Uzo Aduba is saying goodbye to treating sufferers in remedy and hiya to investigating a murder within the White House. The three-time Emmy winner is following up her newest position on the small display screen, enjoying Dr. Brooke Taylor in “In Treatment,” with “The Residence,” a murder-mystery drama hailing from Shondaland. Deadline experiences that Liza Johnson will direct the primary 4 episodes of the collection.
Taking inspiration from Kate Andersen Brower’s guide “The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House,” “the eight-episode series is described as ‘a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and back stairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world’s most famous mansion.’ Its premise: 132 rooms. 157 suspects. One dead body. One wildly eccentric detective (Aduba). One disastrous State Dinner,” the supply teases.
Aduba, who received two Emmys for “Orange is the New Black” and one for “Mrs. America,” has been forged as Cordelia Cupp, “a consulting detective for the Metropolitan Police Department. Cupp is an astute observer of human behavior, with a distinctive and – to some, unsettling – conversational style.”
Johnson’s latest credit embody “The Last of Us,” “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” and “Dead to Me.”