Ellen Says You'll Love Her New Sitcom, Because There's a Lesbian!

Talk show host and celesbian Ellen DeGeneres is totes psyched about "One Big Happy," the new NBC sitcom she's producing, and she says you'll be jazzed, too, because it's got a lesbian in it!

Towleroad reports that the sitcom, which will air in March on NBC, tells the story of "a straight man (Nick Zano) and gay woman (Elisha Cuthbert) -- they're best friends who decide to have a baby together. The catch? Just when Cuthbert's character gets pregnant, Zano's character finds a serious girlfriend. Think 'Gayby,' but in sitcom form, and with principal characters' sexes reversed."

Elisha Cuthbert, Nick Zano and Kelly Brook star in this all-new comedy about an unconventional family, premiering Tuesday, March 17 at 9:30/8:30c on NBC.

"You will love it, and I'll tell you why: there's a lesbian in it," says DeGeneres about this "new show about the meaning of family."

"What's untraditional about a lesbian and a fighter pilot having a baby?" asks one character in the video. Everything seems great, "and then, fate steps in" when the fighter pilot gets married.

SheWired reports that "The absolutely adorable Elisha Cuthbert stars in the new sitcom as said lesbian who decides to have a baby with her best friend (Nick Zano). Only problem is after the plan is set in motion, her BFF gets married to a woman and they all must live together as 'one big happy' family. We're certainly psyched to set our DVRs for this one!"

Autostraddle snarks that the show is "kind of '90s trope-y and the show is super duper white, but isn't there a very real part of you that wants to put this video in a time machine and travel back to 1997 when Ellen came out in real life and on her sitcom, and the Religious Right kept calling her 'Ellen Degenerate,' and Republicans even boycotted pencils because that's what she used to write her homosexual show? And now she's America's sweetheart, introducing a new lesbian sitcom without introducing herself because the whole world knows who she is (and adores her), and she says we're going to love it because there's a lesbian in it? Don't you just want to hop out of a time machine, waggling your phone around and show Ellen where she landed?"

But DeGeneres kept it sincere, telling the "One Big Happy" panel at the Television Critics Association winter press tour this weekend that, "It's a very funny show -- it just happens to have a lesbian character on it. What's going to be great about this show is [the characters are] people you'll love and watch, and you won't think twice about any of it being 'weird.' It's obviously a more accepting world that we live in, for the most part... But I don't focus on that. I just look at it as a funny show."