In her first regular series gig since Murphy Brown, Lily Tomlin has been tapped for a lead role opposite Reba McEntire in ABC’s half-hour pilot Malibu Country. The project, from Reba showrunner Kevin Abbott, centers on Reba Gallagher (McEntire) who, after her “good ol boy” rock star husband cheats on her and burns through most of their money, divorces him and moves her family from Nashville to the only asset she has left — a little house in Malibu. There she’ll try to reignite her own singing career and keep herself and her three kids from being corrupted by the materialistic and rarefied Malibu world she now calls home.

Lily was a regular on West Wing towards the very end, did a great job, I thought.

This sounds like a great concept, basically how to prevent your daughter from becoming Miley Cyrus... Never much cared for Reba though.

She played someone's character's grandmother on NCIS but I don't watch that show to know which character.

I loved her when she played Ernestine the telephone operator. I wish she would bring that back somehow. Maybe she could be a call center operator now?