Emmy winner Jaime Pressly (Mom) has joined the cast of Fox’s comedy series Welcome To Flatch as a series regular for its upcoming second season.
She will play a new character named Barb Flatch.Pressly’s casting stems from the Season 2 pitch by showrunner Jenny Bicks for a major new character to be played by a big-name talent who would join Welcome To Flatch‘s established star, Seann William Scott, as well as the series’ up-and-coming cast.
That pitch, along with a restructuring of lead studio Lionsgate TV’s original deal for the show, clinched Welcome To Flatch a Season 2 renewal despite modest linear ratings.Barb Flatch (Pressly) grew up a Flatch, in Flatch.
She has returned to her hometown after a bad divorce to start a new chapter as the town’s realtor. She believes in second chances and wants to give Flatch the glow up it deserves, one margarita at a time.Written and executive-produced by Bicks and directed and executive-produced by Paul Feig, who also wrote two episodes of season one, Welcome To Flatch is inspired by BBC Studios’ BAFTA-winning BBC format, This Country.
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