Joan Rivers was a pop culture icon for over fifty years and she is undoubtedly an extremely difficult role to fill in Showtime's upcoming limited series The Comeback Girl. Who could capture the humor and gravitas that made Joan Rivers a larger-than-life personality for so many years? Well, Variety has reported that Kathryn Hahn has been cast to fill those shoes and bring the iconic comedian to life in the new series.

The news comes off the heels of this year's Emmys, where Hahn was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for her work as Agatha Harkness in Marvel's WandaVision.

Greg Berlanti is set to direct and executive produce The Comeback Girl alongside Hahn and Cosmo Carlson, who has been pinned to write the series. Carlson is a two-time Black List screenwriter who initially wrote The Comeback Girl as a spec script. The script caught the attention of Richard Suckle and Robert Amidon's Atlas Entertainment, which brought in Berlanti Productions' Berlanti and Sarah Schechter to produce.