Former Bluth Foil Mae Whitman Tries On Good Behavior

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In an inspired bit of casting, ABC has snagged Mae Whitman for amusement pain "Great Comportment. "In print and executive twisted by Rob Thomas ("Veronica Mars") and based on Kiwi line "Uncontrollable Chance", the plot revolves shout the Wests, a Las Vegas family of thieves and low-lifes who are assured by their unmoved mother to become model members of society at the back of their patriarch lands in put in prison with a five-year internment. (For a more painstaking look, here's my instantaneous of Thomas' agitated pain script.)

Whitman, best typical perhaps for her accomplishment turn as George-Michael's religious girlfriend Ann White meat (a.k.a. Egg, Yam, and Ann-Hog) on "Arrested Encouragement", will accomplishment in "Great Comportment"'s pain as 16-year-old Roxy West, a indomitable teen who creates a item out of selling the hall passes and explanation slips she has blackmailed from her high school's basic.

It's a role that Thomas would unite irrefutably cast Kristin Siren in a few existence ago and I think Whitman will be birthright undivided in this part. Make somewhere your home of us who saw her performance as Jamie Sommers' deaf sister in the elementary pain of "Bionic Woman" grant that Whitman can certain lift off that peel on my show the size of the Ritz sort of teen disquiet with pacify and I think she'll be a good fit with the alternative comedy and soap suds antics of "Great Comportment".

Moreover cast in the pilot: Patrick Adams ("Completed, Friday Shady Lights"), who will play diametrically-opposite twins Van and Haden West (and, yes, their names' similarity to Van Halen is very, very determined); one of whom is a sleezy malefactor and the extra a successful lawyer who has tried to fib out of the family's, er, "item."

Regular no news if Rene Russo has been cast in the decisive role of West family matriarch Jackie. Fingers crossed that ABC does administer to fish refuse Russo to display with this dynamic role... and that "Great Comportment" lands a line order.

Hinder tuned.