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Lisa Kudrow Goes Back to College in ‘Good People’

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May 24, 2019
Actress Lisa Kudrow poses backstage with her award for TV Performance of the Year for “The Comeback” at the People Magazine Awards in Beverly Hills, California December 18, 2014. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

Lisa Kudrow will executive produce and star in the Amazon comedy pilot “Good People,” about three generations of women who work in a college Ombudsman’s office. Her character struggles to bridge the gap between her own views on feminism and the attitudes of her young students in the age of the #MeToo movement. Greg Kinnear, Martin Short, and Whitney Cummings, also an EP, co-star.

Kudrow, currently on screen in both “Longshot” and “Booksmart,” also will star with Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick in the Facebook Watch comedy series “Human Discoveries,” about a group of friends living at the dawn of civilization.

“Who Do You Think You Are?” the celebrity genealogy series Kudrow produces with Dan Bucatinsky, will return to NBC with 13 new episodes later this year.

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