Call Your Mother
looking for a sitcom as her next TV project. Yes, since her TNT drama wrapped in 2012, she’s admired Allison Janney’s work on and guest starred on a dozen episodes of as a rival to Andre Braugher’s Captain Holt. But the wheels didn’t start turning to look for a full-time comedy gig until on ABC’s in December 2019. “He had the best time, and it was comedy that was funny but also really about something,” she recalls. Then writer Kari Lizer (), whom Sedgwick had worked with on a failed HBO pilot in 2014, came to her with . “This was really about something—about how hard it is to be a mom,” Sedgwick says.
