Uzo Aduba Sets CBS Studios Deal, to Star in Drama From Robert and Michelle King
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variety.comJoe Otterson TV ReporterUzo Aduba has signed a multi-year producing deal with CBS Studios, Variety has confirmed.Under the deal, she will star in and executive produce a new drama series titled “Low Country” that is also executive produced by CBS favorites Robert and Michelle King.
Dewayne Jones, who previously worked on the Kings’ shows “Evil” and “Your Honor,” will write and executive produce. The project is currently being taken out to premium cable networks and streamers.In the series, Aduba plays Shirley Johnson, the least likely deputy sheriff in South Carolina’s low country.
Black and openly gay in a white southern stronghold, Shirley has been underestimated her whole life until now, when she takes on the wealthy white crime family.
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