NBC Picks Up 'Love Bites' With Becki Newton For Fall 2010

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that NBC has picked up the anthology series 'Love Bites' which will star 'Ugly Betty' alumna Becki Newton.

'Love Bites' comes from Emmy Award winning writer-producer Cindy Chupack of 'Sex and the City.' The show is "an hour-long romantic comedy anthology series featuring three loosely connected, modern stories of love, sex, marriage and dating."

Becki Newton will star as Annie an optimistic go-getter, alongside Jordana Spiro who will play Frannie a sarcastic realist, the girls are the last single ladies in their group of female friends. Joining in for the pilot episode will be Jennifer Love Hewitt, Greg Grunberg, Craig Robinson, Jason Lewis and Linsay Price.

Becki Newton began her career in television commercials, and over the course of the next 5 years appeared in over 50. Meanwhile, she hosted her own late night celebrity interview show on TBS called "Movie Junky," as well as performed her own one-woman show at Duplex. From there, Becki traveled to Los Angeles, and began work on various television shows, including "American Dreams," "The Mens Room," "Cold Case," "Charmed," "The Loop" (pilot), and "The Dave Sheridan Project" (pilot).

Upon returning to NYC, she guest starred on "Law and Order: SVU," and appeared in the films August Rush opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers and P.S. with Topher Grace. Currently, Becki plays Amanda Tanen in the award-winning comedy "Ugly Betty." She also appears along-side Michael Urie in the web series "Mode After Hours." On stage, she recently starred opposite her husband in the NY City Center Encores! production of Girl Crazy.

NBC also picked up 'The Event' and 'Outsourced.'

To read EW's full report on the shows picked up for next season click Here.

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