Jesse is an American sitcom which ran on NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 from September 1998 to May 2000. The show was created by Ira Ungerleider. It aired on Trouble in the UK.

Synopsis

The show stars Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...

 as single mother Jesse Warner, raising her nine-year-old son in the big city. She works for her father in a German-themed bar in Buffalo, New York

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

, serving beer while wearing a dirndl

Dirndl

A dirndl [ˈdɪʁndl̩] is a type of traditional dress worn in Bavaria, Liechtenstein, Austria, and South Tyrol, based on the historical costume of Alpine peasants. Dresses that are loosely based on the dirndl are known as Landhausmode.-Description:...

. Jesse's love interest, a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an named Diego (Bruno Campos

Bruno Campos

Bruno Campos is a Brazilian-born United States-based actor, best known for his role as Dr. Quentin Costa on the Golden Globe Award-winning television show Nip/Tuck.-Early life:...

), gains a rival when her ex-husband comes to town, intent on winning her back.

In the second season, Jesse becomes a nurse, and stories revolve around her friends instead of her family.

Cast

Actor	Role
Christina Applegate Christina Applegate Christina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...	Jesse Warner
Bruno Campos Bruno Campos Bruno Campos is a Brazilian-born United States-based actor, best known for his role as Dr. Quentin Costa on the Golden Globe Award-winning television show Nip/Tuck.-Early life:...	Diego Vasquez
Eric Lloyd Eric Lloyd Eric Lloyd is an American actor. Lloyd is best known for work as a child actor between 1992 and 2003, in such roles as Charlie Calvin in The Santa Clause film trilogy, and as "Little John" Warner in the NBC television series Jesse.-Background:Lloyd was born in Glendale, California, the son of...	"Little John" Warner
Liza Snyder Liza Snyder Liza Snyder is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of "Christine Hughes" on the CBS Network sitcom, Yes, Dear....	Linda
Jennifer Milmore Jennifer Milmore Jennifer Milmore is an American actress best known for her role as Carrie on the NBC sitcom Jesse which ran from 1998 to 2000....	Carrie
John Lehr John Lehr John C. Lehr , an American film and television actor and comedian.- Personal :Lehr was born on November 25, 1965 in Overland Park, Kansas. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1988. While attending Northwestern, he substitute taught at Kilmer Elementary School on the North Side of Chicago,...	John Warner, Jr. (Season One only)
David DeLuise David DeLuise David Dominick DeLuise is an American actor and director.-Career:DeLuise was born in 1971 in Los Angeles, California. He is the youngest son of actor and comedian Dom DeLuise and actress Carol Arthur , and the brother of actor, writer, director Peter DeLuise and actor Michael DeLuise.His first...	Darren Warner (Season One only)
George Dzundza George Dzundza George Dzundza is an American television and film actor.-Personal life:Dzundza was born in Rosenheim, Germany, to a Ukrainian father and Polish mother who were forced into factory labour by the Nazis. He spent the first few years of his life in displaced persons camps with his parents and one...	John Warner, Sr. (Season One only)
Darryl Theirse	Kurt Bemis (Season Two only)
Kevin Rahm Kevin Rahm Kevin Rahm is an American actor known for his role as Kyle McCarty on the CBS series Judging Amy. He portrayed Lee McDermott on Desperate Housewives from 2007 to 2012.-Early life:Rahm was born in Mineral Wells, Texas...	Dr. Danny Kozak (Season Two only)
Michael Weatherly Michael Weatherly Michael Manning Weatherly, Jr. is an American actor, best known for his roles as Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo on the television series NCIS, and Logan Cale on the television series Dark Angel.-Early life:...	Roy Bently (Season One only)

Reception and cancellation

While Jesse was in the top 20 in the Nielsen ratings

Nielsen Ratings

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 regularly, the show lost much ground to Friends

Friends

Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

, its powerful lead-in. As a result, NBC decided to cancel the show after its second season. A total of 42 episodes were produced.

Season		Episode Episode An episode is a part of a dramatic work such as a serial television or radio program. An episode is a part of a sequence of a body of work, akin to a chapter of a book. The term sometimes applies to works based on other forms of mass media as well, as in Star Wars... s	Season Premiere Season premiere In North America, a season premiere is the first episode of a new season of a given television show. It often airs in September or October, after several months of reruns.-Evaluating the changes:...	Season Finale Season finale A season finale is the final episode of a season of a television program...	Ranking	Viewers (in millions)
1st	1998–99 1998–99 United States network television schedule This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all six commercial television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1998. All times are Eastern and Pacific.New series highlighted in bold....	22	September 24, 1998	April 1, 1999	#4	20.1
2nd	1999–00	20	September 23, 1999	May 25, 2000	#12	16.65