USA Brings Back Starter Wife As Weekly Series

After a successful run as a spring miniseries, The Starter Wife is morphing into a weekly series for USA Network. USA has greenlit production on 10 hourlong episodes of the Debra Messing starrer. Barring delays from a WGA strike, filming is slated to start in March for an early summer 2008 premiere. Starter Wife the series will have Messing reprising her role as newly divorced Molly Kagan. Universal Media Studios will produce. While Starter Wife was designed to be a standalone project that would serve as the launching pad for USA’s summer lineup, There was talk of simply doing another sequel, but USA ultimately opted for a series greenlight.