What you may need to know
1. Apple TV+’s Roar, starring and executive produced by Nicole Kidman, is based on Cecelia Ahern’s book of short stories of the same name.
2. GLOW alumni Betty Gilpin and Alison Brie reunite with Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, creators of the Netflix wrestling comedy-drama series.
3. The cast include Meera Syal (Yesterday), Fivel Stewart (Atypical) and Kara Hayward (Moonrise Kingdom). In addition to Kidman and Brie, they join previously cast Cynthia Erivo and Merritt Wever.
4. The series, will feature eight, half-hour episodes, each told from a female point of view.
5. Among them are the following:
Gilpin will play Amelia, a woman so strikingly beautiful that her husband builds her a shelf to sit upon in their home.
Syal will play Anu, a woman stuck in a lackluster marriage who decides to shake up her life and return her husband to the very store she first purchased him from.
Stewart will play Jane, an angsty teenage girl who loves horses and doesn’t love much of anything else these days; she embarks on a revenge journey when her father is murdered.
Hayward will play Millie, the preacher’s daughter and Jane’s childhood friend — the last person you’d want to bring on a revenge journey with you.
6. G’wan Cecelia, in fairness.
Andy’s verdict: Rarr.
Release: April 15 on Apple TV.
Reading the discription I was a bit meh
But the trailer looks good.