{"id":913079,"date":"2026-10-02T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913079\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:08:12","slug":"eddie-murphy-leads-the-chairman-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913079\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy Leads &#8220;The Chairman&#8221; TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/eddie-murphy-leads-the-chairman-tv-series.jpg\" data-caption=\"Netflix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/eddie-murphy-leads-the-chairman-tv-series.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"eddie-murphy-leads-the-chairman-tv-series\"\/><\/a>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Murphy is coming back to television as the \u201cBeverly Hills Cop\u201d and \u201cComing to America\u201d star leads the drama series \u201cThe Chairman\u201d at Peacock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMad Men\u201d creator Matthew Weiner is spearheading the series which hails from \u201cYellowstone\u201d and \u201cMobLand\u201d producer 101 Studios and Universal Television.<\/p>\n<p>Though he has starred in many films, Murphy has never headlined a scripted series.  In the 1990s, he did create animated comedy \u201cThe PJs\u201d for FOX and \u201cThe Royal Family\u201d for CBS.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the new series, including character and plot specifics, have not been disclosed.  Weiner will write and executive produce the show, his first series pickup since \u201cThe Romanoffs\u201d for Amazon in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy will also executive produce the show.  He most recently was seen in the Netflix documentary \u201cBeing Eddie\u201d last year and had both \u201cThe Pickup\u201d and \u201cBeverly Hills Cop: Axel F\u201d debuting not that long ago.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy\u2019s next role is reprising the part of Donkey in \u201cShrek 5\u201d next year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/eddie-murphy-the-chairman-series-peacock-matthew-weiner-1237145005\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/bailey-purnell-go-intense-in-dracula-clip\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bailey &amp; Purnell Go Intense In \u201cDracula\u201d Clip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/lanterns-averaging-19-million-per-episode\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLanterns\u201d Averaging 19 Million Per Episode<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix Eddie Murphy is coming back to television as the \u201cBeverly Hills Cop\u201d and \u201cComing to America\u201d star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,427],"class_list":["post-913079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}