Hearts Afire

Hearts Afire is a comedy TV series developed by CBS that centers on John Hartman (John Ritter), a senatorial aide to Senator Strobe Smithers (George Gaynes), as his career and personal life come to a crash as the feisty Georgie Anne Lahti (Markie Post), a liberal journalist, is hired as the new press secretary. Determined and dedicated to maintaining his conservative Southern boss's reputation and duties in Washington, D.C., John finds himself at odds with the opposing viewpoints of Georgie, even if their fights become a little more passionate and heated. As the two dance around their attraction, they have to deal with the incompetent Adam (Adam Carl), the flirtatious receptionist Dee Dee (Beth Broderick), and John's long-time friend Billy Bob (Billy Bob Thornton). Life is hard enough with all the political scandals, raising two boys as a divorced father, and dealing with the affair of the much older Strobe with the ditzy Dee Dee, but to make it all the worst John and Georgie have to work together on rehabilitating her recently paroled father (Ed Asner). MORE