{"id":11525,"date":"2019-06-28T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/lena-headey-star-produce-showtime-dramedy-pilot\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:50:47","slug":"lena-headey-to-star-in-produce-showtime-dramedy-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/lena-headey-to-star-in-produce-showtime-dramedy-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Headey to Star in &amp; Produce Showtime Dramedy Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime has given a pilot production order for the hour-long dramedy\u00a0<em>Rita<\/em>,\u00a0starring Emmy and Golden Globe\u00a0nominee Lena Headey\u00a0(<em>Game of Thrones<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Headey will executive produce the pilot, a co-production from Showtime and Platform One Media, with creator and showrunner\u00a0Christian Torpe, who is writing the pilot based on his\u00a0award-winning original Danish series. Headey will play the title character, a headstrong, unconventional teacher and single mother who takes on every kind of authority, as well as her family, in a messy and unfiltered way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRita is a deliciously subversive character who will make you laugh and cry as she continuously challenges the hypocrisy around her,\u201d said Jana Winograde, co-president of entertainment at Showtime Networks. \u201cIt goes without saying that Lena Headey is a force, whose essence is ideal to take on this wonderfully dynamic lead role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime has given a pilot production order for the hour-long dramedy Rita, starring Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Lena Headey (Game of Thrones).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3165,166],"class_list":["post-11525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-lena-headey","tag-showtime","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lena Headey to Star in &amp; 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