Diablo Cody Continues Her Path to World Domination

Is there no stopping her? Hollywood’s latest darling, Diablo Cody has another feather in her cap; Showtime has ordered 12 half-hour episodes of The United States of Tara, a comedy by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno.

Toni Collette stars as a wife and mother with dissociative identity disorder. John Corbett (Aiden from Sex and the City) plays her husband.

Story lines will examine how a dysfunctional family copes with the various identities that might appear on any given day, which range in age, temperament and even gender. It's expected to enter production in Los Angeles in the summer. The pay cable channel hopes to launch the show early next year.

Cody wrote the pilot, which was directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl). She will continue to serve as a writer, and an executive producer alongside none other than Steven Spielberg.