Desperate as ever for content, Fox League will launch a new rugby league-themed sitcom this summer: New Coach.
A blatant rip-off of the hit Fox sitcom New Girl, New Coach focuses on a recently sacked NRL coach (who’s definitely not based on Michael ‘Madge’ Maguire) who moves into a Bondi loft while he waits for his next coaching gig and interacts with a number of colourful characters, played by Paul Kent, Braith Anasta, and Buzz Rothfield.
To legitimise the ‘link’ with New Girl, Zooey Deschanel was approached to reprise her role as Jess Day, but politely declined as she literatelly had a million better things to do, plus she fell asleep from boredom in the Zoom meeting after Kent kept banging on about his one first grade game for Parramatta 30 years ago.
The first 14-episode season of New Coach will air after the Rugby League World Cup Final, with the season finale in February rumoured to centre around the coach deciding whether to go to Super League or join the NRL360 panel.
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