Annie Potts Signs On for PAGING DR. FREED Pilot

According to Deadline.com, Annie Potts has just been cast in USA's 'Paging Dr. Freed' pilot. The show is written by Michael Feldman and will be directed by Marc Buckland. Potts will play the mother of gynecologist brothers who 'inherit their father's thriving medical practice after he dies from a heart attack he suffers during an attempt at "playing" doctor with his young secretary,' as described by Deadline.

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Potts' film credits include Ghostbusters, Pretty in Pink, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Who's Harry Crumb? and Ghostbusters II, as well as Toy Story and Toy Story 2. Her other television credits include Love & War, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award, Lifetime's Any Day Now, ABC's GCB and CBS' Designing Women. She has appeared on Broadway in 2009's God of Carnage and Off-Broadway in The Vagina Monologues.

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