Courteney Cox Joins Starz’s Horror Comedy SHINING VALE
Mike Sprague
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Starz’s horror-comedy pilot Shining Vale has tapped Scream quadrilogy star, Courteney Cox.
It comes to us from Divorce creator Sharon Horgan and Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof who also wrote the pilot which Dearbhla Walsh (The Handmaid’s Tale, Traitors) will direct.
It’s about a dysfunctional family that moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Pat (Cox), who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed – turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same.
Deadline reports Cox’s Patricia “Pat” Phelps is a former “wild child” who rose to fame by writing a raunchy, drug-and-alcohol-soaked women’s empowerment novel (aka lady porn). Fast-forward 17 years and Pat is clean and sober but totally unfulfilled. She still hasn’t written her second novel, she can’t remember the last time she had sex with her husband, and her teenage kids are at that stage where they love their vile friends and want you dead. She was a faithful wife until her one slip-up: a torrid 15-night stand with a hot, young artist/handyman/musician neighbor. In a last-ditch effort to save her marriage, she and her family move from the “crazy” of the city to a large, old house in the suburbs where evil and humor collide.
Starz President and CEO Jeffrey Hirsch said: “As Starz continues to expand its slate of original comedy series, we are incredibly proud to bring a talented actress such as Courteney Cox to the network to topline Shining Vale. Her previous success in the genre combined with her well-honed comedic chops make her the ideal actor to bring Pat to life.”
The half-hour comedy is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate in association with Other Shoe Productions, Merman and Kapital Entertainment. Horgan and Mountford executive produce alongside Astrof, Kapital, and Dana Honor. Walsh exec produces the pilot.
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