Season 3 of Cougar Town is out on DVD this week, and if you've already taken the time to get over that off-putting name, you should probably go ahead and pick it up. The Courteney Cox and Busy Philipps-starring sitcom made its debut on TBS this January and if a show is good enough to get booted off of network TV only to have basic cable come to its rescue, it's probably good enough for your DVD shelf.
At the Freaks And Geeks/Undeclared reunion at PaleyFest on Sunday, topics ranged from John Francis Daley's pubescent wiener ("First onscreen erection too, but no one talks about that," Daley joked about his first onscreen kiss. "I also didn't have pubic hair") to James Franco's early intensity. In addition to lugging around texts like Proust and Dante's Inferno on set, Franco had invented a back story for his character Daniel that involved him maybe being abused by his father, unbeknownst to some of his cast mates. During a scene where he was grabbed by Busy Philipps, she recalls how Franco unexpectedly snarled, "Don't you f—ing touch me! And threw [...]
Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps are besties, apparently, so it only makes sense that Williams will come on by Busy's show, Cougar Town, for a visit. There's nothing official yet, but she said that "I really want to. I'm sure that we will at some point. I think they've got a couple more years on the show, so, I think we can find a way." Sounds fun!
The cast of Wet Hot American Summer teamed up with some guest stars at San Francisco Sketchfest this week to perform the film as a live radio play and make everyone who wasn't there about as jealous as we were back when we read the oral history of the making of the film.
Most of the cast played their original roles, with the additions of David Wain as the narrator, Busy Phillips and David Cross in the parts originated by Janeane Garofalo and David Hyde Pierce, Bobcat Goldthwait as the can of vegetables, and Andy Richter, Gillian Jacobs, Jessi Klein and John Hodgman filling out various [...]
