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Anonymous Content Signs ’2 Broke Girls’ Star Beth Behrs

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 2, 2012 @ 2:56pm PDTTags: 2 Broke Girls, Anonymous Content, Beth Behrs
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Beth Behrs 2 Broke Girls Management CompanyEXCLUSIVE: Actress Beth Behrs has signed with Anonymous Content for management. She previously didn’t have a manager and continues to be repped by CAA. Behrs was one of the breakouts of the last TV season with her starring role opposite Kat Dennings in CBS’ hot new comedy 2 Broke Girls, which sold in off-network syndication to TBS for a record $1.7 million an episode in June after only one season on the air.

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TCA: Creators Say ‘Two Broke Girls’ Is No ‘Sex And The City’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 3, 2011 @ 3:53pm PDTTags: 2 Broke Girls, Beth Behrs, CBS, Kat Dennings, Michael Patrick King, TCA Press Tour, Television Critics Association, Whitney Cummings

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

Michael Patrick King Not Doing ‘Sex And The City’ Prequel
At today’s TCA panel on 2 Broke Girls — a new comedy from Sex and the City veteran Michael Patrick King and Whitney Cummings, who is also starring in her own sitcom for NBC this season — the creative team shunned comparisons between the Sex and the City and the new CBS comedy just because they’re both about single women. “That show and this show (have) completely different DNA,” King said, protesting that “girl” shows are often spoken about as if they are “all the same show,” and all books about women summarily dismissed as “chick lit.” “(2 Broke Girls is) the evil twin of chick lit,” King said.

And unlike Sex, where no one really knew — or wanted to know — how the women paid for their picturesque Manhattan apartments and Jimmy Choo shoes, King said money would be a hard reality beyond just the title. “Carrie Bradshaw and her closet were a fantasy,” he said, likening Carrie’s wardrobe to the closet in The Chronicles of Narnia. “Those girls had relationship check lists. These girls barely have checks.” King added that the story line of one of the waitresses, portrayed by Beth Behrs, as a rich girl whose family has lost all their money was not directly inspired by Bernie Madoff but inspired by today’s economic reality. “We liked the scary idea of talking about money,” he said. Read More »

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NBC’s ‘S.I.L.A.’ & CBS’ ‘Girls’ Find Leads

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday February 28, 2011 @ 9:51am PSTTags: Beth Behrs, Danny Pino, Kat Dennings, Michael Patrick King, S.I.L.A., S.I.L.A. Pilot, Stephen Gaghan S.I.L.A., TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots, Two Broke Girls, Two Broke Girls Casting, Two Broke Girls Pilot
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Cold Case alum Danny Pino has become the first actor cast in Stephen Gaghan’s pilot for NBC S.I.L.A., a complex drama in the style of  Traffic and Syriana set in the world of crime, law enforcement and politics in sprawling … Read More »

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