The New Adventures of Old Christine
Created by	Kari Lizer
Starring	Julia Louis-Dreyfus Clark Gregg Hamish Linklater Trevor Gagnon Emily Rutherfurd Tricia O'Kelley Alex Kapp Horner Wanda Sykes
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	35 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	approx. 23 minutes (per episode)
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	March 13, 2006 – present

The New Adventures of Old Christine is a CBS situation comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. It is produced by Warner Bros. Television production and was created by writer Kari Lizer, who is also the show's executive producer. Old Christine, as it is sometimes called, debuted as a midseason replacement on March 13, 2006.

The show stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Christine Campbell, a divorced mother and owner of a women's gym. The program revolves around Christine trying to keep pace with everyone around her, including the judgmental stay-at-home moms at her son's private school and her ex-husband Richard (Clark Gregg). She is jokingly known as "Old" Christine because Richard has a girlfriend also named Christine (Emily Rutherfurd). Hamish Linklater plays Matthew, "Old" Christine's live-in brother.

The show premiered to and maintained good ratings, apparently the first example of a show breaking the "Seinfeld curse" (after the failures of The Michael Richards Show, Bob Patterson, Listen Up, and Louis-Dreyfus' own Watching Ellie).^[1] On October 3, 2006, The Futon Critic announced that the show had been given a full 22-episode order.

The review website Metacritic.com, which tabulates critics' reviews, gave it a 64 — equating to their summary of "generally positive reviews", with 16 out of 26 critics reviews deemed as positive.[1] A Los Angeles Times review notes that "Louis-Dreyfus makes Christine feel fresh and real" and the show has a "dry charm and a nice tone of affectionate irony."^[2] The review continues:

While it occasionally runs to the absurd — a blind date who won't eat food other people have touched and brings his own chicken to a restaurant — it stays for the most part within the realm of recognizable human relations, and lets you feel something for its characters. This was not a luxury Seinfeld ever afforded anyone, and it's nice to see the star getting to play something less cerebrally conceived, less obsessive-compulsive and more ordinarily well-rounded.

A 2007 People magazine review concerning the episode "My Big Fat Sober Wedding" described the show as maintaining its freshness well into the second season. The show received 3 out of 4 stars.

The show has seen a heavy drop in ratings after losing its lead-in of Two and a Half Men; its current lead-in is How I Met Your Mother. At the beginning of season 2 the show was receiving about 12 million viewers an episode, but it dropped to about half that at the end of the season.

On May 16, 2007, it was announced that, despite the decline in ratings, CBS would renew the show for the 2007-2008 season as a mid-season replacement.^[3]

• 2005-2006 Season: #29 (12.5 million viewers avg.)
• 2006-2007 Season: #40 (10.4 million viewers avg.)

Country	TV Network(s)	Series Premiere	Weekly Schedule
United States	CBS Television	March 13, 2006	Mondays 8:30pm ET
Canada	E!	March 13, 2006	Mondays 8:30pm ET
Australia	Nine Network	13th July 2006
Argentina	Warner Channel	November 1 2006	Tuesdays and Fridays at 8:00pm
Latin America	Warner Channel	November 1 2006	Tuesdays at 8:00pm; Wednesdays at 12.00am
Finland	MTV3	May 6 2007	Sundays at 19:30
Iceland	Stöð 2	November 5 2006	Saturdays at 8.10pm
Ireland	Channel 6	? ?	Wednesdays at 8:30pm
Israel	yesSTARS (Season 1) yes stars 3 (Season 2-)	August 10 2006	Thursdays at 9:05pm (Season 1) Wednesdays at 10:00pm (Season 2)
Mexico	Warner Channel	November 1 2006	Tuesdays at 8:00pm and Fridays at 9:00pm
New Zealand	TV2	Friday 1 June 2006	Fridays at 8:00pm (Season 2)
Norway	TV2	September 5 2006	Tuesdays at 22:30
Peru	Warner Channel	November 1 2006	Tuesdays at 8.00pm ; Fridays at 9:00pm
Philippines	ETC 2nd Avenue	March 2007	Mondays at 8:00 pm
Sweden	Kanal 5	August 30 2006	Tuesdays at 9:55pm
Turkey	CNBC-e	February 26 2007	Tuesdays at 20:00 (Season 2)
United Kingdom	UKTV Gold	July 9 2007	Mondays at 9:00pm
Belgium	Kanaal 2 (Flanders)	June 9 2007	Saturdays at 5:40pm
Croatia	HRT2	July 8 2007	Sundays at 9:00pm

• Best Actress in a Television Comedy or Musical - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2007) - NOMINATED

• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2006) - WON
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2007) NOMINATED

• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2006) - NOMINATED

• Official CBS site
• The New Adventures of Old Christine at IMDb
• Zap2It
• MSN review
• Hollywood Reporter review
• Old Christine on UKTV Gold