Six Degrees is an American dramatic television series about six residents of
New York City and their respective relationships and connections with one
another, based on the idea of six degrees of separation.
It premiered on September 21, 2006, after Grey's Anatomy on ABC. The show
was created by Raven Metzner and Stuart Zicherman. J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk and
Thom Sherman serve as executive producers through their Bad Robot
Productions banner. The pilot episode was directed by Rodrigo García. It is
filmed on location in Manhattan and at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City,
Queens, New York. The show's theme song, "Here Comes Now", was written and
performed by Jakob Dylan. The series was shown in Canada on Global
on Wednesday evenings prior to the American airings. It was due to air in
early 2007 on ITV in the UK but didn't after it was cancelled by ABC. It
finally made its debut on ITV on May 28, 2008 where all thirteen episodes were
aired. It also aired in Australia on the Seven Network, where it premiered in
2007. It is currently airing in New Zealand on TV2. It was also aired in
Turkey on Dizimax in 2007. It was aired to in Portugal on AXN and RTP2. It was
resyndicated on RTP2. On November 8, 2006, Six Degrees was
pulled off the schedule by ABC due to poor ratings. By January 2007, ABC had
not ordered any more episodes to be produced for the season.
The series returned on March 23, 2007 with its seventh episode in a new
timeslot at 9:00pm EDT on Fridays, with Josh Charles added to the cast. After
just two weeks back on the air, the series was pulled by ABC for a second
time due to poor ratings, on April 2, 2007, further fueling doubts of the
series continuing. On April 27, 2007, the unaired ninth episode was posted on
ABC's website, with the last four weekly after.
On May 15, 2007, the series was canceled by ABC. In June 2007, ABC's programming
calendar available to the media indicated the final episodes of the
series would be broadcast beginning Friday, August 10, 2007; however, ABC
decided instead to air repeats of another show.
MBC 4 has started airing this show on Sunday nights for the Arab World in May
2009. Cast and characters
Jay Hernandez as Carlos Green, a struggling defense attorney who lets his
feelings for Mae interfere with his job. He becomes friends with Damian after
helping him out in a fight. Erika Christensen as Mae Anderson, a
young woman attempting to start life over in New York City; gets a job as
Laura's nanny. She has a mysterious box that contains "personal belongings", and
refuses to let anyone see its contents. It is revealed in the episode
"Masquerade" that at age 15, she was caught in an abusive relationship, which
her brother Eric helped her out of by either assaulting or killing the man.
Eric was wanted by the police for doing so.
Hope Davis as Laura Morgan, a widow whose husband was killed while working
as an embedded journalist during the war in Iraq. She meets Whitney in a nail
salon and the two become fast friends. However, Whitney's fiancé hits on Laura
during Whitney's bridal shower. Laura is conflicted about revealing this to
Whitney, who becomes angry and does not accept it until it becomes very clear
that he has been cheating on her. Laura tries to move on with her life by
getting a job as an assistant to an interior designer.
Dorian Missick as Damian Henry, a gambling addict trying to lead a normal
life by honestly earning his money as a limo driver. He once was heavily
involved in criminal activity, and his brother, continues to try to bring him
back to a life of crime. His brother asks him to find a runaway that some
friends are looking for, he is handed a picture of her not knowing the girl is
Mae. He later finds out that this is Mae, and tells Carlos that bad people
are looking for Mae, resulting in Carlos persuading Mae to let him help her.
Bridget Moynahan as Whitney Crane, a Public Relations executive who is
looking forward to marriage. She was unaware of the fact that her fiancé has
been dating other women. She initially suspected him of it although he wrongly
convinced her otherwise. However, later on, after her fiancé is punched by "The
Puncher" and it is revealed that the men who Puncher hits are the men that have
slept with the Puncher's wife, Whitney realizes that her fiancé has been
cheating on her. She breaks it off and tries to deal with the fallout of the
relationship by throwing herself into her career.
Campbell Scott as Steven Caseman, a separated father who was believed by
many to be dead when he ran off to Mexico. He took a picture of Laura
crying over the death of her husband, which helped bring him back to his old
career in photography. Steven is struggling to persuade his wife to allow
him to have more contact with their son Max; however, his wife does not trust
Steven, since he once lost Max, and also disappeared for four months. His
girlfriend, Anya is roommates with Carlos.
Episodes References
External links Six Degrees at the Internet Movie
Database Six Degrees at TV.com
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