{"id":467568,"date":"2026-02-14T04:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467568\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T04:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:32:08","slug":"tea-leoni-returns-to-multi-cam-comedy-as-star-of-newlyweds-nbc-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467568\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e8a Leoni Returns To Multi-Cam Comedy As Star Of \u2018Newlyweds\u2019 NBC Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: T\u00e8a Leoni is returning to broadcast \u2014 and multi-camera comedy \u2014 with a starring role in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbc\" data-tag=\"nbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>\u2018s pilot <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/newlyweds\/\" id=\"auto-tag_newlyweds\" data-tag=\"newlyweds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newlyweds<\/a>, co-created by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gail-lerner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gail-lerner\" data-tag=\"gail-lerner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gail Lerner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jamie-lee-curtis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jamie-lee-curtis\" data-tag=\"jamie-lee-curtis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a>. Landing Leoni, who had multiple pilot offers, firmed up Newlyweds\u2018 green light, which had been cast-contingent, clearing the project for production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWritten by Lerner, Newlyweds is a later-in-life love story about a free-spirited woman, Jeanie (Leoni), and a buttoned-up professor who marry impetuously after a whirlwind courtship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLerner and Curtis executive produce alongside Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Scott Schwartz and Lionsgate Television. Leoni is a producer. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Deadline<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/nbc-pilot-orders-katey-sagal-jane-lynch-jamie-lee-curtis-1236702918\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> reported<\/a>, the project was once set up at Netflix with Curtis attached to star as the female lead. She is expected to take on a supporting\/guest role in the NBC incarnation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter a stint as the female lead on the short-lived Fox sitcom Flying Blind, Leoni headlined her own multi-camera comedy series, the 1995 The Naked Truth, which ran for three seasons, one on ABC and two on NBC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLeoni went on to star in the CBS drama series Madam Secretary, which aired for six seasons. Since returning to acting a couple of years ago following a break, she did a season-long arc on the most recent fifth season of Hulu\u2019s Only Murders In the Building after first appearing in the Season 4 finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNewlyweds marks Leoni\u2019s first multi-camera comedy since The Naked Truth. It is one of two multi-cam pilots at NBC this season, along with an untitled Kari Lizer project starring Katey Sagal and Jane Lynch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLeoni, also recently seen opposite Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega in the film Death of a Unicorn, which premiered at the 2025 SXSW, is repped by Gersh and attorney Peter Nelson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: T\u00e8a Leoni is returning to broadcast \u2014 and multi-camera comedy \u2014 with a starring role in NBC\u2018s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,217389,20055,1254,175675,217390,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-467568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gail-lerner","10":"tag-jamie-lee-curtis","11":"tag-nbc","12":"tag-newlyweds","13":"tag-tu00e8au00a0leoni","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}