TVLine Items: Oh Joins HBO Series, Eliza Coupe Visits Todd and More

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Sandra Oh is entering the spy game at HBO with the drama The Sympathizer, co-starring and executive-produced by Robert Downey Jr., per The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the series centers around a half-French, half-Vietnamese Communist spy (casting TBA) during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the U.S. Downey is set to play several supporting roles.

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Killing Eve and Grey’s Anatomy vet Oh will recur as Sofia Mori, “a liberated feminist who, in the midst of a love triangle, begins to awaken to the complexity of her own Asian-American identity,” per THR.

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* Eliza Coupe (Happy Endings) will guest-star in So Help Me Todd‘s Jan. 5 episode as Veronica, the private eye who set up Todd to take the fall for her illegal wiretapping and forgery two years ago, TV Insider reports.

* Hulu has renewed the Chris Estrada comedy series This Fool for Season 2, which will consist of 10 episodes. The renewal comes three months after the release of Season 1 (which dropped in its entirety on Aug. 12).

* Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!, a two-hour concert special, will air Tuesday, Dec. 20 at 8/7c on CBS.

* Netflix has released a teaser trailer for The Witcher: Blood Origin, which premieres Sunday, Dec. 25:

* HBO Max has released a trailer for the documentary Love, Lizzo, debuting Thursday, Nov. 24:

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