Zooey Deschanel is covering more and more bases these days with films like Your Highness and her new album with She and Him, A Very She and Him Christmas, going to number 12 in the US Billboard Chart. Now she’s taking on the goggle box with the new Fox comedy, New Girl, which is set to air on E4 in January.
New Girl follows Deschanel’s character, Jess Day, as she moves out of her cheating boyfriend’s place and takes up residence in a random apartment with three other guys, thanks mostly to her model friend Cece Meyers (Hannah Simone). However, her offbeat sensibilities aren’t easy to deal with and so the comedy ensues.
The new housemates include Nick (Jake Johnson), another recent breakup case, wannabe player Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Winston (Lamorne Morris), who has just returned from a professional basketball career in Eastern Europe. The reality is that they only let Jess move in after a bat face mental interview because she lets it drop that her best friend is a model, but Cece turns out to be less than impressed with them, leaving the guys with a nutsy new housemate and no inroad to model heaven.
The trailer looks pretty funny, in a straight up American sit-com sort of way, but it’s also got enough quirky humour to make it a bit loveable. It looks a bit like the result if you took Friends, Big Bang Theory and Miranda and mixed it all together in Paul Simon’s head (don’t ask me what that means, because I don’t know if I’m completely honest).
