Betty Confidential has the news that David Arquette, an executive producer on his wife Courteney Cox’s inexplicably hit show, Cougar Town, disagrees with her stunt casting. Courtney has been trying to woo her former Friends costars to make cameos on the show, but David thinks it’s a bad idea and has been trying to talk her out of it. It was thought that Jennifer Aniston might boost ratings with a guest appearance, but rumors have her fed up with television and vowing to stick to film. That’s probably how Arquette likes it, considering that he’s allegedly against any Friends stars on the show.

We heard a while ago that Cougar Town producers were thinking of changing the show’s name to “Friends and Neighbors,” which never happened and was eventually scrapped. Was Arquette behind that decision too?

Text below has mild spoilers for Cougar Town:

A reunion of Friends has caused a riff in Courteney Cox and David Arquette’s marriage. Although there won’t be a Friends reunion show, Courteney Cox is talking with her ex-cast members to appear on an episode of Cougar Town.

“David isn’t happy about it,” a source revealed to BettyConfidential exclusively. “But, Courteney has called Jen (Aniston), Matt (LeBlanc), David (Schwimmer) and Matthew (Perry) to appear on her show. David doesn’t’ think it’s a good idea– especially if they are all going to appear on one episode.”

He’s worried about the integrity of her series. Our source adds: “He told Courteney, ‘This is not Friends. This is Cougar Town.’ They kind of got into an argument about it during a staff meeting. He wasn’t happy when Courteney asked Lisa Kudrow to appear on their show last season, but Courteney won that battle.”

This time David isn’t backing down to his wife and it’s causing some serious bickering at home. “Now, he’s totally against the rest of the cast appearing on Cougar Town,” adds our source. He doesn’t have anything against the actors, but he thinks that was a part of her past and this is the future. Fans will only see Monica Gellar all over again when they watch the show, and he thinks Courteney needs to shake that image.”

That’s why David pushed her to do Dirt, our source claims. “She needed to play a character that is totally opposite of Monica”. But, it looks like Courteney will win this fight as well. She’s already come up with a great plot that will involve Matthew as a long-ago boyfriend, who she bumps into causing a stir in her relationship with Grayson (Josh Hopkins). And, Jen may play a bitchy woman who steps into Courteney’s real estate office looking for a home.

“Lisa Kudrow will also make an appearance, but she guest starred on the show last season as an angry dermatologist, so she won’t have such a major role.”

[From Betty Confidential]

This probably isn’t the only thing that Arquette and Cox are arguing about. We’ve heard rumors for some time that their marriage of 11 years is in trouble. There were affair rumors concerning Cox and a hot male co-star and Courteney admitted in a recent interview that she argues with David frequently and that they’ve “done couples therapy in the past.” I have to give her props for being honest, but it sounds like she’s bracing us for bad news, too. Adding more to the “trouble at home” rumors, David has been spotted out partying and can be seen in a paparazzi video from last week (below) drunkenly pontificating outside a club on the overturn of Prop 8. At least he had friends driving him.

Getting back to the “integrity” of Cox’s show and ensuring her character isn’t confused with Monica – does all of that even matter at this point? Cox needs to increase ratings and buzz for Cougar Town. Her last show bombed and she’s been hustling since Friends ended. She’s doing Scream IV for goodness sake. It’s not like any of that matters at this point.

Here are some amusing photos of Courteney on the set of Cougar Town with Busy Phillips. Credit: VAH/Fame Pictures. Courteney and David are shown at an event on 6/1/10. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures