The Jamie Foxx Show

The Jamie Foxx Show was a WB network sitcom that starred comedian Jamie Foxx (who also created the show along with Bentley Kyle Evans).

The show premiered on August 28, 1996 and also starred Garcelle Beauvais, Garrett Morris, Christopher B. Duncan and Ellia English.

Although the show wasn't a major success with the ratings due to the WB being a relatively new network, the show did help launch Jamie Foxx's acting career and relaunched Garrett Morris' career after his 1994 shooting.

It also served as a launch pad for Garcelle Beauvais who would go on to star in ABC's "NYPD Blue." In 1998, Jamie Foxx won a NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series."

On January 14, 2001, "The Jamie Foxx Show" ended after five seasons and 100 episodes.

Plot
The show was about aspiring musician Jamie King who moves from Texas to Los Angeles to pursue a career in entertainment. In order to support himself, he works in his family's hotel, the financially strapped King's Tower, owned by his Aunt Helen and Uncle Junior, Helen and Junior King (Ellia English and Garrett Morris).

Among his co-workers at the hotel during the series' run were the beautiful and intelligent Francesca "Fancy" Monroe (Garcelle Beauvais) and Jamie's high-strung, stuffed-shirt, "bourgeois" nemesis Braxton P. Hartnabrig (Christopher B. Duncan).

Jamie's romantic overtures toward Fancy were mostly unrequited until the final two seasons when they began to tentatively date and eventually became engaged. Braxton (who generally served as the brunt of Jamie's insults) was known to get in a few digs of his own as the series progressed.

Cast

 * Jamie Foxx as Jamie King
 * Garcelle Beauvais as Francesca "Fancy" Monroe
 * Christopher B. Duncan as Braxton P. Hartnabrig
 * Ellia English as Aunt Helen King
 * Garrett Morris as Uncle Junior King