Barbershop: Season 1

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SHOWTIME | Season Premiere Date: August 14, 2005

Starring: Omar Gooding, Gbenga Akinnagbe, John Wesley Chatham

Summary: Barbershop, based on the successful MGM feature films, was adapted for television by writer/director John Ridley ("Three Kings," "Platinum," "Undercover Brother"), who is very active in television and films, in addition to being a prolific novelist. Robert Teitel and George Tillman, Jr., who also produced both the "Soul Food" movie and theBarbershop, based on the successful MGM feature films, was adapted for television by writer/director John Ridley ("Three Kings," "Platinum," "Undercover Brother"), who is very active in television and films, in addition to being a prolific novelist. Robert Teitel and George Tillman, Jr., who also produced both the "Soul Food" movie and the Showtime television series of the same name, are series executive producers along with Ice Cube with whom they produce the "Barbershop" films. Most of the characters from the popular "Barbershop" movies have been retained, headed by Calvin, the reluctant hero and neighborhood confessor who runs the barbershop he inherited from his father. A few new memorable characters have also been added to the world. The continuing comical exploits of these people will be explored along with contemporary issues facing them, set against the slowly gentrifying backdrop of this fictional Chicago neighborhood.… Expand

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E10. Crimes of the Heart
Air Date: October 16, 2005
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S1:E9. The Politics of Money
Air Date: October 9, 2005
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S1:E8. Debates and Dead People
Air Date: October 2, 2005

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Diane Werts

Apr 20, 2014

There's a vibrancy here, and a clarity, that we haven't seen in network sitcoms in ages. The way ABC's "Lost" reconfigured dramatic storytelling, Showtime's Barbershop so invigorates the humor format that we hate to call it a sitcom. It's entirely its own animal. And that's evolution of a kind everyone can get behind. [12 Aug 2005, p.]

Mark Dawidziak

Apr 19, 2014

It’s raucously funny in its own right and in its own way. If the first season’s remaining nine episodes are anywhere near as laugh-out-loud hilarious as tonight’s opener, Barbershop: The Series will be nothing less than Showtime’s strongest entry yet in the comedy field. [14 Aug 2005, p.J1]

Ed Bark

Apr 16, 2014

Barbershop is inventively edited, consistently funny and decidedly not for kids. [14 Aug 2005, p.3]

Robert Bianco

Apr 20, 2014

What it lacks, unfortunately, is style -- some sense of smart, well-executed, up-to-date design. You can almost see the corners being cut, from the inconsistent casting to the cheap reliance on sex to the blatantly fake back-lot sets that are trying to pass for Chicago. You may not expect originality in a movie transfer, not when familiarity is what's selling the show. But you do expect Barbershop to display enough style of its own to avoid looking like a cheap knockoff. Read full review

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Chuck Barney

Apr 16, 2014

The humor in the pilot is anything but razor-sharp: The writers too often confuse coarse language for jokes, and a subplot in which Calvin coaches a Nigerian co-worker on the finer points of the booty call sputters badly. Still, there is promise here, thanks mainly to a collection of intriguing characters. [14 Aug 2005, p.F4]

Doug Elfman

Apr 20, 2014

[It] isn't awful. Mostly, it's just too tightly packed, like those peanut cans kids open and giant toy snakes spring out. [11 Aug 2005, p.49]

Connie Ogle

Apr 19, 2014

In its first episode, Barbershop drops the ball, mistaking mere profanity for edginess and digging for laughs in dull, typical sitcom fashion. [14 Aug 2005, p.5]

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: August 14, 2005
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  S1:E10. Crimes of the Heart
  Air Date: October 16, 2005
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  S1:E9. The Politics of Money
  Air Date: October 9, 2005
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  S1:E8. Debates and Dead People
  Air Date: October 2, 2005
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  S1:E7. Family Business
  Air Date: September 25, 2005
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  S1:E6. A Black Man Invented the Stop Light
  Air Date: September 18, 2005
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  S1:E5. What's Good for the Cos...
  Air Date: September 11, 2005
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  S1:E4. Whose Pussy is That?
  Air Date: September 4, 2005
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  S1:E3. Madonna is a Ho (And Dana's F***ing Blind)
  Air Date: August 28, 2005
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  S1:E2. "N" Lovers
  Air Date: August 21, 2005
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  S1:E1. This is My Bullsh*t...And You're Welcome to It (a.k.a. Ge...
  Air Date: August 14, 2005