That Was Fast! New Emmy Winner Melissa McCarthy Creating Comedy Series For CBS

[Brian Damage]

Within the past year, Melissa McCarthy has gotten a hit show in CBS’ Mike & Molly and a hit movie in Bridesmaids; landed her first-ever starring role (on Mike & Molly); sold her first feature script; and last night she won her first award, a best actress in a comedy series Emmy for Mike & Molly. Now she’s adding another first to her quickly expanding resume: McCarthy has sold her first network pilot script. The actress-writer and her actor-writer husband Ben Falcone, both Groundlings alumni, have a multi-camera comedy project in the works at CBS. Warner Bros TV, the studio behind Mike & Molly, is producing. The untitled multi-camera comedy, which McCarthy and Falcone will co-write and co-executive produce, is “about a woman in her mid-40s who has a spectacular midlife crisis,” McCarthy told me at the HBO post-Emmy bash last night. “The show is about what a midlife crisis means for a woman, which is very different from the way it affects men.”

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