Zoe Lister Jones To Star In CBS Pilot ‘Friends With Better Lives’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 22, 2013 @ 5:59pm PDT
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Zoe Lister JonesWhitney co-star Zoe Lister Jones has landed the last lead in Dana Klein’s CBS comedy Friends With Better Lives, which is directed by James Burrows. The multi-camera project, from 20th Century Fox TV and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, revolves around six 30-something friends who each think the other has it better. Jones will play one of them, the competitive and narcissistic Kate, who is super successful at work but a mess in her dating life. Jones, repped by WME and Karl Austen, is the latest Whitney cast member to book a pilot in second position

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Networks Go For Dramas Based On Source Material; 3 More Adaptations Enter The Fray

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With drama sale season in full force, book and format adaptations have emerged as a red-hot commodity. ABC is working on a U.S. version of hit British series Spooks with writer Michael Seitzman, NBC is developing an adaptation … Read More »

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Searchlight Grabs ‘Motherf***er’ Of Comedy Pitch

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 12, 2010 @ 12:48pm PDT
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Fox Searchlight has acquired Motherf***er, a comedy pitch that has Daryl Wein attached to direct and Michael London and Jocelyn Hayes-Simpson producing through London’s Groundswell banner. Wein will write the script with Zoe Lister-Jones, his writing partner on the indie Breaking Upwards. The comedy is about a guy who falls … Read More »

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