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Elizabeth Perkins To Co-Star In ABC’s Claudia Lonow Pilot Starring Sarah Chalke

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 6:30pm PSTTags: Claudia Lonow, Sarah Chalke
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Weeds alumna Elizabeth Perkins is set to star opposite Sarah Chalke in Claudia Lonow’s ABC comedy pilot How to Live With Your Parents For The Rest Of Your Life. The multi-camera/hybrid comedy, from 20th TV and Imagine, centers on Polly (Chalke), a recently divorced single mom, who moves in with her eccentric parents, Elaine (Perkins) and Max, a couple who’s full of life but knows no boundaries. I hear that the role, originally written a bit older, has been reworked for Perkins. Perkins, repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment, got 3 pilot offers this season. In an interesting twist, her decision came down to How To Live With Your Parents and Lonow’s other ABC comedy pilot, Counter Culture. Perkins’ five-year run on Showtime’s Weeds earned her 3 Emmy noms.

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Sarah Chalke To Star In ABC’s ‘How To Live With Your Parents’ Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday February 4, 2012 @ 2:00pm PSTTags: Claudia Lonow, Sarah Chalke
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Scrubs alumna Sarah Chalke is set as the lead in the ABC comedy pilot How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life, from Accidentally on Purpose creator Claudia Lonow. The multi-camera/hybrid comedy, produced by 20th Century … Read More »

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Sarah Chalke To Recur On ‘Cougar Town’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 9, 2011 @ 6:06pm PDTTags: Sarah Chalke
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Former Scrubs star Sarah Chalke will reunite with the series’ creator Bill Lawrence for a major arc on his latest comedy, ABC’s Cougar Town. Our sister site TVLine reports that Chalke will play a love interest for Brian Van … Read More »

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Sarah Chalke Signs Development Deal With 20th Century Fox Television

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 9, 2011 @ 1:20pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, Development Deal, Sarah Chalke
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EXCLUSIVE: Actress Sarah Chalke has signed a development/talent holding deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Under the pact, the studio will develop a half-hour comedy project for her targeted for fall 2012. 20th TV first got in business with Chalke when she recurred on the studio’s CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother from 2008-09 and then cast her as a lead in Greg Malins’ 2010 ABC pilot Freshmen. After the pilot didn’t make the cut to series in May 2010, the studio wanted to sign Chalke in a deal right away, but she was cast in CBS’ midseason comedy series Mad Love, so 20th TV brass were “determined to get her this year,” studio’s chairman Gary Newman said. “She is incredibly talented as a comic force — she can do physical comedy and has great timing. There is almost a Lucy quality to her,” he said, referring to comedy icon Lucille Ball.

Chalke will start meeting with writers shortly. Once she and the studio settle on a concept, the focus will be on developing that project but 20th executives will also keep an eye on other comedies in the works with characters that could be right for her. “She is incredibly castable,” Newman said. “We hope that the project we develop for her goes, but if it doesn’t, we will cast her in one of our other pilots.” Read More »

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CBS Moves Up Premiere Of Midseason Comedy ‘Mad Love’ To Valentine’s Day

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 26, 2011 @ 9:16am PSTTags: CBS, CBS Mad Love, CBS Scheduling, Jason Biggs, Judy Greer, Mad Love, Sarah Chalke, TV, Tyler Labine
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It has “love” in the title, and now CBS’s midseason comedy series Mad Love is getting a Valentine’s Day premiere date to go with it. CBS said it will move the launch of Mad Love, previously scheduled for … Read More »

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