Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine and Tony winner Matthew Broderick will star in a new TV series project for Paramount Television entitled Bettyville, according to Deadline.com.
The dramedy is an adaptation of the best-selling memoir by journalist George Hodgman. John Hoffman will write the script and will also serve as showrunner and executive producer of the potential TV series, which is currently being presented to various networks. Executive producers also include Hodgman, Archer Gray's Anne Carey and Amy Nauiokas.
Bettyville, according to the industry website, "follows George Hodgman (Broderick) after leaving Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri to care for his aging mother Betty (MacLaine). He expected to be away for only a few weeks, but life conspired to keep him there, armed with not much more than a (mostly) willing heart, a broken past to sort out, and two irascible personalities: his own, and Betty's. The funny and heartbreaking memoir chronicles the mother-son journey, capturing truths about family, identity, and our current American landscape."