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Season 3, Episode 22 - "The Wedding Episode"

15 May, 2009

Kelly and Jason share an emotional moment; Tasha finally admits to setting Jason up with Camille.

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Premiere: October 1, 2006

Type: TV Show

Genres/Tags: Sitcom, TV-Drama

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The Game is an American comedy-drama television series that was created by Mara Brock Akil and produced by Kelsey Grammer. Premiering on October 1, 2006, the series debuted as the only new comedy series chosen for The CW's primetime schedule. Along with Runaway, it was one of only two series on the new network not to be inherited from either of its predecessor networks, The WB and UPN, during the network's first season.

The show is a spinoff of the long-running UPN/CW sitcom, Girlfriends. On April 17, 2006, an episode of Girlfriends focused on a young woman who decides to put her pending career plans on hold for the rising success of her star athlete boyfriend. The character, Melanie Barnett, was introduced in the episode as being the first cousin of Joan Clayton, Girlfriends' principal character.

As the series premieres, Melanie Barnett (Tia Mowry) is a first-year medical school student who has given up an offer of admission to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore (widely regarded as one of the two best medical schools in the country) to follow her boyfriend Derwin Davis (Pooch Hall), a professional football player, to San Diego, against the advice of her parents. Derwin Davis is a first-year rookie with a fictional team called the "San Diego Sabers". As Melanie settles into her new life, she meets Tasha Mack (Wendy Raquel Robinson), the mother of Sabers' starting quarterback Malik Wright (Hosea Chanchez), and Kelly Pitts (Brittany Daniel), the wife of Sabers' captain Jason Pitts (Coby Bell). As she learns to balance her new roles as both med student and the partner of a professional football player, Tasha and Kelly immediately warn her to keep a close eye on her boyfriend because of the numerous "gold diggers" who approach the professional football players.

As of the second season premiere episode, The Game is The CW's number one comedy pulling in 3.0 million viewers, compared to it being The CW's lowest rated sitcom last season. Nielsen Media Research has listed The Game in the Top 10 TV programs among African-Americans for February 4, 2008.

The series' third season premiered on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 8:30/7:30c.

As The CW moves to make its full schedule free of half-hour comedies, and fill it with hour-long dramas, The Game has been considered for cancellation. However, in an attempt to save the series, Brock Akil has discussed changing the format of the show to an hour-long comedic-drama series.

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