In moving “Cougar Town” from ABC to TBS for its fourth season, there haven’t had to be too many changes, show creator Bill Lawrence told an early panel at the TV Critigs winter press tour.
Lawrence says one TBS exec told him, “All I really want you guys to do is deliver the same show that I’ve liked the previous three years.”
“Other than that,” he added, “there’s a little nudity.”
“Other than that,” he added, “there’s a little nudity.”
It is cable, after all.
“I think that was probably TBS’s only big note,” he said.
It wasn’t a joke. One plotline this season involves “naked day” that backfires.
“There happens to be only one spot in the house that I can stand in where the light comes from all angles,” Courteney Cox says. “You step out of it, disgusting. And that was one of our things we did.”
“And we all come over and are unfazed by both of them naked,” Christa Miller says, “which irritates Josh to no end.”
It’s a personal story that was brought to the show by its latest addition as executive proucer, Ric Swartzlander, Lawrence says. “To keep things fresh with his girlfriend, they decided that they would have a naked day and that it was sexy for about five minutes and he said then it was just two middle aged people standing around naked.”
“It was fun while it lasted,” Swartzlander says.
“Cougar Town” which played three seasons at ABC, begins its fourth season tonight on TBS at 10 p.m.