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\u201cI couldn\u2019t get a job on a sitcom, and now I can because I created one,\u201d Jamie Lee Curtis told PEOPLE<\/a> ahead of the premiere of Newlyweds<\/em>.<\/p>\n The 67-year-old actress co-created the NBC comedy with Gail Lerner, whose credits include Will & Grace<\/em>, Black-ish<\/em> and Happy Endings<\/em>. Curtis also serves as an executive producer and plays Claudia, the ex-wife of Tim Daly\u2019s character, in a recurring role.<\/p>\n Her favorite television job had been Anything But Love<\/em>, she told TV Insider<\/a>. The ABC sitcom paired her with Richard Lewis from 1989 to 1992 and earned her a Golden Globe. She had repeatedly asked her representatives to find her another sitcom.<\/p>\n Newlyweds<\/em> premiered Friday, October 23, following Happy\u2019s Place<\/em>. Its 13-episode first season airs Fridays at 8:30 p.m. ET, with episodes streaming on Peacock the next day, according to NBC Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n Curtis dates the idea to April 25, 2019, when she was riding in a limousine in New York. Speaking with UPI<\/a>, she recalled a driver mentioning that he was divorced before referring to his new wife.<\/p>\n Hearing a man in his 60s talk about a new wife, Curtis immediately imagined a comedy about people in their 60s and 70s who married impulsively, then had to work out how to live together.<\/p>\n Curtis compared the premise with her marriage to filmmaker Christopher Guest, recalling in her PEOPLE interview that she saw his photograph in a magazine, decided she would marry him and did so four months later.<\/p>\nA Driver\u2019s New Wife Sparked the Idea in 2019<\/h2>\n
A Postponed Film Freed Curtis to Play Claudia<\/h2>\n