Helen Hunt has been approached to join NBC’s upcoming drama series “Parenthood,” taking over the role played in the pilot by Maura Tierney.

The Oscar and Emmy winner is said to be considering the offer, which would mark her return to series television and to NBC, where she starred on the comedy “Mad About You” for seven years before segueing into features.

On “Parenthood,” a contemporary take on Ron Howard’s 1989 movie, Hunt would join an already strong cast.

The UMS/Imagine TV series, created by Jason Katims, revolves around four adult siblings — three of them played by Peter Krause, Erika Christensen and Dax Shepard — and their parents (Bonnie Bedelia and Craig T. Nelson).

Hunt would play the fourth sibling, a contemporary version of the character portrayed by Dianne Wiest in the film.

Tierney, who played the role in the pilot, pulled out of the series last week to focus on her breast cancer treatments.

“Parenthood,” exec produced by Katims, Howard and Brian Grazer, was slated for a fall launch but pushed to midseason after Tierney’s illness was discovered in July.

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Helen Hunt’s three-year-old daughter is banned from watching television.

The actress reveals Makena Lei, whose father is Matthew Carnahan – the creator of Courteney Cox’s new TV drama Dirt – has never seen a TV show in her entire life, because her parents want her to enjoy her childhood uninterrupted by bad influences on the screen.

She explains, “She has never seen a television. I feel there’s a lot of time ahead of her to do that. She’s painting and drawing and playing and something is happening with her imagination.”

Hunt isn’t the only star who insists on turning the TV off at home – William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman are also famously anti-television.

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She needs to seriously reconsider those bangs.

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Helen Hunt has 2 new movies in the works.  The first is “Bobby”.  It is the story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, on June 6th, 1968, which centers around 22 people who were at the Ambassador Hotel where he was killed.  The movie also stars Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, and Elijah Wood.

The second is called “She Found Me” and is about a Philadelphia schoolteacher who hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father (Harrelson) of one of her students.  This movie costars Woody Harrelson, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler.