Saturday Night Live alum Taran Killam is set to star in the new CBS comedy Welcome to Georgia according to The Hollywood Reporter. New Girl’s Hannah Simone and The Royals’ Elizabeth Hurley are also set to co-star in the upcoming series.
The series follows Penelope, played by Hannah Simone (2013’s Oldboy), a single mom whose career is taking off at the same time as her husband. Penelope enlists the help of her young mother Georgia, played by Hurley (Bedazzled), to help raise her son, THR reported.
Killam plays Josh, Penelope’s husband and father to their toddler son. Josh is an airline pilot who loves his job. Josh is much more tolerant of Penelope’s mother than Penelope, and tends to cut her more slack according to THR.
The pilot was written by Corinne Kingsbury (CW’s In The Dark, CBS’ FAM) John Francis Daley (Fox’s Bones, Game Night), and Johnathan Goldstein (Marvel Studios’ Spiderman: Homecoming, Game Night). The series is executive produced by Aaron Kaplan (Showtime’s The Chi, ABC’s A Million Little Things), Dana Honor (CBS’ The Unicorn, ABC’s A Million Little Things) and Wendi Trilling (The Unicorn, FAM) along with pilot director Pamela Fryman (How I Met Your Mother, Frasier). First picked up a year ago the multi camera in house produced CBS Studios comedy was packaged with this season because of pandemic related delays, according to THR.
Killam most recently starred in the ABC comedy Single Parents, alongside ensemble cast Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl), Brad Garrett (Everybody Hates Raymond), Jake Choi (The Sun Is Also A Star), and Kimrie Lewis Davis (We The Peeples, 2 Minutes of Fame). Killam also has credits in feature films like Night School which starred Kevin Hart (Jumanji: The Next Level) and Tiffany Haddish (Girl’s Trip, Like A Boss), and The Heat which starred Sandra Bullock (Gravity, The Blind Side) and Melissa McCarthy (Spy, Bridesmaids) according to THR.
Killam is also credited in the upcoming Ryan Murphy miniseries American Crime Story: The Impeachment Of William Jefferson Clinton on FX. The new American Crime Story stars Clive Owen (The Knick) as Clinton and Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart) as Monica Lewinsky. The miniseries will dive into the days leading up to the 1999 impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton according to Vanity Fair.