tvfilter [Chanel Surfing 16 March]: - Steven Spielberg's headed to the tube with a Showtime comedy about a mom who has multiple personalities.
Variety.com - Spielberg tackles TV comedy: Pay cabler is stepping up development of 'The United States of Tara,' a half-hour single-camera laffer from DreamWorks Television that's based on an original Steven Spielberg idea.
Show will revolve around an ordinary-seeming wife and mother of two teenage kids -- who also happens to suffer from dissociative identity (formerly multiple personality) disorder.
Showtime entertainment prexy Robert Greenblatt and DreamWorks aren't talking about 'Tara,' but people familiar with the script said the half-hour will have a seriocomic tone not unlike that of the cabler's critically praised 'Weeds.' righto that's what I was figuring. and I think there's room for another Weedsish show (is there - and was there - any other like it? a half hour that is really rather serious drama?) and mm MPD is interesting!
Skein there's that Variety slang I recently read their webpage about - also the above casual "Show will" - this not using of articles - will explore how a dysfunctional family, including Tara's working-class husband, copes with her various personalities, which emerge when she's under stress.
Pilot seg is expected to show off at least two of Tara's alter egos, a lascivious teen girl and a macho adult man. More personalities will emerge throughout the life of the series. Producers envision the title role as a potential tour de force for the right thesp. me me me! psych. sike. they probably want someone with acting experience.