HBO Laughing with
Manhattan Moms
By REUTERS from the
NYTimes on the Web, August 29, 2005
LOS ANGELES -- HBO has ordered
a comedy series pilot from a producer of the cable channel's suffragette
(sic*) movie "Iron Jawed Angels."
The project follows a group of thirtysomething upper-class Manhattan women as
they try to juggle motherhood with their careers, spouses and other
responsibilities.
The protagonist is a married mother who is as self-assured on the job as she is
insecure about being a parent to her preschooler son. She is surrounded by
a variety of friends with and without children, including a stay-at-home gay
dad.
It will shoot in the fall in New York. No talent is yet attached.
HBO declined comment.
The project is from Lydia Dean Pilcher, an executive producer on "Iron Jawed
Angels," which starred Hilary Swank and premiered on HBO in February, and
screenwriter Becky Mode, who has written for various children's programs,
including HBO's "A Little Curious."
* Note: The
term "suffragette" is considered diminutive and derogatory by many feminists
today and by detractors at the time. The correct term, used by the women
who worked for suffrage, is "suffragist."
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