Martin Sheen to
executive-produce gay-inclusive sitcom

What's an ex-president to do after his final term in office? Executive-produce a sitcom, that's what. At least that's Martin Sheen's post-The West Wing transition plan. Sheen is attached to exec-produce an untitled comedy project that is set up at NBC through Warner Bros. Television. Brian Bird is on board to pen the script and act as co-executive producer.

The show is described as loosely based on a situation that occurred in Sheen's extended family whereby a heterosexual man found himself living with his gay older brother and his brother's lover, all three of whom are tasked with taking care of the straight man's ailing mother-in-law. The mother-in-law, however, is a fundamentalist Christian and thus is kept in the dark about the true relationship between the gay couple. (Cynthia Littleton, via Reuters)