"New Girl" Season 5 is back in FOX on a new time slot 8/7c. The show will welcome back a guy in Jess' life. Meanwhile, the copyright claims for the show was rejected by the judge.
One of the boys that Jess once dated will be coming back to the show played by David Walton for the character of Dr. Sam. He will appear in many episode arc as revealed by TVLine.
To recall, the two dated when Jess mistakenly went to him thinking that he is her blind date but it ended up with the two actually dating each other. But when Nick and Jess kissed, the two stopped dating since Jess was into Nick. Walton will appear in an episode that will air on March.
Meanwhile, there is a development about the copyright claims of screenwriters Stephanie Counts and Shari Gold who said that the "New Girl" is plagiarized from a script they wrote with the title "Square One." When the show premiered in Fox back in 2011, the two filed a 92-page complaint saying that the script was sent to William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME) agency and they even suggested for Zooey Deschanel to take the lead role, Huffington Post reported.
But according to a federal judge, there is not enough evidence that shows plagiarism. It is even said that the ideas are too general for copyright protection.
The writers claimed that show runner Elizabeth Meriwether have read the script since she is from WME but according to her the show is inspired by the Three's Company and the British comedy Green Wing.
"Both Square One and New Girl have leading female characters in their 20s/30s," the judge writes according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Plaintiffs argue that both protagonists are optimistic, sexually inexperienced, feminine, have a hard time fitting in, attempt to cook and be domestic for their roommates, and use outdated phrases. As the Court stated above, most of these similarities are ordinary and cannot be afforded protection. Moreover, while [New Girl protagonist] Jess is overtly quirky, awkward and goofy in her personality, [Square One protagonist] Greer does not possess similarly distinctive qualities."
