“Ain’t Love Strange” — Jules is miffed when Grayson (who has an ulterior motive) calls her “predictable”; Ellie frets that little Stan is turning into a “devil child,” or even worse, could grow up to be like Laurie; and Travis likes his new off campus housing, until Bobby tries to convince him to take dog Travis in, on the Third-Season premiere of “Cougar Town,” TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 (8:30-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Busy Philipps was featured on the Arizona show “Sonoran Living Live” where they talked to her at the “Cougar Town” viewing party in Scottsdale.
Actress Busy Philipps badgered her Cougar Town co-star Courteney Cox into joining Twitter.com after spending the past two years inundated with messages from fans begging for the former Friends star to sign up.
Cox became the latest celebrity to join the social networking craze when she tweeted for the first time last month (Jan12) – and it was all down to constant pestering from Philipps, Cougar Town co-creator Bill Lawrence, and the actress’ estranged husband David Arquette, who serves as the show’s executive producer.
The bubbly blonde tells PR.com, “We did, and Bill Lawrence… Not a day went by on Twitter over the last two-and-a-half years since the show has been on the air that I don’t get a tweet asking, ‘Can you please tell Courteney to join Twitter?’”
And Philipps is convinced keeping in regular touch with devotees will only help to boost Cox’s fanbase and her efforts to keep the sitcom on air.
She says, “I think celebrities who manage to use it to their advantage can really use it to their advantage. I think if you don’t understand it or you don’t feel like it’s really your thing it’s neither here nor there for you. I don’t think it’s going to make or break you. But I have seen it make celebrities.”
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
