Chris Wood & Melissa Benoist To Star In ‘Duo’ Drama In Works At NBC With Rina Mimoun As Showrunner

EXCLUSIVE: Acting couple Melissa Benoist and Chris Wood are set to play one on TV in Duo, a drama in development at NBC. Written by Wood with Rina Mimoun (Mistresses) as showrunner, the project, which has a script commitment, comes from Warner Bros. Television, where Benoist’s Three Things Productions and Mimoun are under overall deals.

In Duo, when a soft-spoken, blue-collar worker (Wood) and a magnetic performer (Benoist) looking for her next break unexpectedly cross paths, their fateful meeting leads to a partnership that changes them both forever. The project is described as a family drama centered around a new two-person band and the disruption their rapidly rising career has on both their lives and the lives of those closest to them.

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Duo, which echoes drama series involving band members in a complicated relationship dealing with fame such as Daisy Jones and the Six, promises to showcase Benoist and Wood’s musical abilities. Benoist sang in her breakthrough role on Fox’s musical dramedy Glee while Wood has background in musical theater, including a stint on Broadway in Almost Famous. (You can watch the two of them performing together at a 2019 benefit below.)

The NBC drama would reunite Benoist and Wood on-screen; the two met on the set of her CW/WBTV series Supergirl, which Benoist headlined for its six-season run and Wood was a series regular on for Seasons 2-3. Duo also re-teams Benoist with Mimoun after their recent collaboration on the Max/WBTV series The Girls On the Bus, starring and produced by Benoist and executive produced/showrun by Mimoun.

Mimoun is executive producing Duo alongside Benoist via her Three Things Productons. Wood serves as co-executive producer.

Benoist next stars in Kevin Williamson’s upcoming Netflix drama series The Waterfront. She is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Wood is repped by Untitled and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Mimoun is repped by UTA and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan.

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