Windfall is an American television serial drama about a group of people in an unnamed small city who win almost $400 million in a lottery. The series premiered on June 8, 2006 on NBC, taking the time slot occupied by ER during the rest of the year.
On August 31, 2006, NBC announced the show's cancellation by stating on its website that the episode that night would be the series finale. Controversially, NBC also gave local affiliates the option of showing pre-season football instead and showing the final episode at each affiliates discretion. Many affiliates took them up on this, planning to show it either much later that night or at other odd days/times during the Labor Day weekend (for example, WNBC-TV in New York planned to show the episode at 12:30pm on September 3, 2006).
In the United Kingdom and Middle East the show has been picked up by Five Lifeand Showtime Arabia respectively. It is also shown in Ireland on the channel 3eweekdays at 3pm.
Production
The show was developed in early 2005 by Regency Television for Fox. At the time the show was known as Ticket To Ride.After ordering the pilot Fox decided to pass on the series. In June 2005 it was announced that NBC had picked up the series and would be shooting a new pilot. It was also confirmed that co-creator Gwendolyn Parker would no longer be involved with the show as she had moved on to work on Without a Trace.
Episode list
Windfall ranked 164 for the 2005-06 television season with an average of 5.510 million viewers. Due to the finale episode being preëmpted in many markets it is not even counted among the shows aired in primetime that week and thus there is no ratings for it.
Season 1 1. 1-1 08 Jun 06 Pilot 2. 1-2 15 Jun 06 The Getaway 3. 1-3 22 Jun 06 There and Gone Again 4. 1-4 29 Jun 06 Running with the Devil 5. 1-5 06 Jul 06 Money Changers 6. 1-6 13 Jul 06 White Knights 7. 1-7 20 Jul 06 Changing Partners 8. 1-8 27 Jul 06 Answered Prayers 9. 1-9 03 Aug 06 The Myth of More 10. 1-10 10 Aug 06 Crash Into You 11. 1-11 17 Aug 06 Truth Be Told 12. 1-12 24 Aug 06 Urgent Care 13. 1-13 31 Aug 06 Priceless
Windfall is a serial drama television series about a group of people in an unnamed small city who win almost $400,000,000 in a lottvery.
Original Name: Windfall
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 13
Status: Canceled
Type: Scripted
Network(s): NBC
First Air Date: June 8, 2006
Last Air Date: August 31, 2006
Episode Runtime: 42,60 mins
Primary Year: 2006
Created by: Gwendolyn M. Parker
Genres: Drama
Spoken Language(s): English
Origin Countries: United States of America
Seasons:
Season 1 — 13 Episodes — Air Date: June 8, 2006
Casting:
Luke Perry as Peter Schaefer
Lana Parrilla as Nina Schaefer
Emma Prescott as Violet Schaefer
Jason Gedrick as Cameron Walsh
Sarah Wynter as Beth Walsh
D.J. Cotrona as Sean Mathers
Jon Foster as Damien Cutler
Alice Greczyn as Frankie Townsend
Jaclyn DeSantis as Maggie Hernandez
Larissa Drekonja as Galina Kokorev
Nikki Deloach as Sunny van Hattem
Peyton List as Tally Reida
aired from: June 2006
to: Aug 2006
cancelled/ended 13 eps NBC (US) 60 min drama
Tags: 2006, Alice Greczyn, Canceled, D.J. Cotrona, Drama, English, Jason Gedrick, Jon Foster, Lana Parrilla, lottery, Scripted, sudden wealth, TV Series, winning lottery