Josh Cooke has been added opposite Alan Tudyk to the still untitled ABC comedy from David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, according to the Hollywood ReporterCooke, who recently starred on CBS's comedy pilot My Best Friend's Girl, plays the straight lifelong best friend and business partner of Tudyk's gay character. Cooke has previously worked with Kohan and Mutchick on Four Kings. — Adam BryantRelated:• Will & Grace Creators Score New Pilot for ABC
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The odds of Kelly Taylor swinging by the 90210 spin-off just dipped a bit. Jennie Garth has scored the title role in My Best Friend's Girl, a CBS comedy pilot about two best buds whose friendship is tested when one (Carpoolers' Tim Peper) begins dating the other's (Big Day's Josh Cooke) ex-wife.More pilot casting news from the Reporter: Shailene Woodley (Felicity: An American Girl Adventure) has landed the lead in an untitled ABC Family series from 7th Heaven's Brenda Hampton, and Bruno Campos (Nip/Tuck) has joined The Office's David Denman in the Fox comedy Night Life.Use our Online Video Guide to watch Jennie discuss her Dancing with the Stars experience.
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Heroes may have halted production, but reading minds isn't Greg Grunberg's only superpower; he also has a knack for employing out-of-work television actors. Grunberg recently teamed up with Felicity/Alias director Lawrence Trilling to coproduce, write and star in Group Sex, a film that began shooting Jan. 28 in Los Angeles. "This was a no-brainer," Grunberg jokes of his latest gig, which costars James Denton (Desperate Housewives), Tom Arnold, Katherine Narducci and Henry Winkler. "I had all of this free time and decided to get naked and laugh my ass off!" Group Sex is a romantic comedy about a single guy (Josh Cooke) who poses as a reformed Don Juan after seeing his dream girl (Odette Yustman) perform at a nightclub. Chaos ensues when he poses as a fellow recovering sex addict in an attempt to meet the unsuspecting singer. "I play Jerry, the best friend of the guy who follows the girl into the sexaholic meeting," says Grunberg. "Jerry is very critical of the girl his friend is fo...
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Let me start with two completely unrelated facts that you should tell everyone you know:1) Someone just sent me the complete version of the Michael Richards meltdown, and the one part that was cut out of the version most people saw is where Hugh Laurie is high-fiving him. 2) We're on twice this week. Tuesday at 9 and 9:30 pm/ET.In keeping with the theme of twos, this week I'm going to present to you the two-part Big Day guide to torturing your coworkers. 1) Outthinking: "The Kurt Fuller."During this week of shooting, Josh Cooke and I spent countless hours in his trailer playing Connect Four for $50 a game. Josh and I were about evenly matched, having a good time, feeling solid about our skills, until Kurt showed up. He watched for a few minutes, and then he asked to play. Thankfully, we didn't play him for money. We played him just for "fun."I use quotation marks because it didn't take us long to realize that the fun was over. For one thing, we learned quickly that Kurt Fuller is th...
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TVGuide.com's celebrity blogs are displayed in the reverse order that they were written, which is so that the reader can watch the author enjoy himself more and more. It would be kind of depressing to see them in the real order, from "Oh, wow! I get a blog! This will be fun!" to "Greta Garbo did not go far enough."That's because it's a lot of pressure to come up with an interesting story each time. Here's a television secret: not every episode of Big Day [Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET, on ABC] provides the sort of exciting behind-the-scenes anecdote that meets the incredibly high standards of a TVGuide.com blog. Sure, every once in a while you'll have to wrestle a sword away from a drunken Josh Cooke before he accomplishes his bellowed intention of driving to the set of The Office and decapitating John Krasinski ("There can only be one! There can only be one!"). But that's only three weeks out of 10. The other seven, you're searching for things to put in the blog. ("Maybe if I set Cooke's tra...
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