So Help Me Todd
Following strong ratings, CBS announced today it has renewed the hit drama series starring Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin for premiere next season. Despite a leading actress and showrunner change, the series made it to air and has seen its audience grow through word of mouth to averaging 6.3 million viewers per episode.
The series follows a talented but directionless P.I. who begrudgingly goes to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother, a successful attorney reeling from a divorce. Madeline Wise, Tristen J. Winger, Inga Schlingmann and Rosa Arredondo also star. [Source: Deadline]
Apples Never Fall
Annette Bening is set to lead the cast of the limited series “Apples Never Fall” at Peacock, her first TV role in two decades. The story begins when the about-to-retire matriarch of an enviably contented family vanishes, and her children are forced to re-examine their parents’ marriage and their family history with fresh eyes.
Chris Sweeney (“The Tourist”) has come on board to direct multiple episodes, including the first, of the limited series based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel. Melanie Marnich serves as writer-showrunner. [Source: Deadline]
Green Bank
Tatiana Maslany (“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law”) and Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Scream”) are set to lead Josh Ruben’s sci-fi horror feature “Green Bank”.
Written by Aaron Horwitz (“The Cleansing Hour”), the story takes place in a real American town where wifi, cell service and all other radio transmissions are heavily forbidden. Brown plays infant sleep-trainer Sloan who realizes that the parents of the child she’s caring for are much more than the clueless yuppies they seem to be.[Source: Variety]
Moving On
Roadside Attractions has premiered the trailer for Paul Weitz’s “Moving On” which marks his third teaming with Lily Tomlin and sees the latter reuniting with her “Grace and Frankie” and “80 for Brady” co-star Jane Fonda. The film hits cinemas on March 17th.
Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree co-star in the film which follows estranged friends who reunite to seek revenge on the petulant widower (McDowell) of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Fonda’s character reunites with her great love (Roundtree) as each woman learns to make peace with the past and each other.
