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Rashida Jones is heading back to the small screen, signing on to star in the new Apple TV Plus series Sunny.The streaming service handed out a 10-episode series order for the show, based on the 2018 novel The Dark Manual by Colin O'Sullivan, via Deadline.Jones will also serve as an executive producer on the series, with A24 coming aboard to produce the series as well. New show:Rashida Jones is heading back to the small screen, signing on to star in the new Apple TV Plus series Sunny Streaming:The streaming service handed out a 10-episode series order for the show, based on the 2018 novel The Dark Manual by Colin O'Sullivan, via DeadlineThe book follows Suzie (Jones), an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash.As a bizarre 'consolation,' Suzie is given an advanced new robot dubbed Sunny, part of a line of new domestic robots her husband's company is making.

Apple TV+ has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming series, “Sunny,” which will star Rashida Jones, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, YOU, annie the clumsy, and Jun Kunimura. Based on the book, “Dark Manual” by Colin O’Sullivan, the show is created by Katie Robbins (“The Affair,” “The Last Tycoon”) with episodes directed by Lucy Tcherniak (“Station Eleven,” “The End of the F***ing World”) and is set to be a ten-episode mystery thriller with a “darkly comedic bent.” READ MORE: Summer 2024 TV Preview: Over 35 Must-See Series To Watch The show will be co-produced by Apple Studios and A24, which will be the second time the two studios have worked together to bring a project starring Rashida Jones to life, with the first being the Apple Original Film “On the Rocks,” which co-starred Bill Murray and was directed by Sofia Coppola.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has rounded out the ensemble cast for Sunny (fka Dark Manual), a half-hour darkly comedic drama, starring and executive produced by Rashida Jones. Joanna Sotomura (Barry) stars in the titular role, along with annie the clumsy (Miss Osaka), YOU (Nobody Knows), Judy Ongg and Jun Kunimura (Kill Bill) join Jones in the series from Katie Robbins (The Affair, The Last Tycoon) and A24. Lucy Tcherniak (Station Eleven, The End of the F***ing World) is attached to direct.

EXCLUSIVE: Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car) is set to star opposite Rashida Jones in Sunny, Apple TV+’s a half-hour dark comedy series from  A24.

Rashida Jones has been tapped to star in Apple’s new dark comedy series, Sunny.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered the dark comedy series “Sunny” with Rashida Jones set to star, Variety has confirmed.The 10-episode series is based on the book “Dark Manual” by Colin O’Sullivan. In the half-hour show, Jones stars as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has handed a formal 10-episode series order to Sunny (fka Dark Manual), a half-hour darkly comedic drama starring and executive produced by Rashida Jones, from Katie Robbins (The Affair, The Last Tycoon) and A24. Lucy Tcherniak (Station Eleven, The End of the F***ing World) is attached to direct.