Yet more good news if you’re glad to see Bridesmaids director Paul Feig getting lots of work in the wake of the hit comedy – he’s just landed yet another gig, signing on to direct a new comedy pilot for HBO called The Viagra Diaries.
Created by former Sex And The City overseer Darren Star, the show will star Goldie Hawn as a 65-year-old woman whose husband has what can only be described as a later-life crisis and leaves her. Suddenly single for the first time in 35 years, the plot will follow how Hawn’s character deals with her new situation.
Sounds like Star isn’t wandering too far from his original show’s territory, just shoving the ages up a little bit. Plus, like SATC, it’s adapted from a book, this time one by Barbara Rose Brooker. Producers Alan, Wendy and Paul Riche (that would be a husband/wife/son team there) originally optioned the tome as a likely film but now HBO has snapped up the chance to turn it into a show. Feig will also help produce the thing, but we’ll have to wait and see if it actually becomes a series.
Still, it’s hardly Feig’s first stab at TV: he got his start acting on acting on the goggle box, created Freaks And Geeks and branched out into producing and director series such as Arrested Development and The Office.