ABC has confirmed a pilot order for ‘Drop-Off’ (working title) a comedy based on the British series ‘Motherland,’ with Ellie Kemper to star and executive produce
As we reported, Karan Soni also is set as a lead in the project, from writer Julieanne Smolinski, Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman Television, Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment, Lionsgate and ABC Signature. Michael Showalter 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.
The original series is set in a middle-class suburb of London. It stars Anna Maxwell Martin 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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