Kyra Sedgwick OF ‘CALL YOUR MOTHER’ ON ABC

Though “Call Your Mother” originally was planned to debut last fall, are you satisfied with the winter launch that it’s gotten?

I think the show is coming out at just the right time. We need more comedy, and we desperately need a comedy about families that actually love each other. We’ve all had to make a certain peace, and I don’t know anybody who hasn’t had a reckoning with their biological family now, so I think it’s really perfect timing.

What do you think the effect of the coronavirus pandemic has been on “Call Your Mother”?

The best thing for us is that we didn’t do a pilot, we just went straight to series. We originally had planned to do a pilot last March, then everything shut down; when we came back, they picked us up for 13 episodes right away, and I don’t think that would have happened if COVID-19 hadn’t. We would have done the pilot, then they would have made all sorts of decisions that would have taken a long time.

Pam Fryman – who’s directing the show – is so great, she would be a tough act to follow. She’s done “How I Met Your Mother” and “Frasier” and “Mom” and everything, and everybody says she’s unequivocally the best. But after a couple of years of looking at a monitor that has four cameras on it, maybe that will shift a little bit and I’ll be ready to direct this.

Since you’re also a director now, having even done that on your husband Kevin Bacon’s show “City on a Hill,” do you anticipate doing that job on “Call Your Mother’ at some point?