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Cast shuffle on Richter pilot

By Colin Mahan - TV.com
October 17, 2006 at 11:43:00 AM | more stories by this author

Actress who plays comedic detective's wife is replaced.

Clea Lewis

Clea Lewis

Andy Richter is trading in his wife. At least, his onscreen character is.

Amy Farrington, who was slated to play the wife in Richter's NBC midseason replacement series Andy Barker, PI, has been auf'd (to use the parlance of Project Runway). In her place will step Clea Lewis, seen in the sitcoms Ellen and Maggie Winters. No reason for the change was given.

In Barker, Richter plays an accountant who rents the office of a former detective. Since people keep assuming he is a detective, becoming one is the path of least resistance. The show is executive-produced by Conan O'Brien and costars Arrested Development's Tony Hale.

This will be Richter's third foray into series comedy. 2002's Andy Richter Controls the Universe was a cult favorite midseason replacement series that ran for three months on Fox. 2004's Quintuplets was a short-lived family comedy about raising 15-year-old quintuplets, also on Fox.

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4 Comments

 
sitcomfreak
haha you're right no one probably cares! who cares about a new, mostlikely to be crappy comedy
Posted 10/19/2006 11:05am
krazy4crack
not interested...
Posted 10/17/2006 10:23pm
avmon
If 30 Rock is still on midseason (fingers crossed), maybe Andy Barker, P.I. would be a good follow-up since both shows are produced by former SNL writers...
Posted 10/17/2006 8:57pm
shsteve
"No reason for the change was given." No reason cos no-one cares.

Thank you. I'll be here all week.
Posted 10/17/2006 7:21pm

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