Patricia Heaton announced this morning she is executive producing and starring in a brand new legal drama pilot called Public Interest — stepping back into a leading television role for the first time since The Middle ended and bringing Richard Schiff and James Wolk along with her.

The same woman who this week shut down critics on Instagram who told her she was too young for gray hair — responding that she has decided to embrace what comes along in life and that the people who love her do not care what color her hair is — is now proving that her best work is nowhere near finished. At 68 Patricia Heaton is starring in a new show, producing it herself and going gray on her own terms. Debra Barone would absolutely approve.