Showtime’s ‘The Comeback Girl’ Starring Kathryn Hahn as Joan Rivers Not Moving Forward
Variety, which first reported the news that “The Comeback Girl” would not be moving forward, “The project could have proceeded as an unauthorized venture, but ‘The Comeback Girl’ wouldn’t have been able to use any of Rivers’ jokes or catchphrases, and, of course, risked running afoul of Melissa Rivers and the estate.”“The Comeback Girl,” which hailed from Warner Bros. TV, where Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions has an overall deal, would have charted Rivers’ rise following the cancellation of her short-lived late-night talk show on Fox, “The Late Show.” That show’s cancelation coincided with Rivers’ husband Edgar Rosenberg’s death by suicide.