In the TV world, 1999 was a pretty important time. The multi-Emmy Award-winning drama series “The Sopranos” and “The West Wing” premiered that year, as did Nickelodeon’s bel…
. The producing talent also included “School of Rock” writer Mike White and “Bad Teacher” director Jake Kasdan, and the show also featured guest stars including Ben Foster, Rashida Jones and a baby-faced Shia LaBeouf. But after only averaging 6.8 million total live viewers for the season, it barely cracked Nielsen’s Top 100 rankings, and the broadcaster opted not to air the final three episode of its 18-episode season.
Set at the fictional William McKinley High School outside of Detroit-during the 1980-81 school year, “Freaks and Geeks” revolves around the brilliant “mathlete” Lindsay Weir who rebels and starts hanging out with the school’s outcasts and slackers, Daniel , Ken , Nick and Kim — much to the concern of her worried parents . The geeks are represented by Lindsay’s freshman brother Sam who navigates the often-mean hallways of McKinley High with his equally nerdy pals Neal and Bill .
“It was kind of life-changing,” says Feig about the series. “I was a struggling actor at that point. I was a regular on ‘Sabrina, the Teenage Witch,’ but I had been written out of the series after it became successful. So I had no job. I had spent all my money on this independent film. I was really in dire straits. Suddenly I had a career as a writer and showrunner.”
For Apatow, Shandling “was always a voice in my head about talking about the struggle to be a human being and to want to love, to survive hardships and heartache. It was very helpful for me to have come out of the Garry Shandling school right at the moment we started ‘Freaks and Geeks.”’ The character of Sam was harder, though. “We’re trying to cast a kid who reminded me of myself,” Feig says. “He was supposed to be really tall because I was really tall in school. But all my bullies were little short guys. They had picked on me because I couldn’t fight back.”
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