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Having been working in feature films recently, such as Hairspray and the Lifetime movie Living Proof, Amanda Bynes is returning to series television with a new role in the ABC pilot Canned, says the Hollywood Reporter.
Obviously a sign of our times, the project is about a group of friends who are all fired during a corporate shake-up. Bynes will play one of that central group, named Sarabeth, who is described as a native Midwestern girl who often spent nights at the office to get her work done.
We just realized that we've been writing here on Vulture for nearly four months, and we have yet to work Amanda Bynes into one of our pieces (for shame!). Although her career has hit a bit of a rough patch of late, we still think that Bynes is one of the most gifted comediennes of her generation. The only thing keeping her back from having an Anna Faris–type career is one hit film, and we think SNL would be the perfect showcase for her talents (especially considering her background in sketch on The Amanda Show).


