# Nip/Tuck

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***Nip/Tuck*** is an American [medical drama](/source/Medical_drama) television series created by [Ryan Murphy](/source/Ryan_Murphy_(producer)) that aired on [FX](/source/FX_(TV_channel)) in the United States for six seasons from 2003 to 2010. The series, which also incorporates elements of [crime](/source/Crime), [black comedy](/source/Black_comedy), [family drama](/source/Family_drama), [satire](/source/Satire), and [psychological thriller](/source/Psychological_thriller), focuses on "McNamara/Troy", a cutting-edge, controversial [plastic surgery](/source/Plastic_surgery) center, and follows the personal and professional lives of its founders Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy (portrayed by [Dylan Walsh](/source/Dylan_Walsh) and [Julian McMahon](/source/Julian_McMahon), respectively).[2] Each episode features graphic, partial depictions of the plastic surgeries on one or more patients, as well as developments in the doctors' personal lives. Focus is also given to McNamara/Troy's [anesthesiologist](/source/Anesthesiology) Dr. Liz Cruz, Christian's many sexual partners, and Sean's family. With the exception of the pilot, each episode of the series is named after one of the patients scheduled to receive plastic surgery.

Unlike most medical dramas, *Nip/Tuck* used serial storytelling and often had story arcs spanning multiple seasons; for example, seasons two and three focused on a serial rapist known as The Carver, who often mutilates his victims' faces, leading McNamara/Troy to provide *[pro bono](/source/Pro_bono)* surgery to the victims.

The show premiered on July 22, 2003, and concluded on March 3, 2010, with the 100th episode.[3] Despite being initially set in Miami, at the end of the fourth season, it was relocated to Los Angeles, and many of the characters followed along. The show earned 45 award nominations, winning one [Golden Globe](/source/Golden_Globe_Awards) and one [Emmy Award](/source/Emmy_Awards).[4] Series creator Ryan Murphy said that the medical cases on the show are "100 percent based on fact".[5]

## Overview

The drama is set in a plastic-surgery center, McNamara/Troy, focusing on the two doctors who own it. Sean McNamara ([Dylan Walsh](/source/Dylan_Walsh)) often has problems in his marriage due to being seduced by beautiful women on a daily basis. His story follows his efforts to keep his family together despite his short-comings. His business partner Christian Troy ([Julian McMahon](/source/Julian_McMahon)), though, uses his charm to bring in potential female candidates and conducts vain business deals, almost never failing to end up with them in bed. Sean takes his job much more seriously and often must fix Christian's mistakes.

## Production

According to [Ryan Murphy](/source/Ryan_Murphy_(producer)), the series was inspired by makeover episodes of the talk shows *[The Jenny Jones Show](/source/The_Jenny_Jones_Show)* and *[The Oprah Winfrey Show](/source/The_Oprah_Winfrey_Show)*.[6]

In its debut season, *Nip/Tuck* was the highest-[rated](/source/Nielsen_ratings) new series on American [basic cable](/source/Cable_television), and the highest-rated basic cable series of all time for the 18–49 and 25–54 age demographics.

The fifth season premiered on October 30, 2007,[7] though production was affected by the [2007 Writers Strike](/source/2007%E2%80%932008_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike). Accordingly, the second half of the fifth season was not screened until January 6, 2009, in the United States. Another 19 episodes were picked up by FX; airing on October 14, 2009. Following a three-week hiatus for the Christmas holidays, the show resumed in January 2010, and concluded on March 3, 2010, with its 100th episode.[8][9][10]

*Nip/Tuck* filmed its 100th and final episode on June 12, 2009, without creator Ryan Murphy,[11] who was, at the time, in India scouting locations for his [film version](/source/Eat_Pray_Love) of the memoir *[Eat, Pray, Love](/source/Eat_Pray_Love_(book))*.

The show inspired the creation of the plastic-surgery [reality show](/source/Reality_television) *[Dr. 90210](/source/Dr._90210)*.[12]

## Cast and characters

### Main cast

Actor Character Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dylan Walsh Sean McNamara colspan="6" Julian McMahon Christian Troy colspan="6" John Hensley Matt McNamara colspan="6" Joely Richardson Julia McNamara colspan="6" Valerie Cruz Grace Santiago colspan="5" Roma Maffia Liz Cruz colspan="5" Kelly Carlson Kimber Henry colspan="2" colspan="4" Jessalyn Gilsig Gina Russo colspan="2" colspan="2" Bruno Campos Quentin Costa colspan="3"

### Recurring cast

Actor Character Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kelsey Batelaan Annie McNamara colspan="6" Linda Klein Nurse Linda colspan="6" Robert LaSardo Escobar Gallardo Ruth Williamson Mrs. Hedda Grubman colspan="2" Joey Slotnick Dr. Merrill Bobolit colspan="2" Phillip Rhys Jude Sawyer colspan="2" colspan="3" Julie Warner Megan O'Hara colspan="2" Joshua & Josiah Henry Wilber Troy colspan="3" Vanessa Redgrave Dr. Erica Noughton colspan="2" colspan="2" Famke Janssen Ava Moore colspan="2" Seth Gabel Adrian Moore colspan="4" Willam Belli Cherry Peck colspan="2" colspan="3" Rhona Mitra Kit McGraw colspan="2" colspan="3" Brittany Snow Ariel Alderman colspan="2" colspan="3" Sanaa Lathan Michelle Landau colspan="3" colspan="2" Jacqueline Bisset James LeBeau colspan="3" colspan="2" Peter Dinklage Marlowe Sawyer colspan="3" colspan="2" Rosie O'Donnell Dawn Budge colspan="3" colspan="2" Mario Lopez Dr. Mike Hamoui colspan="3" Paula Marshall Kate Tinsley colspan="4" Bradley Cooper Aidan Stone colspan="4" Portia de Rossi Olivia Lord colspan="4" AnnaLynne McCord Eden Lord colspan="4" John Schneider Ram Peters colspan="4" Sharon Gless Colleen Rose colspan="4" Katee Sackhoff (season 5) Rose McGowan (season 6) Dr. Theodora "Teddy" Rowe colspan="4" colspan="2" George Newbern Dr. Curtis Ryerson colspan="5" Melonie Diaz Ramona Perez colspan="5"

## Episodes

Main article: [List of Nip/Tuck episodes](/source/List_of_Nip/Tuck_episodes)

## Awards and nominations

Year Award Date of the ceremony Category Recipients Result 2004 Golden Globe Awards 25 January 2004 Best Television Series – Drama Nip/Tuck [13] Best Actress – Television Series Drama Joely Richardson Satellite Awards 21 February 2004 Best Television Series – Drama Nip/Tuck [14] Best Actor – Television Series Drama Julian McMahon Best Actress – Television Series Drama Joely Richardson GLAAD Media Awards 12 April 2004 Outstanding Drama Series Nip/Tuck [15] Primetime Emmy Awards 19 September 2004 Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Ryan Murphy (for "Pilot") [16] Outstanding Main Title Design Eric Anderson, Vince Haycock, Paul Matthaeus and Paul Schneider Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music Jeffrey Cain, Cedric Lemoyne and Gregory Slay Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman and James MacKinnon (for "Pilot") Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic) Eryn Krueger Mekash, Stephanie A. Fowler, Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman (for "Adelle Coffin) 2005 Golden Globe Awards 16 January 2005 Best Television Series – Drama Nip/Tuck [17] Best Actor – Television Series Drama Julian McMahon Best Actress – Television Series Drama Joely Richardson Producers Guild of America Awards 22 January 2005 Best Episodic Drama Nip/Tuck [18] Satellite Awards 23 January 2005 Best Television Series – Drama [19] Best Actress – Television Series Drama Joely Richardson Costume Designers Guild 19 February 2005 Excellence in Contemporary Television Lou Eyrich [20] Saturn Awards 3 May 2005 Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series Nip/Tuck [21] Best Actor on Television Julian McMahon BMI Film & TV Awards 18 May 2005 BMI Cable Award James S. Levine Primetime Emmy Awards 18 September 2005 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Jill Clayburgh (for "Bobbi Broderick" and "Naomi Gaines") [22] Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer and Robert J. Ulrich Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup Eryn Krueger Mekash, Stephanie A. Fowler, Mary Kay Morse, Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman (for "Christian Troy") Outstanding Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Eryn Krueger Mekash and Stephanie A. Fowler (for "Julia McNamara") Satellite Awards 17 December 2005 Best Television Series – Drama Nip/Tuck Best Actor – Television Series Drama Dylan Walsh Best Actress – Television Series Drama Joely Richardson 2006 Writers Guild of America Awards 4 February 2006 Television: Episodic Drama Jennifer Salt (for "Rhea Reynolds") [23] Costume Designers Guild 25 February 2006 Excellence in Contemporary Television Lou Eyrich [24] Young Artist Awards 25 March 2006 Best Performance in a TV series – Guest Starring Young Actor (Comedy or Drama) Tanner Richie [25] Saturn Awards 2 May 2006 Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series Nip/Tuck [26] Best Actor on Television Julian McMahon Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 19 August 2006 Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series Liz Kay and Ellen Brill (for "Ben White") [27] Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup Eryn Krueger Mekash, Stephanie A. Fowler, Mary Kay Morse, Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman (for "Cherry Peck") Outstanding Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Eryn Krueger, Stephanie Fowler, Debbie Zoller, and Michele Tyminski (for "Quentin Costa") 2007 NAACP Image Awards 2 March 2007 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Sanaa Lathan [28] Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 8 September 2007 Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup Eryn Krueger, Stephanie Fowler, Bill Corso, Mary Kay Witt, Christopher Nelson, and Christien Tinsley (for "Conor McNamara") [29] AACTA Awards 6 December 2007 Best Actor – International Julian McMahon Satellite Awards 16 December 2007 Best DVD Release of a TV Show Nip/Tuck [30] 2008 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 13 September 2008 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Oliver Platt [31] Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Sharon Gless 2009 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 12 September 2009 Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup David Dupuis, Thomas R. Burman and Bari Dreiband-Burman (for "Budi Sabri") [32] Outstanding Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Eryn Krueger Mekash and Stephanie A. Fowler (for "Giselle Blaylock And Legend Chandler") 2010 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 21 August 2010 Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman, Thomas Floutz, Stephanie A. Fowler, Bart Mixon, Michele Tyminski Schoenbach, Vincent Van Dyke, and Michele Tyminski Schoenbach (for Enigma") [33]

## U.S. television ratings

Viewer numbers (based on average total viewers per episode) of *Nip/Tuck* on [FX](/source/FX_Networks).

Season Time slot Season premiere Season finale Viewers Total (in millions) Viewers Age 18–49 (in millions) Date Viewers Total (in millions) Viewers 18–49 (in millions) Date Viewers Total (in millions) Viewers 18–49 (in millions) 1st Tuesday 10:00 pm July 22, 2003 3.7[34] 2.0[34] October 21, 2003 2.99[35] 2.1[34] 3.25[35] 2.2[35] 2nd June 22, 2004 3.8[34] 2.7[34] October 5, 2004 5.2[34] 3.6[34] 3.8[34] 2.6[34] 3rd September 20, 2005 5.3[34] 3.7[34] December 20, 2005 5.7[36] 3.9[36] 3.9[36] 2.7[36] 4th September 5, 2006 4.8[37] 3.4[37] December 12, 2006 3.38[38] 2.38[39] 3.9 2.75[38] 5th – Part I October 30, 2007 4.3[40] 3.5 February 19, 2008 N/A 2.41[41] N/A N/A 5th – Part II January 6, 2009 3.1[42] 2.4[42] March 3, 2009 3.8 2.4 N/A N/A 6th Wednesday 10:00 pm October 14, 2009 2.9[43] 1.9[44] March 3, 2010 1.8

*Nip/Tuck* became an instant cable hit from its 2003 series premiere.[citation needed]

For its third season, FX aired *Nip/Tuck* solely in the fall of 2005, instead of during the summer season, like the two years prior. John Landgraf, president of FX, stated that such a move was a "huge risk", since it stacked up "against the full barrage of fall network competition".[36] Despite some criticism on its third season, the story arc involving The Carver attracted even more of an audience to the series than any of the seasons before, reaching its climax in a December 20, 2005, two-hour season finale, entitled "Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa", which became the most-watched scripted program in the history of the FX network.[citation needed]

Including "Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa", three episodes of *Nip/Tuck* rank as the three most-watched scripted programs ever on FX.[citation needed] The second-season finale, entitled "Joan Rivers", which aired on October 5, 2004, drew 5.2 million viewers. It was then eclipsed on September 20, 2005, when the third-season premiere, entitled "Momma Boone", drew roughly 5.3 million viewers. Three months later on December 20, 2005, the aforementioned third-season finale, entitled "Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa", drew 5.7 million viewers. Of those 5.7 million viewers, 3.9 million were in the 18–49 age group demographic, "making the finale the number-one episode among the key advertising demographic of any cable series in 2005. It's also the largest demographic number for any single telecast in the network's history,"[36] according to [Zap2It](https://web.archive.org/web/20000302171729/http://zap2it.com/).

According to the September 8, 2006, [Mediaweek](https://web.archive.org/web/20081010155411/http://mediaweek.com/) column "The Programming Insider", "the fourth-season premiere on Tuesday, September 5, 2006, averaged 4.8 million total viewers and 3.4 million adults 18–49, building over its season-three average by 25% and 26%, respectively. *Nip/Tuck'*s performance among adults 18–49 ranks as basic cable's top-rated season premiere in the demographic for 2006, as of September 8, 2006."[37]

## Broadcast

In Australia, the series was broadcast on [Showcase](/source/Showtime_Movie_Channels) and [Nine Network](/source/Nine_Network); in Canada on [CTV](/source/CTV_Television_Network) and [Series+](/source/S%C3%A9riesPlus); in France on [M6](/source/Paris_Premi%C3%A8re_(Groupe_M6)_(TV_channel)); in New Zealand on [TV One](/source/TVNZ_1), [TV2](/source/TVNZ_2) and [Canterbury Television](/source/Canterbury_Television).[45][46] In Ireland, the series commenced broadcast on [TG4](/source/TG4) from 2 June 2004.[47]

In the United Kingdom, [Sky One](/source/Sky_One) acquired the series just a few weeks ahead of its US debut, on 8 July 2003, and premiered in the 10:00pm time slot on 13 January 2004.[48][49] In August 2004, *Nip/Tuck* began airing on [Channel 4](/source/Channel_4), who had already acquired the free-to-air rights to the series before Sky announced they had the first-run pay TV rights. They only aired the first two seasons before dropping the show from its lineup.[50] In 2007, *Nip/Tuck* moved from Sky One to the British version of the show's home network, [FX](/source/Fox_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)).[51] It has also since aired on [Sky Living](/source/Sky_Living).

Nip/Tuck premiered in South Africa on [M-Net](/source/M-Net) in January 2004. It moved to [DStv](/source/DStv)'s M-Net Series channel for the fifth season. The series later aired on [SABC 3](/source/SABC_3) in 2007.[citation needed]

## Home media

The entire series of *Nip/Tuck* is available on DVD; in the United States ([Region 1](/source/DVD_region_code#1)), all six seasons, as well as a complete series set, were released through [Warner Bros. Home Entertainment](/source/Warner_Bros._Discovery_Home_Entertainment) between 2004 and 2010. The fifth season, however, was the only season to be made available in two parts. This was due to the [2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike](/source/2007%E2%80%9308_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike), forcing the season to go into hiatus mid-broadcast. While the season was still airing, it was announced that the DVD set for the complete fifth season was due for release on May 20, 2008.[52] Instead of releasing the complete season once the remaining episodes had aired, Warner Bros. opted to release the first 14 episodes of season five in one set, while the remaining 8 episodes were made available in a separate set following eventual broadcast. A complete fifth season set had never been released in the United States. All six seasons have also been distributed in the UK ([Region 2](/source/DVD_region_code#2)), Australia and New Zealand ([Region 4](/source/DVD_region_code#4)) via Warner Bros., where the fifth season was released as complete in those countries.

Additionally, season four of *Nip/Tuck* was released on both [Blu-ray](/source/Blu-ray) and [HD DVD](/source/HD_DVD) formats in the United States, on September 4, 2007, and was the only season to receive these releases.[53]

DVD release overview Season Release date Additional features Region 1 Region 2 Region 4 The Complete First Season June 15, 2004[54] September 9, 2004[55] October 20, 2004[56] The Complete Second Season August 30, 2005[57] May 30, 2005[58] July 13, 2005[59] The Complete Third Season August 29, 2006[60] May 8, 2006[61] May 2, 2007[62] The Complete Fourth Season September 4, 2007[63] August 13, 2007[64] July 2, 2008[65] Season Five, Part One December 30, 2008[66] Season Five, Part Two October 6, 2009[67] The Complete Fifth Season January 18, 2010[68] October 28, 2009[69] The Complete Sixth and Final Season June 8, 2010[70] September 6, 2010[71] February 2, 2011[72] The Complete Series November 2, 2010[73] September 5, 2016[74]

## International adaptation

In 2013, the Colombian network [Caracol Televisión](/source/Caracol_Televisi%C3%B3n) produced the Spanish language adaptation of the series, titled *[Mentiras perfectas](/source/Mentiras_perfectas)* (*Perfect Lies*).[75]

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## External links

- [Nip/Tuck](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361217/) at IMDb
- [*Nip/Tuck*](https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/niptuck/100325/) at *[TV Guide](/source/TV_Guide)*

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