{"id":186130,"date":"2025-12-15T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/186130\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:49:07","slug":"geraldine-viswanathan-joins-amy-poehler-in-peacock-series-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/186130\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraldine Viswanathan Joins Amy Poehler In Peacock Series &#8216;Dig&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/geraldine-viswanathan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_geraldine-viswanathan\" data-tag=\"geraldine-viswanathan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geraldine Viswanathan<\/a> is the latest to join <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/amy-poehler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amy-poehler\" data-tag=\"amy-poehler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Poehler<\/a> in the upcoming Peacock comedy series Dig. Hugh Laurie also recently joined the cast. The series reunites Poehler with Parks and Recreation\u00a0co-creator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mike-schur\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Schur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on Kate Myers\u2019 bestselling book\u00a0Excavation,\u00a0Dig\u00a0is centered on four women \u2014 one of them played by Poehler \u2014 working at an archeological dig in Greece who are at wildly different crossroads in their lives. When the team uncovers a long-buried secret with the potential to rewrite history, they find themselves at the center of a high-stakes international conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tViswanathan will play Dylan, who after a five-year absence, returns to the dig in Greece on a whim to take care of some unfinished business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSchur and Poehler co-wrote the pilot script, with J. Philbin (Only Murders in the Building) also serving as a writer on the series. The trio executive produce alongside Morgan Sackett, director Dean Holland as well as Dave Becky and David Miner for 3 Arts, Sharon Jackson for Ocean Avenue, and Kate Arend and Jordan Grief for Poehler\u2019s Paper Kite. Myers is co-executive producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe series, which is gearing up for production, comes from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tViswanathan\u2019s recent films inclue Marvel\u2019s Thunderbolts*,Ethan Coen\u2019s Drive-Away Dolls, You\u2019re Cordially Invited and Oh Hi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn the TV side, she co-starred in Miracle Workers, opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane Offer Weber Dern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geraldine Viswanathan is the latest to join Amy Poehler in the upcoming Peacock comedy series Dig. Hugh Laurie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15708,458,146,107702,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-186130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-amy-poehler","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-geraldine-viswanathan","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}