The guys help Jess get her stuff out of her ex’s apartment, and Winston (Lamorne Morris), their old roommate, returns from playing basketball overseas and moves back into the loft.
Original Air Date: Sep 27, 2011
- description from tvguide.com
Jess Day (Zooey Deschanel) is crushed to catch her boyfriend cheating on her, and promptly sets out to find a new place to live in the series premiere. She meets three single guys who have an open room in their loft, and tries to convince them that she’s the new roommate they’re looking for.
Original Air Date: Sep 20, 2011
Guest Cast:
Damon Wayans Jr.: Coach
- description from tvguide.com
Lamorne Morris has joined the cast of Fox’s fall comedy New Girl.
The show stars Zooey Deschanel as Jessica, a teacher who moves in with three men after a break-up.
Morris has signed up to play Winston, a former basketball player who owns Jessica’s new apartment, TV Guide reports.
When he moves back to town, he kicks out one of Jessica’s roommates, Coach, who had been subletting the room.
Coach was played by Damon Wayans Jr in the pilot but he is unable to continue working on the show because his ABC series Happy Endings was renewed.
New Girl‘s executive producer Liz Meriwether described Morris as “a young Eddie Murphy”, adding: “He has this kind of great manic comedic energy. And he has amazing improv skills. I love that about our cast – all of our actors can think on their feet.”
Meriwether also explained that the cast and crew would have had to “reshoot about 80%” of the pilot if they removed Wayans’s character completely.
“It felt thematically that it made sense to have people move in and out of the apartment,” she continued. “In your 20s, things are transient anyway. You’re surfing Craigslist for a new roommate. It kind of worked to have Damon be subletting and then moved out. And that freed us up to focus on moving forward, as opposed to going back and creating everything. That would have been a tough way to start.”
Morris will make his debut on New Girl in the second episode of the season. The show will premiere on September 20 on Fox.
Source: http://www.digitalspy.ca/ustv/news/a329279/lamorne-morris-joins-foxs-new-girl.html
Series Premiere TUE 9/8c SEPT 20
JESS DAY (Zooey Deschanel, “(500) Days of Summer”) is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn’t. Although she’s dorky and awkward, she’s comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she’s not used to hanging with the boys – especially at home.
Getting an early jump on the pick-up process, Fox has ordered Zooey Deschanel starrer The New Girl to series, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.
The single-camera half-hour from 20th TV will join new animated entries Allen Gregory and Napoleon Dynamite as well as Steven Spielberg‘s dinosaur dramaTerra Nova and Simon Cowell‘s The X Factor on Fox’s 2011-12 schedule.
Though programming holes at Fox are scarce, the Mike O’Malley-Rachael Harris comedy Family Album is said to be a lock with the Jaime Pressly-Katie Finneran laugher I Hate My Teenage Daughter still in contention on the comedy side, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Ethan Hawke‘sExit Strategy and Kiefer Sutherland‘s Touch are believed to be sure things in the drama category.
The New Girl features a quirky teacher (Deschanel) who moves in with three guys — the cynic, the player and the man-child — after being dumped. Together, they help one another navigate the politics of dating. Dechanel joins Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield andDamon Wayans Jr. Liz Meriwether executive produces and writes along with executive producers Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope, David Finkel and Brett Baer. Jake Kasdan (Freaks and Geeks, The TV Set) directed the pilot.
Fox, which is poised to round out another season at No. 1 among viewers 18 to 49, will present its slate to Madison Avenue buyers on Monday.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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