The cast for 24's eighth season, to be set (if not entirely filmed) in New York City, is starting to assemble.
Jennifer Westfeldt, who had a memorable guest-starring arc on Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice this season — and who gets to call Mad Man Jon Hamm her beau — will fill the recurring role of Meredith Reed.
Described by the Hollywood Reporter as "an ambitious journalist," Reed has ties to ...
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Longtime couple Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt have taken the next big step in their relationship: forming a production company.
The Mad Men star and Westfeldt, a screenwriter/actress, have launched Points West Pictures, which will find them collaborating ...
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So we premiered last week, and you all kicked some major tushy in getting our show some good numbers! Thanks for showing up! Welcome to the universe of Notes from the Underbelly for all you Idol watchers. Now this is your mission, should you choose to accept it: Call, email, send a smoke signal to anyone and everyone you’ve ever met and tell them — not ask them — to turn on our show and enjoy the funny this Wednesday at 8:30 pm/ET on ABC. If you do, some great stuff is going to happen for you. I don’t know what that is, but it’s gonna be sweet. Real, real sweet. In this next episode Lauren (Jenn Westfeldt) is having trouble deciding if she should quit her job as a high-school guidance counselor to be a "stay-at-home mom" or keep her job and be a "working mom." Julie (Melanie Paxson) attempts to woo her to stay home, while Cooper makes an equally compelling — and might I add sexier and hotter — reason to stay in the workforce. The girls duke it ou...
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Notes from the Underbelly star Jennifer Westfeldt may not be a household name, or even a household face, but she stirred up a bunch of indie buzz playing the title role in Kissing Jessica Stein, a film she cowrote. Now she’s tackling the small screen in this adorable new comedy (based on the chick-lit novel by Risa Green) that landed the plum debut spot post-Grey’s Anatomy (although next week it moves to Wednesdays at 8:30 pm/ET). TVGuide.com had a chance to have breakfast with the busy star to find out more about the new series and to see what’s next.
TVGuide.com: How would you describe Notes from the Underbelly? Jennifer Westfeldt: For my character it is the parts of pregnancy that people don’t talk about that much. I don’t think it is that PC for wome
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In the latest round of fall-season pilot casting, Bruce McGill (Cinderella Man) has been tapped to play a Chicago crime boss in the ABC drama Enemies... Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings) will play a federal prosecutor who infiltrates an underworld organization in Fox's Faceless... Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein) has joined ABC's Notes from the Underbelly... and Julie Hagerty (Airplane!) is the title character's mom in Fox's Becoming Glen. Also of note: Milo Ventimiglia (Gilmore Girls, and a star of WB's forthcoming The Bedford Diaries) has joined NBC's Heroes, Eric Mabius (The O.C.) plays a fashion-mag boss in ABC's Ugly Betty, and Jaime King (Kitchen Confidential) has the lead in Fox's The Worst Week of My Life.
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