NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 4/20/12 at 3:49pm

The NBC pilot, 'Go On' with Matthew Perry and also featuring stage stars, Julie White and Laura Benanti has been picked up for a full season.

"Go On" centers on a sportscaster (Perry) who tries to move on from loss and finds comfort among the members of his group therapy sessions. Benanti plays Lauren, the leader of the support group, and White plays Anne, a feisty and recently widowed woman stuck in the anger stage of grief."

Let's hope that this turns out better for Benanti than 'The Playboy Club', which never had potential.






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Updated On: 4/28/12 at 03:49 PM

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 4/20/12 at 4:02pm

They can't go wrong with the stars of such beloved TV shows as "That Geico Caveman Show!," "Mr. Sunshine," "Starved" and "The Playboy Club."

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 4/20/12 at 7:53pm

I can't wait it sounds really good. I previously enjoyed Mr. Sunshie and thought it much better than the dreadful happy endings. I hope they do let Perry write more of the show though.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 4/20/12 at 8:26pm

I'm obviously in the minority, but I liked THE PLAYBOY CLUB. I still don't see what made it any worse than any number of TV potboilers that somehow hang on. And I looked forward to Laura Benanti's musical number in each episode, of course.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 4/20/12 at 8:46pm

I liked The Playboy Club till I started watching Mad Men. It was a shameless rip-off.

Updated On: 4/20/12 at 08:46 PM

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 4/20/12 at 11:23pm

This sounds awful. But I'll watch

What I do for Laura...

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 4/21/12 at 10:32am

Remember the Judd Hirsch show Dear John? Same plot:

After his wife leaves him for his best friend, John Lacey joins a support group for divorced and widowed people. Over the course of the series, the characters help each other first come to grips with their situation, and then overcome it, often with hilarious results.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 4/21/12 at 5:33pm

I thought Mr. Sunshine was painfully bad. But I will watch this for Laura and for Julie - hope it does well, and is worth watching.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/8/12 at 2:13pm

Here is a first look photo.






Get a First Look at Laura Benanti, Julie White, Matthew Perry & More in NBC's Go On

Updated On: 5/8/12 at 02:13 PM

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/8/12 at 2:21pm

Can Matthew Perry sustain being the star of a show?

(Run Julie, run....you too Laura)

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/8/12 at 3:52pm

Benanti has the WORST luck with network TV shows. Every pilot she's filmed were picked up for full season episodes only to be terminated after only a handful of episodes aired. THE PLAYBOY CLUB was pulled off NBC completely after the 3rd episode.

This one is definitely going to experience the same Benanti TV Curse.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/8/12 at 3:57pm

I'm happy for Benanti, she's very talented. I just hope she doesn't do that creepy whisper-y thing she did on The Playboy Club, or get involved in a whirlwind affair with yet another co-star.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/8/12 at 4:22pm

"This one is definitely going to experience the same Benanti TV Curse."

Almost as bad as the Kristen Chenoweth TV Curse.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/8/12 at 4:29pm

I'm happy for Benanti, she's very talented. I just hope she doesn't do that creepy whisper-y thing she did on The Playboy Club, or get involved in a whirlwind affair with yet another co-star.

She had an affair with a co-star?



And Gotham, the Kristin Chenoweth curse can't be that bad, if it yielded an Emmy Award.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/11/12 at 5:25pm

Her husband Steven Pasquale also has a new medical drama picked up by NBC called 'Do Not Harm', which will also feature Michael Esper. Let's see if both Benanti and Pasquale's programs will be successful.




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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/11/12 at 6:24pm

"And Gotham, the Kristin Chenoweth curse can't be that bad, if it yielded an Emmy Award."

Emmy Schmemmy. Has any show that she has been associated with lasted more than two seasons?

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/11/12 at 8:23pm

It's a shame that all our prime talent is being stolen away to Hollywood to work for NBC, who will likely cancel it all anyway.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/11/12 at 8:28pm

"Emmy Schmemmy."

That is disrespectful. She deserved that award and this is coming from someone who is a big fan of her fellow nominees in that category including Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/11/12 at 8:41pm

I find judging people's talents by their awards to be superficial. There are many greats that have never won awards and many mediocre talents who have been highly awarded.

That being said, I did enjoy Pushing Daisies and thought she was good in that show. However, it did not last more than two seasons.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/11/12 at 9:11pm

Pushing Daisies is a special case. The writers strike is really what killed it. Had it been able to have a normal run the first season I think it would still be on and we would never have had Promises, Promises.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/11/12 at 11:05pm

Emmy Schmemmy. Has any show that she has been associated with lasted more than two seasons?

There was this little show called The West Wing. Perhaps you've heard of it.

I previously enjoyed Mr. Sunshie and thought it much better than the dreadful happy endings.

Oy. That says a lot about what you find funny. Happy Endings is hilarious. I laugh out loud at least five times every episode. Mr. Sunshine was TERRIBLE. The only thing remotely funny about it was Allison Janney.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/26/12 at 1:27pm

Matthew Perry has a former writer from 'Friends', Scott Silveri, who will be the person behind the comedy.


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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 5/26/12 at 8:16pm

I enjoy Matthew Perry, so I'll give this a chance but the promo trailer didn't do much for me.

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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 7/24/12 at 9:48pm

Julie White's charatcer was changed from a heterosexual woman to a lesbian.


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NBC 'Go On' pilot with Laura Benanti and Julie White gets series order.

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:36am

Affair? Her husband is GORGEOUS...what could be more pleasing than that hunk of a man?

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