What is Baywatch?
{{italictitle}} '''''Baywatch''''' is an [[United States|American]] [[television series]]. The show is about [[lifeguard]]s who look after the [[beach]]es of [[Los Angeles County, California]] and [[Hawaii]]. The show was canceled after its first season on [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]]. However, it was later [[syndicated]]. At one time, the series was the most-watched television show in the world. The weekly audience was near 1.1 billion viewers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stand Aside, CNN|publisher=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/03/business/media-television-stand-aside-cnn-america-s-no-1-tv-export-no-scoffing-please.html?scp=4&sq=baywatch&st=cse|access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref> The show ran under its original title and format between 1989 and 1999. Between 1999 and 2001, the cast and setting of the series changed. Its title was then changed to ''Baywatch: Hawaii''. In 2017, an [[action]] and [[crime]]-comedy [[Baywatch (movie)|movie adaptation]] from the television show was released. The movie got bad reviews from critics. It made around $177.9 million in world revenue.<ref>{{cite web|title=Baywatch (2017)|publisher=The Box Office Mojo|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl595559937|access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref> == The cast of ''Baywatch'' (1989–1999) == {{Div col|colwidth=20em}} * [[David Hasselhoff]] as [[Mitch Buchannon]] * [[Parker Stevenson]] as [[Craig Pomeroy]] * [[Shawn Weatherly]] as [[Jill Riley (Baywatch)|Jill Riley]] * [[Billy Warlock]] as [[Eddie Kramer (Baywatch)|Eddie Kramer]] * [[Erika Eleniak]] as [[Shauni McClain]] * [[Peter Phelps]] as [[Trevor Cole (Baywatch)|Trevor Cole]] * [[Brandon Call]] as [[Hobie Buchannon]] * [[Holly Gagnier]] as [[Gina Pomeroy]] * [[Monte Markham]] as [[Don Thorpe]] * [[John Allen Nelson]] as [[John D. Cort]] * [[Gregory Alan Williams]] as [[Garner Ellerbee]] * [[Jeremy Jackson]] as [[Hobie Buchannon]] * [[Tom McTigue]] as Harvey Miller * [[Richard Jaeckel]] as [[Ben Edwards (Baywatch)|Ben Edwards]] * [[Nicole Eggert]] as [[Summer