{"id":602317,"date":"2026-04-23T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602317\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:14:09","slug":"elizabeth-banks-to-star-in-apple-tv-comedy-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602317\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Banks to Star in Apple TV Comedy Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tApple TV<\/a> has greenlit a comedy series starring Elizabeth Banks<\/a> as a recently divorced woman \u2014\u00a0but the show will go well beyond that basic premise.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe currently untitled series comes from creators Liz Heldens (Will Trent) and Matt Ward (Best Medicine) and Disney\u2019s 20th Television<\/a>. Here\u2019s the logline: \u201cFresh off a messy divorce, Heidi (Banks) sets out to secure a lively second act for herself and her kids. But when she stumbles into coordinating her father\u2019s retirement community sex dates, Heidi is forced into an unlikely alliance with his girlfriend\u2019s perpetually single son.\u201d It\u2019s set to begin filming later this year in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWithout researching every comedy series logline of the recent past, THR is confident that almost none of them contain the phrase \u201cretirement community sex dates.\u201d The show will join a comedy roster at Apple TV that includes The Studio, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Platonic and Stick, among others.<\/p>\n

\n\tBanks, currently starring in The Miniature Wife at Peacock, will also executive produce the series via her Brownstone Productions. Heldens and Ward will serve as showrunners and executive produce with Brownstone\u2019s Max Handelman and Krissy Wall; pilot director Jonathan Krisel (FX\u2019s Adults); Quinn Haberman of Heldens\u2019 Selfish Mermaid banner; and Jason Winer and Jon Radler of Small Dog Picture Company. <\/p>\n

\n\tBanks\u2019 TV credits also include Prime Video\u2019s The Better Sister, Hulu\u2019s Mrs. America and recurring parts on Modern Family and 30 Rock; she earned Emmy nominations for her work on the latter two. She\u2019s also been nominated for an Emmy for hosting ABC\u2019s game show Press Your Luck. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple TV has greenlit a comedy series starring Elizabeth Banks as a recently divorced woman \u2014\u00a0but the show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[26764,5896,74456,88,92],"class_list":["post-602317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-20th-television","tag-apple-tv","tag-elizabeth-banks","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}