EXCLUSIVE: How To Get Away With Homicide alumna Aja Naomi King is returning to broadcast as a lead reverse Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb and Ben Rappaport in Grosse Pointe Backyard Society, NBC‘s drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Invoice Krebs and Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group.
The drama follows 4 members of a suburban backyard membership — Birdie (Fumero), Alice (Robb), Brett (Rappaport) and Catherine (King) — all from totally different walks of life, who get caught up in homicide and mischief as they battle to make their standard lives bloom.
King’s Catherine is an unhappily married mom of two youthful kids, a realtor and lively member of the Backyard Society who works off a few of her loneliness with a really juicy secret.
The pilot’s sequence common solid additionally contains Matthew Davis and Alexander Hodge.
Maggie Kiley is directing the pilot, which she is govt producing with Bans by way of her Minnesota Logging Co., Krebs and Casey Kyber.
King, who starred as Michaela Pratt on How To Get Away With Homicide for the sequence’ six-season run on ABC, lately performed a principal function reverse Brie Larson and Lewis Pullman in Apple TV+’s restricted sequence Classes In Chemistry, incomes Greatest Supporting Actress in a Restricted Sequence nominations on the Critics Selection Awards and the NAACP Picture Awards. King, whose function credit embody Sylvie’s Love, The twenty fourth and A Little White Lie, is repped by Gersh, Door 24 and Sloane, Provide, Weber and Dern.