The first serial 'premise' show I remember taking off was the 1995 Murder One. I am sure it was a Bocchco production.

Your're absolutely right! We got the whole season broadcast in France at the time. It's become a cult show for those of us lucky enough to catch it then.

It's hard to believe there were only four episodes shown of Profit. I'll never be able to erase that vision of his fabulous '90s-style apartment -- and Profit curled up fast asleep in a cardboard box.

Writer David Greenwalt went on to write, direct and produce X-Files, Buffy and Angel,, while John McNamara is currently producing Jericho. Nice pedigree.

I say we bring back Profit and put him in charge of Bear Stearns. Make it a reality show. Watch each week as Profit finagles J.P. Morgan, plows through millions of our tax dollars and forces the Fed to lower interest rates another quarter point!

Nearly every memorable series on broadcast TV seems to have been spawned by Fox. They would greenlight the most audacious ideas then kill them moments after hitting the air. Profit is just another in this distinguished line. Anyone who says there is no creativity in American TV need only look at the DVDs of stillborn Fox series to see the lie. There is an abundance of creativity. What seems to be lacking is the courage or patience to let bold, new ideas find their audience. Perhaps that's a job better left to HBO & Showtime.

>We learn that the cardboard box young Profit was reared in by his monstrous father was a Gracen & Gracen box, and that the corporate slogan is "The Family Company." Is Profit, the survivor of the father of all broken homes, seeking some sort of large-scale psychic revenge -- or a family? What's driving Jim Profit to destroy so many lives?<

Probably the same thing that drove good ol' Bud Corliss to seduce-and-destroy in Ira Levin's A KISS BEFORE DYING...:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kiss_Before_Dying_%281991_film%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kiss_Before_Dying_%28novel%29

PROFIT was a hoot--I was real disappointed when it got yanked.

Sociopathy with a buff body and new teeth.

PROFIT was one of the most memorable shows on TV.The image of him in the cardboard box was unforgetable. I loved Adrian Pasdar and kept waiting for him to resurface. The first time I saw him in public was as a Dixie Chick husband. I imagine he's just been quietly doing good work all along. I'll have to watch Heroes just to see him.

I really loved Adrian Pasdar in this show. I think it was his best role and best performance. I haven't seen him in Heroes because I have less time for TV now but maybe I should add it to my limited viewing list.

I'm definitely going to get the DVD boxed set to see the episodes I missed. It's interesting how many of our cancelled shows get sold to Europe and they get to watch all the episodes.

I just bought season one of Dexter and watched it over two days. It kept reminding me of Profit.

I have the DVDs, and one thing I noticed was that the character Jim Profit was trying to convey to the rest of the company was like a classic clip-art drawing of plucky enterprise personified.

They should revive this as a musical.

but all I can think when I see Adrian Pasdar is, Hey! There's Profit! There's Profit flying around on Heroes! There's Profit married to a Dixie Chick! He's seared in my brain.

PROFIT was way ahead of its time. I've been posting about this show for some time now, and telling them if they like DEXTER they will like it as well.

So pleased to see Profit getting some (much deserved) love. I was just starting graduate school when it aired, and I could not look away.

...as well as some of the other shows that met an untimely "death-by-Fox"...

>I say we bring back Profit and put him in charge of Bear Stearns.<

You sure he wasn't already? ;)

...and hated when they canceled it. Too bad HBO didn't produce it instead. It might have gotten more traction, or at least been given more of a chance to succeed.

Did the guy have to be crazy?

Really crazy people usually don't wind up in positions of power...and if they do it's usually because of a strong support sturcture (i.e. Mobsters who should have slit Profit's throat when he first got involved with them).

You know, there are lots of criminally morally bankrupt people who make a great deal of money who were raised in relativly loving and stable homes.

Making Profit a nut job, excuses his bad behavior (which perhaps is what they were trying to do), but how much more deliciously evil is he if it's really just about the money.

Those motivated by profit alone are always more dangerous than those motivated by revenge, or twisted honor.

Someone like Gordon Gekko, perhaps?

Basically everyone was a villian with Profit the most expert and astute at it. It was Wall Street and Dallas kicked up an order of magnitude.

It always amused me when I next saw Adrian Pasdar as the miracle seeker on Mysterious Ways.

I was on a mailing list for YEARS waiting for an announcement of a DVD release for Profit and snagged it as soon as it came out.

No one has mentioned "Mysterious Ways," which limped through two low-rated seasons on PAX and (occasionally) on NBC. It was another terrific Adrian Pasdar series. Now, if only someone would release that one on DVD. . .