Hellcats Season 1 Episode 17: Don't Make Promises (You Can't Keep)

Hellcats Season 1 Episode 17 can be watched on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 9:00pm EST on WPIX (CW) TV channel. Title of the brand new episode is Don't Make Promises (You Can't Keep). Synopsis of the episode is: Savannah is stunned when Charlotte (Emma Lahana) reveals the identity of her baby's father; Marti asks her mother for information about her father.
Hellcats is an American cheerleading comedy-drama television series that airs on The CW in the United States. Based on the book Cheer: Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders by journalist Kate Torgovnick, the series focuses in the lives of college cheerleaders, mainly Marti Perkins (Aly Michalka), a pre-law college student who has to join the cheerleading team, the Hellcats, in order to get the athletic scholarship she needs. The main cast also includes the Hellcats captain (Ashley Tisdale) and other team members (Robbie Jones and Heather Hemmens), as well as Marti's best friend (Matt Barr), Marti's mother (Gail O'Grady), and the cheerleading coach (Sharon Leal).
On May, 2010, Hellcats had been picked by The CW for the fall 2010–11 season. Initially with a 13-episode order, The CW aired the series after America's Next Top Model on Wednesday nights. The pilot episode aired on September 8, 2010 and became the first premiere to ever match or build on an America's Next Top Model lead-in since The CW began in 2006. The CW later gave a full season order for the series, with executives saying they were "thrilled that [it] paid off for us".
Hellcats has been described as "Election meets Bring It On" by critics. It received generally mixed reviews during its first season, obtaining a Metacritic weighted average of 51 percent, based on the impression of 22 critics. The series also earned a nomination in the 2011 People's Choice Awards.
Hellcats follows Marti Perkins (Aly Michalka) a pre-law college student at Lancer University, who lost her scholarship and has no other choice but to join the college's cheer squad, the Hellcats, in order to maintain it. There she meets her new roommate and team captain Savannah Monroe (Ashley Tisdale), the injured flyer Alice Verdura (Heather Hemmens), her new partner Lewis Flynn (Robbie Jones) and the Hellcats coach Vanessa Lodge (Sharon Leal) who hopes to win nationals, otherwise the cheer leading program will be cut. All the while, Marti also has to deal with her financially unstable and sometimes irresponsible mother, Wanda Perkins (Gail O'Grady), whom she often has to bail out of difficult situations, and her best friend Dan Patch (Matt Barr), who started dating Savannah, then they split after Marti revealed their hook up.
Marti Perkins (Aly Michalka) is the protagonist of the series and a townie from Memphis, Tennessee. Described as "wicked smart", she is a pre-law student at Lancer University. Her mother, Wanda Perkins (Gail O'Grady), works at the university pub and is a party girl who never grew up. Her mother's behavior is, for the most part, an embarrassment to Marti. When Lancer's administrative department cuts scholarships for Lancer employees and families, Marti learns she can get a new one by choosing one of Lancer's programs. She then makes an audition to a position in Lancer's cheerleading team, the Hellcats.
Savannah Monroe (Ashley Tisdale), the captain of the Hellcats, is described as "peppy and petite" with a "fierce intensity". She initially clashes with Marti, but realizes she is the godsend that the Hellcats need to win the championship. She votes for Marti when the team has auditions for a new flyer. Savannah is from a very religious southern family. After a fight with her family, she left the university she was attending, Memphis Christian, and transferred to secular Lancer. Her sister Charlotte, a supporting role played by Emma Lahana, is the captain of the Cyclones, the cheerleading team at Savannah's old school and a Hellcats' rival.
Alice (Heather Hemmens) is dangerously narcissistic and does not like the idea of Marti replacing her on the squad after Alice's wrist injury, or the attention Marti receives from Alice's ex-boyfriend, Lewis Flynn. Lewis (Robbie Jones) is one of the Hellcats' bases and is an easy-going guy who has a love for action. He was once a star on the Lancer football team but quit when he discovered a scandal of players being paid by the college. He tried out for the Hellcats team when his then-girlfriend Alice encouraged him to do so in order to gain scholarship money after the football scandal, and instantly became hooked. He has an instant attraction to Marti. They later start dating. Dan Patch (Matt Barr) is a townie who is Marti's friend. He had an unspoken crush on her but now is dating Savannah, Marti's new friend on the team. Sharon Leal plays Vanessa Lodge, a former Hellcat cheerleader who is now the team's coach. Her job is threatened if the Hellcats do not place at the national competition.
Supporting cast includes Red Raymond (Jeff Hephner), the Lancer's football coach who shares a romantic past with Vanessa, and Derrick Altman (D. B. Woodside), a doctor who works at Lancer University and is now Vanessa's boyfriend. Bill Marsh (Aaron Douglas) is the college's athletic director who is still involved in a "pay for play" scandal with players that could get the school's programs (including the Hellcats) suspended. Morgan Pepper (Craig Anderson) is a pre-law student and Marti's classmate. He later befriends Marti and joins her to solve a legal case introduced by their teacher Julian (Gale Harold). Other Hellcats members include Darwin (Jeremy Wong), a homosexual cheerleader, and Frankie (Alana Randall).