These 9 A-List Film Stars Are All Heading to TV

Reese Witherspoon will star in HBO’s Big Little Lies alongside a star-studded ensemble cast of Nicole Kidman, Zoe Kravitz, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Adam Scott, Alexander Skarsgard, and more. The show, based on a dark comic novel by Liane Moriarty, is about three mothers of grade schoolers whose seemingly perfect lives begin to unravel when a murder happens. Witherspoon will play one of the mothers. Look for the seven-episode series to hit the subscription channel later this year.

Nicole Kidman will also star in Big Little Lies on HBO with Witherspoon, playing one of the three mothers in the show. Check out the series on the cable channel when it airs later this year.

Netflix recently aquired Maniac, a new show with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill attached to star in it. The 10-episode series won’t air on the streaming service until 2017 (or later!), but Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) is set to direct. It will revolve around the fantasy world of Jonah Hill’s character, who’s actually in a mental institution. Stone will play a fellow patient.

Drew Barrymore will star in Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix alongside Timothy Olyphant (who you’ll recognize from FX’s Justified). The series, which will run for 13 episodes in 2017, is about married couple Sheila (Barrymore) and Joel (Olyphant) who are both realtors in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita. They live mundane, discontented lives until Sheila goes through a dramatic change that alters both of their lives, leading them down a road of destruction (which is not necessarily a bad thing!).

Another Netflix original, Gypsy, will star Naomi Watts as Jean Holloway, a therapist who begins to develop dangerously intimate relationships with the people in her patients’ lives. The series will premiere in 2017 on the streaming service.

Amy Adams is attached to star in the HBO drama Sharp Objects, based on the book written by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn. The series will be an adaptation of the thriller novel, which centers on reporter Camille Preaker (Adams) who, fresh from a stint at a psych ward, is sent to cover the murders of two girls that just happen to take place in her small hometown. The show will air for eight episodes in 2017.

Octavia Spencer is attached to star in Tulsa on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. The two-part mini-series will focus on the 1921 race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and will center on Mattie Clay (Spencer), a journalist from Tulsa, who moves to Chicago to get away, but eventually returns to face the demons of her past. Production of the series is still in early stages, so expect this one to release next year or later.

HBO’s latest drama called The Young Pope will premiere this year and stars Jude Law as the fictional Pius XIII at the beginning of his controversial pontificate. Diane Keaton will also star in the eight-part series as an American nun living in Vatican City who raised Law’s character and helped him attain the papacy.

Kate Hudson will star alongside stepdad Kurt Russell in a new series called The Barbary Coast. The show, which is still in early stages and hasn't been picked up by a network yet, will be directed and co-written by Mel Gibson. It revolves around The Gold Rush of 1849, which brought gold-seekers, gamblers, thieves, harlots, and politicians to the newly-established city of San Francisco.