
EXCLUSIVE: Friends with Benefits co-star Ryan Hansen has landed the male lead in another NBC comedy project, pilot Lovelives. Lovelives, from 20th TV, Chernin Entertainment and writer Chris Sheridan, is described as a sophisticated, adult multi-camera comedy about a couple, Tim (Hansen) and Holly, and their challenges of love and infidelity. Tim is an attractive and smart professor of literature at Fordham University who is less than honest with Holly. For Gersh-repped Hansen, Lovelives is formally in second position to Friends with Benefits, which is yet to receive an air date. The series is also for the same network (NBC) and from the same studio (20th TV) as Lovelives, making this second position as safe as they come. Hansen previously co-starred on Veronica Mars and Party Down.
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Just bring back Party Down, OK people?
Could’ve had a few more seasons at least.
The cancellation of party down was worse than the loss of my first child.
Hansen is great and deserves to work for a long time. But enough with the second positions! Is there really a dearth of actors to work first positions?
He’s really funny, but I don’t think a show about a guy who cheats on his wife will go over very well.
Does this mean NBC & 20th TV consider Friends With Benefits to be dead?
Go Ryan!
That head of hair leads me to believe he isn’t in on the joke.
Never heard of the kid, but surely a comedian.
In all honesty, best of luck to Hansen.
Actually he is. See the smirk?
NBC would have been better off buying Party Down; loved that show.
Party Down is better of not having NBC pick it up. They would have ruined it.
GO RYan…………..I remember in Chula Vista with Peter.
Really? They’re not even going to AIR Friends with Benefits? Why did they make 13 episodes?? Throw it up there, at least. Give it a shot.
When is Friends With Benefits airing? Sounds like it’ll be really risque and funny and I bet Hansen’s hilarious in it
I like Ryan and loved him on Party Down, but how on earth is he right for this role which is described as a professor of literature at Fordham. Really? I know it’s a sitcom and we have to suspend belief on the homes they all live in, but this might be a stretch for my imagination.
Really, what is going on in regard to FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS? Did the new execs at NBC kill it because they did not develop it? That’s happened too often in the past. FWB will be awesome
seems pretty clear that fwb’s fate is sealed.