The Building (TV series)


The Building is an American sitcom television series which aired on CBS from August 20 to September 17, 1993. The series ran for five episodes. It starred Bonnie Hunt.

Premise

Bonnie Kennedy, a commercial actress who was jilted by her fiancé shortly before the show started, moves back to Chicago to pick up the pieces of her life in an apartment across from Wrigley Field. The story focuses on Kennedy's struggles and the characters who live in her apartment building.

Production notes

Making heavy use of The Second City alum, the show had a theatrical sensibility wherein minor mistakes, accidents, and forgotten lines were often left in the aired episode, and there was a loose improv feel to certain scenes. The Building was the first sitcom production of David Letterman's Worldwide Pants production company; Letterman appears in a character role in the second episode. Hunt created the show, and wrote four of the five broadcast episodes. A sixth episode was produced, but did not air.
Two years after this show was cancelled, cast members Hunt, Lake, Virtue and Wortell would return in the series The Bonnie Hunt Show. This follow-up series retained many of the distinguishing characteristics of The Building, including the Chicago setting, an improv/theatrical feel, and the essential nature of the character relationships between the principals. As well, the follow-up series was produced by Worldwide Pants, written by Hunt, and mostly directed by John Bowab.

Cast

Guest Stars
George Clooney as Sam
David Letterman as Himself
George Wendt as Peter
Richard Kind as Tony
Donald O’Connor as Mr. Harper
Jim Belushi as Dave

Episodes