Posted onWritten byNadiaComments Off on ‘Big Sky’ Trailer Makes A Splash With More Than 25M Views In First 3 Days
EXCLUSIVE: Three days after ABC released the trailer for David E. Kelley’s new thriller drama Big Sky, it has been viewed 25.5 million times across social media platforms.
That is a very encouraging news for the broadcast networks that viewers are craving fresh scripted programming amid the coronavirus-related production delays.
Big Sky is the first new scripted broadcast series from the 2019-20 development cycle to release a full-fledged trailer. (Fox’s new fall entries Filthy Rich and neXt originally released trailers at the 2019 May upfronts)
How big is Big Sky‘s trailer viewership tally of 25.5 million views over three days? For comparison, the top 3 most-watched broadcast trailers at the 2019 upfronts, for ABC’s Stumptown, Emergence and Mixed-ish, amassed between 14.6 million and 16.1 million views across social media platforms in their first week.
Posted onWritten byNadiaComments Off on Get your first look at Ryan Phillippe in David E. Kelley’s Big Sky
The prolific television creator returns to network television this fall with ABC’s Big Sky. The series follows private detectives Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury) and Cody Hoyt (Ryan Phillippe) as they team up with Hoyt’s estranged wife Jenny (Katheryn Winnick) to search for two teenage sisters kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote Montana highway. When they discover the girls aren’t the first to disappear in the area, it becomes a race to stop a killer.
“It’s difficult to talk about the actual story in some ways,”Phillippe tells EW. “But you’ve got this really diverse and complex group of people that are brought together over a potential crime that’s been committed and each step closer to solving the mystery, more and more about the actual characters is revealed.”
EW has your exclusive first look at two promos for the series, featuring the first glimpse of footage from the show. The clips showcase Phillippe‘s Hoyt learning more about the case from a Montana Highway Patrol trooper and terrifying moments from the night the missing girls disappear. We also catch glimpses of Winnick’s Jenny and Bunbury’s Cassie getting down to business, which appears to include actual investigating, as well as bar fights and potential car make-out sessions with Hoyt.
Based on a series of novels by C.J. Box, who is also an executive producer, Big Sky is reflective of Kelley’s recent trend of series adapted from novels, including HBO’s Big Little Lies and The Undoing.
Phillippe teases that the show blends dark humor with its mystery, all with some social relevance for good measure. In short, a David E. Kelley special. “On set, the actors and I will discuss a scene or line of dialogue and just marvel at how clever or how loaded or how funny it is,” he says.
Posted onWritten byNadiaComments Off on ‘Big Sky’ premieres November 17 on ABC
The mysterious new series Big Sky from Big Little Lies’ David E. Kelley finally has a premiere date at ABC.
Created by Kelley, the thriller will debut on Tuesday, November 17 at 10/9c, and kick off what’s sure to be an engrossing tale.
Following private detectives Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury) and Cody Hoyt (Ryan Phillippe), the series will see the two join forces with Hoyt’s estranged wife and ex-cop Jenny (Katheryn Winnick) in their search to find two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on one of Montana’s remote highways.
The stakes are raised when the unlikely trio discovers that these sisters aren’t the only girls who have disappeared in the area. Together, they’ll race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.
Joining Bunbury, Phillippe and Winnick in Big Sky are Brian Geraghty as Ronald Pergman, Dedee Pfeiffer as Denise Brisbane, Natalie Alyn Lind as Danielle Sullivan, Jade Pettyjohn as Grace Sullivan, Jesse James Keitel as Jerrie Kennedy, Valerie Mahaffey as Helen Pergman, and John Carroll Lynch as Rick Legarski.
Serving as showrunner, David E. Kelley executive produces the series alongside Ross Fineman, Matthew Gross, Paul McGuigan, C.J. Box and Gwyneth Horder-Payton. Big Sky is based on the series of books by C.J. Box.
Don’t miss the thrilling new series when it arrives later this fall on ABC. Big Sky, Series Premiere, Tuesday, November 17, 10/9c, ABC
