HBO signs Tomlin for comedy series

Lily Tomlin will star in an hourlong comedy series for HBO, created by husband-and-wife producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason of “Designing Women” and “Evening Shade” sitcom fame.

The comedy, “12 Miles of Bad Road,” features Tomlin as Amelia Shakespeare, head of a real estate company and matriarch of a wealthy Dallas family. In the pilot, Mary Kay Place plays Amelia’s sister and Leslie Jordan plays a cousin.

HBO also said it has ordered 40 episodes of a new half-hour drama from “Entourage” executive producer Mark Wahlberg and starring Gabriel Byrne as a therapist. It’s called “In Treatment,” based on an Israeli series called “In Therapy.”

The network did not announce airdates for either show.