Meg Ryan Developing NBC Comedy as Starring Vehicle

Ryan will play a single mom who returns to her publishing career — only to work for her former intern

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Meg Ryan is bringing her business to the small screen.

The “Sleepless in Seattle” star has entered a development deal for a new comedy, which Ryan would star in and executive produce.

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Ryan will play Rose, a sunny, devoted and desperately non-confrontational single mom who decides to return to her New York publishing house where she was once a brilliant editor to find that she now works for Brenda, her neurotic 30 year old boss who was once her former intern.

Rose must find a way to keep her boss, her teenage kids, her almost ex-husband and her meddlesome mother in law all happy, which results in her over-complicating every situation and somehow always making it worse.

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