The series, based on a British television show of the same name, will focus on a quirky Jewish family that has dinner together every Friday night. Janney and Shalhoub will play the parents, actors Kevin Bigley and Gil Ozeri will play thier sons, Paul...

Sunshine," Deadline is reporting that Janney will play the female lead in "Office" exec Greg Daniels' latest UK adaptation, "Friday Night Dinner" (which, as we discussed a few weeks back, is one of many new sitcoms on tap for 2012). Her apparent co-star?

Now the buzz has grown expotentially thanks to the series gaining finalized deals from Emmy winners Tony Shalhoub and Allison Janney as the stars. According to Deadline, the series will star Shalhoub and Janney as Gene and Barbara, the parents of a...

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Janney and Tony Shalhoub—two of our nation’s finest character actors, last seen romancing each other in Big Night—are set to reunite over a meal once again at NBC, where they’ve just been cast as the leads in Greg Daniels’ Friday Night Dinner adaptation.

The West Wing alum Janney will play Barbara, who is beginning to succumb to the immaturity of her all-male family. Monk's Shalhoub will portray Gene, a hard-of-hearing retired food chemist who's socially inept. The British version airs on BBC America...