That's Life (television 2000)

That's Life was a U.S. television family drama that ran on CBS from 2000–2002. The show was an hour-long light comedy that followed the life of a young Italian-American woman (Lydia DeLucca, played by Heather Paige Kent) and her family in a suburban New Jersey. The show was set in fictional "Bellefield", obstensibly a play on the combination of Belleville and Bloomfield, two adjacent older working class suburbs on the north side of New Jersey. The show premiered a year after The Sopranos, also about an Italian-American family set in the New Jersey suburbs. Whereas The Sopranos depicted a organized crime family, however, That's Life was a light-hearted depiction of a law-abiding family (headed by veteran motion picture actions Ellen Burstyn and Paul Sorvino) who owned a restaurant. Kevin Dillon played Paulie, Lydia's younger brother who was a young officer on the Bellefield Police Department. Debi Mazar played Jackie, Lydia's wise-cracking friend who worked at a hair salon. The show mixed family situations with situations focussing on Lydia's life as a young single woman looking both a love and stable career, and for more out of life that simply raising children.

Cast

• Heather Paige Kent - Lydia DeLucca
• Debi Mazar - Jackie O'Grady
• Ellen Burstyn - Dolly DeLucca
• Paul Sorvino - Frank DeLucca
• Kevin Dillon - Paulie DeLucca
• Danielle Harris - Plum Wilkinson DeLucca