After starting off on stage and then moving to the big screen, Tyler Perry’s Madea is now headed to television.Showtime is developing Mabel, a drama series created by Perry and Tim Palen.
The project, which has received a multiple-script order, tracks the origin story of the larger-than-life Madea character created and performed by Perry.
It is written by JaNeika James and JaSheika James.Per Mabel’s official description, every great story has to start somewhere and every legend has a beginning.
Long before she was the force of nature known as Madea she was a smart, fierce, irresistible, dangerous, crazy 20-something black woman named…Mabel Simmons.
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