Weeds’ creator Jenji Kohan helps get Ronna & Beverly airing on Showtime

When Weeds creator Jenji Kohan cares about a project, she puts her all into it. The exec producer of the hit Showtime series hoped to bring the TV version of stage comedy Ronna and Beverly a regular slot in the network. When those plans didn’t work out earlier this year, she and the show’s stars/co-writers, Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo, convinced Showtime to air the pilot this month for Ronna and Bev fans. The pilot will air on Showtime 2 at 9:05 p.m. Eastern/12:05 a.m. Pacific on Dec. 29, Variety reports.

Chaffin and Denbo have played their Jewish divorcee characters for years on stage, and more recently in a video series on Funny or Die.

Ronna and Bev are longtime friends from Boston who’ve survived multiple divorces and gon on to write a dating guide for Jewish singles called You’ll Do a Little Better Next Time. The half-hour pilot was produced by Lionsgate (the studio behind Weeds). While it wasn’t picked up by Showtime, Chaffin, Denbo and Kohan are hoping the show will interest another network.

Here, Ronna and Bev aim to promote their book by giving advice to singles they meet outside a bookstore: