{"id":20436,"date":"2013-04-28T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T08:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=20436"},"modified":"2015-05-05T16:40:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T14:40:28","slug":"friends-with-better-lives-friends-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2013\/04\/friends-with-better-lives-friends-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Friends with Better Lives&#8221; \u2013 &#8220;Friends&#8221; Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/news\/2013\/04\/jvdb-set.jpg\" class=\"picleft\"\/>After leaving the \u201cKeep Calm and Karey On\u201d pilot, where Majandra had a supporting role\u2026 she quickly moved on and booked one of the lead roles in the CBS comedy &#8220;Friends with Better Lives&#8221; opposite James Van Der Beek, Brooklyn Decker, Kevin Connolly and Zoe Lister Jones. <\/p>\n<p>Majandra plays Andi, an attractive and vulnerable mother of an infant and 3-year-old twins who is married to Bobby (Kevin Connolly) and is best friends with Jules (Brooklyn Decker) and Kate (Zoe Lister Jones). <\/p>\n<p>Co-star James Van Der Beek recently spoke with the Huffington Post about the cancellation of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Trust The B&#8212;- In Apt. 23&#8221;, his latest &#8220;Funny or Die&#8221; parody and the multi-cam sitcom pilot for CBS.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/04\/12\/james-van-der-beek-htc-bachelorette-commercial_n_3073028.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffingtonpost.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>You and Krysten Ritter both booked pilots pretty quickly thereafter. Have you filmed the &#8220;Friends With Better Lives&#8221; pilot?<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah, we shot the pilot last week. It was great! It was a lot of fun. You know, it&#8217;s a live audience, multi-cam sitcom and James Burrows directed it, who is the godfather of that medium. It&#8217;s a really good cast and it was just a blast! It&#8217;s something new for me &#8212; I have not done a lot of multi-cam sitcoms so it&#8217;s going to be a challenge and we&#8217;ll see. We&#8217;ll find out in May whether or not it&#8217;s able to crack that CBS lineup. [Laughs.]\n[\u2026]\n<p><strong>The &#8220;Friends&#8221; comparisons seem inevitable. It sounds a bit like that six-some group, just 10 years later.<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah, I think so. These people are a little bit further down the line. I think it&#8217;s somewhat of a fair comparison. What I liked about it was that they&#8217;re dealing with the realities of being in your 30s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>James Van Der Beek also talks about the character he his playing. Read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/04\/12\/james-van-der-beek-htc-bachelorette-commercial_n_3073028.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the cast on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrooklynDecker\" target=\"_blank\">@BrooklynDecker<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrkevinconnolly\" target=\"_blank\">@mrkevinconnolly<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZoeListerJones\" target=\"_blank\">@ZoeListerJones<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MajandraD\" target=\"_blank\">@MajandraD<\/a> and make sure to cross your fingers for a series order.<\/p>\n<p><small>\u00a9  Soundstage photo, courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanderjames\/status\/320041133843562496\" target=\"_blank\">James Van Der Beek<\/a>, Twitter<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related News:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"2013\/03\/majandra-joins-friends-with-better-lives\/\">Majandra Joins \u201cFriends With Better Lives<\/a>, March 14th, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving the \u201cKeep Calm and Karey On\u201d pilot, where Majandra had a supporting role\u2026 she quickly moved on and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2021],"tags":[2156,12],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-20436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading","category-majandra-delfino","tag-friends-with-better-lives","tag-majandra-delfino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20436"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22997,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20436\/revisions\/22997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20436"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}