Deadline is reporting that the untitled mother/daughter pilot at CBS has found its leads in Hannah Simone (New Girl) and The Royals alum Elizabeth Hurley.
From Corinne Kingsbury (Fam) and writing partners John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Spider-Man: Homecoming), the multi-cam revolves around a young married couple who loses their regular babysitter and subsequently reach out to the wife’s mother for help. However, once they do so, they quickly realize that she might need more raising than their kid.
Simone will play hard-working television producer Penelope, whose career is taking off at the same time as her airline pilot husband Josh. Since they need more help taking care of their toddler Levi, they decide to enlist Penelope’s mother Georgia.
Hurley will portray Georgia, a fun-loving, slightly immature single mother who chaos follows. She had Georgia when she was a teenager and though she was a loving mother to Penelope, their roles have now essentially reversed.
This series is one of several comedies in development at CBS, joining B Positive, about a man seeking a kidney donation who finds his donor in an unexpected place; The United States of Al, revolving around the relationship between a Marine and his interpreter; genre comedy Ghosts, starring iZombie‘s Rose McIver; legal series Jury Duty; The Three of Us, following siblings who rally around one of their own when they get divorced; and foster kid multi-cam Please Hold for Frankie Wolfe.
In addition to her role on the FOX comedy, Simone’s television credits include Single Parents, 1600 Penn, and Weird City, while Hurley has appeared on the likes of Runaways, Gossip Girl, and Christabel.
