{"id":654158,"date":"2010-02-04T07:11:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=91741"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:15:34","slug":"sarah-chalke-joins-cast-of-abc-comedy-freshman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654158","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Chalke Joins Cast Of ABC Comedy \u201cFreshman\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sarah-chalke-pregnant.jpg?resize=449%2C600\" alt=\"\" title=\"sarah-chalke-pregnant\" width=\"449\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-67671\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New mom Sarah Chalke &#8212; who played Dr. Elliot Reid on<em> Scrubs<\/em> for eight seasons &#8212;  is returning to ABC with a comedy project executive produced by Arianna Huffington.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-91741\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The actress has joined the cast of <em>Freshmen<\/em>, which centers on the friendship of three freshmen members of Congress &#8212; two men and a woman &#8212; who live together in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Chalke will play the unlucky in love Jane, a sharp and funny freshman Congresswoman who was the VP at a multi-billion dollar company when she was just 28, and who won her district with the largest margin of any candidate since 1977.<\/p>\n<p><em>Freshmen<\/em> is expected to premiere this fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DDhLclMxYF9-ddDZvEMmgnRxBiM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DDhLclMxYF9-ddDZvEMmgnRxBiM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DDhLclMxYF9-ddDZvEMmgnRxBiM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DDhLclMxYF9-ddDZvEMmgnRxBiM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New mom Sarah Chalke &#8212; who played Dr. Elliot Reid on Scrubs for eight seasons &#8212; is returning to ABC with a comedy project executive produced by Arianna Huffington. The actress has joined the cast of Freshmen, which centers on the friendship of three freshmen members of Congress &#8212; two men and a woman &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KaW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755722,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654158\/revisions\/755722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}