The Sizzle Reel for the upcoming third season of Cougar Town!

Watch the premiere on Tuesday February 14th on ABC at 8:30pm.

May contain spoilers!

For those of you missing the hit show “Cougar Town,” the wait is almost over. Actress Busy Philipps stopped by 3TV Friday morning and told Kaley O’Kelley that the show is returning with new episodes on Feb. 14.

Philipps, who was wearing a fabulous vintage dress she bought at Fashion by Robert Black in Scottsdale, plays Laurie Keller, who is “Jules’ (Courteney Cox) brassy assistant and her passport to the adventures of single-life.”

While many thought “Cougar Town” was canceled, that’s not the case at all. The show simply got caught up in a scheduling tangle, but it’s back on the air on this month.

“For people who maybe haven’t watch the show or maybe watched the pilot and maybe thought , ‘Well this isn’t the show for me,’ this Feb. 14 episode is a really good — think of it like a second pilot — introduction into the show,” Philipps explained. “The show really isn’t about Courteney Cox dating younger guys. It’s really about this group of friends and neighbors who are a little quirky, like to have their glass of wine — ladies in Scottsdale, I know you know what I’m talking about — and all of the sort of crazy things they get in to in their cul-de-sac.”

“Ain’t Love Strange,” the season premiere of “Cougar Town,” airs Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. on ABC.

Playing the young, carefree foil of the cast of ABC’s Cougar Town is an effortless undertaking for comedic actress, Busy Philipps. Known for rubber faced mugging and bubble headed quips, Philipps’s Cougar Town character, Laurie Keller, offers the punch lines to Jules Cobb’s (played by Courteney Cox) serious musings about life as a single career mom and divorcee.

Thirty minutes into my interview with Busy Philipps, our professional roles of journalist and actress were swiftly evaporated and we simply became two working moms when Philipps’s 3 year old daughter, Birdie, entered the room. Philipps’s daughter was excitedly talking to her mother about an upcoming play date scheduled for that evening. My conversation with Busy drifted from television sitcoms and Hollywood wrangling to swapping stories about our toddlers’ pre-school curriculums, and balancing career and parenting before getting back to the task at hand: discussing the third season of her sitcom, Cougar Town.

I find it delicious when something unexpected happens that forces people to temporarily fall “out of character.” Those are always life’s best moments as far as I’m concerned, and Busy Philipps seems brilliant at creating spontaneous moments, both onscreen and off. It’s what sets her apart as an actress; it’s her own unique brand of talent. Busy’s willingness to abandon vanity and fully embody each of her characters’ physicality onscreen is what grabbed the attention of everyone from Judd Apatow to the Wayans brothers, and eventually Cougar Town co-creator, Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Spin City).

Read the complete interview over at PR.com

When you tune into the third season premiere of Cougar Town on ABC (and you will– right!?), you won’t be able to avoid noticing that all of a sudden Laurie (Busy Philipps) is bogged down with an ankle monitor. Has the party girl’s ways finally caught up to her? How is she going to partake in the “on deck” drinking with the gang if she’s being monitored? Well, don’t worry, Cougar Town-ies (is that a thing?), Busy Philipps set the record straight when LA TV Insider Examiner visited the Los Angeles set just a few weeks ago.

“First of all, I love that Laurie has this ankle monitor; I think it’s appropriate; I think it’s a natural progression!” Philipps smiled. “But it’s not even from her drinking…I get into a bar fight…It’s definitely something to do with Tampa!”

So the anklet isn’t monitoring her blood-alcohol content, which is probably a good thing, but it is monitoring where she is at any given time, and it will go off if she leaves the city limits of Gulfhaven. Which, Philipps pointed out, it does once and “hilarity ensues.”

Philipps only has the extra accessory for about five episodes, and it’s not visible, nor a plot point, all of the time. Dan Byrd, on the other hand, becomes saddled with something that is much more noticeable:

“Busy’s wearing the ankle monitor for several episodes [but] I’m wearing a helmet for several episodes…The helmet was on for eight episodes, which is now half our season,” Byrd previewed. “So I don’t know what we did exactly to deserve that!”

Well, Byrd and Philipps debate just that in the video below. Check it out; the cast seems to have as much fun with each other off-screen as they do on– even without the giant glasses of wine! And be sure to tune in when Cougar Town airs on ABC on Tuesday nights at 8:30pm starting on February 14th 2012.

Examiner.com

It has just been announced that Busy Philipps will be filming a scene for the movie “Cleveland, I Love You” in February!

So pumped to announce that both Busy Phillips and Gillian Jacobs will be in Cleveland in Feb to film a scene for Cleveland, I Love You #CILY

Twitter.com

Great news everyone!!! “Cougar Town” will officially be coming back on the air on Tuesday, February 14th at 8:30/7:30c on ABC!

Make sure you tune in!