Kathryn Hahn is set to play late comedian and TV show host Joan Rivers in Showtime’s “The Comeback Girl” limited series.
Hahn, writer Cosmo Carlson and Greg Berlanti will all executive produce with Berlanti also directing for Atlas Entertainment, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV.
The series would begin in the 1980s after Rivers, the first woman to be the full-time host of a late-night show, was fired from “The Late Show”. Her husband and producer on that series, Edgar Rosenberg, committed suicide three months later.
Rivers persevered through near suicide and professional abyss to rebuild herself and her career to become a global icon.
Source: Variety
