Apple orders Hello Tomorrow! starring Billy Crudup
David Farnor | On 07, May 2021
Apple TV+ has ordered Hello Tomorrow!, a new series starring Billy Crudup.
The 10-episode half-hour dramedy stars and is exec-produced by Crudup, who won a Primetime Emmy for his supporting role in Apple’s The Morning Show,
Set in a retro-future world, Hello Tomorrow! centres on a group of traveling salesmen hawking lunar timeshares. Crudup stars as Jack, a salesman of great talent and ambition, whose unshakeable faith in a brighter tomorrow inspires his coworkers, revitalises his desperate customers but threatens to leave him dangerously lost in the very dream that sustains him.
The series is written and created by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen (Bloodline, The Money), and will be directed by Jonathan Entwistle (The End of the F***ing World) is attached to direct the series. Entwistle, Bhalla, Jansen will also serve as executive producers alongside Crudup. Blake Griffin, Ryan Kalil and Noah Weinstein will executive produce through their banner Mortal Media.
The series order marks another collaboration between Apple and MRC Television, the studio behind upcoming Apple Original series Shining Girls, starring Emmy Award winner Elisabeth Moss, and The Shrink Next Door, which stars Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Kathryn Hahn and Casey Wilson.