Want to take a trip to ‘Cougar Town’ and interview two of its residents? Here’s your chance!
This Tuesday, AOL TV will ask Busy Philipps and Josh Hopkins questions submitted by you and other ‘Cougar Town’ fans.
So ask anything you want, just make sure to submit your question at Inside TV and that you include your name and location. Come back in February to see if your question made the cut!
Busy Philipps is the best part of “Cougar Town” in my opinion. Can you tell me anything about what’s coming up for her character? -Meaghan
Ryan Devlin — whom you might recognize from “Veronica Mars” or as the former host of “ET on MTV” — joins the show this Wednesday (Jan. 6) as Laurie’s new love interest. He’s playing a dude named Smith who clerks at the courthouse and comes from a crazy rich family. He wants to take Laurie to some charity event, but his social graces (and her lack thereof) has Laurie super intimidated. Still, things seem to work themselves out because Smith is sticking around. I’m told he just signed on to do a third episode which will air in February for Valentine’s Day.
All the concerned chatter about “Cougar Town” shutting down production because of a serious family matter Courteney Cox had to tend to?
Kind of over the top.
Cox’s co-star Busy Philipps let fans know via Twitter that the ABC comedy was only dark for one day (Friday, Nov. 20) and that shooting will resume after Thanksgiving.
A show insider confirms the report and says that a hiatus was always scheduled for this week.
Cast and crew were informed of their unexpected day off last Thursday afternoon, though the details of Cox’s personal matter were not disclosed.
Thankfully, the situation does not seem to be making much of a dent in production.
Jules and friends will be back with a new episode on Wednesday and won’t really miss a beat.
From Zap 2 It
Production on Cougar Town has been suspended while Courteney Cox deals with a family matter, ABC confirmed Saturday.
“We can confirm production on Cougar Town has been temporarily shut down in order for Courteney to deal with a private family matter,” the network said in statement.
On the freshman hit, the 45-year-old Cox stars as Jules, a recently divorced single mother dealing with jumping back into the dating scene in her forties.
The critically acclaimed series also stars Busy Philipps, Dan Byrd, Christa Miller, Josh Hopkins, Ian Gomez and Brian Van Holt.
Cox and her husband, actor David Arquette, have been married since 1999. They have one daughter, Coco, 5.
Busy’s show, “Cougar Town” received enough votes to be an official nominee for the 2010 People’s Choice Award!
The show is nominated in the “New TV comedy” category…
New TV comedy: “Accidentally on Purpose,” “Brothers,” “Community,” “Cougar Town,” “Glee,” “Hank,” “The Cleveland Show,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family.”
You can vote for “Cougar Town” at PeoplesChoice.com
With all six seasons coming out on a “Complete Series” DVD next week it was a perfect time for the Paley Center for Media to pay tribute to the coming of age series “Dawson’s Creek” on Wednesday night in Beverly Hills. Besides viewing the pilot episode, members of the cast and crew talked about the impact of the show on television and their own lives. Here’s a minute-by-minute rundown by our Jim Halterman:
7:06 PM – Rebecca Faez, Director of External Affairs for The Paley Center takes the podium to introduce how “Dawson’s Creek” impacted a generation when it premiered in 1998 on the WB network. She gives Marc Rashba, Sony Home Entertainment Vice President of Marketing a moment to come up and say a few words.
7:07 PM – Marc thanks the fans first and foremost voicing their wanting the complete series DVD set that arrives in stores on Tuesday.
7:08 PM – Rebecca returns and invites Will Keck from TV Guide to take the stage and begin his moderating duties. Will admits he almost didn’t accept the invite to moderate because he is still upset that creator Kevin Williamson killed off Michelle Williams’s character in the final episode. That said, he also shares his excitement at being a part of this event and introduces the original pilot of “Dawson’s Creek.”
7:12 PM – Pilot is showing and after the teaser (featuring a very young James Van Der Beek and cute-as-hell Katie Holmes) the theme song over the credits is surprisingly NOT the Paula Cole “I Don’t Want To Wait” song that was the chart-topping “Dawson’s Creek” theme. More on that during the panel.
7:55 PM – Will returns and asks if anyone wants to come to the stage to sing the real theme song to the show. Nobody volunteers so Will calls the panel to the stage. Executive Producer Paul Stupin! Cast member Busy Philipps (Audrey)! Cast member Meredith Monroe (Andie McPhee)! Creator Kevin Williamson! Cast member James Van Der Beek (Dawson Leery)!
7:57 PM – Kevin and Paul remember how the role of Dawson was the last one cast and he wasn’t cast until just before the first day of production on the pilot. Paul gives Marcia Shulman (then-casting director for the show) credit for alerting them to James and getting him considered and, eventually, chosen for the pivotal role of Dawson Leery.
8:00 PM – Will says that “Dawson’s” was considered a show that saved the WB and asks Kevin if the same can be said for his current hit “Vampire Diaries” bringing more viewers to the CW network. Kevin shakes his head and says, “Television is just a different place now. It’s not the same as it was. You’re competing with so many other outlets in terms cable and other channels like ABC Family; there are just too many channels out there. I feel the same way in terms of the WB being a small little place and the CW is a small little place so it’s very intimate in that you’re dealing with 5 people. You’re not dealing with a corporation.”
8:01 PM – Will talks about how the dialogue of “Dawson’s” was considered scandalous at the time but it now seems so innocent. Could things fly in today’s TV landscape? Kevin says “I always felt like the show was about romance and sweaty palms and weak knees and that’s what I wanted the show to be. It was really just the dialogue that was sort of racy. Like ‘man-meat’ [which is said in the pilot]. We could not say ‘man-meat’ today. I don’t think I could get away with ‘man-meat.’ It’s a different time. The Bushes got in there and changed the whole world.”
8:03 PM – Will talks about how the show was daring in killing off characters and reveals that actress Monica Keena, whose character Abby drowned during the series, is in the audience. Monica stands up, shows that she is very much alive and takes a bow. Also, in the killing of Dawson’s father (played by John Wesley Shipp), James says “One of the things about playing a character for that duration of time is you develop all this back story and all this history so I remember being struck like ‘Wow! What’s that going to be like to play?’” He added that because they filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina that when people left the show they really left and you didn’t bump into them at Starbucks.
8:05 PM – Meredith talks about meeting the cast for the first time at the start of the second season and Katie Holmes was the first person to show up and greet her. “I was so nervous because it was a hit already… and Katie was like ‘Oh! Nice to meet you!’ I thought ‘Oh, she’s sweet!’ and then she says ‘Yeah, we had someone come in like you last year but they didn’t last long and were gone after two episodes’ and my jaw dropped. Then she said ‘I’m just kidding!’” Meredith feigns her fast-paced heart beating at that joke.
8:07 PM – Busy tells how she originally came to the show for a guest spot but then-showrunner Tom Kapinos, who knew her from “Freaks and Geeks” said they should wait to use her when the cast went to college in season five. Busy said on her plane ride she was flying with Chad Michael Murray. “Just between us,” Busy says, “I was horrified because I was afraid that people would associate him with me and I didn’t like him very much.” The crowd laughs and Busy assures them, “Listen, I don’t care about burning bridges with CMM! It’s no secret that I don’t like him.” Big laughs continue and Kevin buries his face in his hands.
We love Busy Philipps.
On the panel for Wednesday night’s Paley Center event, celebrating the November 10th release of “‘Dawson’s Creek’: The Complete Series” on DVD, Philipps divulged a few key pieces of information…
A) She feels her “Cougar Town” character Laurie is really just Audrey Liddell all grown up (“all” being a relative term)
B) She spent most of her time in Wilmington, North Carolina — where “Dawson’s” was shot — drunk.
C) Chad Michael Murray was on her first flight from L.A. to North Carolina and she was super worried people would think the two of them were dating. Don’t have a complete quote for you, but I know for sure her sentence ended with “…and I get stuck with this douche?”
Yes, Busy Philipps called Chad Michael Murray a douche in front of a packed house at The Paley Center for Media and when her fellow panelists reacted with a couple shocked looks, she responded by saying, “Don’t worry. I’m not real worried about burning bridges with CMM.”
Amazing.
For the record, Dawson — er, um, Van Der Beek (James) — having just worked with the Chadster on “One Tree Hill” last season, sort of stood up for him, insisting a couple times that “He’s actually come a long way” …which I suppose means that James feels Murray was once a douche, but not so much anymore?
Busy is not convinced.
After the event, she tweeted the following: Just finished the dawson’s creek panel. Maybe I was too harsh on chadM2… Nah.
Busy, will you be our friend?
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