Overview
- Laurie will play Neville, a British professor devoted to archaeology who sees himself as a mentor to the dig team.
- Dig adapts Kate Myers’ novel Excavations and follows four women at a Greek archaeological site who uncover a secret with the potential to rewrite history.
- Poehler stars as one of the four leads, with her and Mike Schur co-writing the pilot and serving as executive producers.
- The series is produced by Universal Television for Peacock and is gearing up for production with no premiere date announced.
- J. J. Philbin is a writer and executive producer alongside Morgan Sackett, director-executive producer Dean Holland, Dave Becky and David Miner for 3 Arts, Sharon Jackson for Ocean Avenue, and Kate Arend and Jordan Grief for Paper Kite, with author Kate Myers as co-executive producer.