About a Boy: Scoop on the future of Will's love life and his career from TVGuide's Adam Bryant

Here's some scoop on About a Boy from TVGuide's Adam Bryant's Mega Buzz column, which was posted on 10/28/14.

I'm so sad that Will and Sam called it quits on About a Boy! Will there be any new loves in his life?  — Victoria
It doesn't sound like it — but it won't simply be because of his broken heart. "Will has serious money problems this season," David Walton says. "His past life of doing nothing and spending whatever he wants comes to a crashing halt, so that sort of interferes with his dating. He doesn't quite know how to operate when he can't spend money. So, in order to find women, he'll have to be employed." Based on his track record, he might be single a while!

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New Girl: Get ready to witness a kiss that’s so hot that it should probably only be allowed to be shown on premium cable (My thoughts on episode 2x15 “Cooler”)

Let me begin this post by saying that as a hardcore Jess/Nick shipper, this is the episode that I’ve been dying to see pretty much since New Girl began. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again; I’ve always loved the way the writers have handled the will they or won’t they get together element of Jess and Nick’s relationship. Personally, I’ve always found Jess and Nick’s relationship rather refreshing and original when you compare the writing for their relationship to couples on other TV shows, such as Ross and Rachel on Friends.

If you ask me, it was very risky on the writers’ part to have Jess and Nick kiss each other fairly early on in the show’s run, but after seeing how the whole episode played out I think it really paid off to have them kiss in this episode. I thought it was handled very well. As I mentioned in this post (Why Jess and Nick's [SPOILER] almost didn't happen), the creator of the show, Elizabeth Meriwether, had originally planned to have Jess and Schmidt be the ones who went into the other room to make out, and not Jess and Nick when they were playing a new version of the game True American. I’m not sure how that would have impacted the Jess and Nick material in this episode if the writers had gone that route, but I’m glad that they changed it to Jess and Nick being the ones who ended up being sent into the other room to make out. The idea of Jess and Schmidt kissing each other in any situation just seems beyond weird to me, and I’m not sure that I’d want to see that.

Nick absolutely cracked me up in every scene that he was in, especially when it came to him wearing the women’s trench coat that he found and the way he and everybody else was talking about it. Nick thought that he looked really cool wearing the trench coat and kept saying that it made him feel very confident, but everybody else just kept reminding him that it was a women’s trench coat. The way that he was acting about the trench coat in this episode was classic Nick, and it once again reminded me why I think Jake Johnson is the true breakout star of New Girl.

The whole bit with Nick and the trench coat wasn’t the only thing that I found rather amusing when it came to Nick in this episode though. Nick and Schmidt met a girl named Holly at a bar who was basically aroused by sadness, which just sounds beyond weird to me, but I suppose there are probably people in the world who are really like that. Personally, I thought that Brooklyn Decker did a great job of playing the role of Holly and I really liked how she played Holly’s fetish for sad men in such a comedic way. Anyway, Nick and Schmidt spent most of the episode trying to one-up each other when it came to convincing her that they had the saddest life, which I thought was hilarious. It actually kind of reminded me of the first episode of the TV show Go On and the whole “March Sadness” competition that Ryan came up with for the other people in the support group to play in order to decide which person in the group had the best sob story.

New Girl: Steve Howey Cast as a Love Interest For Jess-TVLine

According to TVLine's Michael Ausiello, Steve Howey has been cast as a love interest for Jess in an upcoming episode of New Girl. Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some details on Howey's role:

Howey has been tapped to guest star as Jax McTavish, an intense (in every sense of the word) professional football player that Winston interviews.

The jock is later invited to Schmidt and Nick’s “Tinfinity” party — a.k.a. a bash celebrating their 10 years of living together — and it’s there that he crosses paths with (and catches the eye of) Jess.

The $1 million question: Is Jess’ current beau, Sam, also in attendance? And if not, where the hell is he?!

Link to the full article:‘New Girl’ Season 2 Spoilers — Steve Howey as Love Interest For Jess - TVLine



My thoughts: I have to say that I have extremely mixed feelings about this news. On the one hand, I've been a huge fan of Steve Howey ever since he was on Reba, and I love him on Shameless. Steve is a great comedic actor, so I'm sure that he'll do a great job on New Girl. On the other hand, a part of me wishes that the producers would stop bringing in new love interests for Jess and just have Jess and Nick get together for a while at this point. I realize that this is a TV show though and the writers have to draw out the progression of Jess and Nick's relationship, so they can't have them get together too soon, especially since this is only the second season of New Girl. Although, I've read a lot of spoilers and I've watched a lot of interviews that Zooey Deschanel and Jake Johnson have done recently, which seem to indicate that there's some major developments coming up later this season in terms of the progression of Jess and Nick's relationship and the possibility of them becoming a couple, which I'm definitely very excited about.

There's a part of me that's also okay with Jess and Nick not getting together for awhile since I've really been enjoying the relationship between Jess and Sam lately. Reading this news has definitely made me wonder about the future of their relationship though. While my feelings about Jess getting a new love interest are very mixed after reading this, I'm going to try and keep an open mind about this casting news since I'm such a huge fan of Steve Howey.

On a somewhat shallow note, I've pretty much always thought that Steve Howey was really hot, but I'm definitely not a fan of his most recent haircut/hairstyle and I don't care for his facial hair either. The way his hair looks these days and the facial hair aren't doing him any favors in the looks department. His current haircut and the facial hair really make him look rather creepy and gross, in my opinion, which is a shame, because I always thought that he was extremely attractive before he started wearing his hair like that and started sporting that hideous beard for the past several years.

New Girl: Casts David Walton, Leslie Mann and Niecy Nash in Season 2-TVLine

According to TVLine's Megan Masters, David Walton has been cast as a new love interest for Jess on New Girl. Here's an excerpt from the article which gives some details on Walton's role:



Fresh off of his short-lived NBC series, Walton has been tapped to recur on New Girl as the “classic bad boy type,” EW.com reports. He and Jess will hit it off in the premiere (airing Sept. 25) when he mistakes her for someone else, and, being the quirkster that she is, she decides to go along with it.



Leslie Mann and Niecy Nash will also be guest-starring in season 2. Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some details on their roles:



Per EW.com, Mann appears in the season opener as well, playing a “shot girl” at Schmidt’s penis cast removal soiree. (This is an actual storyline.) Nash, meanwhile, is slated to guest-star in an early installment of Season 2 as a hooker who steal’s Jess’ purse, per The Hollywood Reporter.



Link to the full article:New Girl Casts David Walton, Leslie Mann, Niecy Nash -- Season 2 - TVLine







My thoughts: I had actually been thinking about the show Bent yesterday before TVLine posted this news. Personally, I thought that Bent was a great show that deserved to be treated a lot better than NBC treated it. It was definitely one of NBC's better new shows last year, so it's a shame that it got canceled. That being said, I can't wait to see David Walton on New Girl. His storyline with Jess sounds very interesting.

The news about Leslie Mann guest-starring on the show is also very exciting and interesting to me. First off, I loved her in the episode of Modern Family that she guest-starred in last season. Secondly, the whole thing with her being a "shot girl" at Schmidt's penis cast removal soiree sounds beyond hilarious. Reading that part of article made me laugh when I read it. That should be a very funny storyline. I didn't watch New Girl very much last season simply because I already had a lot of other TV shows that I was watching. Reading all this casting information made me realize that I really need to make an effort to watch New Girl every week, because it's definitely a very funny show.