The New Girl (Fox)
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Zooey Deschanel, sitcom star? The feature film actress and She & Him mainstay will be joining her sister Emily (Bones) on the Fox schedule with The New Girl, a single-camera comedy written by Liz Meriwether (No Strings Attached) and directed by Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story). Deschanel plays Jessica Day, a perky fourth grade teacher, with a penchant for borrowing clothes from the lost and found, who comes home to learn that her live-in boyfriend is cheating on her... and promptly moves in with three very messy, very horny, and very single guys, who teach her more than a few things about the opposite sex. The project, which began life with the far more colorful title Chicks and Dicks, also stars Max Greenfield, Jake M. Johnson, Hannah Simone, and Damon Wayans Jr. Given Meriwether's background in the raunchy humor of the recent No Strings Attached, Deschanel's delightful presence, and direction from Kasdan—who as the son of producer Lawrence Kasdan and the director of The TV Set—knows a thing or two about television, this is one to keep an eye on. Sample line of dialogue: "Pink wine makes me slutty. One sip of pink and I'm like Fergie in the Black-Eyed Peas. I'm like the Incredible Slut."
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