TV Land has signed Emmy Award-winning and audience-adored actress Betty White to star in the highly anticipated TV Land PRIME Original sitcom Hot in Cleveland, which is scheduled to premiere in June. White will take on the role of the snarky but lovable Elka Ostrovsky, property caretaker of the home that co-stars Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick rent after their plane makes an emergency landing in Cleveland and they decide to stay.

"The talented Betty White is the finishing touch to this outstanding sitcom ensemble," said TV Land president Larry W. Jones. "Betty’s illustrious career spans more than 60 years and makes her one of Hollywood's most iconic and sought after actresses in television today.

"Her lively role as Elka in Hot in Cleveland is what viewers love to see from her — an amazing sense of timing and fantastic comedy genius. We are confident audiences will love her in this project, TV Land's first foray into scripted television."

TV Land has greenlit 10 episodes of Hot in Cleveland, starring a sensational veteran cast. Hot in Cleveland is written by Emmy Award winner Suzanne Martin (Frasier, Ellen) and is produced by another Emmy recipient, Sean Hayes (Will & Grace), along with Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills Productions.

Hot in Cleveland is a TV Land PRIME original production and is the network’s first venture into scripted comedy. The series will air in June on TV Land.

"We are thrilled that Hot in Cleveland is TV Land’s first original sitcom," said Jones. "The talented cast has amazing chemistry and delivers the clever script from a renowned sitcom writer with hilarity and sincerity. This show has enormous potential and we are so excited to be a part of it."

Hot in Cleveland revolves around three fabulous L.A. women of a certain age who are best friends (Bertinelli, Leeves and Malick). Their lives are changed forever when their plane – headed for Paris – unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in a new "promised land." Loving their new home, the women find themselves living under one roof and battling the sassy caretaker (White) of the property they have rented.

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