It’s Official: ABC is confirming what I first reported last month: Courteney Cox will reunite with her former Friends costar (and real-life BFF) Jennifer Aniston in the show’s second-season premiere on Sept. 22.

Cougar Town is reportedly planning a Dirty Dancing episode.The show’s executive producer Kevin Biegel told Entertainment Weekly that the comedy will pay tribute to the famous choreography in the movie.

“There’s a big Dirty Dancing episode coming up with Jules [Courteney Cox],” Biegel said.

“It’s not a parody of the movie, it’s just the actual dancing. I think we’re going to pair up Jules and Andy [Ian Gomez]. They might have a proclivity for it.”

The second season of Cougar Town begins on September 22 on ABC.

Source: Digital Spy

Hollywood star David Arquette has hinted that his daughter Coco may appear in Scream 4.

Arquette, 39, will join wife Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell and director Wes Craven, who have all featured in each of the previous three horror flicks, in the next instalment.

New additions to the cast include Emma Roberts and Heroes star Hayden Panettiere, but when asked if daughter Coco will also have a role in the new movie, Arquette joked to E! News: ‘She may be in a picture somewhere.’

Commenting on the new cast, Arquette said: ‘It’s weird. All these kids are turning 21 on the set – or not even that.’

Talking about the Scream horror series, Arquette says, ‘It’s really been kind of a trip for me, to say the least.

“I met my wife on the first one 14 years ago, or something, and now we have a child.’

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Fans may turn to Scream for their horror film fix, but for David Arquette, the movie is a source of nostalgia.

“It’s really amazing working with Neve [Campbell] and Courteney and [director] Wes [Craven] and all of the crewmembers that we’ve known for 14 years,” the actor, 28, told PEOPLE Thursday at the HollyShorts Film Festival in Los Angeles, where he screened his 3D short The Butler’s In Love.

In addition to teaming up again with his wife of 11 years, Arquette also got a chance to revisit the place where their relationship kicked off while filming the franchise’s fourth installment in Michigan.

“I met my wife [Courteney] on the first [film] and now we have a kid and it’s just been a real trip,” says Arquette, who previously described the Scream movie as “sort of an amazing marker throughout our lives.”

“There’s this weird element that, you know, it’s very cathartic for me,” he adds. “It’s just kind of going back to where it all started.”

The Arquettes also made it a family affair, bringing 6-year-old daughter Coco to the set, though they sheltered her from “any of the scary stuff.”

“That was really great to have that family time,” he says.

Source: People

August cover girl Courteney Cox recently opened up to InStyle about her Botox regimen (limited), her friendship with Jennifer Aniston (she says the two like to get together and “go to her house and eat pizza”), and how she’d like to round out her derriere.  Cox also dished on her fashion must-haves from her everyday basics to her red-carpet style. Find our what they are by viewing the photo gallery!

Source: InStyle

Birmingham-born actress Courteney Cox, best known for her role on the sitcom “Friends,” will appear in a new ad touting Alabama beaches.

Lee Sentell, director of the Alabama Tourism Department, said Thursday that Cox would make a public service announcement once she completes her latest film project, “Scream 4.”

Sentell said Cox, 46, would make the ad on the set of her new movie, which is being shot in Michigan.

“Her mother is looking for some old home movies and we’ve given her several scripts,” he said. “She’ll be talking about her memories of going to Gulf Shores.”

Sentell said the public service spot would air during the “transition period” between the time Alabama beaches are deemed completely clear of oil from the BP spill and next spring.

An ad shot earlier by former American Idol winner Taylor Hicks will begin airing before the Labor Day weekend.At that point, Sentell said the ad featuring Jimmy Buffet’s sister, Lucy, would be dropped since the Hicks ad is focused on the beaches.

“That’s intended to be ‘all’s clear’ message,” he said.

The ads with Hicks and Buffett were split messages, with Buffett talking about off-beach activities while Hicks focuses on the white sandy beaches.Alabama is still running the Buffet ads in Louisiana, Mississippi and some Alabama markets, but has pulled out of Atlanta, Sentell said.

North Carolina and South Carolina are continuing to advertise their beaches in Atlanta because their schools don’t start until after Labor Day.

“They are spending a great deal of money in Atlanta,” Sentell said. “We’re choosing to hold ours in reserve until next year.”

Because schools start so early in Alabama, Sentell that August is not as important to the summer beach season as it once was.In fact, he said Baldwin County collects more in lodging taxes in February than it does in August.

Meanwhile, Sentell said Cox’s spot would be shot by her movie production company.

“This is something we’d like to get on the air during the transition period as people get more comfortable going back to the beach,” he said.

By next spring, Sentell predicted that ads for Alabama beaches won’t make any mention of oil.

Neve Campbell turned up at Tuesday’s Power Balance All-In For a Cure poker tournament at the W Hollywood, where we caught up with the actress about the excitement surrounding “Scream 4.”

“I basically can tell you nothing,” she said. No kidding. The Wes Craven slasher franchise has notoriously been tight-lipped, but Campbell was all smiles about reuniting with costars Courteney Cox and David Arquette.

“It’s great working with Courteney and David again; it’s like summer camp. The biggest change is this younger cast we have, and they’re great,” she said of new additions such as Emma Roberts and Hayden Panettiere.

Her character, Sidney Prescott, who survived the first three films, “has written a book about surviving the tragedy in her life. That’s where the film opens.”

We imagine this guy doesn’t wait too long to start trouble. It’s been 10 years since the release of “Scream 3,” but Campbell had no butterflies about reuniting with her ghost-faced nemesis.

“There are 80 people standing around watching you so it’s impossible to get scared,” she said.

Source: LA Times

Jennifer Aniston got a surprise visit from her BFF while at work this morning (August 4) in Los Angeles!

During a break in filming her work-in-progress, Horrible Bosses, Jen had a quick catch-up session with former Friends co-star Courteney Cox.

“Horrible Bosses and Courteney’s ABC drama Cougar Town are on the same lot, so Courteney just stopped by before heading to her own set,” a source exclusively tells JustJared.com. “Looks like Jen’s cameo on Cougar Town is going to happen, everybody’s right next door from each other!”

Courteney also stopped by to chat with Jen’s co-star Jason Bateman! (Jen and Jason have already starred alongside each other in 2006’s The Break-Up and The Switch, out August 20.)

Back in the spring, I interviewed “Cougar Town” co-creator Bill Lawrence about the creative turnaround that show made over the course of the season. In that interview, Bill said that they had done research showing that the title was a severe turn-off – that some viewers (mostly women) had no interest in watching anything called “Cougar Town,” even though the show had long since stopped being about Courteney Cox trolling for young men. He said he hoped to petition the studio and ABC into agreeing to a title change before season two.

Last Friday, though, Lawrence told Michael Ausiello that the name change wasn’t happening, so when I saw Bill at ABC’s party last night, I had to get him to elaborate on the subject…

So what’s this I hear about you keeping the terrible title of your show?

Oh, dude. The only title I could think of that was any better was “Stay tuned for more ‘Modern Family,’” which would’ve crushed. “After this commercial break. We would’ve had to nail it to change it. And we didn’t come up with anything. We couldn’t use anything with the word “friends,” because it would seem like we were pandering. They made some good points, which is that branding of a show matters. Eventually you can overcome a shitty title. It may be the worst-titled show of all time, but it’s a fun burden to overcome. DVRs, you’d have to reprogram with a new title. That’s like 30, 40 people we’d lose right there with their season passes. I’d have to call them all personally.

The truth is, we never nailed anything we really dug that would make that wholesale change worthwhile. So now we’re wearing it like a badge of courage.

You couldn’t have even just gone with “The Courteney Cox Show”? It’s more than that now, but it wouldn’t be a turn-off.

It’s not good enough. It would have had to blow those guys away – because they researched all our suggestions – to make it worth changing. Here’s the double-edged sword, which I find interesting. Classic network television story, when they wanted to put a laugh track on “M*A*S*H.” Larry Gelbart did a test where he tested it with laughs and he tested it without, and he went to those guys and said, “Look, people responded the same way whether there were fake laughs in it or not.” And the network said, “Well, great. Then we’ll keep the laughs.”

In the same vein, the network and studio are actively considering it. The story is out there that I fucked up the title, and we were actively searching for a change. I just care if it remains exclusionary. Who gives a shit? We’ll call it “C-Town,” but that actually sounds worse.

Yeah, that’s almost dirtier.

Someone was suggesting “The Family Jules,” and I’m like, “Why not just call the show ‘Balls’? ‘Nutsack’? There’s no win.” But if I could go back in time, it would be “The Courteney Cox Show.”

Bill Lawrence isn’t saying a Jennifer Aniston guest spot on “Cougar Town” won’t happen, but it hasn’t been locked down quite yet.

“Dude, you’ve seen me do this a thousand times. I generally just say people are going to guest-star on the show and hope it happens,” Lawrence, who co-created and executive produces the ABC comedy, tells Zap2it. “I announced last year that Jennifer was going to be on the show, but I hadn’t really talked to her people, or to her. Apparently she’s got an active movie career.”

Lawrence does say, however, that he’s “doing everything I can to make that happen.”

“Jennifer and Courteney [Cox, 'Cougar Town's' star] are actually friends in real life, and they have this great chemistry,” Lawrence says. “I’d kill to see them do comedy again.”

Lawrence was his usual expansive self in talking with us, and he shared a few more thoughts on the show, its much-discussed but unchanged title and what Season 2 will bring. Some highlights:

Still “Cougar Town”: Lawrence says discussions about changing the show’s name — “there’s too much evidence that it’s an exclusionary title” — but no one came up with anything good enough. “I liked the name ‘Sunshine State,’ but then ‘Mr. Sunshine’”  — starring Cox’s former “Friends” husband, Matthew Perry — “got picked up,” he notes. “We couldn’t really put anything with ‘Friends’ in it, because to me it seemed too much like cheating. ‘Family Jules’ was out there, but I’m like, why not just call the show ‘Balls’? [laughs] … I think it would have been a bigger fight if we had cracked it, but we never did.”

Men vs. women: The “Cougar Town” writers room is pretty evenly divided between men and women, which is something of a rarity in TV comedy. “It’s gotten us a lot of the comedy on the show. … TV writing is a sexist business, and every other show I’ve been on has been eight guys and three girls or nine guys and two girls. When you have it [even], it’s fantastic comedy that goes right into our show. … It’s not a bunch of guys steamrolling two other voices — it’s a back-and-forth. It’s been a cool experience.”

Opening up: Lawrence says the show hasn’t booked any guest stars for the new season, but he hopes to open up the show’s world — and diversify the cast –  with some more secondary characters. “Ian Gomez is Latino, but my other shows, the workplace comedies, have been more of a melting pot. So we’re going to try to mix that up some this year. … We’ll use things like Travis [Dan Byrd] going to college and the world expanding a little bit [to inject some diversity]. … I really like the show, but that’s one of the things that still bugs me.”

“Cougar Town” begins its second season on ABC on Sept. 22.

Source: Zap2It