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Angus T. Jones Returns To CBS’ ’2.5 Men’, Gets Jaime Pressly As Love Interest

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 11, 2013 @ 10:17pm PSTTags: Angus T. Jones, Chuck Lorre, Jaime Pressly, Two and a Half Men
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He’s back! After a month-a-half hiatus, Two And A Half Men co-star Angus T. Jones is returning to the set of the CBS comedy next week to film his first episode following the release of his controversial religious testimonial, in which he slammed the racy series as “filth” and urged viewers to “stop watching it.” In a sign that there are no hard feelings between 2.5 Men producers and Jones, whose character has been stuck Skype-ing from the Army for most of this season, he is getting a meaty storyline in his first episode back. Emmy winner Jaime Pressly has been cast as a new love interest for Jones’ Jake. She will be introduced in the episode, which starts production on Monday. In a guest starring and potentially recurring role, the My Name Is Earl alumna Pressly will play Jake’s “cougar” girlfriend from the sticks of SD.

In red carpet interviews at the People’s Choice Awards on Wednesday night, Men executive producer Chuck Lorre confirmed that Jones will be back at work on Monday and indicated that the controversy over the actor’s viral anti-Men rant has blown over and all has been forgiven. “He’s part of our show. He’s part of our family. We love him,” Lorre said. “He’s 19, man. Cut him some slack.” Lorre even supported Jones’ most explosive comment. “I can’t really disagree with him — the show’s kind of filthy,” Lorre quipped. “What he said wasn’t wrong… We hope it’s funny, as well.”

Pressly, Emmy winner for NBC’s My Name Is Earl, recently starred in the Fox comedy series I Hate My Teenage Daugter and reunited with Earl creator Greg Garcia with an arc on his latest series, Fox comedy Raising Hope. She is repped by CAA, Mosaic and attorney Dave Feldman.

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Jaime Pressly Joins NBC Pilot ‘Bad Girls’, CW’s ‘Shelter’ Adds Duo

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 23, 2012 @ 8:10pm PDTTags: bad Girls, Jaime Pressly, Shelter
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: I Hate My Teenage Daughter star Jaime Pressly is making a dramatic turn with a co-starring role in NBC’s drama pilot Bad Girls. Adapted from the long-running UK series, the John Wells/Warner Bros. TV project follows the ins and … Read More »

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TCA: ‘I Hate My Teenage Daughter’ Creators Believe Multi-Cam Sitcoms Can Work On Fox

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 4:27pm PDTTags: Fox, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Jaime Pressly, Katie Finneran, TCA Press Tour, Television Critics Association

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

After today’s TCA panel on Fox’s new multi-camera comedy I Hate My Teenage Daughter, about two high school nerd-girls who grew up to be the mothers of the kind of popular “mean girls” that they envied and hated in high school, the show’s executive producers, Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer, talked with me about how their multi-camera comedy might fit in at Fox, which has struggled to successfully launch a multi-camera sitcom. The show stars Katie Finneran and My Name Is Earl castmember Jaime Pressly as the moms and Australian Aisha Dee and Kristi Lauren as the snotty teenagers. “I think audiences really appreciate multi-camera comedy — you watch the big success of Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory and you feel good when you watch it — there’s something very comforting about it,  I can’t explain why,” said Kreamer.  It [harkens back to] The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy — the history. It’s a little bit slower-paced than some of the single-camera comedies, with the jump cuts and stuff. Sherry and I come from Friends, and we love that.” Read More »

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Jaime Pressly To Star In Fox’s ‘Daughter’ Comedy Pilot, 3 Join NBC’s ‘Prime Suspect’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday February 28, 2011 @ 5:36pm PSTTags: Fox, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Jaime Pressly, NBC, Pilot, Prime Suspect
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Former My Name Is Earl co-star Jaime Pressly has been tapped as the lead opposite Katie Finneran in Fox’s multicamera comedy pilot I Hate My Teenage Daughter. The project, from Warner Bros. TV and writers/executive producers Sherry Bilsing-Graham and … Read More »

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