David Farnor | On 07, Aug 2021

Sandra Oh is heading to Netflix this August in the darkly comic drama The Chair, and a trailer gives us a first look at her in action.

The Chair follows Dr Ji-Yoon Kim (Sandra Oh) as she navigates her new role as the Chair of the English department at prestigious Pembroke University. Ji-Yoon is faced with a unique set of challenges as the first woman to chair the department, and as one of the few staff members of color at the university.

Amanda Peet writes and exec-produces the series, with Oh also serving as an exec-producer. In front of the camera, Oh is joined by Jay Duplass, Holland Taylor, Bob Balaban, Nana Mensah, David Morse, and Everly Carganilla. You can see them in action on 20th August, when The Chair premieres on Netflix. Here’s the trailer:

 

The Chair is available on Netflix UK, as part of an £9.99 monthly subscription.

 

The Chair: Sandra Oh to star in Amanda Peet Netflix series

22nd February 2020

Sandra Oh and Amanda Peet are teaming up for The Chair, a new series for Netflix.

Oh, who is known for her work in Grey’s Anatomy and Sideways, has more recently made history with her Golden Globe-winning turn in Killing Eve.

Amanda Peet was most recently seen in The Romanoffs and Brockmire and previously starred in Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. But she is also a talent behind the camera, writing the play The Commons of Pensacola, which starred Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker, and recently debuting her play Our Very Own Carlin McCullough at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. 

Peet will write and executive produce the series, with Annie Julia Wyman co-writing the pilot. Oh will exec-produce and also star, with Jay Duplass (Transparent, Outside In) co-starring.

The half hour dramedy is centered on the Chair of an English department at a major university. 

David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Bernie Caulfield are also on board as executive producers.

Netflix has ordered six episodes.

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