Carla Gugino (The Haunting of Hill House) is set to star opposite Melissa Benoist (Supergirl) in HBO Max’s upcoming political drama series The Girls on the Bus, from Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti Prods. Natasha Behnam, Christina Elmore, and Brandon Scott also star in the series.
The Girls On The Bus centers on Sadie McCarthy (Benoist), “a journalist who romanticizes Tim Crouse’s Boys on the Bus book and who scrapped her whole life for her own shot at covering a presidential campaign for the paper of record. Sadie hits the trail and eventually bonds with three female competitors, Grace (Gugino), Lola (Behnam) and Kimberlyn (Elmore). Despite their differences, the women become a found family with a front-row seat to the greatest soap opera in town: the battle for the White House.”
It’s explained that Gugino’s Grace Gordon Greene is a veteran reporter and friend and mentor to Sadie (Benoist). Grace is journalistic royalty, known as Queen of the Scoop.
The series comes from writers and executive producers Amy Chozick and Julie Plec, and the series is inspired by a chapter in Chozick’s book Chasing Hillary.
Source: Deadline