One of the ‘Shining Vale’ filming locations is similar soundstage the place megastar Courteney Cox once filmed ‘Friends.’ See extra about the new Starz show.

Courteney Cox returned to familiar territory for her new Starz sequence: One of the Shining Vale filming locations is identical soundstage the place her sitcom Friends as soon as filmed.

The actress identified the relationship in an August 2021 Instagram video, as she drove vacationers past Stage 5 at the Warner Brothers studio lot in Burbank, Calif. “This is the place Friends started in 1994 and is now occupied via a show called Shining Vale, starring me,” she mentioned in the clip.

For Courtney, who’s additionally a famous person of the Scream movie series, Shining Vale was an impossible to resist blend of horror and comedy. “I love to be scared and love to snigger, and that is simply such a unique mixture of those two things, a genre I’ve never noticed prior to,” she instructed Deadline ultimate August. “It offers with family issues, infidelity, mental health issues. It was once simply wealthy and humorous and great.”

Here’s extra intel in regards to the display, which debuts on Starz this night, Sunday, March 6, at 10:21 p.m. ET.

‘Shining Vale’ follows a author who unearths her muse in her circle of relatives’s haunted new home.

In Shining Vale, Courteney performs Patricia “Pat” Phelps, a novelist and previous wild kid who has wiped clean up her act however can’t find her muse for her 2nd novel. She may also’t appear to in finding the spark with her husband, Terry, performed via The Stand celebrity Greg Kinnear. And after Pat cheats on Terry with the neighborhood handyman, Pat and Terry decide to transfer their family out of the city and into a massive outdated area in the suburbs.

But their new home has a “storied past of its personal,” since it’s where “horrible atrocities have taken position,” as Starz says in a synopsis for the sequence. “But no one turns out to notice excluding for Pat, who’s satisfied she’s either depressed or possessed—turns out, the symptoms are exactly the similar. … Everyone has their demons, however for Pat Phelps, they may be actual.”

The cast additionally comprises Gus Birney (Dickinson) and Dylan Gage (Pen15), who play Pat and Terry’s teenage children, Gaynor and Jake. Alias alum Merrin Dungey plays Kam, Pat’s editor and oldest friend. And American Crime Story actress Mira Sorvino plays Rosemary, who's “Pat’s regulate ego, a split character, her identification, her muse, or a demon attempting to possess her.”

Critics name the display “sharply satirical” story with “all of the best possible horror parts.”

Shining Vale, created via Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) and Jeff Astrof (Trial & Error), has a 77% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. “The show does in finding a sharply satirical undercurrent, critiquing fashionable feminine domesticity in a approach that grows more and more pointed, finding a kind of candy spot between The Shining and The Stepford Wives,” observes The Hollywood Reporter’s Daniel Fienberg.

“Shining Vale boasts all of the absolute best horror parts: a haunted area, a descent into insanity, gaslighting, sex, medication, Christianity, and Courteney Cox,” writes AV Club’s Cristina Escobar.

And The Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz calls the display “a remarkably forged tale, however its considerable population of deranged characters and nonhuman conspirators.”

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