EXCLUSIVE: Acting couple Melissa Benoist and Chris Wood are set to play one on TV in Duo, a drama in growth at NBC. Written by Wood with Rina Mimoun (Mistresses) as showrunner, the mission, which has a script dedication, comes from Warner Bros. Television, the place Benoist’s Three Things Productions and Mimoun are below general offers.
In Duo, when a soft-spoken, blue-collar employee (Wood) and a magnetic performer (Benoist) in search of her subsequent break unexpectedly cross paths, their fateful assembly results in a partnership that modifications them each ceaselessly. The mission is described as a household drama centered round a brand new two-person band and the disruption their quickly rising profession has on each their lives and the lives of these closest to them.
Duo, which echoes drama collection involving band members in an advanced relationship coping with fame akin to Daisy Jones and the Six, guarantees to showcase Benoist and Wood’s musical talents. Benoist sang in her breakthrough position on Fox’s musical dramedy Glee whereas Wood has background in musical theater, together with a stint on Broadway in Almost Famous. (You can watch the 2 of them performing collectively at a 2019 profit beneath.)
The NBC drama would reunite Benoist and Wood on-screen; the 2 met on the set of her CW/WBTV collection Supergirl, which Benoist headlined for its six-season run and Wood was a collection common on for Seasons 2-3. Duo additionally re-teams Benoist with Mimoun after their latest collaboration on the Max/WBTV collection The Girls On the Bus, starring and produced by Benoist and government produced/showrun by Mimoun.
Mimoun is government producing Duo alongside Benoist through her Three Things Productons. Wood serves as co-executive producer.
Benoist subsequent stars in Kevin Williamson’s upcoming Netflix drama collection The Waterfront. She is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Wood is repped by Untitled and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Mimoun is repped by UTA and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan.
