Schitt’s Creek Annie Murphy has been cast in AMC’s Kevin Can F— Himself.
Murphy will star in the lead in the eight-episode series from creator Valerie Armstrong. Executive producing are Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Craig DiGregorio will serve as showrunner and an executive producer.
Murphy will star as Allison, Kevin’s wife, who escapes her confines and discovers her rage. Per the official synopsis, “Alternating between single-camera realism and multi-camera comedy, the formats will inform one another as we imagine what happens when the sitcom wife escapes and forces the world to let her take the lead.”
“Annie is an undeniable talent with the ability both to play comedy and to break your heart. She is the perfect fit for the role of Allison, the perfect actor to bring to life creator Valerie Armstrong’s genius vision,” says Sarah Barnett, president of AMC Networks Entertainment Group and AMC Studios. “Cracking open the conventions of the ‘classic’ American sitcom to expose what’s swirling beneath, in this highly inventive and entertaining way, is the kind of story we are hugely excited to tell at AMC.”
