Necessary Roughness is a USA network television series that was picked up in 2011. The show centers on a Long Island woman who was recently divorced, and in order to make money, she gets a job as a therapist for a professional football team. Her career is taken to the next level when other athletes, musicians, and politicians request her therapy. While handling her therapy practice she must balance her career with being a decent single mother. The series is based on the true story of a female psychologist Dr. Donna Dannenfelser who worked for the New York Jets. The show was initially titled Dr. Donna, but was later changed to Necessary Roughness.
Necessary Roughness features callie Thorne, Marc Blucas, Scott Cohen, and Mehcad Brooks in association with Sony Pictures Television, Universal Cable Productions, and Still Married Productions. In 2012 Callie Thorne was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series.
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Necessary Roughness (Atlanta) Donna Rosenstein, 800 S. Main St., Ste. 202, Burbank, CA 91506.
*Casting Update*
Looking for tall males, 6’1″ and taller, to be state troopers for Necessary Roughness. Works the 18th and 19th and 23rd in the GA Dome. Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday! If you are avail please e-mail CLCAvailCheck@gmail.com. Include 3 pics (head and body) age, ht, wt, phone # and email address. Put “State Trooper” in the subject box. Must be able to do all three day. Thanks!
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