Shot on location in cities across the U.S., Jail follows prison inmates from their initial booking through their first moments behind bars.
This article is about people named Ellen. For other uses, see Ellen (disambiguation). Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor and Helen. Ellen is the 666th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden (2004). People named Ellen include: Ellen AlakÃ¼la (1927â2011), Estonian actress.
For the 2001â02 CBS sitcom, see The Ellen Show. For the talk show airing since 2003, see The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Ellen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994, to July 22, 1998, consisting of 109 episodes. The title role is Ellen Morgan, played by stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres, a neurotic bookstore owner in her thirties. The title of the series was These Friends of Mine for the first season, but it was subsequently changed to avoid confusion with the NBC series Friends, which premiered in September 1994. The series centered on Ellen's dealing with her quirky friends, her family and the problems of daily life. The series is notable for being one of the first with a main character to come out as gay, which DeGeneres' character did in the 1997 episode The Puppy Episode.