
EXCLUSIVE: Actress/writer Annie Mumolo is set as the lead in ABC‘s comedy pilot Middle Age Rage. Written by Cheryl Holliday, Middle Age Rage chronicles what happens when Carol (Mumolo), a middle-aged wife and mother, is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Holliday and showrunner Stacy Traub executive produce with Amblin TV’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for ABC Studios. Mumolo is best known for co-writing with Kristen Wiig the 2011 blockbuster comedy Bridesmaids, which earned the duo an Oscar nomination. As an actress, she was recently seen in another project dealing with middle-age crisis, Judd Apatow’s movie This Is 40, and in Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Great news! Catch Annie tonite guest starring on Modern Family. Hilarious. Couldn’t happen to a nicer, or funnier person.
Very excited about this! So many talented women all in one project!
this is gonna be one of the funniest pilots of the entire season. so exciting.
Certainly will touch quite a few buttons. How about the men’s side of that middle-age rage? A lot of that out there, too.
“speak up and demand” sounds awful. While I’d love for someone to tackle the issue of invisibility of women of a certain age, I’d prefer it not get mixed in with a bunch of mommy-issues.