My DVR accidentally recorded Cougar Town and against my better judgment, I watched an entire episode of the new fall ABC comedy starring Courteney Cox.

Cox herself now 46 years old, plays Jules Cobb, a recently divorced mother of a teenage boy, trying to get on with her life? Get laid? Find love? Revenge? It’s not clear. But she’s quirky. She’s a “cougar,” a large stalk-and-ambush predatory cat or a woman over 40 into younger men and there’s a whole town of them apparently.

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Courteney Cox has been on the prowl for a new comedy series. The 45-year-old actress whose last foray into comedy network television was NBC's fan favorite Friends found it with ABC's Cougar Town (Wednesdays, 9:30 ET/PT).

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Watching Cougar Town the other night, it occurred to me that the show owes as much to the “don’t forget to breathe/live in the moment” genre of Oprah episodes as it does to the ribald “git some!” comedy of Judd Apatow.

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As expected, a number of last week's highly-anticipated premieres dipped from their opening night numbers, but none suffered a perilous fall Wednesday night. ABC's Modern Family and Cougar Town won the 9 p.m. and 9:30 half hours respectively, while Fox's Glee stayed in third, behind ABC and CBS' Criminal Minds.