Melissa & Joey

***Melissa & Joey*** is an ABC Family television series. It stars Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence. It first aired on ABC Family on August 17, 2010. The show follows local politician Mel Burke (Melissa Joan Hart) and Joe Longo (Joey Lawrence). Mel hires him to take care of her niece and nephew after a Ponzi scheme leaves him broke.

The show has been renewed by ABC Family for a second season of fifteen episodes. They began airing on May 30, 2012. The show is ranked number one on Cable TV's telecast at 8 o'clock for people ages 18–34, 18-49 and 12-34. On August 17, 2012, ABC Family renewed the show for a third season. It premiered in Spring 2013. The fourth series begins in October 2014.

On May 24, 2011, _Shout! Factory_ released _Melissa & Joey: Season One, Part One_ on DVD in Region 1. It includes special features and a sneak peek of the rest of season one episodes, bloopers and interviews with the cast. On October 4, 2011, _Shout! Factory_ released _Melissa & Joey: Season One, Part Two_ on DVD in Region 1. It included the rest of the episodes of the first season in a 2-disc set.

## Plot

Mel Burke (Melissa Joan Hart) lives in Toledo, Ohio. She is a politician there. Her sister and brother-in-law ran a Ponzi scheme. The sister is in prison and the brother-in-law is on the run. This leaves her niece Lennox and her nephew Ryder without their parents to take care of them. Mel takes them into her home. However, Joe Longo (Joey Lawrence) used to work for Mel's brother-in-law and lost everything he had including his car, money, house and his wife who left him. He tries to find a job. Mel finds it hard to handle her own life including parenting her niece and nephew. She hires Joe to become the family's new male nanny, or "manny".

## Episodes

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|style="padding: 0 8px;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Season|style="padding: 0 8px;" rowspan="2"|Episodes|colspan="2"|Originally aired|colspan="4"|DVD release date|||||||
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|rowspan="2" style="background:#00f; color:#100; text-align:center;"||rowspan="2"|**1**|rowspan="2"|30|rowspan="2"||style="padding: 0 8px;" rowspan="2"||**Part 1**|**Part 2**|rowspan="2"|rowspan="2"|
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|style="background:#9c0; color:#100; text-align:center;"||**2**|15|||colspan="2"||||||||
|style="background:#9900FF; color:#100; text-align:center;"||**3**|TBA|Spring 2013|TBA|colspan="2"||||||||
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## Ratings

|rowspan="2"|Season|rowspan="2"|Timeslot (ET/PT)|rowspan="2"|No. of episodes|colspan="2"|Premiered|colspan="2"|Ended|rowspan="2"|TV season|style="background:#ffdead;" rowspan="2"|Viewers (in millions)|
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|**Season 1**|Tuesday 8pm (2010) Wednesday 8pm (2011)|30|August 17, 2010|2.15|September 14, 2011|1.39|2010–11|style="background:#fc9;"|1.24|||||
|**Season 2**|Wednesday 8pm|15|May 30, 2012|1.21|2012||2012|style="background:#fc9;"|TBA|||||

## International release

|Country / Region|Channel|Premiere|References||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Sony Spin|October 4, 2011|style="text-align:center;"||
||Fox life|2012|style="text-align:center;"||
||ABC Spark|March 26, 2012|style="text-align:center;"||
||Magyar Televízió|January 21, 2012|style="text-align:center;"||
||STAR World India|October 6, 2011|style="text-align:center;"||
||Comedy Central|April 9, 2012|style="text-align:center;"||
||Comedy Central|September 5, 2011|style="text-align:center;"||
||Fox life|2012|style="text-align:center;"||
||Disney Channel (Russia)|April 2, 2012|style="text-align:center;"||
||ComedyMax|2011|style="text-align:center;"||

## Infobox (television)

- **image**: Melissa & Joey logo.png
- **genre**: Situation comedy
- **creator**: David Kendall (director), David Kendall
Bob Young (TV producer), Bob Young
- **starring**: Melissa Joan Hart
Joey Lawrence
Taylor Spreitler
Nick Robinson (American actor), Nick Robinson
- **theme music composer**: Joey Lawrence &
Matthew Gerrard
- **opentheme**: "Stuck With Me",
performed by Joey Lawrence
- **composer**: Danny Lux &
Michael Reola
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English language, English
- **num seasons**: 3
- **num episodes**: 82
- **list episodes**: List of Melissa & Joey episodes
- **executive producer**: David Kendall
Bob Young
Melissa Joan Hart
Joey Lawrence
Paula Hart
- **camera**: Multi-camera setup, Multi-camera
- **runtime**: approx. 22 minutes
- **company**: Hartbreak Films
ABC Family, ABC Family Original Productions
- **channel**: ABC Family