Overview
- Deadline reported Wednesday that Louis Cancelmi is set as a series regular on the pilot Chicks, joining Ellen Pompeo and Jodie Whittaker.
- Chicks is billed as a family dramedy about two estranged half-sisters in rapidly gentrifying Boston who inherit a legacy of small-time crime and turn to escalating cons.
- Cancelmi will play Danny McKeever, a funeral-home owner with a poet’s soul and con-man ambitions who is drawn into a criminal partnership with the sisters.
- The project was developed by writer-executive producer Katie Robbins specifically for Pompeo and has production backing from 20th Television with Pompeo, Robbins and Laura Holstein listed as executive producers.
- The series has not yet been ordered beyond the pilot stage and producers have been attaching recognizable talent and eyeing a possible production start in New York to strengthen its case for a Hulu pickup.