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Daughter of Packers coach stars in new series

Kendra Meinert
USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Jacquelyn Zook

When “The 60 Yard Line” makes its way to Titletown for a premiere later this year, Green Bay Packers fans will get a chance to see Jacquelyn Zook playing a local on the big screen, but until then, look for the daughter of Packers special teams coordinator Ron Zook in “How to Get Featured on Deadline.”

The pilot for the six-episode sketch series is already available on YouTube, with episodes released each Thursday on the show’s website at https://jacquelynzook.wixsite.com/mysite-1. The second episode debuts this week.

Zook, whose acting credits include “Scandal” and “Criminal Minds,” co-wrote and co-stars in the series with Artie O’Daly. It satirizes the manufacturing of a star, as a fame-hungry actress (Zook) convinces a Deadline editor (O’Daly) to write articles about her self-made rise to fame.

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Zook and O’Daly starred in the original 2014 short of the same name. When that project generated buzz, they pitched a full web series to Cap Gun TV, which had just successfully sold the web series Teachers as a sitcom for TV Land.

In “The 60,” Zook plays the sister of Zagger, the Packers-obsessed fan who blows his wedding fund money to buy a house next to Lambeau Field to party on game days. She had to miss the world premiere of the film, which was shot primarily in Green Bay, on April 2 in Madison because she was on her honeymoon at the time.

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