{"id":2859,"date":"2004-10-26T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T08:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2015-05-19T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T12:35:18","slug":"shiri-appleby-lands-a-role-in-a-new-abc-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2004\/10\/shiri-appleby-lands-a-role-in-a-new-abc-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiri Appleby lands a role in a new ABC series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was also confirmed by people I spoke with at the first screening of Shiri&#8217;s movie &#8220;Everything You Want&#8221; all of whom where excited for her.<\/p>\n<p>bigspam<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Young Actors Get a &#8216;Life&#8217; in ABC Drama<\/strong><br \/>\nLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) &#8211; Rachel Blanchard (news), Jacob Pitts and Shiri Appleby (news) have been cast in &#8220;1\/4life,&#8221; a new ABC ensemble drama from the creators of &#8220;thirtysomething.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The drama, revolving around seven twentysomething friends who live under the same roof, examines the period of transition that comes after a person graduates from college and has to come to grips with life in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchard, Pitts and Appleby, along with Merritt Wever and newcomer Regggie Austin, will play five of the seven friends.<\/p>\n<p>Executive producers Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick wrote the script. Herskovitz is also on board to direct.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchard co-starred on the WB Network&#8217;s drama &#8220;7th Heaven&#8221; for two years and played the lead in &#8220;Clueless&#8221; the series. She was most recently in theaters with &#8220;Without a Paddle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pitt starred earlier this year in &#8220;Eurotrip.&#8221; &#8220;Roswell&#8221; star Appleby appeared on Herskovitz and Zwick&#8217;s &#8220;thirtysomething.<\/p>\n<p>Wever worked on M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s &#8220;Signs.&#8221; Austin, who appeared on NBC&#8217;s reality series &#8220;The Next Action Star,&#8221; was discovered while auditioning for an ABC showcase for finding and developing culturally and ethnically diverse talent. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was also confirmed by people I spoke with at the first screening of Shiri&#8217;s movie &#8220;Everything You Want&#8221; all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[3,2374],"tags":[1225,11],"coauthors":[2272],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading","category-shiri-appleby","tag-14-life","tag-shiri-appleby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29293,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/29293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}