Back in October we learned from Entertainment Weekly that Lisa Kudrow, former star of Friends, would be joining her Friends compatriot Courteney Cox-Arquette on her new show Cougar Town in an upcoming new ep. Today EW bring us the first look at Lisa and Courteney together again on Cougar Town … but this time around they are far from being friends:

There will be something conspicuously missing when Friends costar Lisa Kudrow guests on Courteney Cox’s ABC sitcom, Cougar Town, on Jan. 6: friendship. “They didn’t want to play friends,” says executive producer Bill Lawrence, who quickly came up with a different role for Kudrow. “She plays a dermatologist who is a horrible, horrible person, but [Cox] goes to her because she’s the best. The [sight] of them playing people who dislike each other intensely was very funny for me to watch.”

I dunno … they still look pretty friendly to me in this photo … but I guess it would’ve been too obvious if the ladies were friendly in these new roles. As I’ve mentioned a few times already here on the blog, I am a HUGE fan of Cougar Town and I am very much looking forward to this new ep featuring Lisa Kudrow. I have a sneaking suspicion that other former Friends will be making their way to Cougar Town in the future but I’m glad that Lisa Kudrow is the first. She is really very funny and she will be a welcome addition to the already brilliant cast of Cougar Town. Woot! I cannot wait :)

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Happy news for fans of ABC‘s Cougar Town … the show is going back into production next week!! On Saturday, we learned that Cougar Town stopped production on new eps due to a “family matter” that arose for Courteney Cox-Arquette and her hubby David. At the time, there was no information given over what the family matter may have been. I had hoped that it wasn’t a serious matter and it turns out that, thankfully, it wasn’t:

The ABC show, which stopped filming briefly last week so star Courteney Cox could attend to a “family matter,” resumes production Nov. 30 following an already-planned weeklong break for Thanksgiving, the network says. The nature of the family issue wasn’t disclosed. But Cox’s reps confirm to PEOPLE the actress and her family are fine and that she’ll be returning to work following the Thanksgiving hiatus. Cox’s costar Busy Phillips wrote in a Twitter message Monday that Cougar Town was “only down one day” and that “we’re back shooting after Thanksgiving. I’ll pass along the love to CC.”

This is great news on two fronts … first, I’m very glad to know that the Cox-Arquettes didn’t suffer any tragedy in their family and second, we’ll be gettin’ new eps of Cougar Town right on schedule as planned!! I understand that David Arquette was spotted at Lucky Strike here in LA on Saturday night (the day we learned of the “family matter”) attending Adam Shankman‘s private birthday party … so clearly the matter wasn’t a big deal at all. Great news all around, I can’t wait to see more Cougar Town :)

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People magazine is reporting that production came to an abrupt and surprising halt this week on Courteney Cox-Arquette‘s amazing series Cougar Town due to an unspecified “family matter” … here are the known deets released thus far:

Production on Cougar Town has been suspended for now while star Courteney Cox attends to a family matter. Neither reps for Arquette, 45, nor the show disclosed what the issue was. In a statement, an ABC rep says: “We can confirm production on Cougar Town has been temporarily shut down in order for Courteney to deal with a private family matter.”

Yikes!! Considering that Courteney‘s husband David Arquette is an Executive Producer on the show it’s feasible that the family matter is big enough to involve them both … but whatever the case may be, I sincerely hope that it’s not a serious matter. It seems that whatever happened it has to be a big enough deal to halt production … which is not a good sign. Not only do I want the matter resolved in a happy way for all involved because I love Cougar Town so much but also because I’d hate for something tragic to befall the Cox-Arquettes ;( Here’s hoping the family matter gets resolved in a positive manner and production on Cougar Town can get back on track real soon.

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While we wait to hear about any movement on an official Friends reunion, Entertainment Weekly brings us the great news that Lisa Kudrow has officially signed on to do a guest stint on Courteney Cox-Arquette‘s new hit sitcom Cougar Town!

It’s not an actual Friends reunion, but I’ll take it: Lisa Kudrow has signed on to guest star opposite ex-Friend Courteney Cox on Cougar Town, an ABC spokesperson confirms. “She’ll play a dermatologist that my character can’t stop going to even though [she's] mean to me,” Cox told tvguidemagazine.com. The Cox-Kudrow reunion episode will shoot next month and air in early 2010.

And this is how Cox described Kudow‘s character to TV Guide:

“If it all works out, she’ll play a dermatologist that my character can’t stop going to even though the doctor is mean to me.” Is it a Botox thing? The show’s writers are not exactly sure yet, says Cox, who’s also producing the show, “but whatever it is, she’s the best in town at what she does and I become addicted.”

It turns out that both Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston have been considered as future guest stars … this is what Courteney had to say about the prospect of having other former Friends castmates appear on the show:

“I did ask Matthew [Perry] if he’d play my boyfriend on the show,” she says, “but he thought it was a little too much after Chandler and Monica.” Then there’s Jennifer Aniston, whom Cox has remained closest with among the Friends stars. “I’d love for her to be on the show, too,” Cox says. “Obviously we can’t cast her so close to Lisa’s appearance but if there’s a great part for her, I’d send it right away. She’s younger than me so she can’t play my contemporary even though she did on Friends, but I think we can find something great for her to play.”

This is all very exciting stuff to mebbe look forward to … but for now, I’m perfectly content with having Phoebe and Monica together again … er, Lisa and Courteney, that is ;) The Friends reunion may never actually take place but in the meantime, we have Cougar Town to enjoy!

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Hot mama Courteney Cox-Arquette, who stars in the amazingly funny Cougar Town on ABC, was spotted filming new scenes for her show at the Will Rogers State Beach in the Pacific Palisades here in SoCal yesterday. Court was proudly showing off her sexy bikini bod … behold:

Damn … she does look great. I am not afraid to admit that I find Cougar Town riotously funny and I really hope it does well because I’d love to see this show on the air for years to come. There are so many great characters on the show and I find the writing to be very, very funny … I laugh out loud during every ep I’ve seen thus far. I really love the trashy ex-husband Bobby Cobb (played by Brian Van Holt) and the son Travis Cobb (played by Dan Byrd) is amazing, too. Here’s hopin’ that Courteney and her bangin’ bod will keep viewers tuning in … I really love this show!!

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Last weekend we got our first good look at Courteney Cox-Arquette in her return to network TV in her new ABC series Cougar Town … today we get to see more pics of the Cougar in action on the set of her show. It must be, like, impossible for Courteney to ever look bad … ever:

Courteney has always been a beautiful woman but is it just me or has she gotten a lot more sexy in her “advanced” age? I don’t care what age she is, she looks fantastic … and I guess that is the point of her new show. I’m not really all that excited about much of the new TV programming debuting this Fall but Cougar Town is deffo on my list. It’s great to have Mrs. Cox-Arquette back on the scene again.

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In late July we saw photos of Courtney Cox-Arquette filming the first scenes from her new ABC series Cougar Town which is being heralded as her long-awaited return to network television (Dirt doesn’t count cuz it sucked so bad) … today we get to see some promo photos from the series that clearly shows that Courteney is one hot mama, deffo worth watching on TV from week to week. According to Court, the role she plays on Cougar Town is more her than Monica (her role on Friends):

It’s five years since she appeared in Friends, but to her fans Courteney Cox will forever be Monica Geller. So it may come as a shock to learn that the actress much prefers her latest role, as the star of Cougar Town. Courteney, who plays a man-eating divorcee, says: ‘I hope this show is a huge hit and that people love it. Because I like playing this character more than any character I’ve ever played.’ And she told the LA Times she prefers her new show to acting in Friends. ‘This show says what I think,’ she explained. In photos to promote the show mother-of-one Cox sits with her legs swung around a chair. Her toned figure looks decades younger than her 45 years. The comedy sees her star as Jules, a fortysomething single mother of a 17-year-old son. Fans will see her on the prowl for younger men as she tries to get back into the dating scene. Earlier this month, the star hinted that her Friends co-star and real-life best friend Jennifer Aniston may make a guest appearance in the ABC sitcom.

Damn, she does look great … but as hot as she looks in these photos, you have to see her in action. After the jump, check out one more promo photo for the show and check out a 3 minute preview video that gives a taste of what Cougar Town is all about …

Courteney Cox-Arquette is making her long-awaited return to network TV this Fall (her FX series Dirt doesn’t count so let’s just try and forget it ever happened) on a new ABC series called Cougar Town wherein she plays a “single mother exploring the dating scene after divorce”. Here are pics of Courteney and her hottie co-star Josh Hopkins filming new scenes for the series here in SoCal yesterday afternoon:

I gotta say … I love the thought of Courteney Cox-Arquette back on the small screen. Mebbe it’s seeing how amazing she was as Monica Gellar on Friends on a daily basis in re-runs but I think the world needs a lot more Cox-Arquette on TV! I love how the last pic looks SO MUCH like a Monica pose ;) To be honest, I can’t even hear the term “cougar” without rolling my eyes almost out of their sockets but I’m willing to give CCA a shot in this new role. If she keeps getting paired up with shirtless hunks like Mr. Hopkins here on a weekly basis, well, it’s the least I can do to try and support her return to network TV. I mean … who’s with me?

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