HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Showtime has picked up "The United States of Tara," a new comedy series written by Oscar-winner Diablo Cody.
Cody's latest project "will examine how a dysfunctional family copes with the various identities that might appear on any given day and range in age, temperament and even gender," The Hollywood Reporter says.
Toni Collette will star as a wife and mother with dissociative identity disorder, while John Corbett co-stars as her husband.
"Showtime is known as the home of several shows featuring flawed main characters, and we welcome Tara — and all her alternate personalities — to the fold," Showtime president of entertainment Robert Greenblatt told the Reporter, adding that Cody and Collette make for "a combination of inspired writing and acting that raises this show from just a curiosity to a compelling examination of a modern family."
Cody, 29, will also serve as an executive producer, where she will be joined by Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank and Alexa Junge.
Production is scheduled to begin this summer in Los Angeles.
Cody won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for her 2007 teen-pregnancy comedy "Juno."
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