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Fall 2007: Parker Posey Is AS-P's New Lorelai
Oh, if this isn't a match made in TV heaven, I don't know what is: Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has tapped fast-talking Parker Posey to star in her Fox pilot The Return of Jezebel James. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the indie darling will play an infertile book editor who asks her estranged kid sister to have her baby. "I can't believe it's happening," AS-P said of landing the picky actress. "The character runs the gamut of emotions from laughing to flipping out to breaking your heart in 22 minutes, and only one in a zillion people has enough skill and charm to pull that off. Parker Posey is that person." I couldn't agree more.
In other pilot-casting news:
• Scream king Matthew Lillard has joined NBC's Area 52, a comedy about G-men babysitting an alien.
• Anthony Anderson will topline Fox's K-Ville drama about cops in post-Katrina New Orleans.
• Katheryn Winnick (House's recent rape victim) has been added to Philadelphia General, a Fox drama revolving around nurses at a metropolitan hospital.
Thursday's Today's News was written by Ben Katner
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Feb 15, 2007 10:07 AM
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The third time I read this I knew it was so. The posts to announce ASP and Parker Posey? I mean, she's amazing but three posts?
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Feb 15, 2007 10:13 AM
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Even the very best of us suffer from MPS (mutliple-post syndrome) — MWM
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Feb 15, 2007 10:17 AM
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HAHA! Had to mess with you Matt. Thanks for the report.
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Feb 15, 2007 10:37 AM
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Is Philadelphia General and Nurses the same show? I believe they are both in development at Fox and thought I'd heard the where the same show, just written with 2 different names. Also Sara Rue was said to be in NBC's Nurses, but NBC doesn't have a show about Nurses in development. Maybe I'm just confused, so if someone could help me out that would be great. Thanks
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Feb 15, 2007 11:29 AM
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The Hollywood Reporter has Nurses at NBC, and Variety has Philadelphia General at Fox. That's all I know.
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Feb 15, 2007 12:08 PM
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I just checked The Hollywood Reporter article and it lists Nurses as being at Fox. And The Futon Critic lists Sara Rue as being a castmember of Philadelphia General. It looks like they're probably the same show and on Fox.
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Feb 15, 2007 12:33 PM
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