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EXCLUSIVE: New Lady alumna Hannah Simone has been tapped as a chain steady reverse Gina Rodriguez on ABC’s new comedy collection No longer Useless But, from Casey Johnson and David Windsor, McG and twentieth Tv.
She is going to play a brand new persona, Sam, within the challenge in accordance with Alexandra Potter’s 2020 ebook Confessions of a 40-One thing F**ok Up. Sam, who’s a colleague of Rodriguez’s Nell, is a part of the retooling of the single-camera comedy, which now’s leaning extra closely into the place of job, with the female-friendship storyline from the pilot phased out. Because of this, Jessica St. Clair and Mary Elizabeth Ellis, who performed Nell’s girlfriends Annabel and Fiona within the pilot, didn’t proceed at the collection.
Written via Johnson and David Windsor, No longer Useless But facilities on newly unmarried and feeling-old Nell Stevens (Rodriguez), a self-described crisis who works to restart the lifestyles and profession she left in the back of 10 years in the past. A once-successful journalist, Nell put her profession on cling to assist her fiancé get his eating place off the bottom. Following their breakup, she takes the one process she will be able to get – writing obituaries – which in the beginning turns out like a step backward however in the long run could be precisely what she wishes to transport ahead.
Simone’s Sam is the editor of the Existence & Taste phase of the newspaper and a hectic operating mother. A former wild kid, Sam has hit her stride and turns out to take care of the entirety thrown her means comfortably and an arranged “mother handbag.” However beneath this external, Sam struggles with taking an excessive amount of on and misses her carefree unmarried days when it was once her and Nell towards the sector. She’s torn between her large paintings objectives and lacking the individual she was once sooner than the children and the massive process. Confidently, having Nell again will assist her to find that stability.
Along with Rodriguez, Simone joins No longer Useless But collection regulars Joshua Banday and Angela Gibbs. Some other of the pilot’s collection regulars, Rick Glassman, who performs Nell’s roommate, might be routine.
Johnson and Windsor government produce with Rodriguez, Wonderland Sound and Imaginative and prescient’s McG, Mary Viola and Corey Marsh. The collection is ready to debut in midseason.
Best possible recognized for her series-regular function on the preferred Fox/twentieth TV comedy collection New Lady, Simone has been prime on ABC’s casting want checklist since New Lady ended its seven-season run. She starred in two back-to-back comedy ABC pilots — a reboot of Largest American Hero, produced via twentieth TV, and an untitled 30 minutes, which she starred in, wrote, and government produced. Simone is repped via UTA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
