Back in the Game

Back in the Game is an American sitcom that aired from September 25, 2013, to December 11, 2013, on ABC. The series stars James Caan and Maggie Lawson and aired during the 2013–14 American television season as a Wednesday night entry. Back in the Game was co-created and executive-produced by brothers Mark and Robb Cullen for 20th Century Fox Television. The series was green-lit by ABC for a series order pickup on May 10, 2013.

On November 1, 2013, ABC announced it was cancelling Back in the Game. Following its tenth aired episode, ABC pulled the series from its schedule and left three episodes unaired. On February 23, 2014, the remaining episodes were released on iTunes, Amazon and other streaming services.

Cast and characters

• Maggie Lawson as Terry Gannon, Jr.
• James Caan as Terry "The Cannon" Gannon, Sr.
• Griffin Gluck as Danny Gannon
• Ben Koldyke as Dick Slingbaugh
• Lenora Crichlow as Lulu Lovette (previously Gigi Fernandez-Lovette)
• Cooper Roth as David Slingbaugh
• J.J. Totah as Michael Lovette
• Kennedy Waite as Vanessa
• Brandon Selgado-Telis as Dudley Douglas
• Matthew Zhang as Dong Jing

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired		DVD release dates
			Series premiere	Series finale	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
	1	13	September 25, 2013 (2013-09-25)	December 11, 2013 (2013-12-11)	TBA	TBA	TBA

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	"Pilot"	John Requa & Glenn Ficarra	Robb & Mark Cullen	September 25, 2013 (2013-09-25)	1AWX79	8.01
2	"Stay In or Bail Out"	Eric Appel	Warren Lieberstein	October 2, 2013 (2013-10-02)	1AWX01	6.71
3	"Play Hard or Go Home"	Eyal Gordin	Gregg Mettler	October 9, 2013 (2013-10-09)	1AWX02	6.53
4	"The Change Up"	Eyal Gordin	Joe Lawson	October 16, 2013 (2013-10-16)	1AWX04	6.35
5	"She. Could. Go. All. The. Way!"	Joe Nussbaum	Eric Goldberg & Peter Tibbals	October 23, 2013 (2013-10-23)	1AWX03	6.27
6	"Night Games"	David Katzenberg	Scott Boden Hodges	October 30, 2013 (2013-10-30)	1AWX05	6.11
7	"Safety Squeeze"	Jeff Melman	Kevin Garnett	November 13, 2013 (2013-11-13)	1AWX06	6.47
8	"No Crying in Baseball"	Charles Minsky	Daisy Gardner	November 20, 2013 (2013-11-20)	1AWX09	6.14
9	"Massive Election"	Eric Appel	Robb & Mark Cullen	December 4, 2013 (2013-12-04)	1AWX10	5.12
10	"I'll Slide Home for Christmas"	Lev L. Spiro	Corinne Kingsbury	December 11, 2013 (2013-12-11)	1AWX08	6.14
11	"Color Barrier"	Lev L. Spiro	Robb and Mark Cullen	February 23, 2014 (internet)	1AWX07	N/A
12	"Sports Therapy"	Michael Patrick Jann	Gregg Mettler	February 23, 2014	1AWX11	N/A
13	"Who's on First"	Charles Minsky	John Requa & Glenn Ficarra	February 23, 2014	1AWX12	N/A

Reception

Kristin Dos Santos of E! Online said that while the show's writing and casting was good, the premise might not be original enough to score a big audience. Robert Bianco of USA Today gave the show 3 out of 4 stars. David Hinckley of the New York Daily News gave the show 2 out of 5 stars. Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times said Caan "owns the screen whenever he's on it," Lawson "holds her own," and Crichlow and Gluck's characters were "a delight."

Broadcast

Country	Network	Premiere date
United States	ABC	September 25, 2013 - December 11, 2013

External links

• Back in the Game at IMDb

• https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/back-in-the-game-season-1/id686810724