Fans of Big Little Lies will soon have a Monterey Five-shaped hole in their lives as the hit HBO drama draws to a close. But there's a new series on the horizon from the show's creator, also starring Nicole Kidman, that might help fill it.

Kidman reunites with BLL's David E Kelley for HBO's psychological suspense thriller The Undoing, an adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz's critically-acclaimed novel You Should Have Known.

The plot

HBO's synopsis reads: "A successful therapist, Grace Sachs (Kidman) is on the brink of publishing her first book. Grace has a devoted husband, Jonathan, and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City.

"Weeks before her book is published, a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing spouse, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself."

Kidman says: "David has created another propulsive series with a fascinating, complicated female role at its centre."

The cast

Kidman plays therapist Grace Sachs, while Hugh Grant plays acclaimed paediatric oncologist and devoted father and husband Jonathan. But his past undergoes scrutiny when he suddenly disappears.

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Donald Sutherland stars as Jonathan's father, Franklin Renner: a retired financier and loving grandfather, tasked with protecting his family when turbulent revelations come to light.

The Assassination of Gianni Versace's Edgar Ramirez, Lily Rabe, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Matilda DeAngelis, and Noma Dumezweni also join the cast.

Kelley will write and executive produce along with Kidman and Per Saari through Blossom Films, and Bruna Papandrea through Made Up Stories.

Emmy award-winning writer and director Susanne Bier will direct, whose credits include The Night Manager and Bird Box. Bier is the first female director to win a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award collectively.

Trailer

Filming is underway in New York, but no trailer has been released as yet.

Release Date

The limited series is expected to arrive at the end of this year, or early 2020.

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