Television has been playing host to several A-list Hollywood stars for quite some time. After Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s appearance on True Detective earned global recognition, Tom Hiddleston followed suit by appearing on The Night Manager and this trend is not over just yet.
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A quick look at A-list stars who are heading to the small screen in 2017.
Television has been playing host to several A-list Hollywood stars for quite some time. After Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s appearance on True Detective earned global recognition, Tom Hiddleston followed suit by appearing on The Night Manager and this trend is not over just yet.
In the year 2017, plenty of other Hollywood stars are making their way to the small screen. Big Little Lies, starring and produced by Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, is already on-air and has picked up strong reviews for its pilot episode. More such collaborations are on the way.
One such example is that of Demi Moore, who is heading to the small screen with Lee Daniels’ hip-hop family fueled TV series, Empire. According to a report in Deadline, Moore will essay “a take-charge nurse with a mysterious past who will become ever more treacherously entangled with the Lyon family” in the upcoming third season of the series.
Moving on, Academy Award winner, Tim Robbins, known for films like The Shawshank Redemption and Mystic River will star opposite Holly Hunter in a new TV series created by Six Feet Under and True Blood creator Alan Ball. The ten-episode series has been described as a “tragicomic meditation on the complicated forces at work on all in America today”.
Ryan Murphy, champion of creating hit TV series such as Glee, American Horror Story and The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, is back with a new anthology series called Feud: Bette and Joan which brings together Hollywood veterans Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange in the titular roles. A spin on the real-life feud between movie legends Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, the upcoming production will also feature actors Stanley Tucci as Jack Warner, Judy Davis as Hedda Hopper, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Olivia de Havilland, Sarah Paulson as Geraldine Page and Kathy Bates as Joan Blondell.
Watch out for the series as it makes its debut early next month.
In Netflix’s new comedy series, Santa Clarita Diet, Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant essay Sheila and Joel, a married couple based in Los Angeles whose lives turn for the worse after Sheila becomes a zombie.
