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WEEK IN WOMEN: Jessica Chastain to head Apple TV+ series THE SAVANT Brandy McDonnell reports

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Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain will star in and executive produce the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series The Savant.

The new eight-episode limited series will star the Oscar, SAG, Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award winner in the lead role.

In addition to starring, Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye,.The Good Nurse, George & Tammy, Broadway’s A Doll’s House) will executive produce through her Freckle Films Production Company.

Inspired by a true story published by Cosmopolitan, the storyline and character details are being kept under wraps for The Savant. But the series will be written and showrun by Emmy Award nominee Melissa James Gibson (Anatomy of a Scandal, House of Cards, The Americans), whose overall deal is based at Fifth Season. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN.

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.