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Lily Tomlin joins cast of Reba McEntire's comedy pilot
Published: 2/24/2012 3:15 PM
Last Modified: 2/24/2012 3:15 PM


Lily Tomlin joins cast of Reba McEntire's "Malibu Country." COURTESY GREG GORMAN

Lily Tomlin has been cast as Reba McEntire's mother in the country superstar's new ABC comedy pilot being shot in April.

Tomlin plays Shirley, mother of McEntire's character Reba Gallagher in "Malibu Country," according to hollywoodreporter.com.

In the pilot, Gallagher divorces her cheating rock star hubby who has spent almost all the couple's money and she moves from Nashville to the west coast with her mother (Tomlin) and her three kids into a small home in she owns Malibu. Once there, she tries to revive her singing career while keeping her children from being corrupted by the "rarified" liftesyle of Malibu. The multi-award-winning Oklahoman is the executive producer as well as the star.

Most recently, Tomlin has had roles on Showtime's Lisa Kudrow series "Web Therapy" and in "Damages" on FX and DirecTV.



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Rita Sherrow grew up with TV. Yes, it was the ever-present “sister” from another techno mother. At first look, it was instant "Like." From then on, the TV had to be on in every room while she studied, elementary school through college. An Air Force brat, she attended school in three states (Oklahoma, Montana and Georgia) and two foreign countries (Germany and Bermuda) and graduated from Broken Arrow High School and the University of Tulsa with a degree in journalism/advertising. She first interned in the advertising world but, when a J-School professor (who also covered politics for the Tulsa World) offered her an internship at the newspaper, she took him up on it. The rest is history. She has served as bridal editor, senior features writer for the women’s section, food editor and is television editor of the Tulsa World. In addition to writing about TV shows and interviewing the stars for “Scene” stories, she also writes a TV column for Weekend and produces the Sunday TV World listings magazine.

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