By Abbie Bernstein
In ABC’s new half-hour comedy MALIBU COUNTRY, real-life country singing star – and actress – Reba McEntire plays Reba MacKenzie, a one-time country star who gave up her career for her still-star husband. When she discovers the louse has been cheating on her, Reba ditches his sorry behind and moves from Nashville to one of his homes in Malibu. She is accompanied by her two kids and her mother Lillie Mae, who takes the new environment more in stride that Reba does.
Lillie Mae is played by the legendary Lily Tomlin, who first became a pop culture sensation in the Sixties on LAUGH-IN. Since then, she’s won awards for her one-woman stage shows (co-written with partner Jane Wagner) and played farce, comedy and drama on both the large and small screens. Tomlin wrapped up a season of the legal thriller DAMAGES as a malevolent matriarch and seems happy to lighten up as a much more upbeat and open mom in MALIBU COUNTRY.
