Black Tie Nights
Black Tie Nights was a softcore drama anthology series which aired on Cinemax in the United States from 2004 to 2005. This anthology show revolved around the adventures of Olivia Hartley and Cooper Snow who ran Black Tie dating service. They were assisted by their geeky sidekick, Ryan Lundy. In the second season, the show was retooled. The anthology series was renamed Hollywood Sexcapades and the characters of Olivia and Cooper were said to be out of the country opening a new branch. Candi Hicks, a recurring customer in the first season, became the new employee of Black Tie dating service. She and Ryan partnered to run the company.
Ryan takes over Black Tie dating services since Olivia and Cooper have moved to Paris. He convinces Candi to become his partner since she knows the business so well already.
Trish is a vivacious athlete who seeks a man who can "keep up with her"--on the court in the bedroom. Black Tie set her up with Joe. The the competition begin.
Ryan and Candi's match-up a TV doctor with a practitioner of eastern medicine. It's a match made in hell. Ryan's fantasy life returns when he sees Nurse Rachel.
The power's out in the city. While waiting for the lights to come on, Ryan and Candi to decide to play Truth or Dare. They learn a lot about each other and become closer.
Black Tie matches up a former child actor who is completely out of show business and runs a hot dog stand with a aspiring reporter trying to make a name for herself.
On the flight to his cousin wedding, Ryan runs into an old friend who makes the trip memorable. Candi gets more than she bargained for when she has a massage.
Black Tie sends one of its clients to the show Gay Apparel for a makeover. Candi starts to sense that the host, Don, is not gay at all. She talks Ryan into pretending to be gay to test her theory.
Black Tie matches a socially conscious do-gooder Internet blogger, Elaine, with a tabloid journalist, Tom, who loves living for the moment and believes in the silliest possibilities. Tom is tracking a three-headed coyote in the Los Angeles hills called Diablo. Candi and Ryan take a live for the moment break at work.
Joe the prize fighter has decided to retire from boxing so he can spend more time with his girlfriend Micki. When Micki turns him down, Black Tie sets him up with a female boxer.
Candi is striking out with the current man she is dating. She can't get him to make a move. She gets advice from Dr. Domino, a romance advice radio show. Image Candi's surprise when Dr. Domino becomes a client of Black Tie. It seems the good doctor has trouble meeting people.
Black Tie sets up Sam, Mr. Meek, with Mindy, Miss Shy. Candi and Ryan go the extra mile to make sure the date goes well by shadowing them and communicating with them with hidden microphones and listening devices.
Black Tie sets up a porn star with a relationship therapist. Skye is looking for someone who can handle her job. Charles is trying not to be so conservative about life.
Valentine's Day is coming up and there is a mad rush of service calls at Black Tie. Candi and Ryan decide to throw a party for all the clients looking for a date.
Best friends Cooper and Olivia are in desperate need of money. A friendly wager over Cooper's matchmaking skills leads to them starting up a dating service.
Olivia sets up a date between a nerdy math professor Ryan Lundy and a soap opera star Andrea Johnson. Cooper and Olivia hire an assistance named Gladys.
The team sets up a date between a corporate lawyer whose looking for something different and a champion surfer. Impressed with they way he handled Cooper, Olivia asks Ryan Lundy to join the team.
Ryan's fantasies life starts to bloom. His first fantasy is Cooper. The teams put together a date that helps the client Helen realize that she unknowingly has affections for women as well as men.
An Interior Designer is set up on a date with an architect. They visit a house together on their date. They are informed by the housekeeper that the house is haunted.
Darcy is a lawyer from Reno seeking a boyfriend, and she is matched to Las Vegas casino employee Nick. Cooper and accompany Darcy to Vegas to meet Nick, where complications briefly ensue due to the appearance of Nick's ex-girl friend, a stripper named Diamond.
A Black Tie client, Andy wants to have a date with a model found on page 19 of a fashion magazine. No one knows her name or the agency that she is with. They have to find her first before they can set up a date.
Ryan wins a bet and ends up in bed with Cooper. Olivia gives Ryan a makeover to give him a real chance at Cooper. Black Tie gives a plumber a makeover and sets him up and Andrea Johnson.
The agency helps an aging model concerned about her looks meet a blind man who admires her soul as well as her body. Cooper and Ryan continue to explore their new sexual bliss. Olivia, finally moving on from the death of her husband, finds pleasure with a tall, dark and handsome yoga classmate named David.
Adult film star legend, Ron Jeremy enlists the help of Black Tie to find a woman who doesn't know about his history. It seems the porn star no longer likes it when women only want to sleep with him because he has a large penis. He wants a woman with brains too. He wants to connect too.
Blake Tie sets up a couple of actors on a special date as extras on a soap opera. Ryan puts Cooper to the jealousy test.
The dating service set a saucy romance novelist up with a critic who has ripped her work to shreds, and arranges for the two of them to ride along with some in-on-the-scheme cops. Sparks fly when the two discover each other's identities and feel a mutual attraction. Meanwhile, Cooper picks up a pair of earrings from an old flame, Justin. Although she avoids temptation, a heartbroken Ryan sees them in a final kiss and assumes she cheated on him.
Ryan has quit his job, leaving the dating service as a huge unorganized mess. Desperate, they hire Gladys, the man-hungry secretary who previously held the job. She inadvertently sets up the spicy Candy (who had asked for a wild man) with a shy, repressed man, but after a car wreck and some time in jail, they find some common ground. Olivia goes out on her best date yet with Charlie, while Cooper tracks Ryan down at a chicken shack and convinces him that nothing happened between herself and her old boyfriend. Ryan returns to work and Gladys, who had been using their phone line as a phone sex service, quits.
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| Language | English |
| Release | 2004-06-04 |
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