HBO to Get SMG

This is the best news ever (this week): Sarah Michelle Gellar may be plotting her return to TV, to HBO, actually.

SMG is expected to shoot the half-hour pilot The Wonderful Maladys, written by screenwriter Charles Randolph (The Interpreter, The Life of David Gale), in 2009.

Set in Gotham, The Wonderful Maladys revolves around the dysfunctional lives of three adult siblings who lost their parents at a young age. Randolph described the actress’ character as having “a kind of zealous immaturity – like a drug addict with a to-do list.”

In other words, this might be the kind of role and high-profile project the actress needs to prove to everyone that she is, indeed, very much a star, and that everyone who cast her aside following the finale of TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in spite of the success of The Grudge) was wrong to do so, and that she’s SMG, darn it, and she ain’t going nowhere.

Yeah – this is the best news ever (this week).

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