Pilots: About a Boy's Minnie Driver Lands Female Lead on CBS' Happy Life

Minnie Driver has landed the female lead on the CBS comedy pilot Happy Life (fka Joe Time).

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Penned by Bill Wrubel (Modern Family), the project follows a family man (Wings‘ Steven Weber) who struggles with the fact that everyone around him is pursuing their dreams and enjoying their lives more than he is.

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Driver will play Weber’s TV wife. The role is technically “second position” to her About a Boy commitment, on the off chance the NBC “bubble” comedy gets renewed. As the actress herself explained on Twitter:

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