subway spokesman Stephen Curry, Simu Liu to star in (different) PEACOCK series

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Peacock is expanding its slate of scripted originals… and enlisting a Marvel superstar and a SUBWAY spokesman to help.

The streamer has handed straight-to-series orders to four new scripted projects, TVLine has learned, including a sci-fi thriller starring Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) and a mockumentary starring SUBWAY spokesman Stephen Curry.

The untitled Simu Liu series, with James Wan (The Conjuring, Aquaman) on board as an executive producer, is set “five minutes in the future” and stars Liu as an intelligence analyst who “realizes his brain has been hacked, giving the perpetrators access to everything he sees and hears,” per the official synopsis. “Caught between his shadowy agency and the unknown hackers, he must maintain a performance 24/7 to flush out who’s responsible and prove where his allegiance lies.”

Mr. Throwback, from Happy Endings creator David Caspe, stars Adam Pally as a “down-on-his-luck memorabilia dealer” who “looks for redemption by reuniting with his sixth-grade teammate, NBA legend Steph Curry.” Curry will play himself in the comedy and serve as an EP as well. (The series was originally in development at NBC before moving to Peacock.)

Also ordered to series at Peacock: Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, a scripted take on the infamous serial killer with Dr. Death’s Patrick Macmanus serving as writer and showrunner; and All Her Fault, a suburban thriller based on the bestselling novel about a mom who goes to pick up her son from a playdate with a new friend and finds that her son is missing.