“Life in Pieces” star Zoe Lister-Jones has a new project in the works at ABC. The “Band Aid” writer, director, and actress secured a put pilot commitment for “Woman Up,” Variety reports. Lister-Jones will serve as writer and exec producer on the single-camera comedy.
The potential show centers on two former teen moms. After their daughters graduate high school, the pair decide it’s time to stop working their asses off and “make up for the youth they never had.”
Joining Lister-Jones as an exec producer is “New Girl” creator Liz Meriwether. Lister-Jones guest starred on the Zooey Deschanel sitcom.
20th Century Fox Television is set to produce.
If “Woman Up” comes to fruition, the source notes that the project will be Lister-Jones’ first writing credit for the small screen. Her feature writing credits include “Consumed” and “Lola Versus,” which she also starred in. “Confirmation” and “Whitney” are among her other acting credits.
Lister-Jones hired an all-female crew for 2017’s “Band Aid,” her directorial debut. “On a personal level, I’ve always felt that something very special happens when women come together. I’d only really experienced that in social circumstances, and I wanted to see what it would feel like if that experience was translated in the context of making art,” she told us. “Through my own experience both in front of the camera and behind it, I’m incredibly aware of the underrepresentation of women on film and television crews. I wanted to create opportunities in departments where they’re rarely afforded to them.”