TYLER PERRY TO FILM ‘MEET THE BROWNS’: Popular stage play to become his fifth film

*Tyler Perry will again don the Madea housedresses for a film adaptation of his stage production, “Meet the Browns,” due in early 2008 for Lionsgate. The story follows a single mother in Chicago who takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father, whom she never met. There, she is introduced to her father’s crude-yet-fun-loving Brown family. News of the film comes a day after the premiere of Perry’s TBS sitcom “House of Payne,” which is being distributed in first-run syndication by Lionsgate's wholly owned Debmar-Mercury subsidiary. The series debut has become the No. 1 sitcom telecast in TBS history among adults 18-34, adults 18-49, adults 25-54, overall viewers and overall households, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research. ****************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLTIZ: THE SHOW HOUSE OF PAYNE (SEE HOW THEY STOLE PART OF MY NAME)-I DIDN'T ENJOY THAT SHOW AT ALL I THINK IT WAS #1 ONLY BY DEFAULT BECAUSE WE ALL JUST WANTED TO CHECK IT OUT...BUT THE "BROWNS DEFINITELY THINK THAT WILL BE A HIT ..!!!