Report: Kirstie Alley To Star In ABC Pilot
First Published: August 4, 2011 5:00 PM EDT Credit: Getty Premium
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- 
Caption Kirstie Alley steps out at the 2011 All The Right Moves Summer Invitational at the Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom in New York City on June 5, 2011 Is Kirstie Alley heading back to the small screen?
According to Deadline, the former “Cheers” actress is in final negotiations with ABC to star in a new comedy pilot tentatively titled, “The Manzanis.”
Kirstie, 60, is set to star as the show’s “very opinionated wife/mother” who, along with her family, relocates to a “repressed country-club town,” according to the website.
Veteran TV writers Marco Pennette (“Caroline in the City,” “Samantha Who?”) and Dave Flebotte (“Desperate Housewives”) are writing the multi-camera comedy, which is being hailed as “a new take on ‘Roseanne,’” according to Deadline.
A rep for Kirstie was not immediately available for comment on the reported pilot when contacted by Access Hollywood on Thursday.
Kirstie experienced a renewal in her popularity among television audiences earlier this year when she finished second on Season 12 of “Dancing with the Stars” on ABC alongside professional ballroom dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
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