Sarah Jessica Parker's New Comedy Series 'Divorce' Picked Up By HBO

Sarah Jessica Parker is returning to HBO with a new comedy series, Divorce. Parker is returning to HBO after a decade away. The 50-year-old actress starred in Sex And The City as Carrie Bradshaw from 1998-2004. Now she's back with a whole new series in which she is set to star and produce. A pilot episode of Divorce has been well received by the network and they have picked up the series for its first season. The show is expected to air next year.

Sarah Jessica Parker will star and produce in Divorce.

Parker has been attached to the project from the onset and will be starring and executively producing Divorce. The series, written by Irish writer Sharon Horgan, centres on Frances (Parker) who is encouraged by her two friends (Molly Shannon, Saturday Night Live, and Talia Balsam, Homeland) to ask for a divorce from her husband (Thomas Haden Church, Sideways). The proceedings are drawn out after Frances struggles to decide whether or not to go through with it, according to THR. Frances discovers separating is more difficult than she thought especially after her husband finds out she's having an affair.

Horgan, best known for Dead Boss and Catastrophe, will also produce the series alongside Paul Simms, Aaron Kaplan and Alison Benson. Jesse Peretz directed the pilot but it is uncertain if he will continue in this role for the rest of the series.