This Is Us alumna Chrissy Metz is set to star in and executive produce Help Me Rhonda, which has landed a script plus penalty commitment at NBCUniversal.
Logline
Help Me Rhonda centers on Rhonda Bird (Metz), a brash public defender, and Barbra Ann “Baby” Bird, the privileged teenage sister she never knew she had, who reluctantly take over their late father’s private detective agency. While helping their father’s former clients, they uncover the truth about who their father really was.
Production
The show is based on the best-selling novel 2 Sisters Detective Agency by James Patterson and Candice Fox. Help Me Rhonda comes from Life Sentence creators Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith. Plus, James Patterson Entertainment, Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions, Cathy Konrad’s Tree Line Film and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Metz, Cardillo and Keith executive produce alongside Patterson, Bill Robinson, and Patrick Santa through James Patterson Entertainment, Tassler and Di Novi through PatMa Productions, Cathy Konrad through Tree Line Film and Lena Roklin from Luber Roklin.
Cardillo and Keith, creators of Life Sentence and Significant Mother, are currently working on the fifth season of Netflix’s hit Virgin River. They are also developing a series for NBC titled This Beautiful Life. Cardillo is repped by CAA and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson, and Christopher. Keith is repped by CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.
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Source: Deadline
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