Funeral home comedy Quality of Life in development at CBS with Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies) is set to star in and executive produce a comedy set in a funeral home for CBS, according to Variety. The multi-camera comedy is currently in development. The news comes days after the announcement that Curtis will return as Laurie Strode in the upcoming Halloween film.
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The show is entitled Quality of Life and is described as “a multi-generational sitcom set at a family-run funeral home, tackling life through the unique perspective that growing up in a funeral home gives you.” Jamie Lee Curtis will play the head of the family. She and Janis Hirsch, who is tackling the script, reportedly came up with the story. Curtis and Hirsch will executive produce with Eric and Kim Tannenbaum. Quality of Life will be produced by CBS Television Studios.
In the upcoming Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis will have a final confrontation with Michael Meyers. Her character was killed off in Halloween: Resurrection in 2002, but the new film will reportedly ignore the sequels and tell a new story. Curtis has previously appeared in four films in the series, including the 1978 original, its 1981 sequel, 1998’s Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and Resurrection. David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Your Highness) will direct Halloween and co-write the script for the film with Danny McBride (yes, Eastbound & Down star Danny McBride).
Carpenter will executive produce Halloween with Malek Akkad producing for Trancas and Jason Blum producing for Blumhouse. Green and McBride will also executive produce under their Rough House Pictures banner. Zanne Devine and David Thwaites will oversee for Miramax which is co-financing with Blumhouse.
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