Amazon MGM Studios is developing Whiskey Matriarch, a drama series starring Taraji P. Henson and created by Alesia Dangerfield. Deadline first reported the news. Henson also executive produces, and Malcolm D. Lee directs. The series sold to Amazon competitively after being set up at Universal Television.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, per Deadline. Henson would star and executive produces. The series is created by Dangerfield, who also writes and executive produces. Sisters Attica and Tembi Locke co-wrote the pilot with Dangerfield and will executive produce and serve as showrunners. Lee directs and executive produces with Dominique Telson and Michael Scott Allen through Blackmaled Productions. Henson and Jamila Jordan executive produce through TPH Entertainment. Third Road Production is also attached.
The show was set up at Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, before it sold to Amazon. Dangerfield’s work includes Paramount+’s The Game reboot.
Attica and Tembi co-created and executive produced Netflix’s From Scratch, which starred Zoe Saldaña and was inspired by Tembi’s memoir. They are currently co-showrunners, writers and executive producers on Peacock’s upcoming adaptation of Kennedy Ryan’s Before I Let Go.
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