Turner Reveals New TBS & TNT Highlights, Chris Pine Drama Among Them

Turner’s TNT has given a straight-to-series order for the new drama One Day She’ll Darken, which reteams Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and actor Chris Pine.

Jenkins (Wonder Woman, Monster) is attached to direct the pilot and potentially additional episodes, and Pine (Wonder Woman, Hell or High Water) is attached to star. Sam Sheridan, author of A Fighter’s Heart and The Disaster Diaries, is set to write the six-episode series, inspired by the autobiography of Fauna Hodel.

The series is being produced by Turner’s Studio T, with Jenkins, Michael Sugar (Spotlight, 13 Reasons Why), Sheridan and Pine serving as executive producers. The drama will shoot this fall.

One Day She’ll Darken tells the story of Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother to a black restroom attendant in a Nevada casino in 1949. Hodel begins to investigate the secrets to her past and follows a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist, Dr. George Hodel, a man involved in the spider in the web around the legendary “Black Dahlia” murder. Pine will play Jay Singletary, a former Marine-turned-hack reporter/paparazzo.

Additionally, TNT has renewed its original drama Animal Kingdom for a third season. Produced by John Wells Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television, the series is airing with new second-season episodes across TNT platforms on Tuesdays at 9 p.m., with the season finale set for August 29. TNT plans to launch the third season in 2018.

Over at sister network TBS, the comedy Angie Tribeca, starring Rashida Jones, has received a fourth-season order. Season four will welcome a new cast member: two-time Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire). TBS’s fall slate features three new series, alongside returning hits. On October 24, the network will debut its new scripted comedy The Last O.G., starring and created by Tracy Morgan alongside creators and executive producers Jordan Peele and John Carcieri. The new head-to-head celebrity rap battle competition Drop the Mic, hosted by Method Man and Hailey Baldwin and based on the popular segment from The Late Late Show with James Corden, premieres October 26. A comedy-driven reboot of a classic game show, Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker’s Wild is also coming this fall.