New mom Sarah Chalke — who played Dr. Elliot Reid on Scrubs for eight seasons — is returning to ABC with a comedy project executive produced by Arianna Huffington.
The actress has joined the cast of Freshmen, which centers on the friendship of three freshmen members of Congress — two men and a woman — who live together in Washington.
Chalke will play the unlucky in love Jane, a sharp and funny freshman Congresswoman who was the VP at a multi-billion dollar company when she was just 28, and who won her district with the largest margin of any candidate since 1977.
Freshmen is expected to premiere this fall.