Cougar Town

Cougar Town

Cougar Town is an American television sitcom that premiered on ABC on September 23, 2009. The series focuses on a recently divorced woman in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter, along with her son, ex-husband, and friends who together make...

is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on September 23, 2009 in the United States on the American Broadcasting Company

American Broadcasting Company

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 (ABC). On October 8, 2009, ABC announced that Cougar Town has been picked up for a full season.

The series follows the life of Jules Cobb (Courteney Cox

Courteney Cox

Courteney Bass Cox is an American actress, she is best known for her roles as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends, Gale Weathers in the horror series Scream and as Jules Cobb in the ABC sitcom Cougar Town, for which she earned her first Golden Globe nomination....

), who lives in Florida. She is a 40-year-old woman who recently divorced and re-enters a dating scene filled with younger men.

, 44 episodes of Cougar Town have aired. Episode 36, "A Thing About You", was broadcast in Canada on January 12 as originally scheduled but was subject to a short-notice preemption in the U.S. and was shown on ABC January 19, 2011.

The vast majority of the episodes, except for the pilot

Pilot (Cougar Town)

"Pilot" is the pilot episode of the American television sitcom Cougar Town, which premiered on ABC on September 23, 2009. The episode was directed by series creator Bill Lawrence, and written by Lawrence and Kevin Biegel...

 and the episode "Everything Man," are titled after songs by Tom Petty

Tom Petty

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T...

.

Series overview

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! style="padding:0 80px;" colspan="3"| DVD

DVD

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 release date
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Season premiere

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Season finale

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! Region 1
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| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| September 23, 2009
| style="text-align:center;"| May 19, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| August 17, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| September 27, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| December 1, 2010
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| style="text-align:center;"| 22
| style="text-align:center;"| September 22, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| May 25, 2011
| style="text-align:center;"| August 30, 2011
| style="text-align:center;"| November 7, 2011
| November 2, 2011
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| style="text-align:center;"| 3
| style="text-align:center;"| 15
| style="text-align:center;"| March 2012
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Season 3: 2012

On January 10, 2011 ABC renewed Cougar Town for a third season, which is set to premiere sometime in Midseason 2012. In November 2011, ABC announced Cougar Town's third season would be cut from 22 episodes to 15 and removed it from the midseason schedule, with no new airdate.

The producers had been promoting the show by having the cast making cameos in other ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

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