ABC picks up Reba McEntire's comedy along with sitcom, 'Prairie Dog'

Reba McEntire is making a comeback as ABC has picked up the sitcom pilot, Malibu Country, written by and starring the country singer.

If picked up, the show would follow McEntire as she moves her children away from Nashville and her unfaithful husband, while trying to reignite her singing career in Malibu.

The Huffington Post reports that this would be McEntire's first prominent TV role since her show Reba, which ended in 2007. Since then, she has made appearances in Better With You and Working Class.

Kevin Abbott is the writer on the project along with Narvel Blackstock, McEntire's manager, Pam Williams and Dave Stewart from Laura Ziskin Productions', and Mindy Schultheis and Michael Hanel from Acme Productions'.

Recently, McEntire was the victim of yet another online death hoax as reports surfaced saying the actress fell more than 100 feet to her death while filming a movie. McEntire took to her Twitter to inform her followers, "I am alive and kicking!!!," reports E! Online.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC also has ordered a single camera sitcom, Prairie Dogs. The story is about a cubical worker who had his identity stolen. He ends up discovering that the life the thief created with his identity was much better than the one he was living, so he asks the conman for his help to change his life.

Husband and wife, Jackie and Jeff Filgo who have previously written That 70’s Show and The New Adventures of Old Christine, wrote this sitcom.