Talk:The Class (TV series)

"Cast"

There are three actors beyond the main eight that are in the "main cast." They were added later in the summer, but they are series regulars. If you watch the credits for the show, Julie Halston (Tina Carmello), Sam Harris (Perry Pearl), and David Keith (Yonk Allen) are all listed as Also Starring - note that they are not guest stars. (CBS's streaming of various shows, including the pilot of The Class) The CBS website for the show has all three actors mixed in with the core eight in both the front page description and the bios section. [1] Press releases from CBS have the actors' names mixed in with the core eight as "star[ring] in The Class." [2] One press release in particular specifically states that David Keith is being added as a series regular to the show, with Julie Halston and Sam Harris' names mixed in with the core eight as "The series stars...." [3] They are, of course, not the core eight, and undoubtedly will be supporting characters, but they are in the cast as stars/series regulars.

• Sara Gilbert has been described as Richie's "wife" here. Although she has been seen sharing his bed, to date her actual relationship to him has not been identified. TOM 17:23, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

"Behind the scenes" section

To the GIPU who insists on adding a "behind the scenes" section detailing what—and I'm only guessing since the writing could be better—happened during their time on the production. First off, what happened to confidenciality? Second, this will need to be sourced and cited. Wikipedia is not a blog. You cannot just right something that clearly isn't common knowledge and claim it's fact. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 02:51, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

The Behind the scenes section is really inappropriate. It's minutae about a show that hasn't even been released yet. I'm all for trivia in a Wikipedia page, but this stuff isn't that interesting. I'd say let's take the section out. SnappingTurtle 20:28, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Petition for return

I removed the petition link. I like the show too, but NPOV needs to be maintained.

I know its badly written, but this is one of my favourite shows coming up this season and I am really excited about it. I went to the taping and I just thought it would be a neat idea to put those tid bits of information about the show because what is Wikipedia about? About the useless information, right? When we look at this show years from now it is going to be there, sure maybe right now it doesn't mean anything, but years from now, any little information is going to be well taken, at least that is how I feel. 16:08PT, 20/8/2006

Encyclopedias tend to focus on useful information. Preferably, information is from citable sources; otherwise, editors could just make things up. Additionally, the information should work to help the reader gain an understanding of the subject. Whether an actress flubbed her lines is just not significant does not help a reader understand the subject.--Chris Griswold 08:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

It's cool that you're excited about the show and it's also great that you're channeling that excitement into Wikipedia. There may be a better way to do it. Let me suggest posting your information here in the discussion page. As the show and the page about the show develops it may be that some of the trivia you mention works its way bit by cited bit into the official page. SnappingTurtle 14:12, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

• The guidance at Wikipedia:Original research may be of use here. Basically, Wikipedia needs citations for all information, it is not intended as a place to publish facts which cannot be verified through reference to other, reliable publications. Whilst your personal insight into the creation of the show is of interest, Wikipedia is not the place to present it, as an encyclopedia is an aggregation of other sources. To see your information presented within Wikipedia, you must first have your information published in a reliable source. I hope that explains why this text is removed. Hiding Talk 20:32, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I believe this takes place in the mainly white suburb of Philadelphia called Lower Merion

In the series history section it says . On July, 3 2007 ABC said it had picked up the show to air during 2007-2008. Any soruce confirming this? Anthonyd46 19:28, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Individual episode pages necessary?

Do we really need individual pages for each of the episodes? I think that, at most, a single separate page listing the episodes and their plots would suffice. Brad E. Williams 16:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Total Audience

Can someone answer why the Total Audience was taken off? I didn't see an explanation for it on the history. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Quatropods (talk • contribs) 21:38, 23 December 2006 (UTC).

Lucy Punch Fired

As of this month (Jan. 2007), Lucy Punch's character "Holly Ellenbogen" will be terminated. I think the "Rule of 6" effected this (plus, the general lack of affection I think fans had of the character).

"The Class" just had too many characters. "Friends" (the show this show's producers made it with) had 3 men and 3 women and that was pretty much the limit. "TC" had 4 men and 4 women, plus extraneous husbands, boyfriends, wives, etc. Think it was just too much. I think Sean Mcquire's "Kyle Lendo" may be next. At this point (last night's show, Mon. Jan 15th), he's pretty much "the guy who sits around with Kat and Ethan".

Sad loss is "Holly Ellenbogan's" husband "Perry". Sam Harris is hilarious, but then again, too much "Perry is so gay and doesn't know it" might have gone on too long as well.

Redirects

I have redirected all the pages for individual characters back to this page. The pages for the individual characters did not add anything significant to what is found in the character synopses on this page. In fact, some of the individual character pages were lifted directly from this page. The information does not need to be duplicated in two different locations. Dbart 21:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Former characters?

Should Holly, Perry, Aaron, and Fern be moved to a "former characters" section? Brad E. Williams 18:34, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, we don't know about Perry, Aaron or Fern. They could come back, but Holly for sure. I was thinking of making a "Formerly Staring" chart underneath the "main cast" and putting Holly in that catergory. What do you think? - Sparko

Though Kyle's palling around with Ethan seems to indicate the elimination of Aaron, and we haven't seen Perry since Holly left, you're right that Holly is the only one that we know for sure is no longer with the show. I like the idea of "formerly starring" section, and perhaps it can be expanded if we learn officially that other characters have left. Brad E. Williams 20:34, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, Perry was in one episode, "The Class Has A Snow Day" and Aaron is supposed to come back, in the season finale Kyle is picking him up at the airport.

Make that two for Perry.

Movie with the same name

It looks that we need a disambiguation page. The Class is also an Estonian movie, depicting school violence. See IMDB page here here. Tarmo Tanilsoo (talk) 21:19, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Can't we just use Template:Otheruses4? -- Jamie jca (talk) 21:29, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

School photographs at titles section

Just something I was wondering about as I started to watch an episode, are the school photographs featured at the beginning real photographs of the cast at younger ages? Anyone have any idea on this? Mark1512 (talk) 01:58, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Philadelphia connection?

The category says this show is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but the article itself never says that. Please clarify, or remove the Pennsylvania template.--DThomsen8 (talk) 03:19, 22 December 2010 (UTC)