‘The Girls on the Bus’ trailer brings romance and intrigue to the campaign trail [Watch]

Liam Mathews
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“The Girls on the Bus,” Max’s long-in-the-works journalism dramedy series from the producers of “The Flight Attendant,” finally has a trailer.   

The series follows four women as they work as embedded political reporters on a presidential campaign trail. There’s idealistic Sadie McCarthy (Melissa Benoist), who works for a respectable newspaper; Grace (Carla Gugino), a veteran reporter whose hard-nosed style gets scoops and makes enemies; Kimberlyn (Christina Elmore), a Black conservative who works for a right-wing news channel; and Lola (Natasha Benham), who thinks traditional journalism is ancient and social media is where it’s at. Though they’re all very competitive and different from each other, they develop a close bond as they work within the pressure cooker environment of the campaign trail.  

The cast also includes Scott Foley, Brandon Scott, Griffin Dunne, and Mark Consuelos.

The series is inspired by journalist Amy Chozick’s memoir “Chasing Hillary”, about her time as a campaign reporter on multiple campaigns, especially Hillary Clinton’s, but is heavily fictionalized. Chozick created the show with Julie Plec (“The Vampire Diaries”). Rina Mimoun (“Everwood”) is the showrunner. Jesse Peretz (“Girls”) directed the pilot. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, and Marcos Siega also serve as executive producers. 

The series was originally set up at Netflix in 2019, before the streamer dropped it. Development briefly moved to the CW in 2021 before finally landing at Max in 2022. 

“The Girls on the Bus” premieres March 14 on Max with the first two episodes, followed by weekly releases through May 9.

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