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Added the first high quality promotional still of the upcoming 1×02 How To episode of Love Bites airing June 9, 2011 on NBC. Plus we added 3 more high quality promotional photos from the shoot. Becki looks really beautiful! Have a look at the photos!
HOW TO… (TV-14) EVERYONE LEARNS A LITTLE SOMETHING “NEW” IN THIS WEEK’S “LOVE BITES” – MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG, KURTWOOD SMITH AND FRANCES CONROY GUEST STAR – When Annie’s (Becki Newton) friend Jodie (Michelle Trachtenberg, “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”) bakes a banana bread for her new flame Charlie (Bret Harrison, “Reaper”), he feels threatened and tells her they should just be “friends.” Suspecting it was the banana bread that scared him off, Jodie is livid and decides to be the best “friend” he ever had. Meanwhile, Ed (Kurtwood Smith, “That ‘70s Show”) and Faye Strathmore (Frances Conroy, “Six Feet Under”) visit their son Kyle (Stephen Rannazzisi, “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”) and his boyfriend in Venice, California and Faye is on a mission to make sure that Ed keeps an open mind and is on his best behavior. Also, when Judd (Greg Grunberg) and Colleen (Constance Zimmer) meet over-the-top television sex therapist Dr. O (Jeffrey Tambor, “Arrested Development”) at a party, he offers some suggestions about their love life that have disastrous results for the couple.
    
GALLERY LINK:
Love Bites > Season 1 > Episode Stills > 1×02 How To
Love Bites > Season 1 > Promotional Photos > Promoshoot
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We added 15 high & medium quality episode stills of the 1×01 Firsts episode of Love Bites. Becki looks so stunning! We dunno about you guys but we’re so excited for June 2, 2011! Be sure to not miss the premiere of Love Bites on NBC!
FIRSTS (TV-14) “LOVE BITES” PREMIERES WITH THREE INTERWOVEN STORIES OF LOVE, SEX, MARRIAGE AND DATING – JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT AND CRAIG ROBINSON GUEST STAR IN THE PILOT EPISODE – Annie Matopoulos (Becki Newton, “Ugly Betty”) is a young, single woman who has taken on an incredible task – serving as a surrogate for her sister. Jealous of the attention that Annie receives while being pregnant, her friend Cassie (Krysten Ritter “Breaking Bad”) decides she must have a “story” as well, and decides to masquerade as a virgin to attract a man. Meanwhile, when Carter (Kyle Howard, “My Boys”) is fired from his accounting job and comes home early, he finds his fiancée Liz (Lindsay Price, “Eastwick”) in bed with a unique gift from her bachelorette party. Also, Judd Rouscher (Greg Grunberg, “Heroes”) and his friend Bowman (Craig Robinson, “The Office”) end up on a cross- country flight with Jennifer Love Hewitt (“Party of Five”), who is on Judd’s “celebrity exemption list,” allowing him sleep with her without marital consequences. When Judd ends up actually sitting next to her, he must decide what to do with this opportunity.
    
GALLERY LINK:
Love Bites > Season 1 > Episode Stills > 1×01 Firsts
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NBC has had a tangled relationship with “Love Bites,” its new show about sex, dating and marriage. A year ago, NBC showed advertisers a 12-minute clip of the series and anointed it the centerpiece of the network’s fall 2010 schedule. “Love Bites” was then pushed back to midseason. In January Comcast Corp. acquired control of NBC Universal and new managers temporarily shelved the series. After months of reworking, eight episodes of “Love Bites” will air starting June 2.
Originally created by “Sex and the City” writer Cindy Chupack, “Love Bites” was designed as a three-part “anthology” series in which each episode contained three self-contained vignettes of romantic quandaries. Former NBC entertainment chief Jeff Gaspin championed it; NBC’s Universal Media Studios spent heavily on shooting on location and on stars like Becki Newton (“Ugly Betty”). Then Ms. Chupack left the show for personal reasons. Executive producers Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally (“Will & Grace,” “Ugly Betty”) were signed on to run the show and write storylines with more connected vignettes. In an interview, the writers said they had to redo the pilot multiple times. Vernon Sanders, an executive vice president at NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, denied this account. In a subsequent interview Ms. Poust said that only a portion of the pilot had been rewritten to accommodate the fact that Ms. Newton had become pregnant. “We probably wrote seven versions of the pilot,” Mr. Kinnally says.
Mr. Gaspin later left NBC. Production was almost finished when newly-named entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt took over and felt the anthology format would be tough to sustain long term, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Sanders says “Love Bites” is debuting in the summer because there’s less competition and that Mr. Greenblatt is on board. “Bob has said if we have success we can absolutely do it again,” he says. Not since the 1970s series “Love, American Style” has network TV attempted a romantic anthology. With no ongoing storylines or regular characters to build on, “Love Bites” writers sometimes pulled words randomly out of a hat (“Rottweiler, shadow,” in one case) and tried to use them as a springboard for storylines.
“We were that desperate,” Mr. Kinnally said.
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Ugly Betty scene-stealer Becki Newton has been cast in CBS’ Untitled Filgos Project, formerly known as Home Grown. The multi-camera pilot, from Warner Bros. Television, centers on a blue-collar father whose recently widowed mother as well as his wife, his unmarried daughter and her 12-year-old son all live under the same roof. Newton, who was supposed to make her return to series television with a starring role in NBC’s romantic anthology series Love Bites this season, will play the part of the grown daughter, Eileen.
Jackie and Jeff Filgo (That ‘70s Show, The New Adventures of Old Christine) will write and executive produce. Andy Ackerman, who is also set to direct pilots for I Hate My Teenage Daughter and Smothered, will direct and serve as an executive producer. Newton is repped by The Gersh Agency and Management 360.
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