HBO bails on Lily Tomlin comedy

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 HBO bails on Lily Tomlin comedy
HBO has decided not to air a new Lily Tomlin comedy series , even though six episodes are in the can. 12 Miles of Bad Road, created by Designing Women writer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, is a one-hour comedy about the Shakespeare family, a millionaire Texas clan whose real estate fortune is mixed up with their eccentric antics. Sounds vaguely like Dallas meets Arrested Development , but ... (link)

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Published 3/18/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
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