Tom Ellis has landed his first major TV role following the conclusion of Lucifer. The actor will [...]
Tom Ellis has landed his first major TV role following the conclusion of Lucifer. The actor will star in the upcoming Hulu comedy Second Wife, from Tell Me Lies creator Meaghan Oppenheimer, who is Ellis's real-life wife. The series will star Ellis opposite Emma Roberts as a young woman who falls in love with Ellis's character after getting out of a bad relationship. Oppenheimer will serve as the series showrunner, and executive produce the series through her Belletrist banner.
While she is Hollywood royalty and a star of big-screen fare, it isn't unprecedented for Roberts to take TV jobs. She has worked on series like Scream Queens and American Horror Story in the past. Both she and Ellis are best known for genre projects, so having what sounds like a fairly straightforward dramedy will be a nice change of pace for the actors.
Lucifer is in that category of DC Comics adaptations -- along with shows like Doom Patrol and DC's Legends of Tomorrow -- which have taken on an identity of their own, beyond the comic book source material, and developed passionate fan bases even among those who are not regular comics readers. The show ran for six seasons -- first on Fox, and then on Netflix -- before executive producers Joe Hendson and Ildy Modrovich were allowed to bring it in for a graceful landing in 2021.
0commentsThe series was cancelled at Fox, and almost immediately rumors started up that it would be saved and brought to Netflix. Once it was, it was consistently the most-streamed TV show of the year, every year new episodes were airing.
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