "Ned & Stacey," the fast and funny, shotgun marriage-of-convenience sitcom from the producers of "The King of Queens" starring Academy Award nominee Thomas Haden Church (Best Supporting Actor, "Sideways," 2004) and Emmy Award winner Debra Messing ("Will and Grace"). Ned Dorsey (Church) is a pompous advertising executive who needs a wife to get promoted. Stacey Colbert (Messing) is a ditzy freelance writer desperate to move away from her parents. So what happens one week after these strangers meet? They become in-name-only newlyweds with a great new job and a terrific view of Central Park. This three-disc DVD set includes all 24 hilarious episodes.
Description of Ned and Stacey - The Complete First Season:
Before Debra Messing (Will & Grace) won an Emmy and Thomas Haden Church (Sideways) was nominated for an Oscar, they starred in Ned and Stacey. Although the screwball sitcom only lasted for two seasons, it confirmed that Church (Flying Blind, Wings) deserved the promotion to lead and that Messing (NYPD Blue) was a talent to watch. In the pilot, mutual friends introduce the couple. Those friends are Stacey's sister, Amanda (Nadia Dajani, Flirting With Disaster), and Ned's co-worker, Eric (Greg Germann, Ally McBeal), who just happen to be married. It's dislike at first sight. Ned is a self-satisfied ad exec and Stacey is a free-spirited freelance writer. He needs a wife to advance his career and she can't afford her own apartment, so they embark on a marriage of convenience. Except for the (heterosexual) marriage part, Ned and Stacey provides the blueprint for Will & Grace as the roommates will continue to see other people, and Amanda and Eric will appear as frequently as Karen and Jack. During the first year, the newlyweds will learn a lot about matrimony. In "Portrait of a Marriage," for instance, they'll find that their relationship, unconventional as it is, is actually pretty healthy compared to Ned's colleagues' highly dysfunctional unions. As Ned puts it, theirs is "a marriage minus the love, sex, and intimacy, which...is more real than the real kind." Notable writers include Oscar winners Alan Ball (American Beauty) and Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), while guest stars include Olivia Newton-John ("Reality Check"), Jason Batemen ("Pals"), and Curb Your Enthusiasm's Susie Essman ("Thanksgiving Day Massacre") as Stacey's aunt. Executive producer Michael J. Weithorn would go on to create The King of Queens. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Ned and Stacey - The Complete First Season Reviews:
Ned and Stacy Lover... 
2009-05-04 - I loved, loved , loved, the Ned and Stacy show. Although, nobody I know even remembers the show now and they laugh at me. I watched the DVD's, laughed alot, and mourned the death of one of my favorite sitcoms of all time. If you like Thomas Haden Church and Debra Messing, you will roll with laughter wathing this show. I highly reccomend it to all sitcom comedy lovers.
Ned and Stacey is a great show. Very Funny! 
2008-11-23 - Ned and Stacey is another example of how network execs have no clue of what people want to watch. This was a very clever, funny sitcom that had the plug pulled after just two seasons. Could have had a long run if it had been given a chance. I know Thomas Hayden Church personally and he has expressed his disappointment that this show ended prematurely. He said he preferred it over Wings by a large margin. I do to. It is still funny today, just as it was several years ago when it first aired. Some sitcoms don't age well, but this one holds up.
Where's season two?
2008-08-23 - Okay, there's several other reviews out there. They basically say "great show, very cynical, very funny." I agree whole heartedly. Loved it. Bought the boxed set immediately when I saw it. Low on extras but still fun. Now where's season two? I'm still waiting.
Not Will and Grace
2008-05-13 - This DVD set is not Will and Grace, it's better. Too bad audiences didn't catch on quick enough, it could have been a classic. One of the best canceled tv shows.
Ned & Stacey
2007-11-14 - With out a doubt my all time favourite series. Its is a crime that this show did not receive higher ratings & that it was axed after only 2 series. The show is incredibly funny & intelligent. THC is amazing & I could easily watch the episodes over & over again. I eagerly await the release of season 2 - please please please Sony release it soon!
