Michael J. Fox's highly anticipated new sitcom, The Michael J. Fox Show, adds Anne Heche to the cast.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Heche will play Susan Rodriguez-Jones, the foil to Fox's character. The Michael J. Fox Show features Fox as Mike Henry, a New York City TV anchor who has taken a five-year break due to the onset of Parkinson's disease, but decides to go back to work. His family is a rambunctious bunch that support his decision.
Fox's real life battle with the disease surely has a connection with the sitcom. Parkinson's is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain that controls movement.
LATimes describes Rodriguez-Jones as "sharp, savvy and tough-as-nails." The rivalry between the two characters began when Heche's character was Henry's supervisor years ago at a news station in Orlando, Fla. and "lost" Henry in the Everglades.
Heche previously starred in the NBC sitcom Save Me and was a regular on HBO’s Hung and ABC’s Men in Trees.
Michael J. Fox Show premieres Sept. 26 on NBC.
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