| Premieres
on Wednesday 11 April 2007 Wednesdays, 9:30-10:00 p.m., ET)
Director/producer
Barry Sonnenfeld and producers Kim and Eric Tannenbaum (Two and a Half
Men) bring a comic take on life’s greatest adventure – parenthood.
This ensemble comedy proves that surviving the politics of pregnancy and
maintaining your relationships with family and friends can be just as
demanding as raising a child.
Andrew
(Peter Cambor) and Lauren (Jennifer Westfeldt,) have just found out
they're going to have a baby, and they’re having a difficult time
following rule number one – keeping it a secret. Suddenly switching to
decaf, becoming a teetotaler at cocktail parties, and going to the OBGYN
are all difficult to keep from family and close friends.
Surrounding
Andrew and Lauren as they embark on their journey is a close-knit circle
of friends -- all of whom have varying opinions, experience and advice
on starting a family. Julie (Melanie Paxson) and Eric (Sunkrish Bala),
also in the family way for the first time, are the overly excited,
slightly obnoxious expectant parents that Andrew and Lauren never want
to become. Lauren’s best friend, Cooper (Rachael Harris), is a divorce
attorney and career woman who is skeptical of marriage altogether, and
will do her best to keep Lauren from becoming another member of the
mommy cult. |
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| Andrew’s
buddy, Danny (Michael Weaver), is an immature child in his own right,
whose chief concern is meeting hot women. Can Andrew and Lauren juggle
the freedom and spontaneity of their old lives and the responsibility of
their new ones? Will they be able to straddle the worlds of their
carefree single friends and the ever-changing world of their married
ones?
Andrew
will narrate each episode, giving his wry and often sarcastic
interpretation of the events that are going on around him. Lauren may be
getting the stretch marks, but Andrew has to pretend that he doesn’t
notice them. Through it all, Andrew and Lauren come to learn that what's
best for the child could be the easiest part... maintaining your
relationships with family and friends might be the real challenge.
Notes
from the Underbelly stars Jennifer Westfeldt as Lauren, Peter Cambor as
Andrew, Michael Weaver as Danny, Rachael Harris as Cooper, Melanie
Paxson as Julie and Sunkrish Bala as Eric
Based
on Risa Green’s novel of the same name, Notes from the Underbelly was
created by Stacy Traub (Kitchen Confidential.) Traub, Barry Sonnenfeld,
Kim Tannenbaum and Eric Tannenbaum serve as executive producers. The
series is from The Tannenbaum Company, Hill Three Productions in
association with Warner Bros. Television.
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