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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.
AMC’s horror series “The Terror” wrapped its third season last month, but plans are already in motion for season four.
Executive producer David W. Zucker has confirmed that “The Terror” Season 4 is moving forward in a new chat with ScreenRant, revealing that they’ve “just closed the deal on the book we’re gonna develop next” for the series.
Which novel they’re adapting remains shrouded in secrecy at this stage, however.
That might not seem like much to go on at this stage, but the second season was an original story. Furthermore, there was a lengthy gap between seasons two and three, causing many to speculate that the third season would be the anthology series’ last. Unlike its first two, Season 3 shifted from airing on AMC to a dual Shudder and AMC+ weekly release plan, with neither streamer revealing viewership numbers.
So not only is this confirmation that the series is moving forward, but it won’t be another six years before we see Season 4.
The first season of the supernatural drama, based on Dan Simmons’ novel and aired in 2018, was set on the frigid decks of a Victorian Era sailing ship following a doomed course, while season two, “The Terror: Infamy,” which premiered in August 2019, centered on a malevolent, shape-shifting force that is locked up with prisoners in a Japanese internment camp.
Season 3, “The Terror: Devil in Silver,” tells the story of Pepper – a working class moving man, who through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself.
Dan Stevens (The Guest, Abigail) stars alongside Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Root, Michael Aronov, Marin Ireland, Chinaza Uche, Hampton Fluker, Hayward Leach, and Philip Ettinger.
The six-episode new season is based on Victor LaValle’s novel, The Devil in Silver.
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