After several years of development and moving homes, the political comedy The Girls on the Bus starring Melissa Benoist (Supergirl) will finally premiere in March on Max.
The Girls on the Bus is based on Amy Chozick’s 2018 novel Chasing Hillary about her time covering Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. The series was originally ordered by Netflix in 2019, but after the streaming giant decided not to move forward with it after all it moved to The CW. However, it again had to switch homes after The CW cut the majority of its original programming and its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery began either cancelling their shows or moving them onto Max, the streaming service formerly known as HBO Max.
The Girls on the Bus follows Benoist as Sadie McCarthy, “a journalist who romanticizes the original ‘Boys on the Bus’ and who scrapped her whole life for her own shot at covering a presidential campaign for the paper of record. Sadie hits the trail and eventually bonds with three female competitors. Despite their differences, these women become a found family with a front-row seat to the greatest soap opera in town: the battle for the White House.”
Starring alongside Benoist are Carla Gugino (The Fall of the House of Usher), Natasha Behnam (Mayans M.C.), Christina Elmore (Insecure). The cast also features Brandon Scott (Dead to Me), Scott Foley (Scandal), Tala Ashe (Legends of Tomorrow) and Griffin Dunne (This Is Us).
The Girls on the Bus was developed by Chozick and Julie Plec with Rina Mimoun (Mistresses) showrunning. The trio will executive produce the series alongside Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter for Berlanti Productions.
While an exact date has not been revealed, the series will premiere in March.
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