Steph Curry, Simu Liu to Topline Peacock Shows

Lesley Goldberg
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Peacock is bulking up its scripted roster.

The NBCUniversal-owned streamer on Wednesday announced series orders for four new scripted originals, including Mr. Throwback, a mockumentary starring NBA legend Steph Curry and an untitled James Wan thriller with Simu Liu set to topline the drama. Also ordered to series are Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy from the creators of Dr. Death and All Her Fault, a suburban thriller based on the novel of the same name by Andrea Mara.

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The news was announced Wednesday during Peacock’s time at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, where the streamer held panels for Apples Never Fall and The Traitors, among others.

The pickups join a roster of scripted series at Peacock that also includes Apples Never Fall, Hysteria!, The Tattooist Of Auschwitz, Those About To Die, Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, We Are Lady Parts, Teacup The Day of the Jackal as well as Ted, Poker Face, Bupkis, Bel-Air, Based on a True Story and Twisted Metal.

Here are details about the four new straight-to-series orders:

MR. THROWBACK

The comedy revolves around a down-on-his-luck memorabilia dealer who looks for redemption by reuniting with his sixth-grade teammate, NBA legend Steph Curry.

David Caspe (Happy Endings, Black Monday),Matthew Libman and Daniel Libman (Happy Endings, Champaign ILL) will write and exec produce the series. Adam Pally, who previously starred in Happy Endings with Caspe and the Libman siblings, will star alongside Curry. Both exec produce alongside Erick Peyton. The series hails from Universal Television, where Caspe is housed with an overall deal.

UNTITLED JAMES WAN & SIMU LIU PROJECT

From creator, writer and exec producer Thomas Brandon (Legacies), Simu Liu (Barbie) stars in the series that Peacock describes as: “Five minutes in the future, a first-generation-American intelligence analyst Alexander Hale (Liu) realizes his brain has been hacked, giving the perpetrators access to everything he sees and hears. Caught between his shadowy agency and the unknown hackers, he must maintain a performance 24/7 to flush out who’s responsible and prove where his allegiance lies.” Liu exec produces alongside James Wan (M3GAN), Michael Clear (M3GAN) and Rob Hackett (I Know What You Did Last Summer) for Wan’s Atomic Monster. Danielle Bozzone will oversee for Atomic Monster. The espionage techno-thriller hails from Universal Content Productions. The untitled entry joins Peacock’s previously announced series order for the contemporary horror thriller Teacup (formerly known as the untitled Ian McCulloch project), with Wan executive producing and McCulloch writing and executive producing. That series comes from Wan’s Atomic Monster and UCP.

DEVIL IN DISGUISE: JOHN WAYNE GACY

Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy is inspired by the 2021 Peacock docuseries from NBC News of the same name. The streamer says the scripted foray “peels back the twisted layers of John Wayne Gacy’s life while weaving in the heartrending stories of his mostly gay victims; exploring the grief, guilt, and trauma of their families and friends; and exposing the systemic failures, missed opportunities and societal prejudices that fueled his reign of terror.” Patrick Macmanus (Dr. Death, The Girl From Plainville) serves as writer and showrunner and exec produces alongside Littleton Road Productions, Kelly Funke, NBC News Studios, Noah Oppenheim and Liz Cole. The limited series is produced by Universal Content Productions.

ALL HER FAULT

The suburban-thriller limited series is set in Chicago and revolves around “Marissa Irvine, who arrives at 14 Arthur Ave., expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognizes. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare. Megan Gallagher (Wolf, Suspicion) will write and exec produce the series, which is based on the novel of the same name by Andrea Mara, who is attached as an associate producer. Gareth Neame, Nigel Marchant and Joanna Strevens for Carnival (Downton Abbey) also exec produce the series, which hails from Universal International Studio.

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