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Post by Girl Power on Mar 3, 2007 20:30:00 GMT -5
All the talk about Amy Sherma Palladino over in the Gilmore Girls thread got me looking into what she's doing now. Apparently, she's working on a new pilot with Parker Posey starring. Here's the scoop, from TVguide.com: community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=800009022Fall 2007: Parker Posey Is AS-P's New Lorelai Oh, if this isn't a match made in TV heaven, I don't know what is: Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has tapped fast-talking Parker Posey to star in her Fox pilot The Return of Jezebel James. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the indie darling will play an infertile book editor who asks her estranged kid sister to have her baby. "I can't believe it's happening," AS-P said of landing the picky actress. "The character runs the gamut of emotions from laughing to flipping out to breaking your heart in 22 minutes, and only one in a zillion people has enough skill and charm to pull that off. Parker Posey is that person." I couldn't agree more.
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Post by Girl Power on Apr 18, 2007 13:15:35 GMT -5
I just found out more information on this show online. It will be a half hour, multi-camera comedy. Here is the link: televisionary.blogspot.com/2007/02/casting-couch-parker-posey-to-take-on.htmlHere is the write-up: "Casting Couch: Parker Posey to Take on "Jezebel James" So it seems my little campaign to get Lauren Graham to play the lead in Amy Sherman-Palladino's new comedy pilot, The Return of Jezebel James, didn't exactly get off the ground.
But no matter. While Graham's recently been upped to producer over on Gilmore Girls (making the possibility of her signing the contract to do Season Eight more likely), Sherman-Palladino has found a different leading lady for Jezebel James, one that you wouldn't ordinarily expect to sign on to a multi-camera half-hour comedy.
Yes, ladies and gents, I am talking about the one and only Parker Posey.
Posey (Best in Show, Party Girl, and a zillion other films I love) will play Sarah, a successful children's book editor who, after learning that she can't conceive a child, tries to convince her hellion sister to carry the baby for her. She joins the already cast Scott Cohen, who plays her boyfriend (and lifelong bachelor) Marcus.
"I can't believe it's happening," Sherman-Palladino told the Hollywood Reporter. "Because it's a comedy, the character runs the gamut of emotions from laughing to flipping out to breaking your heart in 22 minutes, and only one in a zillion people has enough skill and charm to pull that off. Parker Posey is that person."
Sherman-Palladino says she and hubby Daniel sent the script for Jezebel James to Posey despite the indie actress turning down every other pilot script she'd ever been offered over the years. The rest, as the say, is history.
Personally, I think it's fantastic casting and Posey will definitely bring the character of Sarah to live. But I am still trying to work my head around how this layered, brilliantly nuanced script will work in the vein of a multi-camera, laugh track-enhanced sitcom. (Ouch.)"
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