Well, Patricia Heaton, the former star of "Everybody Loves Raymond" known for her openly conservative Christian views, has landed a new sitcom on Fox, and the premise of the show looks fantastic!
Heaton will play the host of a fancy lifestyle show, but her character ends up in prison for stealing money and not paying taxes. After spending two years locked up, she's released, penniless and decides to go live with her distant sister in Tennessee.
From Deadline:
Heaton and David Hunt executive produce under their FourBoys Entertainment banner along with Leifer, Gordon, Adam Griffin as well as Aaron Kaplan and Melanie Frankel for Kapital Entertainment. Jessie Abbott is the executive in charge for Kapital. The comedy is produced by Fox Entertainment Studios and Kapital Entertainment.
If picked up to series, the show would be fully owned by Fox and would be filmed in Nashville, where Heaton is a part-time resident and Kapital shot its Kevin Williamson CBS All Access series Tell Me a Story.
Fox recently used the script-to-series model for its first fully owned live-action comedy series, the upcoming Animal Control.
Leifer, a four-time Emmy nominee for her work on Seinfeld and The Larry Sanders Show, currently is co-executive producer on Hacks and consulting producer on Curb Your Enthusiasm. She is repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Felker Toczek.
