Parker Posey to the Small Screen

In what promises to be the most fortuitous pairing since peanut butter and chocolate, hilarious and banter-friendly writer and Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is collaborating with hilarious and banter-friendly actress Parker Posey for a new TV series.

Posey will star in The Return of Jezebel James, about a newly single, infertile children's book editor who seeks out her estranged younger sister to carry a child for her.

The luminously witty Posey has reportedly resisted previous overtures to star in a series, but Jezebel (which Sherman-Palladino will co-executive produce with her husband, Daniel Palladino) apparently struck her fancy.

With any luck, the show will sail through pilot season and make it onto one of the networks' fall schedules.