Chrissy Metz To Headline ‘Assist Me Rhonda’ PI Drama In Works At NBCU – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: For her followup to This Is Us, Chrissy Metz has chosen one other drama with siblings on the heart. The This Is Us alumna is about to star in and govt produce Assist Me Rhonda, which has landed a script plus penalty dedication at NBCUniversal.

Primarily based on the best-selling novel 2 Sisters Detective Company by James Patterson and Candice Fox, Assist Me Rhonda comes from Life Sentence creators Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith, James Patterson Leisure, Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions, Cathy Konrad’s Tree Line Movie and Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group.

Written by Cardillo and Keith, Assist Me Rhonda facilities on Rhonda Chicken (Metz), a brash public defender, and Barbra Ann “Child” Chicken, the privileged teenage sister she by no means knew she had, reluctantly take over their late father’s non-public detective company. Whereas serving to their father’s former shoppers, they uncover the reality about who their father actually was.

Metz, Cardillo and Keith govt produce alongside Patterson, Invoice Robinson, and Patrick Santa via James Patterson Leisure, Tassler and Di Novi via PatMa Productions, Cathy Konrad via Tree Line Movie and Lena Roklin from Luber Roklin.

As has been widespread follow over the previous couple of years, Assist Me Rhonda is being developed by NBCU’s consolidated leisure content material division earlier than a choice is made whether or not the potential sequence would go to NBC, the place This Is Us aired, on streamer Peacock.

For her position as Kate Pearson on This Is Us, which ran for six seasons, Metz earned an Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations. She just lately starred within the indie movie Keep Awake. Her memoir, This Is Me, debuted at #1 on The New York Instances’ Bestseller checklist. She is repped by CAA, Luber Roklin, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.

Metz is the newest This Is Us star to headline their very own sequence challenge as a followup to the acclaimed NBC household drama. Milo Ventimiglia stars in ABC’s upcoming drama sequence The Firm You Preserve. Justin Hartley has CBS drama pilot The By no means Recreation. Chris Sullivan, who performed Metz’s onscreen husband on This Is Us, toplined ABC’s comedy pilot The Son of Regulation this previous season. And Mandy Moore stars in Twin Flames, a sequence in growth at Hulu which, like Assist Me Rhonda, relies on a e book.

Cardillo and Keith, creators of Life Sentence and Important Mom, are at the moment engaged on the fifth season of Netflix’s hit Virgin River. They’re additionally creating a sequence for NBC titled This Stunning Life. The duo is repped by CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.

James Patterson Leisure is repped by CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.