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About a Boy

2014-2015

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Dax Shepard occasionally crosses over from Parenthood (2010) as Crosby, one of Will's (David Walton) friends and former bandmates.
Fiona is Minnie Driver's middle name
The ending to the pilot. Mirrors the ending to the film.
Based on British writer Nick Hornby's best selling 1998 novel of the same name, and the 2002 film of the same name with Hugh Grant portraying Will and Nicholas Hoult portraying Marcus.
David has also played a character on "New Girl" whose name is Sam, a children's doctor. In this show, his character dates a Dr. Sam, a children's doctor.
After months of silence after being taken off air without showing all its episodes, it was cancelled on May 8th by NBC, after just two seasons.
Set in the same universe as Parenthood and Friday Night Lights.
All of the episode titles begin with the word "About," and usually also "a" (or "an"), as in "About a House for Sale" or "About a Manniversary".
"Comeback Kid (That's My Dog)" - a shortened version - by Brett Dennen (from the album "Loverboy") is heard during the main title sequence of each episode, which usually follows a brief 'cold open'.
In Nick Hornby's book and the 2002 movie, Will was the son of the author of a hit song (not the author himself), and lived on his father's royalties.
The title is the opposite of the Canadian TV series About a Girl.
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