The show is set at the New York editorial offices of the fictional 'Blush' magazine, and creator Levitan describes it as 'ëDie Hard'' in a fashion magazine.'The ensemble cast consists of Laura San Giacomo ('sex, lies and videotape'), George Segal ('Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'), Emmy-nominated David Spade ('Saturday Night Live') and Wendie Malick ('Dream On'), and Enrico Colantoni ('Hope & Gloria'). During the 1998-99 season, 'Just Shoot Me' rose to the challenge of succeeding 'Frasier' as NBC's Tuesday night anchor by ranking among the top 20 shows on television with a 6.1 rating and 16 share in adults 18-49. It consistently outrated ABC's 'Spin City' en route to winning the 9-9:30 p.m. half hour in key demographics and total viewers.

In the series, Maya Gallo (San Giacomo), a journalist with a razor-sharp wit, not only recently reconciled with her father, 'Blush' publisher Jack Gallo (Segal) -- an oft-wed ex-womanizer whose current wife is Maya's former high school classmate -- but also reluctantly took a job at his fluffy Cosmo-esque magazine. There, she struggles to hold her own with the beauty and fashion editor, Nina Van Horn (Malick), a neurotic and pretentious ex-model who's going through middle age kicking and screaming; the magazine's in-house photographer and ogler of beautiful women, Elliott DiMauro (Colantoni); and her father's wise-cracking, power-hungry assistant, Dennis Finch (Spade). 'Just Shoot Me' is a Brillstein-Grey Entertainment-Universal Studios Network Programming production. Levitan, Marsh McCall, Don Woodard, Tom Maxwell, Brillstein and Grey are executive producers. Levitan is executive consultant.

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