My Name Is Earl
Genre: Comedy
Air Dates: 2005 - ????
Summary
My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning sitcom created by Greg Garcia. It is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. Fall 2007 will be its third season. It airs Thursdays at 8:00 p.m.
The series stars Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Eddie Steeples and Nadine Velazquez. Lee stars as Earl J. Hickey, a crook with occasional run-ins with the law, whose $100,000 lottery ticket is lost when he is smashed by a car.
While lying in his hospital bed after the accident, he develops a belief in karma and decides to turn his life around. Earl makes a list of all the bad things he's done, and proceeds to cross items off that list, one-by-one, by doing good deeds to atone for them.
