Leighton Meester to तारा, स्टार in लोमड़ी, फॉक्स time-travel comedy pilot Making History 

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Adam Pally to star in Fox's time-travel comedy pilot

In her return to TV, Leighton Meester is ready to make history. Or at least remake history in

alum has signed on as the female lead in Fox’s time-travel comedy pilot, the network confirmed on Wednesday.

Executive produced by Chris Miller and Phil Lord (

 centers on three friends who whisk their way through time and see major historical events, which lends complication to their lives back in 2016. The trio is led by a super-smart, maladjusted computer science professor named Dan (and played by

vet Adam Pally), who invented time travel. Meester will star as Deborah, a self-educated colonial woman that they meet in the 18th century who espouses her modern views on gender and racial equality, which don’t quite play in 1775.

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