Watch your back, Zooey Deschanel. You've got some serious competition. "I'm adorkable," Megan Mullally announced to reporters at Fox's winter TV previews Sunday."There will be two."
The Emmy winner is the latest addition to Fox's comedy slate as a new series regular on Breaking In, which returns for a second season in March immediately following, you guessed it, New Girl. Mullally was joined on the panel by co-star Christian Slater, Deschanel and New Girl creator Liz Meriwether and Raising Hope's Martha Plimpton and Garrett Dillahunt with creator Greg Garcia. Funny group, right? Here are...
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With its worn-in leather sofa and duct-taped-together flat screen, the loft set of Fox's New Girl exudes the vibe of lazy afternoons and beer-fueled late nights. A few feet away, Zooey Deschanel is cutting loose during a photo shoot. There's some emphatic twirling in a retro-chic, peony-pink party dress and some even more emphatic lip-synching into a toy microphone to a David Bowie track — all while rocking a rhinestone tiara.
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There's music in the air on the Los Angeles set of Fox's breakout comedy New Girl. Inside the trailer of star Zooey Deschanel, an electric ukulele rests on the couch. "It's my backup from when I was touring," she says. "Sometimes I'll just sing at lunch for people." She even installed a karaoke machine in the show's hair-and-makeup trailer. Creator Liz Meriwether says with a laugh, "I have gone to makeup at four in the morning and there's this music pumping, she's dancing, and I'm like, 'How do you still have enough energy?'"
The cast and crew of New Girl have plenty to sing about these days. The show's premiere episode opened to 10 million viewers on September 20, building on lead-in Glee and benefiting from a bold Fox strategy: making the episode available on iTunes more than a week in advance. "It feels like...
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Zooey Deschanel may be Fox's New Girl, but with more than a dozen movies, several high-profile TV appearances, her indie-rock band She & Him and a sister who's a staple on the network that houses her new comedy, the 31-year-old actress is anything but new.
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But just in case you're still unclear of who this adorable star is, TVGuide.com sat down with Deschanel to get the scoop on her and New Girl, where she plays an unlucky-in-love elementary school teacher who moves out of her philandering boyfriend's apartment and in with three unruly guys.
1. Zooey doesn't mind being branded "adorable." From the billboards to the TV spots, if viewers know anything about New Girl's leading lady, it's that she's adorable. That was even the topic discussed at length at this summer's Fox fall TV previews. But Deschanel doesn't mind the label. "I just...
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What do you get when you put Paula Abdul, Zooey Deschanel and Will Forte together? A little bit of chivalry (Forte loaned Deschanel his jacket), some Simon talk (OK, more than some talk about Abdul's love-hate-love relationship with Cowell) and lots of laughs at Monday's Paley Center fall TV preview ...
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