New Lifetime Series: Rita Rocks
“Rita Rocks” is a show about mom and wife Rita (Nicole Sullivan, Kim Possible) who gets passed up for a promotion and realizes that everyone around her has a life and is out doing things with their lives. When she was younger she was in a band and now to capture the spirit of her younger days she starts a garage band with her mail lady Patty as the keyboardist, unemployed neighbor Owen as the bass player, and her oldest daughter Hallie’s boyfriend Kip (Raviv Ullman, Phil of the Future) plays the drums.
Characters
Rita: Wife to Jay, and mother to Hallie and Shannon, forms a garage band to have time for herself.
Jay: Husband to Rita who supports her garage band.
Hallie: Rita’s oldest daughter at the age of 16.
Shannon: Youngest daughter. She loves karate.
Kip: Hallie’s goofy boyfriend for over a year who spends most of his time at Rita’s because he doesn’t like his parents.
Patty: Rita’s mail lady who is the keyboardist in her band.
Owen: Rita’s unemployed neighbor who can’t find a job anywhere after being in the auto business for 20 years. He invited himself to play with the band.
Yoda: Family dog who is a golden retriever.
The show will premiere on October 20th at 8:30pm et/pt after Reba on Lifetime (channel 73 for Time Warner). There will then be a new episode everyday that week at 8:30pm et/pt.
October 20th
The first episode is the pilot where it will deal with Rita having sort of a midlife crisis and forming a band.
October 21st
Rita misses Shannon’s karate class because she was having band practice. Meanwhile Kip is playing the drums in Rita’s band even though Hallie has forbid him not to.
October 22nd
Patty has started going out with a UPS guy and Rita tries to help move it along and ends up complicating things. Meanwhile Kip and Hallie plan to get tattoos but the plan doesn’t go over well with Rita and Jay.
October 23rd
Rita and Patty go to a guitar shop when one of the strings on her guitar break and they meet two young guy musicians. They all go out to a concert together and Jay is not too happy about it.
October 24th
Rita and Jay decide to go away for the weekend but their plans are almost ruined when Rita’s mom has to back out of babysitting Hallie and Shannon. Hallie thinks she is old enough to watch Shannon for the weekend but Rita and Jay don’t think do.
Starting the week after on October 28th “Rita Rocks” will be on it’s normal time at 8:30pm.
October 28th
Hallie wants to go to Canada with Kip for a concert and Shannon wants to have a sleepover with friends at the house. Rita says no to both requests and as a result she thinks Hallie and Shannon are sucking up to Jay to get him to say yes.
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