Reese Witherspoon is heading back to the small screen with Amazon and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend creator Aline Brosh McKenna with the new comedy series All-Stars - just weeks after it was revealed she's returning for an Election sequel.Amazon acquired the hot property for their Prime Video platform in what was described as, 'a major bidding war with top streamers,' via Deadline.The series is loosely inspired by the true story of a woman named Andrea Kulberg, an American woman who headed across the pond to teach British teenagers about cheerleading.
TV Reese: Reese Witherspoon is heading back to the small screen with Amazon and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend creator Aline Brosh McKenna with the new comedy series All-StarsWitherspoon will portray a former cheerleader from Daytona Beach, Florida, who, 'cons her way across the pond to teach cheerleading at a school in coastal England.'She uses her old cheerleading skills to turn a ragtag group of British kids into All-Stars.
The show is said to have a similar 'vibe' to the Apple TV Plus breakout hit Ted Lasso, and it will also mark Witherspoon's first leading TV comedy role...
and her first foray into small screen comedy since playing Jennifer Aniston's sister on Friends.Brosh McKenna will serve as the creator and showrunner, while also directing the pilot episode and half of the first season, while also executive producing through her Lean Machine production company.
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