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Quibi Investigates the “Mapleworth Murders” This August
Quibi’s “Mapleworth Murders”, a comedic murder mystery series created by and starring Paula Pell and John Lutz, will premiere on the streaming service August 10, 2020, it was just announced.
In “Mapleworth Murders”, Paula Pell is Abigail Mapleworth, a murder-mystery writer who solves homicides in her quaint small town of New Woodstream. Each episode of this comedic crime procedural will feature guest victims and suspects as we answer the bigger question of the series: why the hell are there so many murders in one small town?
Joining the cast in supporting roles opposite Pell and Lutz are J.B. Smoove (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) and Hayley Magnus (“Sick Girl”, “The Dressmaker”).
Recurring roles include Maya Rudolph (“The Good Place”, “Saturday Night Live”), Fred Armisen (“Portlandia”, “Saturday Night Live”), D’Arcy Carden (“The Good Place”, “Barry”), Tim Meadows (“Schooled”, “Trainwreck”), Patton Oswalt (“A.P. Bio”, “Ratatouille”), Jack McBrayer (“30 Rock”), Pam Murphy (“Get Shorty”), Ben Warheit (“Late Night with Seth Meyers”), Annie Mumolo (Bridesmaids), Ike Barinholtz (“The Mindy Project”), Mary Holland (“Veep”, “Greener Grass”), James Anderson and Drew Tarver (“The Other Two”).
Special guest appearances include Tina Fey (“30 Rock”, “Saturday Night Live”), Wanda Sykes (“Wanda Sykes: Not Normal, “Black-ish”), Chris Parnell (“Archer”, “Saturday Night Live”), Terry Crews (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), Andy Samberg (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”, “Saturday Night Live”), Nicole Byer (“Nailed It!”) and Jimmy Carlson.
Claire Scanlon (“Set it Up”; “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) directed the series.
The third trailer for creator Ryan Murphy’s “The Shards”, based on the 2023 prep school thriller novel by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, laments how hard kids had it in 1981.
To be fair, there’s a serial killer on the loose and a lot of backstabbing in the trailer below.
Look for “The Shards” to premiere on FX and Hulu on August 5 at 6 p.m. PT.
Igby Rigney (“The Fall of the House of Usher”), Homer Gere (“The Agency”), Graham Campbell, Kaia Gerber (Shell), Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”), Igby Rigney, Wes Bentley, and Hayes Warner star.
Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical, dark coming-of-age tale follows a 17-year-old Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending the character’s world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.
In the series, Rigney will portray Ellis, and Campbell will play Thom. Gere, son of actor Richard Gere, has been cast as Robert Mallory. Frequent Murphy collaborator Max Winkler (“American Horror Story,“ “Grotesquerie”) is attached to direct.
The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.
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