It’s like our lady comedy dreams are coming true. Television legend Carol Burnett is returning to TV with the help of soon-to-be television legend Amy Poehler. As Deadline reports, Burnett is set to star in a multi-camera comedy for ABC, which Poehler will produce through her Universal TV arm Paper Kite. ABC has ordered a put pilot. Michael Saltzman (“Halt and Catch Fire,” “Murphy Brown”) will write and executive produce.
The comedy is about, “a family who gets a chance to buy the house of their dreams — a house they’d never be able to afford under normal circumstances, but is able to under extremely abnormal circumstances. They must live with the current owner, an older actress (Burnett) — until she dies,” Deadline writes.
Burnett, as we know, is a comedy and television icon, whose 1960s variety show “The Carol Burnett Show,” made her a star and a household name. She has six Emmy Awards from a whopping 22 nominations. “The Carol Burnett Show,” a critical and commercial success, ran for 11 seasons and was nominated for Best Variety-Comedy Series every year it ran. Variety cited it as one of the 25 shows that changed television.
An inductee to the Television Hall of Fame, Burnett has a Peabody Award, five Golden Globe Awards, Crystal and Lucy Awards from Women in Film, and many other trophies to her name. In 2013, Burnett received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, one of the highest honors for a comedian.
In January of this year, Poehler and her frequent collaborator Tina Fey presented Burnett with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the SAG Awards.
“We watched Carol with our moms, and our moms taught us 90 percent of what we needed to know to be the kind of women that we are today, and the other 10 percent is Carol,” Poehler said during the ceremony. “We love her and we thank her.”