Jennifer Aniston To Special-Guest on "Cougar Town" Season 2 Premiere

[JamesG]

It's Official: Jennifer Aniston to Visit Courteney Cox in "Cougar Town"
by Jean Bentley
posted Aug 23rd 2010


A "Friends" reunion is definitely happening this year -- on ABC's "Cougar Town", at least.

The network announced today that Jennifer Aniston will join fellow Friend Courteney Cox in the season 2 premiere of Cox's 'Cougar Town,' set to air on Sept. 22 at 9:30PM ET.

This marks the first small screen reunion for the longtime pals since Cox's last TV venture, the FX series "Dirt".







Show creator Bill Lawrence told EW.com that Aniston will play Jules' psychiatrist, Bonnie.

"She's kind of a get-too-involved-in-her-life-type of therapist," Lawrence said. "Those guys are so close in real life they kind of do that for each other anyway. Bonnie has the life Jules wishes she has."







Although Aniston is only booked for one episode, Lawrence said the role has potential for more.

"We're very intentionally implying that it's a therapist Courteney has been using for a while, and we're certainly not going to make it like they'll never see each other again," he said.

"So I'm crossing my fingers that if she has a good time it'll happen again."








Because Cox and Aniston are such good real life friends, Lawrence said they've been talking about Aniston guesting on the show for a while.

"It took us a while to find the show," he said.

"And once we did and once it was clicking, I think that not only did Courteney feel comfortable talking to Jen about doing it, but comfortable in how funny she thinks the show is and that Jen would like it and fit into this world really well."







Aniston isn't the only former Friend to stop by the Florida-set sitcom.

Lisa Kudrow memorably played the kinda-catty dermatologist of Cox's Jules in a season 1 ep.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/08/23/it...-cox-in-couga/

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Now I'll deffently try to get into cougar town again since jenifer will star in the season premire.

[JamesG]

"Cougar Town" Sneak Peek: Courteney and Jennifer Back Together!
Sept 8, 2010
by TV Guide Magazine News


Real-life besties and former "Friends" co-stars Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston share the small screen again on the September 22 season premiere of Cox's comedy "Cougar Town".


Aniston plays a shrink with some strange treatment methods.
Check out this sneak-peek photo.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Cougar-T...n-1022679.aspx

[JamesG]

Bill Lawrence on Jennifer Aniston
by Joel Keller
posted Sept 20th 2010


Let's talk about Jennifer Aniston for second.

Did you figure you'd try to get her on at some point at the season and then it just worked out for the first episode?


I'm not a huge believer in stunt casting normally because I feel like it takes your show a little bit out of its element and a lot of times you'll see TV shows with stunt casting that don't feel like a normal episode of the show.

That being said, there are certain people when we're talking about the burden this show has, that I do actually believe bring eyes and it's almost this self fulfilling prophecy. So let's talk the business side first.




Business-wise I knew coming into this year that if I just did a normal episode, ABC's priorities would be launching "Modern Family" and launching their new shows.

And if I got Jennifer Aniston to be in the first one, I knew they would have, and it without a doubt happened, that they would respond with financial backing for the launch.




Creatively it didn't bother me because unlike bringing just a big famous person that you don't know how to deal with on a show, Jennifer and Courteney have this ages-long friendship and ages-long working relationship that we all knew they'd have chemistry that we knew would be easy to write scenes for them, we knew that they'd click and be funny and they were.




For us it just became a burden of how can we have Jennifer Aniston on this show and have it be a typical episode of "Cougar Town". So no one feels bait and switched and we were able to do that because all Jen cared about was coming on and being able to do funny stuff with Courteney and she didn't care about coming on because she's not high-maintenance, she's actually insanely easy to work with.

She didn't care about coming on and being served and having a huge dramatic story about her, all she wanted to do was come and have fun with Court and be funny.














Do you feel like at this point, obviously Jennifer is a huge star but the performance of her movies has been mixed.

If you could write a TV series you think she would go for at this point, do you think TV is in her future at all?


I'll tell you what I think -- it's a two-pronged answer.

I feel like actors and actresses are either good or bad, funny or not funny, so I'm super shocked when a movie comes out and it says "Wow, this Jennifer Aniston movie didn't work" and the few of those that I've heard that and seen them, I've never ever ever once gone "Wow, if that was somebody other than Jennifer Aniston playing that part that movie would have made hundreds of millions of dollars."

I usually go "That's too bad that movie wasn't that well-written and wasn't that well-directed." You know what I mean?




I really feel like blaming an actor or an actress, except in a rare occasion, for a movie not working is like blaming the manager when his entire team strikes out every time they're up.

Maybe there's rare occasions when the manager makes a mistake or where they didn't do something right, but I find Jen to be comedically talented actress.





I'll tell you right now as a guy, I'm not saying this out of friendship, I mean I like her, but as a guy that has spent every single year when he's created a TV show searching for an attractive...

every TV show is always searching for that cute attractive girl that can turn a joke and she's just a stud with that..



First thing I'd do is just write a good f-----g movie and put her in it because people are really just kind of out to get her which I don't generally understand. It seems like there's almost a media glee if she's in something that doesn't work.

Like even, I had to read stupid articles that said even though The Switch made eight million bucks and it was suddenly launched as a big movie, even though I had been working on booking Jen just out of friendship for months, there were hundreds of articles about "'The Switch' fails so Jenn runs back to TV."

Oh please, that's so stupid.






Also I think it was more of a Jason Bateman movie than a Jennifer Aniston movie.

No s--t. And he didn't take the hit.














Well what I'm saying though is, could you see her coming back to TV at some point?


I could see Jen coming back to television only in the sense that she enjoys working and I think that she, sometimes traveling all the time and kind of being a bit of a gypsy is a tough life and because she's awesome at it and could be creatively involved and do whatever the hell she wanted.


I think that would have some appeal, but I would be shocked if she didn't stay in the movie business hardcore for at least the very near future of her life.

I know she's running off again to do another big movie, like a Judd Apatow project which is supposed to be really funny. So for me, I don't see that in her near future.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/09/20/bi...aracter-names/