ABC is in negotiations with Ellie Kemper to headline ‘Motherland,’ a comedy pilot based on the British series. Karan Soni has been tapped for a lead in the project and Michael Showalter has come on board to direct
centers on Julia , a working mom for whom nothing is working so she goes looking for her village. With the help of new friends Calvin and Liz, Julia discovers she just might succeed at balancing work and parenting from time to time. This is a comedy for anybody who’s dropped their kids at school, breathed a sigh of relief…then realized it’s Sunday.
Showalter and Smolinski executive produce alongside Horgan, Mountford, Stacy Greenberg and Kira Carstensen for Merman Television, Paul Feig and Dan Magnante for Feigco Entertainment as well as Holly Walsh and Helen Serafinowicz. The original series is set in a middle-class suburb of London. It stars Anna Maxwell Martin, who currently stars in MGM+’s, as the disorganized Julia, Diane Morgan , as single mother Liz and Paul Ready as stay-at-home dad Kevin Brady. The trio are a group of misfits parents, joined in later seasons by Tanya Moodie’s crazy working mum Meg, fighting against the mean girls including Lucy Punch’s Amanda, while dealing with school politics.
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