
The Naked Brothers Band
Seen it?2007 | 3 seasons | 30 min | Documentary, Comedy, Kids, Family
Why it’s a Weeknight Watch
With a short run with a modest audience, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for anyone who wants a laugh, families and the curious.
- The mood
- Light and funny, feel-good.
- The pace
- 3 seasons: a few weeks of evenings, short, snackable episodes, about 20 hours in all.
- What might put you off
- Rated TV-Y7. Worth a look first if you have very young kids.
The Naked Brothers Band is an American musical comedy series created by Polly Draper. The show depicts the daily lives of Draper's sons, who lead a fictional world-renowned rock band from New York City. As a mockumentary, the storyline is a hyperbole of their real lives, and the fictional presence of a camera is often acknowledged. Lead vocals and instrumentation are provided by the siblings; they wrote the lyrics themselves. The show stars Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff, who encounter conflicts with each other that are later omitted. Nat's fictional female admirer and real life preschool friends—including the guitarist who had no prior acquaintance with the family—feature as the band members, with the siblings' genuine father and Draper's husband as their accordion-playing dad and Draper's niece as the group's babysitter. The series is a spin-off of Draper's 2005 film of the same name that was picked up by Nickelodeon, premiering in January 2007. Draper, star of Thirtysomething and her writings The Tic Code and Getting Into Heaven, is the executive producer of the series, and often writer and director. Albie Hecht, affiliated with Nickelodeon and founder of Spike TV, is the executive producer, under his Worldwide Biggies tag. Draper's husband Michael Wolff, of The Arsenio Hall Show fame, serves as the music supervisor and co-executive producer with Draper's brother Tim as the consulting producer.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Ran for 3 seasons and reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactSolid
About 163K people sought it out in the past year
Season by season
The show overall is a Weeknight Watch. Here's how each season stacks up.
- VMA's2007 · 13 episodesNot rated yet
- Season 22008 · 15 episodesNot rated yet
- Season 32008 · 12 episodesNot rated yet
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Cast & crew
Created by Polly Draper
- Nat WolffNat
- Alex WolffAlex
- Allie DiMecoRosalina
- Thomas BatuelloThomas
- David LeviDavid
- Qaasim MiddletonQaasim Middleton
- Catherine CurtinBetty