Later-in-Life Rom-Com Produced by Jamie Lee Curtis and Therapist Comedy Starring Jane Lynch and Katey Sagal Score NBC Pilot Orders

Key Highlights

• Per the official logline, the project is “a later-in-life love story about a free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up professor who marry impetuously after a whirlwind courtship.” Lionsgate Television produces, and Universal Television is the studio.
• Related Stories Model Amelia Gray on Making Her Acting Debut in 'The Beauty' and How 'The Traitors' Affected Mom Lisa Rinna: 'Having to Lie' for That Long 'Does Something to Your Brain' Tony Awards Set 2026 Date Lerner is best known for her work as a writer and producer on Seasons 5 through 8 of NBC’s “Will & Grace” and Seasons 1 through 6 of ABC’s “Black-ish.” Popular on Variety The logline for the untitled pilot, written by Kari Lizer, reads, “Ginger (Sagal) and Jill (Lynch) have always been a team as opposites that work best together.
• As they sort their past and look toward their future, they’ll discover that in spite of it all, they wouldn’t change a thing.” The project is loosely inspired by real-life friendship between therapists and sociologists Pepper Schwartz and Janet Lever, who study sex and gender and serve as consulting producers.
• Executive producers include Lizer, Lynch, Sagal and Trip the Light Productions’ Krista Vernoff, Andrew Stearn and Alexandre Schmitt.
• The pilot is produced by Paramount Television Studios.