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The Comeback S03E02 (2026)
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00:01you've arrived at your destination yes we have still don't know why she took me on the freeway
00:07hello valerie cherish id please sure to see brandon wallach to see brandon wallach yeah
00:14thanks yeah okay patience in five four ready going in to see brandon wallach the new head
00:21of the studio about a possible new multi-cam more than possible val it's a definite offer
00:27did you get me on camera patience yeah okay billy nothing's definite yet okay because still not
00:35comfortable with the whole ai writing thing not entirely sure it's even legal okay please do not
00:41bring up the legality of ai so not sexy don't be a lawyer vow yes okay yeah you're gonna have
00:48to
00:48address it okay because much as i'd like to star in a sitcom again have to be okay with my
00:55union
00:59hello hello hello oh no one's here no no no no i'm here i'm here hello brandon hello valerie
01:06cherish we all know who you are valerie thank you so much we were all just so thrilled to have
01:11you in
01:11here last oh well this is my manager a producing partner billy stanton tom brown right no billy
01:18stanton no uh pal tom brown is the designer i'm wearing oh that cute skirt uh well first of all
01:24apologies for the zoom uh we're just scattered all over the world and we just think this would be an
01:29easier way for the whole team to focus in this way right oh sure yeah so there's a whole team
01:34oh yeah
01:35yeah they're all here guys just just pin yourselves pin pin pin pin yourselves for valerie okay don't say i
01:39didn't
01:40know you valerie hello everyone absolutely everyone question is there anyone not on this zoom
01:47that's great that's great okay guys just don't pin yourselves and come back as you're needed all right
01:52valerie hi ridley mcintosh head of marketing and sales really is my my right hand woman person when
01:58brandon left youtube to become the president of new net his very first call was to marketing and he
02:03was passionate how can we make free programming people have bought enough apps couldn't agree more
02:09ridley yeah you know i was on that wonderful show mrs hat you know mrs hat a few seasons ago
02:17you know
02:17part-time gardener solved crimes her husband was an ex-police chief
02:23yeah anyway it was on epics right of course people had enough apps yes you know so yeah um ridler
02:31i hear
02:31yeah okay what's exciting is we have come up with a way to mitigate the cost of content
02:36with breaks in the programming to advertise product commercials exactly valerie everything old is new
02:43again and here at new net we're we're just we're totally embracing that hey i am arbor elliot head of
02:49programming and content and i love sitcoms well then i love you arbor valerie egypt o'connor new net
02:57research and development hello egypt our latest research has shown us that viewers want to
03:01break from the complicated confusing storylines of all these dark streaming shows yeah it's like
03:06wait a minute the doctor is a spy and a zombie like what that's so arbor and when people want
03:11to laugh
03:12a moody single camera comedy isn't much of a fun break we want to make affordable comfortable
03:17wonderful television with a trusted comedy star named valerie cherish who me you have a unique
03:25recognizability across three different television platforms you do sitcom having starred in i'm it
03:30and room and board reality tv two seasons of the comeback and premium prestige cable your emmy
03:36winning best supporting actress turn is mallory in seeing red wow and mrs hat the traitors come on
03:45yeah well great to be picked for a traitor and terrible to be sent home second episode so yeah
03:52really disappointing but the meme trust me he's a faithful i know that for a fact
03:57how well i just i i feel like he's a faithful as am i you know don't you wish you
04:05knew who the
04:05traitors were i do stressful stressful stressful and it was stressful from 90s tv right up to the hot
04:18meme of today valerie cherish and we decided we want to make a show around her and that's what we've
04:25done
04:25around not so not the wife of the lead it is all about this funny complicated single woman of a
04:32certain age funny check complicated check single uh don't tell my husband wow okay um and uh woman
04:42of a certain age so what what's the age you're certain of 60 well that's a tv 60 which is
04:48really 50
04:4850 50 well if i could turn back time that's my share
04:56anyway yeah this all just is thrilling okay um my manager and i producing partner uh yeah and i
05:05just have one concern sure anything anything yeah
05:15okay um just one concern and that is um well look it would be great if we could talk about
05:23the ai of
05:23it all now everybody uh say thank you to to valerie thank you and we'll recoup on this later thank
05:29you
05:31what it's over what happened why did you bring up ai because you didn't yeah so not sexy
05:40hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey just to finish what um you okay yeah i thought you
05:47were in new york
05:47yeah no no no no i was just down the hall in my office um that's okay um uh right
05:57about why i just
05:58ended the zoom yeah it shouldn't have mentioned the ai it's not not sexy yeah just i'm i'm worried
06:04about the no writers of course we have writers we have to have writers you have writers there
06:09are writers okay there are writers we have a husband and wife team josh and mary abridge
06:15are going to be our head writers uh alongside alice's star ai program and yeah josh and mary
06:21got a deal with no net so you'll love them and they have a deal so they're good they're great
06:26that's great okay yeah one's a woman which is really great because the show's about a woman
06:31they could fetch four women in a dog park so they know women and dogs and um and the writers
06:38guild is is fine with this we are within the writers guild agreement yeah so are we in the
06:44valerie cherish business well uh let me think about it uh how quick can i say yes yes well great
06:51right
06:51but we have to go over to the deal points uh valerie and i will need to be executive producers
06:55yeah we'll
06:57so that's a yes that's a yes oh my god oh before i go we've been kind of uh off
07:02the record about the
07:03whole ai thing you know just keep people you know on a need to know basis so i'm curious uh
07:08how did you
07:09hear about it valerie oh oh well i um heard how did i i don't yeah i don't know i
07:19just heard i don't
07:20don't know how that's all right it's okay it's good just just uh okay here's the thing in our
07:24business ai uh well it has bad branding right yeah yeah and so we're looking at these first six
07:32episodes as a proof of concept and when we see that the show works we're going to go wide with
07:36the
07:36with the whole ai information along with a likely pickup of a few more episodes but but till then it's
07:43it's a secret you know secret yeah good smart not that i'm concerned about any of this ai is is
07:48really
07:48extraordinary after all it picked you it picked me it did oh well i feel like i'm in good hands
07:56you think sure that's great okay and thank you so much for coming all the way in from
08:02your office just down the hall right means a lot so thank you executive producers finally this is
08:13so exciting it is exciting yeah you could have told me there were writers though billy then i could
08:18have had the meeting last week you know that's why i was so worried now i look difficult you know
08:23about
08:23the writers okay well then how'd you know about the secret i'm sleeping with one of the execs
08:28yeah the one on the top left i don't remember who that was do you think the zoom is still
08:33on time to
08:33go yeah i'm home i know i was tracking you oh how's your meeting oh it was great they've got
08:46writers
08:46writers guild is good with it so i'm not a traitor i have exciting news as well you found your
08:52rolex i knew
08:53it wasn't the movers no it was the movers okay well i just wish we had these cameras sooner okay
08:58what's your exciting news oh my uh sohouse membership card came i got the app let's go across the street
09:05for dinner what tonight yeah aren't you already eating yeah but who cares look they have an opening
09:11at seven or nine thirty nine thirty come on are we in spain okay what's that that's right i'm gonna
09:18take a shower and then change i'm gonna wear my new glasses
09:26this is a hip crowd kind of young yeah young is cool it's a good vibe look at that view
09:37well that's the same view we have from our place no it's a little different we can't see century
09:41city well it's the same view with a membership fee
09:48i'm gonna have one more of these crackers all right because you know i love a cracker with a view
09:56it's really good i know you like those flatbreads yeah used to get them at trader joe's in brentwood
10:02you don't get these anymore well where is there a trader joe's here everywhere did we leave room
10:07for dessert he did i have a show cool glasses thank you um i want the chocolate cake and the
10:19check
10:19please wonderful you're so right about these bigger glasses val so good yeah the oversized thing is
10:28what's happening now no i am what's happening now hey greg over here oh motherfucker what what
10:36happened i just saw greg greg yeah from the old fern no i know who greg is why is he
10:42here he's not
10:43cool enough to be here oh hi um we can't stay well i thought you wanted chocolate cake no i
10:49can't
10:49be here he can't see me mark you didn't do anything wrong do you want the cake to go no
10:55yes yeah mark i'm
10:59going to say it again you told a joke at work at a time when jokes were illegal no one
11:05cares now okay
11:06okay let's go let's go i don't want to be here yeah i get that get my jacket it's okay
11:14go he's looking the other way phil valerie hi well that's sharon case casting director she does
11:23all the sitcoms she's with jane fonda so you want to meet jane fonda no no i want to go
11:28well i can't be
11:30rude i'll be right back hi phil great to see you do you know jane fonda hi hi
11:41valerie chair nice to meet you valerie so how do you two know each other did sharon cast you in
11:46something or um we're walking buddies you know we walk around the neighborhood together oh i love
11:55walking it's my favorite exercise my um husband mark and i walked over here tonight yeah yeah we live
12:03just right there in um sierra towers so beautiful yeah yeah would it be okay if um i got you
12:12for my
12:12socials sure great then don't worry i don't do anything political why not well where do you start
12:20you know that's how i feel it's overwhelming you know it's okay sure okay well look who i just ran
12:30into miss jane fonda vote funny yeah uh thank you it was very nice to meet you really nice to
12:42finally meet you okay all right yeah bell huh oh oh god are you okay i just slipped on my
12:51napkin okay
12:53i'm okay um yes so stupid and so me uh i heard about your new net show oh already it
13:02just happened
13:03today yeah well it's really exciting yeah well you know nothing extraordinary about it well you're
13:09executive producing right yes yeah i am yeah well i would love it if you would consider me i mean
13:15this comes on my favorite well and you're the best yeah so uh keep me in mind it'd really be
13:23great
13:23to be working again well you are top of mind yeah and i'm sure this time it'll be different
13:30just because on uh room and board remember i wanted tom selick and you said not interested
13:36and just so you know he did call me back and he would have done it so ah yeah um
13:43i'm sorry my bad
13:45sure it'll be different this time now oh okay that's my husband oh okay your knee is bleeding tall yeah
13:56i was stuck talking to greg because you had to go and see jane fonda all right well what did
14:01he say
14:02nice to see you it's pathetic pathetic mark it probably was nice to see you all right you two were
14:09friends yeah well if we're friends why didn't he have a conversation instead of sending that partner email
14:14letting me go and i'm just standing there and then and then the waiter comes over hands me this
14:19fucking doggy bag and greg looks at me like i i can't afford to waste food oh mark it's not
14:24possible he thought that okay that was your golden parachute yeah well i was humiliated okay
14:33well did you mention uh finance dudes no i didn't mention finance dudes it hasn't sold not yet
14:40where are you going i'm going into the kitchen to eat this fucking cake okay oh and this is la
14:47please
14:48don't ask me to walk anywhere again oh i won't well look what i'm buying at trader joe's it's mine
14:57and
14:57my husband's absolute favorite green olive fats flats italian lingual crackers yeah you can edit that out
15:06right yeah okay so i'm just a little bit confused though is this for trader joe's or is this for
15:10the
15:11italian ling you crackers it's potential collab for both that's the beauty right yeah yeah just gonna
15:18get more of these okay i'm gonna go get a neti pot okay i'm gonna check out i'm not buying
15:26you another neti
15:31god
15:32val
15:34what oh hey jane
15:42jane so are you are you working here now oh no i just stole a tropical shirt and started scanning
15:47shit you know for fun oh yeah i work here now and i have you to thank for that me
15:53yeah when i left you
15:54in new york that time oh did you find everything you're looking for today on your shopping list
15:59we're supposed to ask that up top oh um i sure did i felt so bad that i still owed
16:06you money back then
16:06i just said to myself get a real job you know yeah it wasn't just you it was everyone i
16:13owed
16:13everyone money running around making my documentaries begging people to care about the things that i cared
16:19about right the inevitable dangers of big tech or climate change impacting water resources for the
16:24navajo nation right or the fun of me starting a new chapter you know shame nothing happened with our
16:33dog right still got that great footage you know it just so wasn't working yeah and then the fires
16:40happened right all that craziness yeah just i thought about you guys oh yeah well we almost had to
16:46evacuate so yeah your house is good no our whole canyon burned because we didn't pay off the right
16:53fire department uh-huh so once i got the horses to safety in montana i just said you know what
16:58i'm
16:59done i transferred to this trader joe's out of the fire zone i got an apartment nearby walked to work
17:04getting your steps in and i even found a really great girlfriend that lives in my building oh it's one
17:11stop shopping good for you right and since i've paid everyone back my life is just so simple now
17:19do you have bags i do yeah i didn't bring them but so i have to buy some oh no
17:25you don't oh really oh
17:30thank you that's nice so how are you starring in a new show a multi-cam oh oh okay yeah
17:40okay
17:41uh it's uh 103 61. yeah okay i'm actually really happy for you that's i think it's gonna be a
17:48huge
17:48success yeah i mean that's really what people want right uh-huh nothing challenging well nothing they
17:54don't want to know about well just uh comfort food nothing new well this one's kind of new so you're
18:04telling me that it's not like the sitcoms of the 70s 80s 90s well it's not okay
18:13if it's written by ai maybe the first show to do it
18:18but don't tell anyone because that's a secret now wouldn't that make a good doc
18:25ready jane ready well i'm happy to report the script is good so funny ai is funny well first of
18:35all jane it's a secret right and yes so funny laughed out loud twice also found a few typos so
18:44you know what that says to me writers how's that that's the name of the show how's that yeah yeah
18:51and
18:51it's my character best catchphrase how's that yeah she runs a cute charming old new england b&b
18:59with the help of her hunk nephew beau so beth and beau b&b cute huh how's that such a
19:07good hook
19:07you know you can say it's so many different ways right how's that how's that how's that right oh so
19:17good oh there's billy yeah okay he's got his power skirt on not judging looks good yeah aren't you
19:26hot yeah but it's a whole look uh-huh yeah hi jane so glad you're doing this and i'm sure
19:33we'll figure
19:33out who's paying you okay come on let's go back this way yeah ready for our first production meeting
19:38executive producer yes i am so fun to get a seat at the big kids table right see how the
19:44donuts get
19:44made oh val yeah i got us these hats thought it'd be fun to wear them in as a bit
19:50oh no no no not a
19:52good bit billy executive producer no don't want the show runners to think i'm trying to run the show
19:57right not good okay fine so not a bit but patience at least can you get a photo of us
20:03yeah yeah okay stand
20:05here yeah let's stand here quick pick yeah okay got it oh my god what is this this is good
20:14yeah
20:15those are the show runners yeah yeah that's right there did you see that not a good first impression
20:21billy okay oh look gallery billy's named executive producer i'm gonna take a picture yeah careful
20:33careful my curse thank you so much for this i'm really just so grateful to be working my psychic
20:41told me i would i should believe them excuse me doll i gotta say oh yeah go go go go
20:46i'm gonna send
20:47you out the casting links hi barry josh valerie cherish here take the dog yeah miss lady thank you
20:54take her um just to say first episode so wonderful laughed out loud twice right yeah i just love the
21:05whole b and b world the premise isn't ours okay what's with the cameras uh if they all know about
21:12they why did we have to sign a nda oh no they they signed too yeah everyone
21:20we are so excited to be working with you when mary and i wrote the episode of fetch where delia
21:27played
21:27so beautifully by judith light yeah when she has to put her beloved kava poo down and she comes home
21:33alone to the empty house i was i was so blown away by how much online love we got from
21:40women of a
21:40certain age you know felt seen yeah maybe for the first time and i'm just honored to have the
21:48opportunity to be the voice of another vibrant and vital woman of a certain age such as yourself
21:54for all those ladies online to love so yeah which two jokes you said you left out loud twice okay
22:00spoken like a true writer you know which i was so relieved right that you because i could tell because
22:08there were some typos there should not be any typos well let me get my script did you put jokes
22:13in
22:13just a couple they're right there great keep teaching it coming back please okay yeah i'll find
22:22it because i have it i have a dog eared after our last show please never say dog anything to
22:27us
22:29okay i won't all right um oh yeah this is it well if she's moving in the bnb will stand
22:37for bimbo and
22:38breakfast that that wasn't us that was al oh al is there a third writer no we call a i
22:46al short for
22:48al assist because ain't nobody got time for that oh cute yeah that's so al for al assist so clever
22:56right
22:57that's a great cover right there's a third writer named al right works remotely never comes in which
23:02is believable right because writers are weird not you guys but you know keeps it a secret because you
23:09can just say let's send it to al for a joke right front of the cast crew such a great
23:15story so you're
23:16a writer no no i'm just trying to be helpful this is too much talking i agree yeah that's what's
23:23going to be so great you know about jimmy burroughs directing right because he says just enough he
23:29passed on this jimmy passed when his agent texted me oh okay well yeah i have a personal relationship
23:37with jimmy you know we did my last sitcom so yeah agents say no to everything right if it were
23:43up to
23:44his agent jimmy wouldn't have done cheers all right or will and grace or fraser or we have to go
23:50yeah we have kids okay so should it yeah we should get started what does that mean we have kids
24:00yes uh a valerie cherish to see jimmy i called ahead uh hold on yeah well what did he say
24:06on the
24:06phone he never spoke with him just left a message with the housekeeper that i was on the way
24:10come in oh he's not by the pool okay yeah thanks jen cool okay go go go you can stay
24:18around yeah
24:19no no i know jane no you got to stay back i said valerie cherished to see jimmy he's not
24:25valerie
24:26cherished in her camera caravan yeah besides she said he was at the pool so you know what if he
24:31swims
24:31naked right not nice can't do it no consent so it's closing you got to get on the other side
24:36of that
24:37no remember i have to be at trader those are at four in case you have to move the car
24:42okay
24:54you guys have enough sunblock on
24:59jimmy
25:01hi val hi i think you wore the wrong shoes for a home invasion and if you puncture a sprinkler
25:07line
25:08i don't know you okay well look at you king of the world uh king of this bel-air rental
25:14our new
25:14house isn't finished yet three years and counting that's a bit this is a rental this house and those
25:21kids hi valerie cherished uh sit down okay kind of hug first oh yeah oh yeah would you like some
25:31lemonade or water oh no don't want to be a bother well you came all this way to see me
25:35i'd like to
25:36give you something besides a polite no thank you oh no well not that far and you know i just
25:42needed to
25:42check that no it's from your agent you know and maybe you didn't read it yet oh no no i
25:48read it i read
25:49it because you were the lead sweetheart oh you were so good in that paulie g heroine series
25:54you really surprised me thank you yeah but you know that was a dramedy right dramedies are easy
26:00this is comedy and comedy needs jimmy this one doesn't well look it's a good part for you new heart
26:07meets faulty towers but with a woman yeah you'll be great thank you i've done a million of these
26:14stories there's nothing new in it for me oh the gate's opening go go go go oh she's coming she's
26:22coming go go go go it's her go go go oh boy okay no she's okay all right look at
26:31it she doesn't even
26:32have grasping how did you get jimmy to say yes oh just talk to him you know first he said
26:43no but
26:43then i told him how important this one was to me did you tell him it was ai i did
26:49yeah but jane it's
26:50a secret why is it a secret why can't people know about it bad branding you know everybody everywhere
26:57is worrying about ai right i for one am excited to let go and see what ai is all about
27:06turn right now it said turn it yeah that's all right mr jane last time i didn't listen to it
27:15and
27:15i saved five minutes okay i know better
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