Bad Mothers Handbook

A new pilot Bad Mother's Handbook is in the works for ABC. She will be playing a 32-year old mom with a 16 year old daughter who also has to care for her 48 year old mother. I may not be a math whiz, but it seems to me that the gap between grandma and mom is 16 years, and the gap between mom and daughter is 16 years, which seems to imply that the daughter should be getting knocked up rather soon…

Alicia Silverstone is going to play a mother on ABC's Bad Mother's Handbook. Just not that one.

Silverstone, who was courted for a recurring role on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" earlier this season, has taken the lead role in ABC's comedy pilot "Bad Mother's Handbook." NBC, meanwhile, has found the star of its series "Crusoe" in the person of Philip Winchester, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"Bad Mother's Handbook" has also cast "Arrested Development" co-star Alia Shawkat. The show centers on Silverstone's character, a woman in her 30s who has no time for her own life thanks to both her teenage daughter (Shawkat) and her mother.

Bad Mother's Handbook Coming to ABC Midseason 2009

Staring: Megan Mullally, Alicia Silverstone, Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat

Bad Mother's Handbook is about Silverstone plays a 32-year-old mom who is charged with caring for her teenage daughter (Shawkat) and her middle-aged mother (Mullally). Based on the British novel and TV movie of the same name. Look for Bad Mother's Handbook coming to ABC 2009