Courteney Cox & David Arquette Developing Ensemble Comedy About Friends

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• Is this from The Onion? What’s next? A Charlie Sheen show about a guy with anger management issues? Oh wait…

  Comment by Miggs — Saturday September 17, 2011 @ 12:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Alternate title: “OMG, We’re So Effing Old Now”

  Comment by Cooch — Saturday September 17, 2011 @ 3:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• How sad…both of them

  Comment by stephaniepeterson — Saturday September 17, 2011 @ 3:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Surprised they’re even working together after their marriage fell apart.

  Comment by Zeke — Saturday September 17, 2011 @ 5:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Howard Morris is a really great comedic writer. If he’s involved it’ll be funny and soulful. Hope they get it set up.

  Comment by David Baxter — Saturday September 17, 2011 @ 7:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Dear David Baxter,

    I’m Howard Morris’ eldest daughter, Kim. I just wanted to say, first, thank you for speaking so well of my Dad, who passed in 2005. However, I feel I must point out that Dad was an actor and director, mostly. To my knowledge, he had written very little in his life. I know he was working on this piece (Ten Years) before he passed; and, I recall a play he worked on some 30 years ago.

    My comments are not meant to insult or offend you, please understand. I just tend to want his post-mortem facts and details to be truth. And, hey – I may not know of everything Dad did in his life, too!

    I believe Dad was a comic genius in the realms of certain productions, genres and characters he played (Ernest T. Bass, Uncle Goopy, etc.); and, certainly with the vast number of voice-over cartoon characters he created- he was uniquely talented as a “character actor.” He was also a wonderful Director in TV and several films he made in younger years. I never really knew him to be that prolific a writer in his life; although, I would be pleased to find out he wrote more than I am aware of. I am very happy that something he wrote may be picked up and shared with the world. I know Dad would be ecstatic! He lived for evoking laughter in people.

    Thanks again for your kind comments. Always warms my heart to see Dad’s legacy of humor continuing on.

    Regards, Kim Ayrie Morris

    Comment by Kim Morris — Friday December 30, 2011 @ 8:36am PST  Reply to this post

• Ugh. More industry people milking their personal problems for “entertainment.” And there are people all across America — average people — who think to themselves all the time that their lives should be a TV show. But you know what? That won’t happen because they have no industry connections. As far as TV goes right now, we’re in depressing, economic stressful times. That means the audience wants two things: escapist entertainment like ‘Lost’, ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ and shows that are able to find the lighter side of their struggles, like ‘Roseanne’ did. This project — the Cox-Arquette divorce tv show — sounds exactly like what people don’t want to watch: the turgid problems of priveleged rich people. The only way this one would work is if it was a reality show and the people are all unlikeable and crazy enough to make a big scene in public places. Otherwise, no one cares.

  Comment by Ben — Saturday September 17, 2011 @ 8:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is a bad idea. Making TV with your ex?? I pity the crew that will deal with all the emotional fallout on the job.

  Comment by Candide — Sunday September 18, 2011 @ 1:41am PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m even more surprised this is announcement worthy. So they have set up a show at ABC studio and don’t have a net. How about Cox and Arquette are also thinking about some reality ideas about post-split couples and might run them past their managers.

  Comment by Um...okay — Sunday September 18, 2011 @ 11:04am PDT  Reply to this post