'Joni' to ride on HBO wheels

March 10, 2008 The pay cable network has greenlighted a comedy pilot from "Will & Grace" alumna Jhoni Marchinko about an eccentric, successful 40-year-old widow. The project, which Marchinko wrote and is executive producing, chronicles the life of a woman who spends her days driving around Los Angeles with her French bulldog, looking for meaning in her life after the sudden death of her husband. TV, where Marchinko was under an overall deal until January, when her pact was among the dozens terminated by the TV studios in a sweeping force majeure action two months into the writers strike.

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