Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Johnston to Star in Fox’s AbFab

Broadway performers Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Johnston are set to star in AbFab, a new series on Fox based on the hit U.K. comedy Absolutely Fabulous, according to Variety, The network ordered a pilot of the show last month, shortly after Hahn and Johnston table-read a script by Christine Zander Saturday Night Live, which sets the story in Los Angeles. Details of when shooting starts or when the show will debut have yet to be announced.

Hahn made her Broadway last year in the Tony Award-winning farce Boeing-Boeing. Her recent film credits include Revolutionary Road, Step Brothers, The Last Mimzy and Anchorman. On TV, she’s recently been seen in Four Kings and Crossing Jordan.

Best known for her starring role in the sitcom Third Rock from the Sun, Johnston debuted on Broadway in the all-star 2002 production of The Women, and has been seen off-Broadway in Scarcity and Five Very Live Atlantic Theatre Company; The Baltimore Waltz Signature Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night and The Skin of Our Teeth Delacorte Theatre; Aunt Dan and Lemon New Group, Baby Anger Playwright Horizons and The Lights Lincoln Center.

Created by and starring British comedian Jennifer Saunders, Absolutely Fabulous debuted in the U.K. in the fall of 1992 before becoming a hit on the Comedy Central network in the U.S. two years later. Wrapping its last season in 1996, the show inspired several encore specials, not to mention a few copycat sitcoms, and returned for two more seasons from 2001 to 2003. A proposed remake starring Carrie Fisher and produced by Roseanne Barr never materialized.

Saunders and Zanders will serve as executive producer of the new series.