Eliza Coupe To Star in USA Comedy Pilot "Benched"

Eliza Coupe may be getting her happy ending after all. The actress is set to star in the USA comedy pilot "Benched." This pilot joins comedy pilots Divide & Conquer and Love Is Dead as the network pushes to branch out into the comedic world. USA Network recently began airing reruns of Modern Family.

Eliza will be playing the role of Nina in "Benched."

Via THR:

The single-camera comedy focuses on Nina (Coupe), a dedicated, career-driven corporate attorney who has a public nervous breakdown after getting passed over for an expected promotion and finds herself working as a public defender. Her personal and professional worlds are turned upside down when she joins the ranks of the legal world's underdogs and she quickly realizes that the law isn't quite as fair as she once thought.

Eliza Coupe previously starred on the ABC comedy series Happy Endings.