Chris Wood & Melissa Benoist To Star In ‘Duo’ Drama In Works At NBC With Rina Mimoun As Showrunner
By Nellie Andreeva
December 5, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Acting couple Melissa Benoist and Chris Wood are set to play one on TV in Duo, a drama in development at NBC. Written by Wood with Rina Mimoun (Mistresses) as showrunner, the project, which has a script commitment, comes from Warner Bros. Television, where Benoist’s Three Things Productions and Mimoun are under overall deals.
In Duo, when a soft-spoken, blue-collar worker (Wood) and a magnetic performer (Benoist) looking for her next break unexpectedly cross paths, their fateful meeting leads to a partnership that changes them both forever. The project is described as a family drama centered around a new two-person band and the disruption their rapidly rising career has on both their lives and the lives of those closest to them.
Duo, which echoes drama series involving band members in a complicated relationship dealing with fame such as Daisy Jones and the Six, promises to showcase Benoist and Wood’s musical abilities. Benoist sang in her breakthrough role on Fox’s musical dramedy Glee while Wood has background in musical theater, including a stint on Broadway in Almost Famous. (You can watch the two of them performing together at a 2019 benefit below.)
The NBC drama would reunite Benoist and Wood on-screen; the two met on the set of her CW/WBTV series Supergirl, which Benoist headlined for its six-season run and Wood was a series regular on for Seasons 2-3. Duo also re-teams Benoist with Mimoun after their recent collaboration on the Max/WBTV series The Girls On the Bus, starring and produced by Benoist and executive produced/showrun by Mimoun.
Mimoun is executive producing Duo alongside Benoist via her Three Things Productons. Wood serves as co-executive producer.
Benoist next stars in Kevin Williamson’s upcoming Netflix drama series The Waterfront. She is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Wood is repped by Untitled and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Mimoun is repped by UTA and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan.
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Melissa Benoist and Chris Wood to Star in NBC Music Drama Duo
BY DAVE NEMETZ
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Two Supergirl co-stars — and real-life spouses — are teaming up again on the small screen.
Melissa Benoist and Chris Wood are set to star in a new NBC drama titled Duo, our sister site Deadline reports. The series, which has earned a script commitment at the network, is set in the music world, with Benoist playing a magnetic performer looking for her next break who crosses paths with a soft-spoken, blue-collar worker, played by Wood.
“Their fateful meeting leads to a partnership that changes them both forever,” per the official synopsis, with the series following the pair and “the disruption their rapidly rising career has on both their lives and the lives of those closest to them.” Wood penned the pilot script himself, with Rina Mimoun (Mistresses), who worked with Benoist on The Girls on the Bus, serving as showrunner.
Benoist starred as Kara/Supergirl for six seasons on The CW’s Supergirl, with Wood — whom Benoist married in 2019 — joining the cast in Season 2 as Mon-El. Both actors have musical backgrounds as well: Benoist first broke out as a cast member on Fox’s Glee, and Wood starred in Almost Famous on Broadway.
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