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Cupid
Format	Romantic Comedy‑drama
Created by	Rob Thomas
Starring	Jeremy Piven Paula Marshall Jeffrey D. Sams
Opening theme	“Human” by The Pretenders (cover of “Human on the Inside” by Divinyls)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	15 (1 unaired) (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Scott Winant Joe Voci Scott Sanders
Running time	approx. 44(?) minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 26, 1998 – February 11, 1999
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Cupid is a 1998-1999 American comedy-drama series created by Rob Thomas, which featured Paula Marshall as Dr. Claire Allen, a Chicago psychologist who is given charge of a man named Trevor Hale (Jeremy Piven). Hale believes he is Cupid, sent down from Mt. Olympus by Zeus to connect 100 couples without his powers, as a punishment for his arrogance.

Originally broadcast on ABC on Saturday evenings at 10 p.m. EST, the show lasted only one season.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 2.1 Regular Cast 2.2 Recurring Cast 2.3 Recurring Guests 3 Staff 3.1 Writers 3.2 Directors 4 Episodes 5 Reviews & articles 6 Production Notes 7 Show Resurrection 8 Notes and trivia 9 External links 10 Sources

Trevor begins in Claire’s singles therapy group, with mixed results. Claire and Trevor become attracted to each other as the show progresses, but are unable and unwilling to act on their feelings: she out of a desire to maintain a professional detachment, he because he believes he cannot form a relationship with a mortal woman, since he would have to leave Earth after completing his penance (also, he would never be able to return to Mt. Olympus if he had sex with a mortal before his task was complete). Viewers are never told whether Trevor is really Cupid, and are given hints both ways.

• Jeremy Piven — Cupid/Trevor Hale
• Paula Marshall — Dr. Claire Allen
• Jeffrey D. Sams — Champ

• Paul Adelstein — Mike
• Noelle Bou-Sliman — Tina
• Daniel Bryant — Laurence
• Melanie Deanne Moore — Jaclyn
• Jeff Parise — Nick
• Geryll Robinson — Chris

• Kevin Scott Greer — Single Guy (4 episodes)
• Joe Flanigan — Alex (4 episodes)
• Hollis Resnik — Linda (3 episodes)

• Rob Thomas — Creator, executive producer, supervising producer
• Scott Winant — Executive producer, director
• Joe Voci — Executive producer
• Scott Sanders — Executive producer
• Jeff Reno — Executive producer
• Ron Osborn — Executive producer
• Hart Hanson — Co-Executive Producer
• W.G. “Snuffy” Walden — Composer

• Michael Green
• Ron Osborn
• Jeff Reno
• Rob Thomas
• Elle Triedman

• Michael Engler
• Michael Fields
• Tucker Gates
• Michael Katleman
• Elodie Keene
• Patrick Norris
• Peter O’Fallon
• David Petrarca
• Scott Winant
• Deran Sarafian

Main article: List of Cupid episodes

• E! Online named Cupid as #4 on its “Top Ten Shows Cancelled Before Their Time”.
• Two 1998 articles from Tim Goodman San Francisco Examiner and Alan Sepinwall New Jersey Star-Ledger as listed on Rob Thomas’s Site.

• Cupid was produced by Columbia TriStar Television and Mandalay Productions^{[citation needed]}.
• Cupid was filmed on location in the Chicago, due to Piven’s love for the city.^{[citation needed]}

• On October 2nd, 2007 Variety broke the story that ABC had given Rob Thomas the "green light" to bring "Cupid" back to the airwaves. The project is one of two scripts Thomas has in the works via a one-year development deal with ABC Studios. The new "Cupid" will also relocate from Chicago to Los Angeles, allowing for more high-profile stunt casting. Jeremy Piven will not be involved in the new version.

• “The Children’s Hour,” the last episode broadcast before the show’s cancellation in the U.S., aired shortly before Valentine’s Day 1999; it features Trevor’s ruminations on why the holiday should instead be “Cupid’s Day”.
• In a December 24, 2004, Entertainment Weekly article, 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.[1]
• Series stars Paula Marshall and Jeffrey D. Sams both had recurring roles on Rob Thomas’s most recent series Veronica Mars. Thomas stated that, given the opportunity, he would have written an episode featuring both of their characters, as well as their Cupid co-star Jeremy Piven. Additionally, an episode featured a brief glance at a website of high school basketball statistics, with a high school named “Trevor Hale”.[2]

• Creator Rob Thomas’s site, including show synopsis, reviews and scripts for unaired episodes.
• Jeremy Piven Home Page, including biography, pictures and information on Jeremy Piven.
• Entry on epguides.com
• Variety Story, ABC to give 'Cupid' another shot
• CUPID fansite

• Cupid at the Internet Movie Database