One of the creators of Will Trent is headed to Apple TV for a new half-hour comedy about complicated lives and fresh starts. Liz Heldens, co-creator of the popular Ramón Rodríguez mystery series, will executive produce and showrun the series with Matt Ward (Madam Secretary). It’s the latest comedy from the streamer that brought you The Studio, and it’s set to begin production later this year.
Elizabeth Banks will star in the new, currently untitled series. She’ll play a newly-divorced mother hoping to enter her life’s second act. But if she thought her divorce was messy, she doesn’t realize the quagmire she’s about to get stuck in. Her elderly father has retired to a seniors’ community, but maintains an extremely active social life; so much so that she has to coordinate his “sex dates.” That puts her into a strange alliance with the perpetually single son of her dad’s girlfriend. While Apple TV may be best known for cerebral sci-fi dramas like Pluribus and Severance, the streamer has been expanding its comedy slate in recent years; anchored by colossal sports hit Ted Lasso, Apple TV‘s recent comedy hits include Platonic, Shrinking, and last year’s awards sensation The Studio.
What Can Elizabeth Banks Be Seen in Recently?
Last year, Banks took on a rare dramatic role in the medical drama A Mistake and starred in the black comedy Skincare, which she also executive-produced. She also starred with Jessica Biel in the Prime Video thriller miniseries The Better Sister. On the (extremely) small screen, she can currently be seen in the Peacock sci-fi rom-com series The Miniature Wife, as a woman whose troubled marriage gets even more complicated when her scientist husband’s invention reduces her to the size of an action figure. Later this year, she’ll play herself in the David Wain comedy Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, and will star alongside John C. Reilly in the science fiction thriller DreamQuil. She can also be seen as the host of the ABC game show Press Your Luck.
In addition to starring, Banks will also executive produce the series with Max Handelman and Krissy Wall via Brownstone Productions. Jonathan Krisel (English Teacher) will direct the pilot and executive-produce, as well. Quinn Haberman will executive produce alongside Heldens for Selfish Mermaid, and Jason Winer and Jon Radler will executive produce for Small Dog Picture Company. It is a production of 20th Television.
A new Apple TV comedy series starring Elizabeth Banks is in development; no release date has yet been announced. Meanwhile, Liz Heldens‘ smash-hit ABC series Will Trent is streaming on Hulu.
via Collider