Jessica Biel (The Sinner, Candy, The Illusionist) is ready to strut her stuff on Peacock for a limited series adaptation of Karin Slaughter’s New York Times best-selling novel The Good Daughter. In addition to her starring role, Biel executive produces the adaptation, which was in hot contention at several studios before landing at Peacock.
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Peacock announced Tuesday it has ordered the limited series crime drama The Good Daughter. Jessica Biel will star and executive produce.
Biel also executive produced The Sinner and Candy in which she starred. She executive produced but did not appear in the Freeform series Cruel Summer.
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Peacock has announced that Jessica Biel will lead an upcoming limited crime thriller series titled The Good Daughter.
All episodes of The Good Daughter are being written by Karin Slaughter, who wrote the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name that the limited series is being based on. It is being produced by Made Up Stories in partnership with global film and TV studio Fifth Season, who will also be distributing it internationally.
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Jessica Biel is bringing a new psychological suspense thriller to Peacock as she’s set to star in and executive produce a television adaptation of The Good Daughter, based on Karin Slaughter’s novel of the same name.
The limited series order will see Slaughter write all episodes and executive produce alongside Biel and Emmy-winner Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky, Casey Haver, and Michelle Purple. Hailing from Fifth Season, The Good Daughter is based on Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling book that was published in 2017.
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Jessica Biel is continuing her string of psychologically twisty miniseries with The Good Daughter, a limited series ordered at Peacock on Tuesday that Biel will headline and executive-produce.
Based on the best-selling novel from Karin Slaughter — who also pens the Will Trent book series on which ABC’s drama is based — The Good Daughter follows sisters Charlotte (Biel) and Samantha Quinn, who have spent the last 28 years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence.
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Jessica Biel’s “The Good Daughter” thriller series, based on the best-selling 2017 novel by Karin Slaughter, has been picked up by Peacock, the streamer announced on Tuesday.
The actress will executive produce along with Slaughter, who will also write all the episodes. Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver from Made Up Stories serve as executive producers in partnership with Fifth Season. Michelle Purple will executive produce along with Biel for Iron Ocean.
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Jessica Biel is set to star in a limited series adaptation of the Karin Slaughter novel “The Good Daughter” at Peacock, Variety has learned.
This will be the second of Slaughter’s novels to be adapted for television by Made Up Stories. The company previously produced a series version of her book “Pieces of Her,” which starred Toni Collette and aired on Netflix in March 2022. Slaughter’s Will Trent novel series also serves as the basis for the hit ABC series “Will Trent,” which is currently airing its second season.
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Peacock has picked up The Good Daughter, a limited series psychological suspense thriller starring and executive produced by Jessica Biel (Candy, The Sinner).
Pieces of Her author Karin Slaughter will write all episodes and executive produce the project, from Fifth Season and Bruna Papandrea‘s Made Up Stories, which is based on Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling novel The Good Daughter.
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Will Trent received an early Season 2 renewal last year on the heels of Season 1’s promising performance. The series led the ABC freshman pack as the No. 1 new drama this season in total viewers (9.9 million) and adults 18-49 (1.65 rating) after 35 days of viewing across linear and digital platforms.
Based on Karin Slaughter’s bestselling Will Trent series, the series stars Rodríguez as Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI), who was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. But now, determined to use his unique point of view to make sure no one is abandoned like he was, Will Trent has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.
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In the latest TV ratings, with #TheFBIs in rerun mode: ABC’s Will Trent was Tuesday’s most-watched show and landed in a five-way tie for the nightly demo win.
ABC | Will Trent (with 4.7 million total viewers and a 0.3 demo rating) was up in eyeballs (possibly hitting a series high, check back later!)
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ABC has made it a priority this season to turn sophomore series “Will Trent” into an established hit — and so far the strategy seems to be working. The drama’s Season 2 premiere already posted one of the Alphabet net’s most-watched scripted drama episodes among live+same day total viewers in years, at 4.77 million.
Now, after three days of viewing on ABC, Hulu and digital platforms, “Will Trent” (which returned on Tuesday, Feb. 20) has grown by nearly 3 million viewers, to 7.68 million. And its adults 18-49 average is up 142%, from 0.33 to 0.8.
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Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding, Anyone But You) has been cast in the upcoming Starz drama The Hunting Wives in a series regular role alongside previously announced co-leads Malin Åkerman and Brittany Snow.
Written by Rebecca Cutter based on the novel of the same name by May Cobb, The Hunting Wives tells the story of Sophie O’Neil (Snow) and her family’s move from the East Coast to deep East Texas, where she succumbs to socialite Margo Bank’s (Åkerman) irresistible charms – and finds her life consumed by obsession, seduction and murder.
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Starz’s upcoming thriller series The Hunting Wives has cast Brittany Snow to act alongside Malin Åkerman, as reported by TVLine.
The show, based on May Cobb’s novel, is often likened to Desperate Housewives, Big Little Lies, and Mean Girls. Consisting of eight episodes, its production is slated to start in Charlotte, N.C., by this spring.
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Malin Åkerman has been cast in a leading role of the Starz series adaptation of the May Cobb novel “The Hunting Wives,” Variety has learned.
Cobb is also an executive producer on “The Hunting Wives” along with Erwin Stoff for 3 Arts Entertainment. The series is produced by Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts.
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Starz has handed an eight-episode series order to thriller drama The Hunting Wives. The project, based on the novel by May Cobb, is executive produced by Cobb, Hightown creator Rebecca Cutter, who wrote the adaptation and will serve as showrunner, and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Erwin Stoff. Lionsgate Television produces with 3 Arts. . . .
“The Hunting Wives is a juicy, suspenseful and sultry thrill-ride,” said Kathryn Busby, Starz’s President of Original Programming. “We’re excited to continue to work with Rebecca and Erwin on this propulsive series that perfectly complements Starz’s slate of edgy, female-forward premium content.”
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Ramón Rodríguez, star of the WILL TRENT TV show based on Karin Slaughter’s novels, appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He taught Jimmy how to Salsa and discussed working with a dialect coach to develop his character’s sound. Click below to watch:
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Ramon also appeared on GMA, GMA3 and The Tamron Hall Show where he touted the show and shared stories from his time on set.
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Crime-writing queen and Atlanta resident Karin Slaughter sees her creation Will Trent come to life in this new series featuring the fictional Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent, played by the Puerto Rico native Ramón Rodríguez. The first episode, which has garnered generally good reviews, aired at 10:00 p.m. on ABC on Tuesday, January 3, and is also available on Hulu to stream; new episodes will air and stream on subsequent Tuesdays. Can’t wait?
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Karin Slaughter's bestselling crime novels Will Trent are being brought to life on the small screen, and Ramón Rodríguez relished the opportunity to dig into the "compelling, complicated" character the author created, he told Newsweek.
Rodríguez takes on the titular role of Special Agent Will Trent, who works for the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) in Atlanta and who is tasked with solving a grisly murder and missing persons case.
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