FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS from NBC – First Look
May 17, 2010 by Kath Skerry
From Oscar and Emmy winner Brian Grazer (“A Beautiful Mind,” “Arrested Development”), “Friends With Benefits” is a half-hour comedy revolving around a group of twenty-something singles as they navigate the difficult, and often confusing, world of dating. Ben Weymouth (Ryan Hansen, “Party Down”) is on the hunt for the perfect woman who meets his unique set of standards, while his best friend, Sara Maxwell (Danneel Harris, “One Tree Hill”), is just looking for a man to settle down with and raise a family. Ben and Sara have fallen into the habit of turning to each other for moral and physical support as they wait for Mr. and Ms. Right to arrive. Their friend Aaron, a romantic at heart, doesn’t approve of Ben and Sara’s complicated friendship, but he, along with womanizer Hoon (Ian Reed Kesler) and straight shooter Riley (Jessica Lucas, “Cloverfield”), are all distracted with their own dating trials and tribulations.
David Nevins (“Lie to Me,” “Arrested Development”) joins Grazer as executive producer for Imagine Television. Also serving as executive producers are David Dobkin (“Wedding Crashers”), who directs the pilot, writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (“(500) Days of Summer”), and Jeff Kleeman. “Friends With Benefits” is a production of 20th Century Fox Television, Imagine Television and Big Kid Pictures.
Will you be “friends” with this show?
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With the casting changes that they’ve done, I will definetely be watching this one now. You can’t go wrong with Ryan Hansen, in my book☺
Hmmm. I can’t tell if this show is a knockoff of Friends, or How I Met Your Mother. Either way, I predict that just like the real life version of Friends with Benefits, this show won’t work…
Yay for the guy from Dollhouse! I’ll follow him anywhere….
Oh Michelle, you should have said that earlier and LOUDER. Fran Kranz has actually been fired from Friends with Benefits. He’s being replaced.
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