Variety.com reports that TYLER PERRY may be done playing Madea, but the character will live on in the form of a PREQUEL SERIES that he's developing for Showtime.
It's called "Mabel", and here's the description . . .
"Long before she was the force of nature known as Madea she was a smart, fierce, irresistible, dangerous, crazy 20-something black woman named Mabel Simmons. When she moved to Atlanta in 1972 she set the city, and the world, on fire."