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I Hate My Teenage Daughter Premieres on FOX on November 30, 2011

I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER is a new multi-camera comedy about two best friends who are single moms struggling to raise their difficult and over-privileged teenage daughters.

ANNIE (Emmy Award winner Jaime Pressly, "My Name Is Earl") and NIKKI (Tony Award winner Katie Finneran, "Wonderfalls") are former high school outcasts whose pasts inform their current parenting styles. Annie, who was raised in an ultra-strict, über-religious household where she had little-to-no freedom, pretty much allows her daughter, SOPHIE (Kristi Lauren, "You"), to do whatever she wants. Nikki, once an unpopular, overweight social pariah, has reinvented herself as a pretty Southern belle whose top priority is providing her daughter, MACKENZIE (Aisha Dee, "Dead Gorgeous"), with the childhood she never had.

Sophie and Mackenzie are best friends, which leads to a lot of co-parenting for Annie and Nikki. They have given the girls everything they asked for and everything they never had: clothes, money and self-esteem. The unintended consequence is they have created two mean girls just like the ones who tortured them years ago. Sophie finds her mother embarrassing and mocks her at every opportunity, but she secretly needs her mom and knows that her behavior is not always appropriate. Mackenzie, on the other hand, is the more manipulative of the daughters - she knows how to work her mother's insecurities to her benefit.

Annie's ex-husband, MATT (Eric Sheffer Stevens, "As The World Turns"), wants to be a good parent, but is too clueless to know what that even means. That leaves his brother, JACK (Kevin Rahm, "Desperate Housewives," "Judging Amy"), an attractive, high-powered attorney, to serve as more of a father figure for Sophie. Jack's meddling would annoy Annie more if she didn't have such a crush on him. GARY (Chad Coleman, "The Wire"), Nikki's ex, also tries to help raise his challenging daughter, but the couple's complicated relationship often makes his involvement more difficult.

As their daughters begin to experience their first high school dances and other life-changing teen events, Annie and Nikki are often reminded of their own tortured adolescent years. But when Sophie and Mackenzie's mean-girl antics cross the line, the moms quickly realize that they must, for the first time, dole out some real punishment and fix what is broken. They have no idea how to do that, but they do know one thing: They can't do it without each other.

I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER is produced by Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television. Sherry Bilsing-Graham ("The New Adventures of Old Christine," "Friends"), Ellen Kreamer ("The New Adventures of Old Christine," "Friends") and Andy Ackerman ("Seinfeld," "The New Adventures of Old Christine") are executive producers. The series is written by Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer. Ackerman directed the pilot.

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The evil looks on grounded day was amusing but I'm surprised that Sophie and Mackenzie lied about the reason for locking the student in the school bathroom especially saying he's racist

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Nikki becomes outraged when she learnt that Gary is dating someone new considering they are divorced was amusing but Annie's reaction when Jack shows up with a hot date was priceless

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The girls did look good at the Cotillion but Annie getting the wrong idea of what Matt said was amusing and missing the father - daughter dance was predictable but Mackenzie's dad crying was embarrassing

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After Annie reluctantly agrees to let Sophie start dating a sixteen-year-old boy Nikki tells her what she did with Mackenzie's boyfriend which was sending him on errands to fetch tampons which was amusing but finding out he has a son was a surprise

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This has now been added to the Flash site

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Nikki's Spanish was impressive considering she learnt from a TV show but Annie was terrible and the guys being in charge of getting the girls to finish their important school project didn't go to plan

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Annie accepting a dinner date with her former Spanish instructor, Alex was interesting considering how nervous she was but Sophie saying she was hooker hot was amusing

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Annie deciding to take the entire gang on a road trip in Matt's tour bus for spring break was interesting but thinking the road trip will be a great opportunity to spend quality time with the girls was crazy and they could of done a better job at making us think Annie was really driving the bus

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Annie and Nikki befriending their nemesis to get her to write letters of recommendation for Sophie and Mackenzie was surprising but Deanna going after Gary was amusing as he had no idea

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Sophie telling her mother to change as she was inappropriately dressed was amusing but getting changed in-front of the blind was priceless

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Allowing the girls to try out for cheer-leading in the hope they will go to Las Vegas was amusing but one of the girls was bound to fail the try out it's just a shame it was Mackenzie as it was Sophie's mom that was against it

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Annie getting embarrassed when she asked if Sophie could bring something to the party was amusing as he wanted Sophie to bring her but spying on her was was embarrassing

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$800 for a ski trip for them to come back with no photos of them skiing was amusing but their reason was priceless because a friend lost her phone

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Sophie moving in with her father was amusing as he had no idea but him lettings her do what she want was strange as it affected his social life but the end was funny as he missed the kiss