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tells Claire that he has been stripped of his godly powers by Zeus, and exiled from Mount Olympus as a punishment for arrogance. To win his way back among the gods, Trevor must unite 100 couples in everlasting love, without his bow and arrows. Claire does not believe in Cupid, but she risks her career by releasing Trevor from the hospital, assuming responsibility for his behavior. Trevor finds work as a bartender, and regularly disrupts Claire's group therapy sessions. All the while, he plots his campaign to promote romance, and earn his way back to Olympus. While encouraging sexual abandon in others, Trevor remains chaste; he believes sex with a mortal will confine him to Earth forever.
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Psychologist Dr. Claire Allen is called in by the hospital to look at a man who believes he is the Greek god Cupid. After weeks of therapy and Claire's insistence that he has overcome his delusions he is released into her custody at a council hearing where the man also claims his real name is Trevor
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Trevor explains to the group that beautiful people end up in relationships with other beautiful people. Claire disagrees, and they set up a beautiful woman in the group with an ordinary looking man with a good personality. In the end, the beautiful woman goes back to her good looking ex-boyfriend,
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Claire's friend is in town for her wedding and bachelorette party. Trevor attempts to head off a woman the groom has been sleeping with, but it turns out that she and the groom are really the ones in love. Claire is forced to confront her and her friends cliquish behaviour. They had treated the
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A woman in Claire's group can't get a date because of her appearance. Trevor suggests a make-over, and she becomes a beauty. A man goes out with her on a bet, thinking she is unattractive, then grows to like the new her. She learns of the bet and rejects him. Meanwhile, Trevor and Claire spar
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A woman in Claire's group dreams of a male model on a billboard, and Trevor introduces them. The relationship goes well initially, but they end up apart because he is a city boy and she is a country girl. Meanwhile, Claire's faith in romance is restored by anonymous gifts, but it turns out they
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Trevor Hale is attractive, witty, uncommonly intelligent—and he may be Cupid, the Greco-Roman god of erotic love. Probably not, but he thinks so. Trevor's insistence that he is Cupid lands him in a mental hospital, where he meets psychologist Claire Allen, a renowned authority on romance. Trevor
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Trevor teaches the men from Claire's singles group how to meet women at a night club's Halloween bash. He helps them get over their fear of rejection by inventing a game where the winner is the one who collects the most rejections. Also, Trevor helps a homeless girl go back to her
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Claire and Trevor are forced to serve on a jury during Christmas. Claire frets about not spending the holiday with Alex, while Trevor tries to help two black jurors connect. In the end, the female black juror takes a liking to a white
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linguist to determine Trevor's real past. Trevor helps him find love through tutoring a woman that works at the university's cafeteria. The linguist builds a file on Trevor, but when the relationship blossoms, he hides the file from
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A couple seek counseling from Claire because the husband keeps spontaneously breaking into song and dance in public. Claire loses a promotion by criticizing the husband, but Trevor brings them together by teaching the wife to
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Trevor sets up a dying woman with a hockey coach. They hit it off, but before they can have a second date, he is killed in an auto crash. Trevor becomes despondent, but then the coach's organs save the woman's
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article from December 2004, creator Rob Thomas mentions that the show would have ended with Trevor and Claire becoming Trevor's 100th match—and without revealing whether Trevor really was Cupid.
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Fifteen episodes were produced, and fourteen episodes were aired. Two additional episodes titled "Company Pier" and "Chapter Six" were scripted, but were never filmed.
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back to the airwaves with an October 2007 deal for which scripts and production were approved in March 2008. The series was relocated to New York City and cast
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Claire believes Alex is going to break up with her, so she asks Trevor's assistance. Trevor helps, but it is shown that he may have feelings for Claire himself.
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Hale (which Claire later discovers is a name he made up on the fly from a sign in the courtroom 'And love shall make the Earth
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over who is the better dancer, then join to win a dance contest when each's partner is unavailable.
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as Claire. Only seven episodes of the revival series aired, from March 31 – June 16, 2009.
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Claire is treating a young boy when the boy enlists Trevor's help in finding his mom (
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to connect 100 couples without using his powers, as a punishment for his arrogance.
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E! Online named Cupid as #4 on its "Top Ten Shows Cancelled Before Their Time".
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from September 26, 1998 to February 11, 1999 and which featured
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Originally broadcast on ABC on Saturday evenings at 10 p.m.
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Cupid (TV series)
Cupid (2009 TV series)
Rob Thomas
Jeremy Piven
Paula Marshall
Jeffrey D. Sams
The Pretenders
Human on the Inside
Divinyls
Scott Winant
Scott Sanders
Jeremy Piven
Mandalay Television
Columbia TriStar Television
ABC
comedy-drama
Rob Thomas
ABC
Paula Marshall
Chicago
psychologist
Jeremy Piven
Cupid
Mount Olympus
Zeus
EST
Jeremy Piven
Paula Marshall
Jeffrey D. Sams
Paul Adelstein

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