EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Netflix has won the comedy spec Smother in Law from April Prosser , with Hello Sunshine set to produce.

While an official logline wasn’t shared, we hear the project revolves around a young woman’s attempts to help her single (and overbearing) mother-in-law with her love life. Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter will produce for Hello Sunshine, with Prosser to exec produce alongside Hello Sunshine’s Ashley Strumwasser.

For Prosser, an in-demand writer who has spent many years tackling open writing assignments for a range for studios, Smother in Law is the first spec in a decade. Sensing a marketplace trending, to an extent, back toward an embrace of original material, she knew she had something when she hit on the title and concept f

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