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2018 American TV series or program

Dietland
Genre	Dark comedy
Created by	Marti Noxon
Based on	Dietland by Sarai Walker
Starring	Joy Nash Tamara Tunie Robin Weigert Rowena King Adam Rothenberg Erin Darke Ricardo Davila Tramell Tillman Will Seefried Julianna Margulies
Composer	Fil Eisler
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Marti Noxon David Ellison Dana Goldberg Marcy Ross Maria Grasso Bonnie Curtis Julie Lynn Jacqueline Hoyt
Production companies	Uncharted AMC Studios Mockingbird Pictures Tiny Pyro
Original release
Network	AMC
Release	June 4 (2018-06-04) – July 30, 2018 (2018-07-30)

Dietland is an American dark comedy drama television series created by Marti Noxon, based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Sarai Walker. The straight-to-series 10-episode first season premiered on AMC with back to back episodes on June 4, 2018.

On September 20, 2018, AMC announced that the series had been cancelled. The series had persistently low ratings. The show averaged 203,000 viewers among the advertiser-coveted adults 18-48 demographics — with three days of DVR.

Cast and characters

Main

Joy Nash as Alicia "Plum" Kettle
Tamara Tunie as Julia Smith
Robin Weigert as Verena Baptist
Rowena King as Cheryl Crane-Murphy
Adam Rothenberg as Dominic O'Shea
Erin Darke as Leeta Albridge
Ricardo Davila as Eladio
Tramell Tillman as Steven
Will Seefried as Ben
Julianna Margulies as Kitty Montgomery

Recurring

Melissa Navia as Moana
Debra Monk as Mrs Kettle
Dariush Kashani as Clive
Alanna Ubach as Marlowe Buchanan
Ami Sheth as Sana
Campbell Scott as Stanley Austen
Jen Ponton as Rubi
Kelly Hu as Abra Austen
Marc Blucas as Bobby
Mark Tallman as Jake
Mya Taylor as Barbara
Colby Minifie as Jasmine
Laura Darrell as Anna
Karen Eilbacher as Jillian

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Teleplay by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	"Pilot"	Marti Noxon	Marti Noxon	June 4, 2018 (2018-06-04)	0.668
2	"Tender Belly"	Marti Noxon	Marti Noxon	June 4, 2018 (2018-06-04)	0.668
3	"Y Not"	Michael Trim	Jacqueline Hoyt	June 11, 2018 (2018-06-11)	0.490
4	"F... This"	Michael Trim	Nancy Fichman & Jennifer Hoppe-House	June 18, 2018 (2018-06-18)	0.449
5	"Plum Tuckered"	Amy York Rubin	Matt Shire	June 25, 2018 (2018-06-25)	0.409
6	"Belly of the Beast"	Amy York Rubin	Janine Nabers	July 2, 2018 (2018-07-02)	0.403
7	"Monster High"	Helen Shaver	Marshall Heyman	July 9, 2018 (2018-07-09)	0.342
8	"Rad Fatties"	Helen Shaver	Nancy Fichman & Jennifer Hoppe-House	July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)	0.314
9	"Woman Down"	Liesl Tommy	Jacqueline Hoyt & Marti Noxon	July 23, 2018 (2018-07-23)	0.285
10	"Bedwomb"	Marti Noxon	Marti Noxon	July 30, 2018 (2018-07-30)	0.300

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 83% based on 52 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The well-acted Dietland delivers timely and engaging social commentary with enough humor and scathing wit to make up for an occasionally scattered narrative approach." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 66 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of *Dietland*
No.	Title	Air date	Rating (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Pilot"	June 4, 2018	0.16	0.668	0.253	0.921
2	"Tender Belly"	June 4, 2018	0.16	0.668	0.253	0.921
3	"Y Not"	June 11, 2018	0.11	0.490	0.274	0.764
4	"F... This"	June 18, 2018	0.11	0.449	0.314	0.763
5	"Plum Tuckered"	June 25, 2018	0.10	0.409	0.246	0.655
6	"Belly of the Beast"	July 2, 2018	0.09	0.403	0.300	0.703
7	"Monster High"	July 9, 2018	0.09	0.342	0.263	0.605
8	"Rad Fatties"	July 16, 2018	0.08	0.314	0.284	0.598
9	"Woman Down"	July 23, 2018	0.06	0.285	0.217	0.503
10	"Bedwomb"	July 30, 2018	0.08	0.300	0.237	0.537

Talk show

A late-night companion talk show was released after the episodes from Embassy Row, AMC Studios and Uncharted. It was created and hosted by Aisha Tyler from June 6 to June 30, 2018.

References

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Pucci, Douglas (August 10, 2018). "Live+3 Weekly Ratings: 'The Sinner' Season Premiere More Than Doubles its Live+Same Day Figures in Overall Gains". Programming Insider. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
"What Aisha Tyler learned from failing". June 15, 2018.

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