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Kudrow, Cox Make Friends with HBO
A pair of old Friends are on the comeback trail...as if they really need one.
Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox, who spent 10 years playing kooky Phoebe and catty Monica, respectively, before calling it quits in May, are mounting separate new projects with HBO, according to the cable network.
HBO, which swept Sunday night's Emmy Awards on the strength of Angels in America, the soon-to-depart The Sopranos and the recently departed Sex and the City, has given the green light to Comeback, a comedy vehicle starring Kudrow as a washed-up sitcom star trying to revive her career.
While an HBO rep was mum on the specifics, the series will find the 41-year-old actress teaming with Emmy-winning Sex and the City executive producer Michael Patrick King on the script and the pilot, which is slated to start shooting next month.
King recently told TV Guide that Kudrow would not be playing herself in Comeback.
HBO has been looking for potential replacements to fill the gap left by Sex and the City and the soon-to-be-gone Sopranos. Its newer series, like Entourage, Deadwood and Carnivāle, have been picked up for second seasons, but haven't delivered the ratings punch of the pay-cable net's signature shows. Perhaps the network is hoping a little of the Friends magic will rub off.
Kudrow, who won a Supporting Actress Emmy in 1998, is no stranger to the production side of the biz, having developed two pilots for CBS and UPN with producing partner Dan Cubatinsky via her Warner Bros.-based shingle, Is or Isn't Entertainment.
She and King will be joined by John Melfi, another executive producer of Sex and the City, who will also have a hand in the show.
Meanwhile, Cox is in discussions with HBO about taking a dramatic turn in Rehab, a series being developed by Nick Cassavetes in which she'd play an actress attempting her own comeback after being treated for alcoholism.
Other than the show's name, which has been changed from the working title The Fall and Rise of Taylor Kennedy, few details are known about the project, but Cassavetes, the son of hard-hitting indie auteur John Cassavetes, is expected to write and direct the pilot once a deal is in place. He'll executive produce with Cox and her actor-hubby, David Arquette, who'll also be involved in the development.
Cox and Arquette, who welcomed their first child, daughter Coco, in June, recently formed their own production company with Warners, Coquette. The couple currently produce the home-decorating series Mix It Up on the WE: Women's Entertainment cable network and are developing two series: Dirt, a drama for FX, and Midnightly News, an unscripted half-hour comedy being considered by Fox.
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