Melanie Griffith to play the grandmother of a bunch of genius kids for ABC
As reported by Deadline, Melanie Griffith has signed on to co-star in ABC’s upcoming comedy pilot based on Kip and Mona Lisa Harding’s book The Brainy Bunch. The book is all about how the Hardings managed to raise a bunch of genius children through a straightforward and easy-to-follow regimen of homeschooling, positivity, and—presumably—the drug from that movie Limitless. The show will follow that same premise, but ABC will make it into a comedy instead of an impossible ideal that parents dream of when their stupid kids refuse to clean their rooms. Also, the show will change the family’s last name to “Mitchell,” because that probably did better in focus groups or something.