Pepper Dennis was a short-lived comedy-drama television series that debuted on The WB on April 4, 2006. Due to extremely poor ratings, it was quickly announced on May 17, 2006 that Pepper Dennis would not be one of the WB shows that would be transferred to The CW Television Network, and the show’s series finale was aired on July 4, 2006.

Pepper Dennis is an ambitious reporter with her sights set on anchoring Chicago’s top-rated evening news broadcast. Complicating her daily life is the fact that her spoiled, needy and recently separated sister Kathy, has moved in with her. Worst of all, the hot guy Pepper woke up with one morning, Charlie Babcock, just showed up in the newsroom, grabbed her dream job and is now practically her boss. She’s trying to despise him, but Charlie is smart, handsome, funny, available and interested. She gets much needed support from her close friends, the TV station’s makeup artist Kimmy, and cameraman Chick, who has a secret crush on Pepper.

The song used in commercials for the show was the award-winning “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” by KT Tunstall, and the opening theme song is “Better Half” by Chris Trapper, the former frontman for the Boston pop group Push Stars. Another song that the WB used for advertising “Pepper Dennis” was Morningwood’s “Nth Degree” which also appeared in on another WB drama, One Tree Hill.