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Saturday Night Live veteran Nora Dunn is stopping by ABC’s Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23.

Dunn will play tough financial businesswoman Joyce Barron who hires Apartment 23 star Dreama Walker’s character June as her intern. Dunn’s ultra demanding boss “sleeps standing up, like a cow” and June struggles to live up to her expectations.

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Thomas Lennon and Bruce Davison have signed up for guest roles in Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23.

The mid-season comedy will focus on June (Dreama Walker), a naive girl who relocates to New York and moves in with a nightmare roommate (Krysten Ritter).

Eager to get back into the world of finance after losing her job on Wall Street, June will reach out to a stockbroker (Lennon), according to TV Guide.

However, when Ritter’s Chloe ruins their relationship by sleeping with him, June will be forced to turn to the stockbroker’s dad (Davison).

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ABC’s Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 doesn’t premiere until midseason but the show has already garnered buzz for star James Van Der Beek’s comedic portrayal of himself (the series is about two girls who live in an apartment building with the Beek as their neighbor). Now, the former Dawson’s Creek actor is going to have some other ’90s stars to contend with on the sitcom: EW has exclusively learned that Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) and Dean Cain (Lois & Clark) will both appear on separate episodes of the comedy, portraying themselves. Sorbo will be tricked into being a wedding date for one of the roommates, Chloe (Krysten Ritter), while Cain will show up as Van Der Beek’s rival.

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The ‘Bitch’ is back.

After ABC changed a new show’s mildly profane title during development, upcoming comedy Apartment 23 has now more-or-less reverted to its original head-turning name.

The official new title of the show is Don’t Trust The B—- in Apartment 23, dashing out the letters of the curse in an attempt to soften its impact (not entirely unlike how CBS solved buying short-lived Shit My Dad Says last season, substituting the non-word “$#*!”). The Disney-owned network has two upcoming shows that previously used the word “bitch” in their title — Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23 and drama Good Christian Bitches. The former was shorted to Apartment 23 right before the network’s broadcast upfront presentation in May. The latter was change to Good Christian Belles, and was then changed again to GCB. (Good Christian Bitches, in particular, was singled out by some culture critics who were ready to pounce on the show should it hit the air with its original title).

In the case of Apartment 23, the new title was rather anonymous; it didn’t tell you anything about the show. The new version more clearly suggests the show’s premise — about a naive midwesterner (Dreama Walker) who moves in with a hardcore party girl (Krysten Ritter). And given that CBS’ 2 Broke Girls and Fox’s New Girl have successfully launched girl-with-new-roommate(s)-in-the-big-city premises this fall, the cleverly written Apartment 23 might likewise pop for viewers. The show does not yet have a premiere date, but is expected to debut sometime this season.

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Variety reports that Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Gary Cole and Brian Geraghty have joined the cast of Gay Dude.

The story is centered around two best friends, Michael and Matty. Offerman will play Michael’s supportive father while Mullally and Cole will play Matty’s parents with Geraghty to play his older brother (who still lives at home).

According to IndieWire filming for the low budget film has already started in Vancouver.

Someone asked James van der Beek when Apartment 23 will premiere on ABC and he replied that it will air January 3rd 2012. It’s still a looong time away but hopefully more news will start cropping up about the show soon!

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“Apt. 23″ premieres January 3rd, 9:30pm on ABC #apt23 RT @tearslikerayn26 So, when is that new show of yours premiering again? #impatient

According to Variety Dreama Walker will be part of a new movie called “Gay Dude” which co-stars Dakota Johnson, Nicholas Braun and Hunter Cope.

The story follows two guys who pact to lose their virginity before prom, only to have one of them come out of the closet.

Gay Dude will be directed by Chris Nelson, written by Alan Yang with Laurence Mark and David Blackman producing it for Laurence Black Prods.

October Road” co-stars Bryan Greenberg and Laura Prepon are reteaming for the indie comedy “The Kitchen,” which is currently filming in Los Angeles.

Ishai Setton (“The Big Bad Swim”) is directing from a script by Jim Beggarly (“Free Samples”).

Emily Ting (“Family Inc.) is producing the pic, which takes place entirely inside a kitchen and finds Prepon’s character celebrating her 30th birthday with an ill-fated party.

Supporting cast includes Matt Bush, Dreama Walker, Tate Ellington, Amber Stevens, Pepper Binkley and Catherine Reitman.

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Dreama is part of a new film called The Kitchen and she started shooting it this week. The film also stars Laura Prepon, Bryan Greenberg, Tate Ellington and Jillian Clare. It was written by Jim Beggarly and is being directed by Ishai Setton.

You can follow the production at the offical Twitter account @TheKitchenFilm.

They have released a behind the scenes picture of Dreama on set of the movie and I have added it to the gallery.

Hopefully more information and pictures will be released soon!

A new project called Compliance has appeared on Dreama’s IMDb profile. There is no further information than the planned release in 2012 and that Dreama is supposed to play a character called Becky.

As soon as new information about this project becomes known I’ll make sure to post it here.