ABC Picks Up Comedy Pilots with Reba, Judy Greer & Kristie Alley

ABC is looking for more funny! Or at least that’s what it looks like by the projects they’re taking on. It was announced today that ABC has decided to take on more comedy projects, one written and starring Reba McEntire. The McEntire attached project will also see the singer as an executive producer, which is tentively titled “Malibu Country”, a multicamera comedy show.

The half hour comedy project will center around Reba, a recently divorced woman who decides to sign the papers after she catches her husband cheating on her. She then decides to move the family from Nashville to Malibu. There she’ll try to rebuild her family and singing carer to keep her kids from going insane in the materialistic world of Malibu. There’s sure to be some hokey fun in this project, especially when Reba herself is concerned.

The project nabbed Kevin Abbott as a writer, with McEntire’s manager Narvel Blackstock, and Laura Ziskin Productions’ Pam Williams, Dave Stewart (get this, formely from the Eurythmics) and Acme Productions’ Mindy Schultheis and Michael Hanel.

That 70s Show’s husband and wife writing duo will pen and executive producer “Prairie Dogs”, a half hour single-camera project from ABC. This particular project revolves around Neil, an unhip blue collared (“prairie dog”) at one of the hippest companies in the world, who also happens to be a victim of identity theft. When he finds out the thief has created a better life for him, he engages in the conman to save his life of mediocrity.

The projects also join Judy Greer’s “American Judy”, Dan Fogelman’s alien family project, and “The Manzonis”, starring Kristie Alley and Rhea Pearlman.

Looks like everything’s coming up comedy!