I can’t wait to see this movie…it looks great!

Ben Stiller loves living next door to his mother-in-law, despite plans to direct a TV pilot starring his wife Christine Taylor mocking his current domestic situation.

The actor – who is developing the currently untitled comedy show with Taylor – claims he has no qualms living so close to his wife’s mother in New York.

He says, “It’s a really good, honestly. It’s a built-in support system for our kids. “The houses are literally next to each other, so we have some privacy but yet she’s there.

She’s been a great grandmother and she and I get along really well. “But yes, of course there is humour to be got out of that. It will have a slightly broader reality to it in the show.”

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Stiller is set to direct and executive produce the pilot and will play a recurring role on the potential series.

CBS has committed to a pilot for the as-yet-untitled project, to be written by Ajay Sahgal. The network is fast-tracking it for potential summer production as part of its aggressive push to court new projects outside the traditional development cycle.

The comedy, being considered for single-camera treatment rather than the three-camera sitcom approach, is based on Taylor’s life.

“She is a small-town girl who has found her way into Hollywood but still retains a lot of the values and humility (of her upbringing),” CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler said. “There are times when she is befuddled by her status — being an actress married to a big movie star.”

On the show, Taylor’s character will juggle career and family while many relatives from her hometown remain very involved in her life. Stiller will play her husband.

Taylor and Sahgal are familiar faces at CBS. Taylor has starred in several pilots for the network, including “The Commuters” and “Harry’s Girl.”

“We love her,” Tassler said. “And we are over the moon” about working with Stiller,” she said.

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