The Will

The Will (2005)


  • Genre: Reality
  • Creator: Mike Fleiss
  • First Air Date: 2005-01-08
  • Last Air Date: 2005-01-08
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 7
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 60 min.
  • Networks: CBS

Summary

The Will is an American reality television series on CBS that lasted only one episode, shown on Saturday, January 8, 2005. It centered on the "Benefactor", a multi-millionaire from Arizona named Bill Long. Ten of his friends and relatives competed in a series of challenges to win the right to inherit his "prized possession", a huge Kansas ranch. The show was created by Mike Fleiss, who produced The Bachelor for ABC. The Will is one of only a handful of series in American history to be pulled after one episode. In the case of The Will, cancellation was due to very low ratings. Despite receiving a heavy promotional push from CBS, the program averaged only 4.2 million viewers during its 8:00-9:30PM ET/PT time slot, which made it CBS's lowest-ranked show of the week. The following Saturday, the network replaced it with a re-run of Cold Case, a crime drama. The quick cancellation of The Will was lampooned on an episode of the ABC late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! with a montage of clips from the show, and the message "Will Miss You--January 8, 2005 - January 8, 2005." Although it was initially reported that the five remaining episodes could appear on an American cable network, they eventually did air on the Fox Reality Channel not long afterwards, and all six episodes aired in New Zealand beginning in December 2005. In the final episode, Long's wife Penny became the overall winner.

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The Will Seasons

Season 1

First Air Date: 2005-01-08
7 Episodes

The Will Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 1The Estate of Kitty Tipton-Oakes60 min
Season 1Episode 2The Estate of Joan Crawford60 min
Season 1Episode 3The Estate of Hank Williams60 min
Season 1Episode 4The Estate of Wilbur Robinson60 min
Season 1Episode 5The Estate of Mary Sheehan60 min
Season 1Episode 6The Estate of Joey Bishop60 min
Season 1Episode 7The Estate of Peter Dumaine60 min
Season 1Episode 8The Estate of Doris Duke60 min
Season 1Episode 9Outrageous Final Wishes60 min
Season 2Episode 1Outrageous Final Wishes 260 min
Season 2Episode 2The Estate of Howard Hughes60 min
Season 2Episode 3The Estate of Frankie Lymon60 min
Season 2Episode 4The Estate of Conway Twitty60 min
Season 2Episode 5The Estate of Art Hadly60 min
Season 2Episode 6The Estate of Johnny Taylor60 min
Season 2Episode 7The Estate of Lillian Garis Booth60 min
Season 2Episode 8The Estate of Rock Hudson60 min
Season 2Episode 9Outrageous Final Wishes 360 min
Season 2Episode 10The Estate of Wayne Perry60 min
Season 3Episode 1The Estate of Tammy Wynette60 min
Season 3Episode 2The Estate of Ritchie Valens60 min
Season 3Episode 3The Estate of Ted Williams60 min
Season 3Episode 4The Estate of Andy Warhol60 min
Season 3Episode 5The Estate of Etta James60 min
Season 3Episode 6The Estate of LaTanya Haggerty60 min
Season 3Episode 7The Estate of Robert Johnson60 min
Season 3Episode 8The Estate of Steig Larsson60 min
Season 3Episode 9The Estate of Norman Otto Hipel60 min
Season 3Episode 10The Estate of John Kennedy Toole60 min
Season 3Episode 11The Estate of James Brown60 min
Season 3Episode 12The Estate of Jimi Hendrix60 min
Season 3Episode 13The Estate of Jerry Garcia60 min
Season 3Episode 14The Estate of Gary Coleman60 min
Season 3Episode 15The Estate of Brooke Astor60 min