Benched (USA Network, Tuesdays, 10:30/9:30C), USA Network’s new legal comedy will premiere on October 28th. The half-hour workplace comedy follows Nina Whitley (Eliza Coupe, Happy Endings), a high-powered attorney who went off the rails so spectacularly that now the only place will hire her is the Public Defenders office. Follow the jump for more.
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Eliza Coupe and Jay Harrington are Benched!
USA Network has picked up courtroom comedy Benched, starring Eliz Coupe and Jay Harrington. The series is built around a high-powered corporate lawyer, Nina (Coupe), whose meltdown after not getting an expected promotion leads to her losing her job and working as a public defender. In her new role in the legal system, she discovers […]
TELEVISION: Better Off Ted – R&D Becomes Fodder For Sitcom!
Ted [Jay Harrington] is the head of a Research & Development team at Veridian Technologies. As the central character on Better Off Ted [ABC, Wednesdays, 8:30/7:30C], Ted is faced with the moral, ethical and legal situations that can arise out of the search for new and exciting products and processes – like the one where […]
TELEVISION: ABC Greenlights Five New Series
For the fall season, ABC greenlighted only a handful of new shows: the drama Life on Mars [based on the British, series of the same name]; comedies Scrubs [moving from NBC] and The Goode Family; and two alternative [reality] shows, the Untitlted Ashton Kutcher/Tyra Banks and Opportunity Knocks. Now the network unveils five new shows: […]