Julie Klausner, author and podcaster, will executive produce and write a comedy for NBC.

The Hollywood Reporter reports (see what we did there?) that Klausner has sold a pitch to NBC (which Klausner confirms on her personal blog). The show is called Apocalipstick, and is "about a woman's father who ends up dating her high school nemesis."

What the post doesn't mention is that the show will be an adaption of the Sue Margolis novel of the same name:

Thirty-two-year-old Rebecca Fine wants a few changes in her life. Tired of her mindless beauty column in a weekly London magazine, she hopes to break into investigative reporting; but when her boss asks her to relinquish her work area for a desk in the corner to make way for the new golden-boy reporter, Max Stoddart, Rebecca feels as though she'll never move beyond mascara and eye-shadow commentary. As for her personal life, her overbearing grandmother won't stop setting Rebecca up on blind dates, and her father, Stan, becomes engaged to Lipstick, one of Rebecca's old schoolmates. But soon handsome Max asks Rebecca out, and a hot tip regarding fraud in the cosmetic industry sends her off to hunt for the hidden dangers behind a new skin cream. Will Rebecca fall flat on her face in skin-cream secrecy? Is Lipstick marrying Stan for his money? Is Max faithful? Margolis combines light-hearted suspense with sharp English wit and romping Benny Hill humor in this entertaining read as her heroine, like Bridget Jones, manages to survive many embarrassing situations.

It's still up in the air how faithful the show will be to the book, but even if the locale chances from London to, say, New York, it seems like a promising premise for a new comedy. I think it's finally time for "romping Benny Hill comedy" to hit American prime-time TV.