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'Friends with Benefits' video clips: NBC is lookin' for love at midseason

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May 16, 2010 10:03 PM ET

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friends-with-benefits-video.jpgStop us if you've heard this one before: A group of 20-something pals tries to navigate the complicated waters of present-day dating, seeking support (and sometimes more) from one another. It's on NBC, and the title includes the word "Friends."

And it's not a remake. "Friends with Benefits," one of three half-hour comedies NBC picked up for midseason, is indeed about a group of 20-somethings. There are five of them, not six, there's no coffee shop in sight in the three clips below, and its sensibility is somewhat different.

The show stars Ryan Hansen ("Party Down," "Veronica Mars") and Danneel Harris ("One Tree Hill") as usually platonic friends who sometimes end up in bed with one another. Jessica Lucas ("Melrose Place") and Ian Reed Kesler ("The Loop") also star, but "Dollhouse's" Fran Kranz, who was in the pilot, tweeted over the weekend that his part is being recast.

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, the writers of "(500) Days of Summer," created the series.







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Bah. Fran Kranz was the only reason I would have considered watching that show.

John | May 16, 2010 10:22 PM

I'm bummed that they released Fran Kranz (and apparently one of the other actors too) .. but I still want to give this a try. I like Danneel Harris.

Charstin | May 16, 2010 11:33 PM

500 days of summer: the tv show? hell. yes.

kyle | May 17, 2010 1:22 AM

Isn't Danneel Harris a little long in the tooth to be playing a '20-something' pal? I think those days are long behind her. I would of watched it for Fran Kranz but since he isn't in it any longer I don't plan to watch it at all.

J.A. | May 17, 2010 1:39 PM

I was a little curious about the show but based on those clips I am not anymore.

Marlee | May 18, 2010 3:50 PM

I was a little curious about the show but based on those clips I am not anymore.

Marlee | May 18, 2010 4:12 PM

I have a bad feeling about this show.

Monica | May 18, 2010 8:26 PM

ELP save Fran Kranz from being replaced on the NBC show FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS!! Email: JEFF.GASPIN@NBCUNI.COM and ANGELA.BROMSTAD@NBCUNI.COM Tell them how badly you want to see Fran on the new show Friends With Benefits coming this Fall. He's so funny and good but they want to put someone else in his shoes! Keep Fran on the show!!!

Tyler | May 19, 2010 11:35 PM

it looks like a poor version of friends. and the concept has been done before. the difference between friends and this....friends looked funny and wasnt just about sex. i give a wk.

kelly | May 20, 2010 11:01 PM

franz kranz. are you kidding me? he was definitely the worst part of any of the trailers I saw. you can't judge this show from a couple of clips off of a kind of rough pilot. I will check it out (probably only cause I thought ryan hansen was getting into his stride on party down when the show ended) but I am not going to expect anything

shane | November 14, 2010 8:00 PM
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