'Based on a True Story': Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina on How Her Pregnancy Added to the Series (Exclusive)

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, which ran for two seasons on Max, Kaley Cuoco is returning to the world of crime in the new Peacock original series,. Created by showrunner Craig Rosenberg, the comedic thriller follows a down-on-their-luck married couple who find themselves crossing paths with an infamous serial killer and attempt to turn their fortune around by trying to convince the murderer into doing a true-crime podcast with them.   «I have a love of true crime.

I'm obsessed,» Cuoco admits to ET's Cassie DiLaura, revealing that she's «the girl binging 48 hours of and all those things.»On the series, which satirizes the true crime genre and fans' obsession with these types of shows, Cuoco plays Ava, one-half of the killer-obsessed couple alongside her husband, Nathan (Chris Messina), who are expecting their first child — something that's adding to their desperation to get things in their lives back on track.

But when the 37-year-old star first signed on to the series, neither she nor her character was pregnant. But much to everyone's surprise, Cuoco found out she was expecting before filming had even started, prompting Rosenberg to write it into the series. «I remember when Craig called me and said Kaley's pregnant,» Messina recalls, with Cuoco adding that «this was before we talked or ever met yet.

Because we would have texted or something.» «I was like, that is amazing. I mean, obviously, for her life, but just the stakes rise in the show,» Messina says, explaining that «they're losing their place in life, losing each other.