Due to issues surrounding the life rights of comedian Joan Rivers, the previously announced limited series “The Comeback Girl” will not be moving forward.
Announced last month, the project was in development at Showtime, was to star “WandaVision” scene-stealer Kathryn Hahn, and was to be produced by Warner Bros. Television, Atlas Entertainment and Berlanti Productions.
Cosmo Carlson wrote the spec script for the project but Rivers’ life rights, which are held by her daughter Melissa Rivers, hadn’t been secured by producers.
Had they proceeded they would not have been able to use any of Rivers’ jokes or catchphrases along with risking running afoul of Melissa Rivers and the estate.
The limited series was set during a precarious time in Rivers’ life – in the aftermath of the cancellation of her late-night talk show and the death by suicide of her husband and Melissa’s father.
Source: Variety