Cox to star in 'Cougar Town' comedy

Courteney Cox has signed up to appear in ABC's new single-camera comedy Cougar Town.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scrubs duo Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel will write the project.

Cougar Town will focus on the life of newly-single attractive mother (Cox), who has a 17-year-old son.

Lawrence, who worked with Cox on Friends and three upcoming episodes of Scrubs, described the actress as "comedically fearless".

Speaking about the show, he said: "Forty-year-old women on TV are so beautiful and perfect and wrinkle-free.

"People don't do the reality of it, and there is a real comedy area about a woman who is talking about Botox, about having sex with the lights on and how her body is changing."

The show is expected to begin shooting in early 2009.