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Showtime’s Rude Awakening
returns for ruder second season
W 22 new episodes set to run. Roger E. Mosley joins the cast .
RudeAwakening,the comedy seriesthatholds
nothing back, returns to Showtime on Saturday,
June 26, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT) for a second season
of raunchy, sharply funny and sometimes touch
ing moments. This 22 episode half-hour series,
about a modern woman’s daily struggle with
sobriety, pushes the limit every chance it gets.
Rude Awakening stars Sherilyn Fenn (Twin
Peaks), Lynn Redgrave (Gods and Monsters),
Jonathan Penner (The Naked Truth), Corinne
Bohrer(Partners),Rain Pryor(Head oftheClass),
and a new addition to the cast, Roger E. Mosley
(Magnum P. 1.) Karen Black (Showtime’s The
Hunger, Five Easy Pieces)co-starsin theseason’s
first two episodes as Rain Pryor’s mother. '
Written and created by Claudia Lonow, Rude
Awakening is also executive produced by Peter
Guber, Scott Sanders and Pamela Eells, Rude
Awakening is produced by Mandalay Television,
a Lions Gate Entertainment Company (Amex/
TSE:LGF),inassociation with Columbia TriStar
Television. Andrea Abbate (Politically Incorrect)
serves as co-executive producer with Terri
Guarnieri (The Cosby Show) producing.
Rude Awakening chronicles the life of Billie
Frank(Fenn),aformer primetimesoapstar,who
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continues to struggle with the demons in her life,
mainly alcohol, withthehelpofheroffbeat support
group at Addictions Anonymous. Daring and
direct, Billie says what she thinks and does what
she feels while trying to get through the day
without taking a drink. This continues to be a
major challenge, especiallywhensheissurrounded
by her outrageous and alcoholic mother Trudy
(Redgrave); her Christian sister-in-law Tish
(Bohrer); her neighbor, lover and fellow ex-alco
holic, David (Penner) and lesbian heroin addict
Jackie (Pryor). Joining the cast in arecurringrole
for the second season is Roger E. Mosley, who
portrays Milt, a long-time sober Vietnam vet and
Dave’s new sponsor.
In the second season premiere, Jackie (Rain
Pryor) is still hovering near death in a hospital
when Trudy (Lynn Redgrave) arrives with a bro
ken toe accompanied by the very pregnant Tish
(Corinne Bohrer). Meanwhile, Billie (Sherilyn
Fenn) and David (Jonathan Penner) are trying
not tolapseintodrinkingin thismoment of stress.
InJackie’s room, everyone meets Jackie’s mother,
Crystal (Karen Black), a Grateful Dead fanatic
who s trying in her own way to deal with Jackie’s
drug problem.
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