User:SamuelAgee/sandbox

Sam Agee is a current Ball State senior and soon to be college graduate. Sam will be graduating from Ball State University in the Spring of 2013 with a degree in Public Communication. He is currently searching for a full time job in radio.

Group 3 is going to improve the Workaholics Page by: 1. lengthening the episode synopses 2. Adding a review from a 3rd party critic to each episode slot 3. Attempt to create a sub page for the production company that makes the show Mail Order Comedy 4. Cleanup the page in general attempt to add more interesting facts about the show by using articles and interviews with the cast.

Each member will have a season to watch. (Faith Season 1, Zack Season 2, Derek Season 3 pt1, Sam Season 3 pt2) The group member will add additional plot points for each episode of their respective seasons. After enhancing the synopsis, a critique for each episode will be added.

Each member will also do more research about the show to find out interesting facts to enhance the general page.

Sam will look more into the Mail Order Comedy page and information from other entities that deal with the production company.

For the Review portion of each episode many of them will come from http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/tvshow/workaholics,367/

Comments
Looks like good progress from Zak, Derek, and Faith. Zak and Derek don't forget to do the thorough editing and rewording we talked about. Waiting for Sam's contribution. Webster Newbold (talk) 21:45, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Reception
Season 1 of Workaholics was met with mostly solid reviews. Matthew Gilbert of the Boston Globe gave the first season an 80 overall on MetaCritic saying it was "witty, irreverent, and joyously juvenile." Dave Wiegand gave the show a 75 overall and added, "The material works more often than not because the guys are completely shameless, which makes them difficult to dislike." The highest amount of viewers the show got in Season 1 was a 1.69 (million) on the ninth episode.

Season 2 saw its first 2 million plus viewed episode with the season premiere. The highest rating, a 2.16 was achieved in episode seven titled ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Roommates'. The show received its highest amount of viewers during this season and averaged about 1.64 viewers per episode.

The season premiere this year for Season 3 achieved a 2.11 in the Nielsen ratings the third highest in the shows history. The number of viewers began to drop off after. The final three episodes achieved 1.23, 1.21, 1.24 respectively. Season 3 wrapped up on March 20, 2013 after 40 episodes split over two seasons.

Plans for a fourth season have yet to be announced.

Production
The show was co-created and is largely written by its three stars, Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, Anders Holm. Frequent co-star Kyle Newacheck also directs most episodes, as well as being a fourth co-creator and serving as executive producer. Kevin Etten is the series' showrunner. Prior to Workaholics, the group was part of the sketch comedy group, 'Mail Order Comedy', which began in 2006 in Los Angeles, CA.  They have since created a production company under the same name: Mail Order Comedy

Workaholics was ordered by Comedy Central in March 2010 after a Comedy Central executive saw a series of videos the group had posted on YouTube. The pilot aired as a "TV Sneak Peek" after the March 15, 2011, debut of the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump. The program ran its 10-episode first season from April 6, 2011, to June 8, 2011, and aired at 10:30 p.m. EDT on Comedy Central. On May 4, 2011, the show was renewed for a second season of ten episodes, which ran from September 20, 2011, to November 22, 2011. On October 25, 2011, the series was renewed for a third season which contained 20 episodes. The first 10 episodes of season 3 ran from May 29 to July 31, 2012 and the remaining 10 episodes began airing January 16, 2013. Due to the popularity of the series, on January 6, 2013, Comedy Central ordered 13-episode fourth and fifth seasons.

Season 3 (2012-2013)
With 20 episodes having been produced for Season 3, the second part of the season is being referred to as Season 3B. Which premiered on January 16, 2013. Paul Schrodt gave this review on Esquire.com of the third season:.