EW.com is reporting that Jaime Pressly’s pilot, “I Hate My Teenage Daughter”, has been picked up!

Fox has also ordered I Hate My Teenage Daughter to series, starring Jaime Pressly and Katie Finneran as two women who were tormented by mean girls when they were younger, from the makers of The New Adventures of Old Christine.

A big congratulations goes out to Jaime on this great news!

Jaime Pressly has been tapped as the lead opposite Katie Finneran in Fox’s multicamera comedy pilot I Hate My Teenage Daughter. The project, from Warner Bros. TV and writers/executive producers Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer, centers on two women, Annie (Pressly) and Nikki (Finneran), who now have daughters just like the girls who picked on them in high school. Pressly, repped by CAA and Luber/Roklin, won an Emmy for her role as the ditsy Joy Turner on NBC’s Earl.

My Name is Earl fans, rejoice! Joy and Randy are headed to Raising Hope – well, rather, Jaime Pressley and Ethan Suplee. The pair will appear in the penultimate episode of this season as a married couple who lives in the neighborhood.

“Burt and Virginia sort of become involved in their life more than they want to,” Earl and Hope creator and executive producer Greg Garcia told EW. “They become entangled in some drama that’s going on at the Suplee-Pressley household.”

The news comes on the heels of Earl star Jason Lee’s November appearance as washed-up rocker Smokey Floyd and the announcement of Eddie Steeples’ (Crabman!) upcoming guest spot.

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Plot information and a air date for Jaime’s newest film, “Sandra Brown’s Smoke Screen”, has just been released! Sandra Brown’s Smoke Screen premiers Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT on Lifetime Movie Network.

Smoke Screen is filled with twists and turns involving the police, firemen, judges, journalists, murder, conspiracy, corruption and a lot of secrets.

The film opens with Britt Shelley (Jaime Pressly), Charleston, South Carolina’s most notable television journalist, who wakes up in bed next to a dead policeman. Britt knows the man but has no recollection how she got into this situation. She is convinced she was given the date rape drug. When the coroner’s report says the policeman was murdered, Britt is the prime suspect.
Murder, Corruption, and Mystery

What makes this murder investigation even more important for the police department is that the dead cop was a hero. Several years earlier there was a fire in the police station and he, along with some of his friends, helped everyone get out before going back into the burning building to rescue a man who was under arrest inside the building. The man died at the scene, but everyone else made it out all right.

Britt is confused by the entire incident. The dead cop is the man who had given her a big story right after the fire. This story made her career and launched her into becoming Charleston’s most popular journalists. However, her story ruined the career of fireman Raley Gannon (Currie Graham), as it was about Raley waking up next to a dead woman. The story cast a shadow on Raley even though the death of the woman was ruled an accidental overdose But he was subsequently shunned by the community and his friends.

Britt is convinced she was drugged, but cannot prove it. Her situation is similar to the one Raley found himself in years earlier, a fact that does not escape Raley who is living off-the-grid in a log cabin in the woods.

Raley and Britt eventually team up to figure out what happened to both of them. As they try to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, they uncover some very interesting facts that lead them to the ultimate showdown.

The twists and turns in the film are interesting and the viewers most likely will not be able to put the pieces together before the characters! It is filled with intrigue.
Currie Graham, Jaime Pressly and Sandra Brown

Currie Graham (Raley) turns in an endearing performance. In the beginning his character is stand-offish, but as the story unfolds he becomes the man viewers will root for.

Jaime Pressly’s character Britt, however, is not as likeable as Raley. In the beginning she seems cold and distant, but as she starts to uncover the elaborate scheme she becomes more interesting and affable.

Graham is well-known to TV viewers and has appeared on many shows, most notably Law and Order, NYPD Blue, Suddenly Susan, House, Desperate Housewives, and Men in Trees.

Pressly is best known for her Emmy Award-winning performance in My Name is Earl.

Sandra Brown has authored 59 New York Times bestselling novels. Smoke Screen is her first bestseller to be made into a LMN Original movie.

Sandra Brown’s Smoke Screen premiers Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT on Lifetime Movie Network.

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The TV movie that Jaime Pressly co-starred in earlier this year, “Beauty & the Briefcase”, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 11, 2011!

You can pre-order the DVD (at $19.49) or the Blu-ray (at $20.99).

Jaime Pressly is featured in a new Halloween themed video for Old Navy titled “Scream for Savings” – you can watch it below!

Judy Greer shows up to a Halloween party all cute-in-cargos – but is told by Jaime Pressly it’s “costume mandatory.” Will the foxy fireman come to her rescue? Either way, it’s a party! – cause the scary good savings are for everyone. 10/29 – 10/30. In-store only.

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A new article in the Hollywood Reporter mentions that Jaime Pressly is currently shooting a new film called “Sandra Brown’s Smoke Screen” in Vancouver.

One of the two movies, which have not been announced by domestic rights holder Lifetime Movie Network, is the suspense thriller “Sandra Brown’s Smoke Screen,” now shooting in Vancouver and starring Jaime Pressly and Canadian Currie Graham. It’s written by Karen Stillman and directed by Gary Yates (who is not a DGA member, nor is it a DGA production, according to a guild spokesperson).

…His attorney said “Smoke Screen” is now being produced by Canadian companies Seven24 Films and Smoke Screen Prods.; both apparently are special-purpose corporations formed for this movie. He said the Canadian producers have sold international rights to both movies to Sony Pictures Television.

A Sony TV spokeswoman said the company bought “Smoke Screen” from Brooks, and not just the international rights.

…Since production on “Smoke Screen” began Aug. 9, the union representing most of the actors has changed to the Union of British Columbia Performers, a local union in Vancouver. This apparently does not include Pressly, who continues to be covered by SAG.
Michael Feeney, senior vp corporate communications at AETN, said the company learned of Brooks’ financial problems in late July from a media report. He said Brooks did bring it “Smoke Screen” and “Strike,” and they were acquired before AETN became aware of Brooks’ strike listing.

…Before Brooks’ decision to sell his interest in the Lifetime movies, a spokesman for the WGA West said the guild was aware that a member had worked on “Smoke Screen” through a company that is a signatory to the WGA of Canada agreement.

According the article, Sony TV has bought the rights to the film – so that means that we will *hopefully* be able to see it in 2011!

According to The Mirror, Jaime Pressly will be starring in the new comedy “Hotel Caledonia” alongside Gillian Anderson and Kelly Brook.

She will also appear next to Gillian Anderson and Jaime Pressly in the American comedy Hotel Caledonia, about backpackers in Scotland.

The film has a website at hotelcaledoniamovie.com and is set for a release sometime in 2010.