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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: 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 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.

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.