Tyler Perry's House of Payne Coming to TBS

The Tyler Perry empire shows no sign of slowing down.

After raking in a fortune with his sassy, Christian-oriented, Afro-centric stage comedies - often featuring Perry cross-dressing as no-nonsense senior citizen Madea - and wowing Hollywood with the box-office take for the low-budget movies Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea's Family Reunion, the show-biz entrepreneur is taking his act to the small screen.

TBS has signed a deal for the sitcom Tyler Perry's House of Payne, set to premiere in June. The cable network gets exclusive rights to the show for one year, and then it gets syndicated to local Fox-owned television stations.

Given Perry's shrewd business sense, the deal will no doubt pay for lots and lots of grey Madea wigs and plus-size housedresses.