New TV from Big Little Lies co-stars
Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern and Nicole Kidman share a hug at the SAG Awards.
It’s a blockbuster week for A-list television.
First, Reese Witherspoon announced a new Hulu series with Kerry Washington ( Scandal). Then her Big Little Lies cast mate Nicole Kidman unveiled her next project: The Undoing, a new HBO series that reunites her with Lies scribe David E. Kelley. Based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel You Should Have Known, the limited series will star Kidman as Grace Sachs, a successful therapist on the brink of publishing her first book with a devoted husband and son who attends an elite private school in New York City.
“Weeks before her book is published, a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations,” said HBO.
Witherspoon, meanwhile, is bringing Little Fires Everywhere to Hulu after a heated bidding war for the rights.
Based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller, it follows the picture-perfect Richardson family, and an enigmatic mother and daughter whose lives are upended.
Hulu, which has been beefing up its original productions since launching The Handmaid’s Tale, said, “the story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.”
Witherspoon said the project continues her pledge to nurture female-driven stories “rooted in inspiration, emotion and truth.”