New Contest: CAMPUS LADIES: OXYGEN NETWORK

PARTY ON!

OXYGEN GOES BACK TO SCHOOL IN ITS NEW COMEDY SERIES CAMPUS LADIES

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Cheryl Hines Executive Produces as Two Middle-Aged Ladies

Take on College and Party Like Freshmen;

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 The days of beer funnels, communal bathrooms and all-nighters are back. Oxygen knows you're never to old to party like a freshman in its new improvised comedy series Campus Ladies, Sundays at 10 p.m. The series is executive produced by Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm), comediennes Carrie Aizley and Christen Sussin, Paul Young, Peter Principato and co-executive producer E. Brian Dobbins of Principato-Young Entertainment (Reno 911).

The series follows Joan (Aizley) & Barri (Sussin), two middle-aged housewives (one a widow, the other a divorcee), who decide it's better to be a freshman at 40 than unhappy housewives forever. Ditching the life of minivans and malls for keg stands and co-ed dorms, Joan and Barri enroll in school in search for the wild college years they missed the first time around. Throughout the ten half-hour episode series, the co-eds take on the fictional University of the Midwest (UMW) with wild naiveté and optimism, gliding through the raunchiest of situations with cheerful abandon.

 "We love Campus Ladies – it's fresh comedy where the characters do things you rarely see on television," says Debby Beece, President of Programming and Marketing, Oxygen.  "The storylines go to unexpected places, but because the ladies are so sweet, the show has a ton of heart. Everybody can relate to Joan and Barri – they're so uncool, they're cool."

"Unlike traditional sitcoms on television, Campus Ladies scripts don't go through a million network executives – they're improvised by the actors," says Cheryl Hines, Executive Producer. "Through improvisation, the actors make the characters deeper and more loveable. You can hear the voice of the actor, rather than the voice of the writers."