Sharon Horgan

Courtney Cox Returning To Horror In “Shining Vale” Series

Courtney Cox, best known for her roles on “Friends” and as Gale Weathers in Wes Craven’s Scream franchise, is making her return to the genre with Starz’s “Shining Vale” series. The series from co-creators Sharon Horgan (“Divorce”) and Jeff Astrof (“Trial & Error”). Deadline is reporting that Dearbhla Walsh (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) will direct the pilot. “Written by Horgan and Astrof, Shining Vale is about a dysfunctional family that moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Pat (Courteney Cox), the mom, who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed — turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same. Everyone has their demons — but are Pat’s real? Or is this the portrait of a typical family torn apart by mental illness?” “Cox’s Patricia “Pat” Phelps is a former “wild child” who rose to fame by writing a raunchy, drug-and-alcohol-soaked women’s empowerment novel