“The Secret To Life Is Fixing All The Bad Things That You’ve Done”

A Powerful Comedy Format

4 Seasons, 95 Episodes

An Amusing Premise

Unique Characters

Truly Original Storylines

Strong Ratings Performance In The U.S.

Delivers A Desirable Audience Composition

Critically Acclaimed And Strong Award Recognition

Attracts Major Advertisers

Already A Strong International Presence

“The Secret To Life Is Fixing All The Bad Things That You’ve Done”

An Amusing Premise

Dim-witted petty crook EARL has taken one too many wrong turns on the highway of life.  However, one day a twist of fate turns his life into a tailspin of life-renewing events.  Earl wins the lottery, but seconds later, a car hits him and his winning ticket blows away.  While recovering in the hospital, doped up on morphine, Earl watches a popular late night talk show where the host says that his success is a direct result of doing good things for other people.  It is at that moment that Earl discovers the concept of karma, and in hope of a better life, sets out to correct every bad thing he's ever done. 

During each episode, our revitalized hero, armed with a long list of his misdeeds, seeks to cleanse his karma and atone for another of the many wrongs he’s committed.  Earl’s wide-ranging list encompasses childish prejudices, like "Made fun of people with accents" or “Picked on Kenny James in grade school,” or more serious offenses, as in “Let Donny Jones serve jail time for a crime I committed.”  Others are just plain ridiculous, like “Stole a car from a one-legged girl.”  Earl narrates each episode in deadpan style, never registering surprise at anything that happens, no matter how inane things become.  "If I want a better life, I need to be a better person" Earl believes, and in each episode, we see him cross off another wrong from his list in his roadmap to a better life.

Unique Characters

           

Randy, 28Earl's oafish brother Randy has been Earl’s sidekick his whole life, looking up to his older sibling for guidance and good times. Though he doesn’t understand why Earl has changed his life, he has a deep respect for his brother’s newfound quest. 

Joy, 30Joy is a self-absorbed, shortsighted, gold-digging hussy who lives in a trailer with Earl’s old friend Darnell and her two kids.  While she’s beautiful and able to attract men, she’s overpowered by greed and is barely able to take care of herself because of her crazy schemes and fiery temper.   

Darnell, 30Darnell is a good-natured but dunderheaded bar hand at Earl’s favorite drinking spot.  He prefers to play sidekick in any situation, and is frequently ordered around by his tough wife Joy.  Despite getting Joy pregnant back when Earl was still married to her, and then later stealing her from him, neither Earl nor Darnell hold a grudge against one another.

Catalina, 24Catalina is a beautiful immigrant maid who works at the run-down motel that Earl and Randy call home.  After the guys moved into the motel, she immediately became attracted to Earl’s good-hearted quest for enlightenment.  Playing sidekick to Randy, Catalina often helps Earl along on his journey, questioning his decisions or occasionally playing some kind of role in his schemes. 

Earl, 32Once a picture of the shiftless, small town hick who never would’ve amounted to anything except a prison sentence, the Earl of today is a changed man.  Because of his life-changing experience with karma, he is able to understand what it means to “do the right thing,” and has taken it upon himself to let this seep into everything he does.            

Truly Original Storylines

QUIT SMOKING  Earl tackles two items on his karma list: making up for all the second-hand smoke he’s inflicted on the world, and confessing to a man who served time for a crime Earl committed; and Joy decides to kill Earl so she can inherit his money.

           

TEACHER EARL  To compensate for having made fun of people’s accents, Earl teaches English to a group of immigrants; and an old friend of Earl’s gets out of prison and tries to go straight, like Earl, but soon returns to a life of crime... including an effort to steal Earl’s money.

FAKED MY OWN DEATH  Earl recalls how years ago he got involved with a clingy girl named Natalie, and faked his death in order to end his relationship with her; when he spots Natalie again, Earl decides to tell her the truth so he can cross “lying to her” off his list of misdeeds; but making amends to Natalie turns out to be harder than Earl expects.  

RANDY'S TOUCHDOWN  Earl tries to make up for having Randy fix a high-school football game years ago so he could win a bet with a bookie; and after Joy has Earl’s car towed, not realizing that all the lottery winnings are in it, she and Earl race to get the car out of impound.

BROKE JOY'S FANCY FIGURINE  Earl decides to make up for breaking Joy’s fancy figurine: When he learns that the only way to get a new figurine is to win one in a beauty pageant, Earl agrees to enter the pageant... as the target in a mother/daughter team’s knife-throwing demonstration.           

A Top 10 comedy series among Total Viewers (shown below).#2 NBC comedy among Total Viewers and key Adults 18-49 and 25-54.Impressively ranks #2 on NBC among key Men and Women 18-49 as well.

Top 20 U.S. Network Primetime Comedy Series 2007/08 Season

Source: Nielsen, NTI, Live + 7 viewing data, 09/24/07-06/17/08. Ranking based on impressions, original episodes only. Excludes sports, movies and specials.

#2Comed

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NBC!

A Top Comedy on NBC

Rank Series Net. Day Time Total Viewers#1 Two And A Half Men CBS Monday 9:00 PM 14,816,000 #2 Samantha Who? ABC Monday 9:32 PM 11,860,000 #3 Rules Of Engagement CBS Monday 9:30 PM 11,426,000 #4 Old Christine CBS Monday 9:30 PM 10,415,000 #5 Office NBC Thursday 9:00 PM 9,925,000 #6 Family Guy FOX Sunday 9:00 PM 9,719,000 #7 How I Met Your Mother CBS Monday 8:00 PM 9,083,000 #8 Big Bang Theory, The CBS Monday 8:00 PM 8,879,000 #9 Simpsons FOX Sunday 8:00 PM 8,612,000

#10 NBC Thursday 8:00 PM 8,085,000

#11 Back To You FOX Wednesday 8:00 PM 7,441,000 #12 American Dad FOX Sunday 9:31 PM 6,853,000 #13 King Of The Hill FOX Sunday 8:31 PM 6,788,000 #14 Scrubs NBC Thursday 9:31 PM 6,663,000 #15 30 Rock NBC Thursday 8:30 PM 6,647,000 #16 Til Death FOX Wednesday 8:00 PM 6,627,000 #17 Cavemen ABC Tuesday 8:00 PM 6,605,000 #18 Welcome To The Captain CBS Monday 8:30 PM 6,359,000 #19 Carpoolers ABC Tuesday 9:30 PM 5,476,000 #20 According To Jim - Tues. ABC Tuesday 9:00 PM 5,288,000

Thursdays 08:00-08:30PM 2007/08 Season Time Period Ranking

Adults 18-49 Impressions

4,613,0004,613,000

5,935,0005,935,000

FOXAre You Smarter Than

a 5th Grader+

ABCUgly Betty+

3,876,0003,876,000

4,382,0004,382,000

CBSSurvivor/CSI: NY

CWSmallville

2,273,0002,273,000

#2 in its time period among key Adults 18-49 (shown below).#2 in its time period among key Adults 25-54.#1 in its time period among younger key Adults 18-34.

NBC

#2!#2!

Source: Nielsen NTI Live + 7 viewing data, 2007/08 Season. Time Period ranking based on 000s, original episodes versus direct time period competition.

A Top Contender VersusTough Time Period Competition!

50% of the Total Adults 18-49 are Men (shown below).50% of the Total Adults 18-49 are Women (shown below).A considerable 57% of Total Viewers are key Adult s 18-49.

Attracts Equal Counts of KeyMales and Females and SubstantialCounts of Key Adults.

My Name Is Earl2007/08 Season Audience/Gender Composition

% of Key Adults 18-49 Impressions% of Total Viewers Impressions

4,613,000 Total Adults 18-49

MEN 18-492,308,000

50%

WOM 18-492,304,000

50%

ADULTS 18-49

4,613,00057%

ALL OTHERS3,472,000

43%

8,085,000 Total Viewers 2+

Source: Nielsen NTI Live + 7 viewing data, 2007/08 Season. Audience composition based on % as indicated.

“TV’s Best New Comedy”TV Guide

“Do Good Things And Good Things Will Happen.”

“A Slam Dunk Critical Hit”The Wall Street Journal

“Earl’s A Hoot…Grade A”Newsweek

“A Comedic Bull’s-Eye”Newsday

“The Season’s Most Original Sitcom”USA Today

“Off beat And Utterly Charming”The New York Times

Critical Acclaim

Award Recognition

People’s Choice Awards® WinnerFavorite New Television Comedy

Two-Time Golden Globes® Nominee- Best Television Series (Musical Or Comedy)- Best Performance By An Actor In A Television Series (Musical Or Comedy)

Three-Time Writers Guild Of America® NomineeComedy Series/New Series/Episodic Comedy (Pilot Episode)

Directors Guild Of America® NomineeOutstanding Directorial Achievement In A Comedy (Pilot Episode)

Three-Time TCA Awards® Nominee (Television Critics Association)

- Outstanding Achievement In Comedy- Outstanding New Program Of The Year- Individual Achievement In Comedy

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Attracts Top Advertisers Automotive

Food

Electronics

Source: Nielsen Ad Views; September – December 2005.

IT1 - Italy: Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat 23:45 Delivered An 18 Share With Adults 15-34 #1 In Its Time Period Among Adults 15-34

NW7 – Australia: Sunday, Thursday 20:00 1.4 million Total Viewers average per telecast #1 In Its Time Period across all key demos

Strong International Presence

Kanaaltwee – Belgium: Sunday, Tuesday 20:00 Airs In Primetime

CHCH - Canada: Tuesday 21:30A Top Time Period Performer among Adults 18-34

Viasat’s TV3 – Denmark: Friday 21:00 Airs In Primetime

Canal 5 – Mexico: Friday 22:15 Airs In Primetime

When a low-rent crook wins the lottery and discovers “karma,” he sets out to correct every bad thing he's ever done.

A hilariously innovative comedy format franchise.