A show can be a hit if the chemistry is right, actress Wendie Malick says.
When she did the table read for “Hot in Cleveland,” she could feel the bond. When she met Schuyler Fisk and Genevieve Angelson – for “The Chicken Sisters” – “I could imagine them in this world together. It’s that ineffable thing that happens with chemistry. It always starts with the writing.”
In that case, “The Chicken Sisters,” a new series on the Hallmark Channel, has good bones.
When a reality show host (Rukiya Bernard, left) comes to town, Gus (Wendie Malick) wonders what that might mean for her chicken restaurant in “The Chicken Sisters.”
Based on a bestseller by K.J. Dell’Antonia, it landed on Reese Witherspoon’s book club list and found its way to television producers.
Casting directors took over and “put together an incredible orchestra with the four different instruments,” Angelson says.
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