One of the creators of Will Trent is headed to Apple TV for a new half-hour comedy about complicated lives and fresh starts. Liz Heldens, co-creator of the popular Ramón Rodríguez mystery series, will executive produce and showrun the series with Matt Ward (Madam Secretary). It’s the latest comedy from the streamer that brought you The Studio, and it’s set to begin production later this year.
Elizabeth Banks will star in the new, currently untitled series. She’ll play a newly-divorced mother hoping to enter her life’s second act. But if she thought her divorce was messy, she doesn’t realize the quagmire she’s about to get stuck in. Her elderly father has retired to a seniors’ community, but maintains an extremely active social life; so much so that she has to coordinate his “sex dates.” That puts her into a strange alliance with the perpetually single son of her dad’s girlfriend. While Apple TV may be best known for cerebral sci-fi dramas like Pluribusand Severance, the streamer has been expanding its comedy slate in recent years; anchored by colossal sports hit Ted Lasso, Apple TV’s recent comedy hits include Platonic, Shrinking, and last year’s awards sensation The Studio.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
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Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
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The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
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🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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What Can Elizabeth Banks Be Seen in Recently?
Last year, Banks took on a rare dramatic role in the medical drama A Mistake and starred in the black comedy Skincare, which she also executive-produced. She also starred with Jessica Biel in the Prime Video thriller miniseries The Better Sister. On the (extremely) small screen, she can currently be seen in the Peacock sci-fi rom-com series The Miniature Wife, as a woman whose troubled marriage gets even more complicated when her scientist husband’s invention reduces her to the size of an action figure. Later this year, she’ll play herself in the David Wain comedy Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, and will star alongside John C. Reilly in the science fiction thriller DreamQuil. She can also be seen as the host of the ABC game show Press Your Luck.
In addition to starring, Banks will also executive produce the series with Max Handelman and Krissy Wall via Brownstone Productions. Jonathan Krisel (English Teacher) will direct the pilot and executive-produce, as well. Quinn Haberman will executive produce alongside Heldens for Selfish Mermaid, and Jason Winer and Jon Radler will executive produce for Small Dog Picture Company. It is a production of 20th Television.
A new Apple TV comedy series starring Elizabeth Banks is in development; no release date has yet been announced. Meanwhile, Liz Heldens’ smash-hit ABC series Will Trent is streaming on Hulu. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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Release Date
January 3, 2023
Directors
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Howard Deutch, Eric Dean Seaton, Holly Dale, Lea Thompson, Patricia Cardoso, Sheree Folkson, Bille Woodruff, Erika Christensen, Gail Mancuso, Geary McLeod, Jason Ensler, Mark Tonderai, Paul McGuigan
Writers
Inda Craig-Galván, Henry ‘Hank’ Jones, Karine Rosenthal, Adam Toltzis, Antoine Perry
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