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Courteney Cox returns to TV in ‘Dirt’

She plays a tabloid editor in this FX drama pilot

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Courtney Cox will play tabloid editor Lucy Spiller in "Dirt."
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updated 10:13 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2006

LOS ANGELES - When “Friends” left television, so did Courteney Cox, who played Monica Geller on the long-running series.

But the actress is coming back in “Dirt,” a drama pilot for the FX network, in which she will play tabloid editor Lucy Spiller.

Production on the pilot is scheduled to begin in March.

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“We are absolutely thrilled that Courteney has chosen ‘Dirt’ for her return to series television,” Nick Grad, the network’s vice president of original programming, said in a statement Tuesday.

Along with the show’s director, Matthew Carnahan, Cox and her husband, David Arquette, are credited as executive producers.

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