Grosse Pointe will be setting for new NBC drama about murder, mischief in garden club

Get ready for Grosse Pointe’s best starring role since the 1997 film “Grosse Pointe Blank.”

NBC announced Friday that it has given a series order to “Grosse Pointe Garden Society,” a drama starring Melissa Fumero (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), AnnaSophia Robb ("The Carrie Diaries"), Ben Rappaport ("Outsourced"), Aja Naomi King (who just received a supporting actress Emmy nomination for the limited series "Lessons in Chemistry") and Nancy Travis ("Last Man Standing").

The series is about four members of a garden club in the Detroit suburb who “get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom,” according to the network.

NBC announced in February that it had ordered a pilot for “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” from executive producers Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs, whose previous credits include NBC's "Good Girls.”

Also set in Michigan, “Good Girls” starred Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman as three metro Detroit mothers who turn to crime when they become overwhelmed by money woes. It ran from 2018 to 2021.

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According to Deadline, there is no decision yet on whether “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” will debut during the 2024-25 season.

Contact Detroit Free Press pop culture critic Julie Hinds at jhinds@freepress.com.