"The Big C DVD is a Showtime original television series created by Darlene Hunt which premiered on August 16, 2010. filmmaker Bill Condon directed the pilot for the series. It drew the largest audience for a Showtime original series premiere in eight years. Since then, Showtime announced that a second season of The Big C DVD will begin airing in 2011. The show follows Cathy Jamison, a reserved suburban wife and mother whose recent cancer diagnosis forces her to shake up her life and find hope, humor and the light side of a dark situation, while managing her immature but well-meaning husband."
The show follows Cathy Jamison, a reserved suburban wife and mother whose recent stage-IV melanoma diagnosis forces her to really begin to live for the first time in her adult life. At first she chooses to keep the fact of her terminal illness secret from her family, behaving in ways they find puzzling and increasingly bizarre as she finds new freedom to express herself.