Cougar Town [US Pace]

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Been looking forward to this ever since i saw the promo which is funny and Courtney Cox Cox is back :D

http://abc.go.com/shows/cougar-town

Can a woman of a certain age be a mom, a successful career woman and still be on the prowl? Jules Cobb (Courteney Cox) is about to give it a try.

In a small Florida town, the center of high society is the Cougars high school football team... which is wildly appropriate since this town is the natural habitat for over-tanned, under-dressed divorc
 
Lawrence: 'Cox playing herself on Cougar'
Wednesday, September 23 2009, 22:01 BST

By Tim Parks, Entertainment Reporter

Cougar Town executive producer Bill Lawrence has admitted that Courteney Cox plays an "exaggerated version of herself" on the show.

The 45-year-old Friends star portrays the character of Jules Cobb, a newly-single mother of a 17-year-old son. In real life, husband David Arquette is eight years her junior.

Lawrence called the actress a "fearless comedian" and explained that parts of the role's traits are derived from Cox's own personality.

He told ABC News: "I think Courteney Cox is great at playing the comedy of discomfort. She's a fearless comedian.

"Courteney says what's on her mind. She sometimes doesn't have a filter. She's basically playing an exaggerated version of herself."

Cox recently said that Zac Efron would make "perfect" prey for real-life cougars.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/a178859/lawrence-cox-playing-herself-on-cougar.html
Cougar Town debuts tonight at 9.30pm on ABC.
 
Anyone seen it yet ?

Watched the first half earlier on and found it really quite funny - you can certainly tell it's Bill Lawrence.

Certainly something i'll stick with ..
 
Ratings: ABC's 'Modern Family,' 'Cougar Town' open solid
September 24, 2009 | 10:09 am

ABC can exhale now as two of its new Wednesday night comedies -- "Modern Family" and "Cougar Town" -- got off to solid starts in both viewers and key demographics.

"Modern Family," the critically acclaimed sitcom that follows three families in mock documentary fashion, drew 12.7 million viewers and won its 9 p.m. time period with adults 18 to 49, according to preliminary ratings information from Nielsen. "Cougar Town," which stars Courteney Cox as a divorced women on the make, attracted 11.6 million viewers and also won with adults younger than 50. Both shows were no doubt helped by their "Dancing with the Stars" lead-in of 14.9 million viewers. Next week, they won't have that benefit as ABC will be premiering "Hank," it's much reworked Kelsey Grammer sitcom at 8 p.m. and the Patricia Heaton family comedy "The Middle" at 8:30 p.m.

It was another strong night from CBS, which won in viewers and tied ABC in adults 18 to 49. The return of "CSI: New York" did particularly well, averaging almost 15 million viewers. ABC's female-skewing light drama "Eastwick" averaged 9.3 million viewers and finished second behind "CSI: New York" in adults 18 to 49.


At NBC, the medical drama "Mercy" didn't get much from viewers. The show averaged 8.2 million viewers and was fourth in adults 18 to 49. Though that is nothing to crow about, it did do better in its time period than what the network had averaged last season. The Jay Leno see-saw went down last night even with Jay and Vince Vaughn talking a little dirty and exercising with Jack Lalanne.

Fox's "Glee" didn't lose too many members last night. The offbeat drama averaged 6.6 million viewers and kept 94% of its 18 to 49 audience from last week against much tougher competition. Fox won the night in adults 18 to 34 and finished behind ABC and CBS in adults 18 to 49.

At the CW, "The Beautiful Life" keeps getting uglier, averaging just more than 1 million viewers and barely registering with adults 18 to 34.

-- Joe Flint

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sho...modern-family-and-cougar-town-open-solid.html
 
Absolutely ADORE this show! Courteney Cox is my favourite actress and i think she plays this role absolutely brilliantly - its a cross between Monica and edgier roles shes played. Great to hear it got such a big audience - 11.4 million is so impressive!! Can't wait for next weeks, have a feeling this show is going to be very, very good. I really hope that this will secure an Emmy nomination that Courteney really deserves.

To people wonering for links. www.sidereel.com or megavideo.com all have links for people outside the UK :)
 
Cougar Town is just awful. It couldn't be a bigger contrast to the series it follows on ABC, the well-written, hilarious Modern Family. My opinion of both series seems to be shared by American TV critics, who have lavished more praise on Modern Family than any other new network series this fall, but have dismissed Cougar Town as junk, judging by the reviews gathered by Metacritic.com.
 
Just watched this. Is the son gay? I just presumed he was but it wasn't specifically mentioned.

It wasn't bad. I like Courtney Cox and she's a great comedic actress but I'm not so sure the material was as strong as it could have been. It wasn't as good as Modern Family.
 
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