: Dr. Quinn Times

JANE SEYMOUR has put her frontier days as "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" behind her and has gone totally modern. Last summer, you saw her trying to charm the pants off OWEN WILSON in the 'Wedding Crashers,' and now she's the star of "Modern Men," a series on which she plays a life coach to three guys who need guidance in how to get -- and keep -- a girl!"You know what? Once I did 'Wedding Crashers,' I realized how much fun it was to be funny," Jane tells ET's KEVIN FRAZIER, who popped by to visit Jane on the set. "I just thought, 'You know what?' It's time to be funny.'"Truth be told, Jane originally was supposed to be doing a sitcom during the time she was starring in "Dr. Quinn." Jane's hit TV series originally started out as a TV movie, but the ratings were so high, it went on to become a series. So her interest in comedy is nothing new and the schedule for a half-hour show works so much better as she juggles motherhood, marriage to actor/producer JAMES KEACH and her painting."I find it very easy to balance things when you love things as much as I do," Jane says. "Really, doing a sitcom is much better for me than doing 'Dr. Quinn.' For example, there I worked 18-hour days every day of my life. This is an easy job for me, compared to that. And I love it. I enjoy it. I only do it, because I enjoy it. It's not my main source of income. I do other things. When I'm not being asked to rehearse a scene, my trailer usually has a couple of paintings going or some design work going. That's something I find I can do while I'm acting, and I enjoy that. I've got two kids in school right now. The others are either graduated or in college. It's really not quite as bad as it sounds." MAX GREENFIELD, JOSH BRAATEN and ERIC LIVELY star as the three childhood friends, now in their late 20s in "Modern Men," who go to Dr. Victoria Strangel (Jane) for help. And Victoria definitely challenges the guys' comfort zones. "Modern Men" premieres Friday, March 17, at 9:30 p.m."I actually went to a life coach," Jane admits. "When I got this role, I just thought, 'Well, let's go see what a life coach does.' It was very interesting. I subjected my poor 23-year-old daughter to being the person that was being life coached, and I listened in. I watched this woman do her thing. I thought it was pretty amazing. I thought it was actually a great way to get an overview of where you're at, what your issues are and how you can go on with the day, rather than lying there and signing up for the next seven years for therapy. It's not like serious therapy. It's more like how do you figure out how to have good relationships with yourself and with other people."