Zooey Deschanel's New Girl gets fifth season order... and starts filming right away to work around her growing baby bump
Zooey Deschanel's hit sitcom New Girl has been renewed for a fifth season, Fox announced on Tuesday.
And filming has already begun even before the fourth season has wrapped.
The plan is to get a few episodes of the comedy in the can before Zooey's growing baby bump becomes too difficult to hide, according to E! News.
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Blooming in red: Zooey Deschanel, pictured at Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday, will be back for a fifth season of New Girl, which has started filming to get a few episodes in the can before her baby bump is too big to hide
Then the cast will get a break until after the happy event.
The 35-year-old star revealed in January that she's having a baby with producer Jacob Pachenek, 42, who has since popped the question.
The pair began dating last August after her split from screenwriter Jamie Linden, her beau of two years.
The gang's all here: Hannah Simone, Lamorne Morris, Max Greenfield, Zooey and Jake Johnson, pictured at a Q&A at the 20th Century Fox lot last May, will all be back for season five
Show creator Liz Meriwether told E! News: 'I have been having a lot of fun in the writers’ room this year putting some of the relationship drama aside and just focusing on making the stories as funny as possible.
'Surprisingly, telling stories about smaller events in the characters’ lives has actually deepened the relationships on the show.
'It turns out the best way to tell a story about a relationship is to not tell a story about a relationship. I’m going to get that quote tattooed to my lower back later.'
Working girls: Zooey as Jess and Hannah Simone as Cece in the Valentine's Day episode in February
Zooey as Jess, Jake Johnson as Nick, Max Greenfield as Schmidt, Lamorne Morris as Winston and Hannah Simone as Cece will all be back.
But Damon Wayans Jr. has opted not to return as Coach
'We love Damon and are so lucky to have had him return for the past season-and-a-half,' Liz told TVLine. 'We are working on crafting an exit for him that will leave the door open for many more returns.'
Keeping it casual: Zooey hid her baby bump under a blue jacket as she and her producer fiancé Jacob Pechenik went for lunch at Hugo's Restaurant in the Studio City district of Los Angeles on March 21
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