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“Rude Awakening” was my first show. It was SEMI autobiographical and ran 55 episodes on Showtime. (This was pre “Weeds” Showtime… so it was pretty low budget. I think “Hollywood Hot Tubs” ran in our time slot the year before). We had an awesome cast: Sherilynn Fenn, Lynn Redgrave, Jonathan Penner, Rain Pryor, Richard Lewis, etc.
Claudia Lonow started her career as an actress, playing Michele Lee’s chubby, loud-mouthed teenage daughter on “Knots Landing.” She did stand up comedy for a while, working across the country and doing some television. When she gave her best joke to Sarah Silverman, and Silverman killed with it, a writer was born. Her television-writing career took off when she wrote a semi-autobiographical spec pilot about a former nighttime soap opera television actress who gets sent to rehab, called “Rude Awakening.” Showtime bought the show, which ran for 55 episodes. Lonow has been creating and writing television ever since: “Good Girls Don’t” for Oxygen; “Accidentally On Purpose” for CBS and “How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life)” for ABC.
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