Meg Ryan Developing TV Comedy

Meg_Ryan_2013Meg Ryan will exec produce and star in a new halfhour, single-cam comedy from Universal TV that is in development at NBC.

Ryan would play a sunny, non-confrontational single mom (with teenage kids, an almost-ex-husband and a meddlesome mother-in-law) who returns to her New York publishing house where she was once a brilliant editor to find that she now works for Brenda, a neurotic 30-year-old who was once her former intern. Trying to keep everyone happy, Ryan’s character ends up overcomplicating every situation.

Marc Lawrence, who will script, and Jane Berliner (Ryan’s manager) will also exec produce. Lawrence (“Miss Congeniality”) began his career on NBC comedy “Family Ties.”

Ryan becomes the latest in an increasingly long line of film stars segueing into television.

Source: Variety