Paramount+ Puts On 'Happy Face' Official Trailer
Spring is coming, blue skies are gonna clear up, so put this on
It’s been a rather good month for the Quaids, with Dennis getting to go to the Oscars as part of the cast of The Substance and his son Jack’s new film Novocaine from Paramount Pictures. Well we’re getting Dennis’s next series, Paramount+’s Happy Face this month too. The streamer has set a March 20 premiere date for the 8-episode crime drama starring Annaleigh Ashford, with two episodes that will be followed by weekly singles until the May 1 season finale.
Happy Face was first announced in 2021, released its teaser in January, its official trailer on Tuesday and is inspired by the podcast by the same name from iHeartMedia and Melissa Moore, through her true story as chronicled in her autobiography Shattered Silence she wrote with M. Bridget Cook. As the story goes, Moore was 15 when she uncovered that her father, going by Keith Jerperson in the series was a serial killer known as “Happy Face,” because he would draw smiley faces on evidence to brag about the horrors he committed. In adulthood she changed her name kept her secret as her father has been serving his life sentence in prison. The logline further describes “Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. Throughout, she discovers the impact her father had on his victims’ families and must face a reckoning of her own identity.”
Paramount+ Gives 'MobLand' Its Trailer Fix
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In addition to Quaid and Ashford, the cast includes James Wolk playing Melissa’s bank manager husband Ben, who believes the trauma of her past is behind them, until it comes knocking on their door, and suspicion grows she’s being manipulated again. They have two kids, 15-year-old daughter Hazel played by Khiyla Anne and 9-year-old son Max played by Benjamin Mackey. Melissa is a makeup artist at the The Dr. Greg Show daytime health and talk show, where Supergirl star David Harewood is Dr. Greg, while Tamera Tomakili is producer Ivy.
The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution and produced by CBS Studios, in association with King Size Productions, iHeartPodcasts and Semi-Formal Productions. Jennifer Cacicio showruns the series and executive produces alongside Robert and Michelle King, Liz Glotzer, Reed, Conal Byrne, Will Pearson, Michael Showalter and Jordana Mollick.
The official trailer has already exceeded the teaser at 2.3 million views in just the 5 days compared to the teaser released 31 days prior.
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Put on your yamikahs, it’s time for Chanukah. But also Netflix is hosting its first NFL Christmas doubleheader, a prime position to showcase what’s coming up for the streamer in 2025. They actually didn’t do much of that, but what they did do includes the upcoming Adam Sandler sequel
Source: TVLine
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