Kristen Wiig To Star in Reese Witherspoon's New Comedy Series For Apple
SNL alum Kristen Wiig is set to star in a new comedy series being produced by Reese Witherspoon. Apple just landed the 10-episode series, which is inspired by Curtis Sittenfeld's upcoming short-story collection You Think It, I'll Say It.
This marks Apple's first scripted comedy pickup. I've always enjoyed watching Kristen Wiig in the projects she's done. She's not only funny, but she's also a talented actress. Colleen McGuinness (30 Rock) created the show and she will serve as the showrunner. Here's a description of the upcoming book that the series is based on and the stories that fill it:
Throughout the ten stories in You Think It, I’ll Say It, Sittenfeld upends assumptions about class, relationships, and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided. In “The World Has Many Butterflies,” married acquaintances play a strangely intimate game with devastating consequences. In “Vox Clamantis in Deserto,” a shy Ivy League student learns the truth about a classmate’s seemingly enviable life. In “A Regular Couple,” a high-powered lawyer honeymooning with her husband is caught off guard by the appearance of the girl who tormented her in high school. And in “The Prairie Wife,” a suburban mother of two fantasizes about the downfall of an old friend whose wholesome-lifestyle empire may or may not be built on a lie.
With moving insight and uncanny precision, Curtis Sittenfeld pinpoints the questionable decisions, missed connections, and sometimes extraordinary coincidences that make up a life. Indeed, she writes what we’re all thinking—if only we could express it with the wit of a master satirist, the storytelling gifts of an old-fashioned raconteur, and the vision of an American original.
Apple has a few other shows that they are currently developing which include a couple that I'm excited about such as the Steven Spielberg-produced Amazing Stories anthology and Ron Moore's space drama See. Apple is also trying to get their hands on J.J. Abrams' new untitled sci-fi series.
Source: THR