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Mike & Molly Boss on Show's New Direction: "It Was Necessary"

When Al Higgins took over as showrunner on Mike & Molly in May, executive producer Chuck Lorre posed a question that he couldn’t answer.

“We sat down and the first thing Chuck Lorre said to me was, ‘Why is Melissa McCarthy a movie star and not a TV star?’ And I had no idea,” Higgins tells TVGuide.com. “I was stumped. And he said, ‘In her movies, people react to her and on the show, she reacts to everyone else.’ I thought about that and he was right. He said, ‘I want to flip that dynamic.'”

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