One on One (TV series)

Synopsis

Cast and characters

Main

• Flex Alexander as Flexter Alexander "Flex" Washington – Flex was born to Richard and Eunice Barnes and is the oldest of three children. In high school, Flex met Nicole, his first serious girlfriend. Before that, Flex had a reputation with women that caused many fathers in his neighborhood to dislike him. At age 18, Flex got Nicole pregnant as a senior in high school. She gave birth to a baby girl named Breanna. A few years later, Flex and Nicole went their separate ways when Flex pursued a career in the NBA playing for the Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks and Orlando Magic. During a game, however, he blew out his knee and was sidelined. Luckily, he had a communications degree to fall back on and became a sportscaster in Baltimore for television station WYNX News 3. After his daughter stays over for a weekend, Nicole springs the news that she got a job in Nova Scotia and wants to take Breanna with her. Flex unwittingly volunteers to take care of Breanna, though it may hamper his bachelor lifestyle. After his divorce from Nicole, Flex had taken on a player persona and even had a thirty-day rule, vowing not to date a woman for more than days and run the risk of their connection becoming a romantic relationship. He broke that rule when he dated Natalie, Breanna's art teacher. However, they broke up a year into their romance because she wanted to be a good stepmom to Breanna rather than have children of her own. A year later, Flex began dating Danielle, a psychotherapist who initially did not want to date him because Flex and Brianna were her clients. Flex and Danielle eventually started dating and later became engaged. Around the same time, his show The Flex Files became syndicated. In season five, the show's premise was revamped and Flex was phased out of the series, but he appeared occasionally as a recurring character. He would fly out to California to visit Breanna and to also make sure Arnaz was not trying to have sex with her.
• Kyla Pratt as Breanna Latrice Barnes – Breanna is the daughter of Flex Washington and Nicole Barnes, born when the two were barely out of high school. When Breanna finds out that her mom Nicole got a job in Nova Scotia, Breanna comes up with the idea to have Flex take care of her. During her stay with Flex, her best friend Spirit and she joined the cheerleading squad, which she initially would have never thought to try out for until the head cheerleader taunts her and tries everything she can to keep her from joining. Breanna has had several crushes, including Arnaz, one of her two best friends, who became an on-again/off-again love interest during the series, and in whom she did not show any romantic interest until the end of the first season. Breanna dated Josh, a handsome but dimwitted boy, who became part of a love triangle between Breanna, Josh, and Arnaz. Eventually, Breanna and Arnaz became a couple, only to break up when Josh and Arnaz' ex-girlfriend Ginger came up with a plan to break the two up, in which Breanna caught Ginger kissing Arnaz. During the third season, Arnaz and Breanna seemed to be on the way to getting back together until he revealed he was not a virgin one night when Breanna wanted to lose her virginity to Arnaz to stay popular with the cheerleaders. Then, Breanna decided to remain a virgin until she was ready to have sex, even if it was not until she was married. Breanna also kind of went out with a boy from her school, Nyghtmare, whose real name was Clayton. He was smart, but had a reputation as a bad boy. When Breanna found out, she said something that almost leads to a kiss. Flex saw them and prevented Breanna from seeing him. Nightmare explained to Breanna's dad what was going on, and she could see him again, but he came in before Arnaz could tell her his feelings for her. In the next episode, he was not there; they just had an attraction to each other. By the fourth season, Breanna and Arnaz finally became a couple, but Breanna had to endure jealousy when Charlie, a French girl, joined Arnaz's band as the lead singer. Nothing happened between Arnaz and Charlie, because his heart was with Breanna. In the fourth season's finale, Breanna and Arnaz broke up after Nicole came up with a plot to keep Breanna from making the same mistakes that she made with Flex when they were her age, after Breanna announced she was going to live with Arnaz, and Flex tried to convince Arnaz to let Breanna go to California to attend the California Institute of the Arts. Arnaz ran onto the plane that Breanna was taking to California to tell her he could not live without her. They eventually went to California, where they moved in with four other roommates: Cash, D-Mack, Lisa, and Sara. They broke up again when Arnaz and their roommate D-Mack's sister began getting closer. She started dating Calvin, a manager at McDonald's, only to break up because he thought that her heart was still with Arnaz. Breanna tells Arnaz she still loves him. She is later seen in bed with D-Mack at the end of the series finale episode part two, to whom she loses her virginity. Breanna is the only character to appear in every episode of the series.
• Robert Ri'chard as Arnaz Leroy Ballard – Arnaz is an aspiring rock star and was born to a Caucasian mother and an African-American father, who left his mother and owns a crab restaurant. Arnaz had his own rock band called Zanra. Arnaz had a massive crush on Breanna when they met, and would stop at nothing to impress her. Towards the end of season one, however, as he got her attention, his attention turned to Ginger, who became Breanna's rival. After Ginger and he broke up, Arnaz attempted to get Breanna back, but Breanna was dating Josh at the time. One Christmas, Breanna was given a half-heart pendant by Arnaz, who kept half of the pendant to show he would always keep Breanna close to his heart. In the fourth-season premiere, Arnaz, Breanna, and Spirit ran off to New York to pursue their dreams. After three years of a "will they or won't they" situation between them, Arnaz and Breanna became a couple in the fourth season. A year later, Arnaz and Breanna's relationship hit the skids when their roommate D-Mack's sister Michelle visited, and eventually, Arnaz and Michelle became close friends. One night, the two fell asleep on the couch, Michelle fully clothed and Arnaz wearing pants but no shirt. Breanna and their roommates, Sara, D-Mack, Lisa, and Cash, walked in after returning from a party in Mexico and saw them. Though they had not done anything intimate, Breanna and Arnaz broke up. Eventually, Michelle and Arnaz did get together, but they went their separate ways after Michelle realized Arnaz's heart was still with Breanna. He thought differently, so he borrowed Breanna's car and chased Michelle to the mountains. However, since the series did not make it to the sixth season, whether Breanna and Arnaz would eventually get back together remained undetermined.
• Sicily as Cloteal "Spirit" Freedom Jones – Spirit is the daughter of Leilani and Cooper Jones, former hippies who run an incense shop. Spirit knew Arnaz since they were younger kids and became best friends with Breanna. Spirit has an unusual fashion sense, which has given her the distinction of being the "Black Blossom Russo." In one episode, Spirit was revealed to have once kissed Arnaz in a game of spin the bottle. The secret angered Breanna because she liked Arnaz, but the two friends apologized for the situation, as Breanna realized that Spirit was one of her few true friends. A running gag in the series is how Spirit never has a boyfriend. This changed in the fourth season when Spirit started dating A-Train, Arnaz's rival in a battle of the bands' contest. Their relationship strained Arnaz and hers for a little while, but eventually, they mended fences. She did not appear in season five. The character of Spirit is claimed to be the influence of the character of Dijonay Jones from Disney's The Proud Family in which Kyla Pratt voices the main character, Penny Proud.
• Kelly Perine as Duane Odell Knox – Duane is a used-car salesman for Big Sal's Used Cars, who lived up to the stereotype that car salesmen cheat their customers. As he says in the episode "Playing Possum", he "eats sleaze for breakfast and washes it down with a tall glass of dishonesty." Duane was Flex's best friend since they were kids. Duane had lived in his mother's basement well into his 30s, eventually moving into an apartment across the hall from Flex. He had an on-again/off-again relationship with Candace Taylor, a manicurist at Flex's father's barbershop Phatheadz. They first broke up after Duane lied to her about losing his job at Big Sal's. They later became engaged, but eventually broke off the engagement. When Duane found out he had a serious health problem, he needed to contact his father, since his high cholesterol might be hereditary. He met his father, Vaughn Odell Knox after months of searching for him. Not long after, Vaughn asked Duane for a kidney, which turned out to be for Duane's half-brother Dwayne. After losing his car-salesman job, he started his own business, D's Dubs and Subs, which was a cross between a sandwich shop and a custom auto parts shop. Throughout the series, Duane always wore a hat, because, when they were kids, Flex's brother Kevin made a mistake while practicing his barbering skills on Duane, which never healed; this was revealed in the episode "Phatheadz". The character was written out of the series for season five.
• Camille Mana as Lisa Sanchez – The character of Lisa Sanchez was introduced at the start of season five. Lisa is one of the four roommates with whom Breanna and Arnaz live when they move to California. Other than her roommates, she is somewhat overlooked by people, such as D-Mack's sister Michelle, who does not remember her at all, though she lived with D-Mack. Lisa has had a long-standing crush on D-Mack, though he takes no interest in her. She eventually dates Benjamin, the sweet, nerdy manager of the BLOG, a restaurant hangout where Arnaz works.
• Jonathan Chase as Cash Bagan – Cash is another of Breanna and Arnaz's roommates. Cash considers himself a filmmaker but works as a paparazzo to make money. Since the apartment has only two bedrooms, Arnaz is initially alarmed at the idea of sharing a room with Cash and D-Mack, but before long, the three become friends. Throughout the season, Cash chases women, and while he is not as lucky as he would like to be, he is more successful in his endeavors than D-Mack or Arnaz. At the end of one episode, in an amusing mirror of roommate Sara's usual behavior, Cash uses his toned body to entice a female hotel manager out of making them pay their bill.
• Ray J as Darrell "D-Mack" McGinty – The character of Darrell McGinty, nicknamed "D-Mack", was introduced as one of the four roommates. D-Mack has a hip-hop persona, although his lifestyle as a Malibu rich kid comes out at times. He used his sister Michelle McGinty to become close to Arnaz, so he could date Breanna, but without success. He becomes upset to find out his sister and Arnaz are going behind everyone's back sneaking around together. Meanwhile, Michelle leaves Arnaz. He leaves, going after her to the mountains, leaving D-Mack and Breanna as the only ones left in the house. He questions her about being free, then unexpectedly kisses her. Later, Sara comes back to find them sleeping together in Breanna's bed. She panics, then leaves. The season is left with them together in bed.
• Nicole Paggi as Sara Crawford – Sara is also one of the roommates and is the sexpot girl-next-door of the house. Sara is considered a, and dreams of being a trophy wife since she grew up in a trailer park in Iowa. In the last episode, she dated Andrew, whom she met while Lisa and she accompanied Breanna to a clinic to get information on contraceptives, but his need to get to know Sara before having sex with her tired her to the point where she gave up on him. Her passiveness turned him on, but the next night, Sara caught Andrew with another woman.

  Recurring

• Ron Canada as Richard, Flex's father
• Joan Pringle as Eunice, Flex's mother
• Marques Houston as Kevin, Flex's younger brother, who later runs the family barbershop
• Reagan Gomez-Preston as Bernadette, Flex's younger sister
• Tamala Jones as Tanya, an old girlfriend of Flex's
• Tichina Arnold as Nicole, Flex's ex-wife and Breanna's mother
• Holly Robinson Peete as Stacy Morgan, Flex's co-worker
• Jenny McCarthy as Holly Spears, Flex's co-host
• Khanya Mkhize as Ginger, Breanna's rival and Arnaz's former girlfriend
• Omar Gooding as Malik, a barber at Phatheadz
• Rashaan Nall as Walt, a barber at Phatheadz
• Laz Alonso as Manny, a barber at Phatheadz
• Shondrella as Candy, a nail stylist at Phatheadz and love interest for Duane
• Melissa De Sousa as Natalie Odessa, Breanna's teacher who later dates Flex
• Josh Henderson as Josh McEntire, Breanna's new love interest after her break-up with Arnaz
• Kim Coles as Leilani Jones, Spirit's mother
• Edward "Grapevine" Fordham, Jr. as Ace Fields, a new barber at Phatheadz and later an intern on the Flex Files.
• Saskia Garel as Danielle, Flex's best friend and therapist, later girlfriend, then wife
• Lloyd as A-Train
• Kel Mitchell as Manny Sellers, the former child actor and Breanna's landlord
• Ernie Grunwald as Benjamin
• Brandy Norwood as Michelle, D-Mack's sister

  Notable guest stars

• Duane Martin – S1E8, "Phantom Menace"
• Alfonso Ribeiro – season one, "Me & My Shadow"

• Clifton Powell - S2E2, "I Believe I Can Fly"

• Angie Stone – season 3, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Hip Hop World"
• Anthony Hamilton – season 3, "Dream Seller"
• Avant – season 3, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Hip Hop World"
• Eve – season 3, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Hip Hop World"
• Floetry – season 3, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Hip Hop World"
• Lil' Romeo – season 3, "Spy Games"
• Omarion – season 3, "East Meets East Coast"
• Orlando Brown – season 3, "He's Not Heavy, He's My Half-Brother"
• Ruben Studdard – season 3, "The Catch"
• Solange Knowles – season 3, "The Catch"
• Smokey Robinson – season 3
• Edwin C. Morrow – season 3, "Bright Lights, Big City", "The Play's the Thing"
• – season 3, "Keeping It"

• Nina Sky – season 4, "Daddy's Home"
• Chingy - season 4, "Glug, Glug"

• Chris Brown – season 5, "Recipe for Disaster"
• Bobby V – season 5, "Waiting for Huffman"
• Tessie Santiago – season 5, "I Love LA Part 2"

  Theme song and opening sequence

Nielsen ratings

Syndication

International airings

Awards and nominations

• BET Comedy Awards
• Image Awards
• Prism Awards