TVLine Items: Tatiana Maslany’s Blackmail Series, Big Bang Vet Joins AMC Drama and More
Tatiana Maslany is starring in The Alison Hendrix Story Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed at Apple TV+.
The 10-episode series is described as “a half hour darkly comedic thriller about a newly divorced mom who falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder, and youth soccer.” (Can’t you just see that becoming Alison’s Orphan Black fate if she separated from Donnie?)
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Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed hails from creator/showrunner David J. Rosen (Sugar, Hunters), who will executive-produce alongside Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon (for Genre Films), and director David Gordon Green (Mythic Quest, The Righteous Gemstones).
In addition to her Emmy Award-winning work as a variety of clones on Orphan Black, Maslany’s recent TV credits include She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Perry Mason.
Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets? Well…
* Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory) has joined AMC and AMC+’s untitled Silicon Valley drama starring Billy Magnussen and Sarah Goldberg, our sister site Deadline reports. Helberg will portray the billionaire founder and CEO of an AI company.
* Matthew Lillard (Good Girls) has joined Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 in an undisclosed role, per Deadline.
* Bill Nighy (The Man Who Fell to Earth) has boarded Prime Video’s action-adventure series Ride or Die, starring Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer as a secret assassin and her in-the-dark best friend, respectively, our sister site Variety reports. Nighy will play “The Director.”
* BritBox has released a trailer for Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero, a three-episode limited series starring Anjelica Huston and Matthew Rhys. It will drop one episode weekly, beginning Wednesday, April 16.
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