Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi team up for NBC comedy pilot

HollywoodNews.com: Married couple Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are a great team personally so why not team professionally?

Deadline Hollywood reports that Ellen abd Portia de Rossi have an NBC comedy pilot in the works that will star Portia and be executive produced by Ellen. It is to be written by Samantha Who? co-creator/executive producer Don Todd and is about dueling sisters, one of them played by de Rossi who has starred on Ally McBeal, Arrested Development and the recent ABC sitcom Better Off Ted.

The untitled comedy had all four major broadcast networks interested.

Source: http://www.hollywoodnews.com/2011/09/14/ellen-degeneres-and-portia-de-rossi-team-up-for-nbc-comedy-pilot/

Ellen & Portia Combine Forces In LoveVeganismCats For NBC Comedy Series

ELLEN & PORTIA:
Your relationship role models are pulling their Hollywood power together in hopes of getting their own scripted series on the air. NBC has purchased a pilot of an untitled 30 minute comedy series about two contentious sisters (one of whom will be played by Portia). Ellen is set to executive produce. The show concept was apparently such a hot commodity that ABC, NBC and CBS were ALL fighting over it – which is a good sign regarding the show’s dreams of making it to your television screen for a Spring premiere.

Ellen chatted a bit about the new show as well as Portia getting her American citizenship on The Tonight Show last night.



Source: http://www.autostraddle.com/ellen-portia-combine-forces-nbc-comedy-series-110555/