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Mothers Unite In New ABC Comedy

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Cheryl Hines plays a frazzled single mother juggling work and raising a preteen daughter and a baby on 'In the Motherhood.'

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By WALT BELCHER | The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 26, 2009

Debuting at 8 tonight is a sitcom based on a sassy, snarky and often hilarious Web series.

But the ABC version of "In the Motherhood" doesn't have as much satirical bite as the five minute "In the Motherhood" Webisodes that were on msn.com. But it's still funny and fits ABC's traditional family sitcom mold.

The darker Web version was based on real stories submitted by mothers and the misadventures were re-created by Jenny McCarthy, Leah Remini ("King of Queens") and Chelsea Handler, a stand-up comic who now has a sharp late-night talk show, "Chelsea Lately" on E!.

In converting the irreverent "Motherhood" to TV, ABC has expanded it to a half-hour, recast it and toned down the dark side of motherhood.

Cheryl Hines ("Curb Your Enthusiasm"), Megan Mullally ("Will & Grace") and Jessica St. Clair ("Worst Week") play three different kinds of mothers.

Jane (Hines) is a divorced working mom with a preteen daughter and a baby; Jane's younger sister, Emily (St. Clair), is a stay-at-home mom with two kids who strives for book-perfect parenting; and Rosemary (Mullally), married numerous times, breaks every mothering rule and yet she has a near-perfect teenage son.

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