Chrissy Metz New TV Present: ‘Assist Me Rhonda’ — Life After ‘This Is Us’

The way forward for Chrissy Metz‘s TV profession is not a thriller.

The actress, who wrapped her six-season run as This Is Us‘ Kate Pearson in Could, will subsequent star in Assist Me Rhonda, a small-screen adaptation of James Patterson’s 2 Sisters Detective Company novel, Deadline reviews. The present has been given a script plus penalty dedication by NBCUniversal.

Metz will play “brash public defender” Rhonda Chicken, who reluctantly reopens her late father’s non-public detective company alongside her estranged teenage sister Barbara Ann “Child” Chicken. “Whereas serving to their father’s former shoppers, they uncover the reality about who their father actually was,” the official description teases.

Off display screen, Metz can even executive-produce the Common Tv mission alongside writers Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith, James Patterson Leisure, PatMa Productions, Tree Line Movie and Luber Roklin.

Along with This Is Us, for which she took dwelling two Display Actors Guild Awards, Metz’s TV resume additionally consists of roles on Entourage, My Title Is Earl, American Horror Story: Freak Present, The Final O.G. and Superstore.

Coincidentally, it was reported earlier at present that Metz’s TV mother Mandy Moore has additionally eyed her first post-This Is Us function.

Will you examine Metz’s subsequent TV sequence? Drop a remark along with your ideas on Assist me Rhonda beneath.