The new drama series has Jennifer Garner (Alias) in the lead role and as an executive producer. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones), Angourie Rice (Mare of Easttown), Aisha Tyler (Criminal Minds), Augusto Aguilera (Too Old To Die Young), Geoff Stults (Guilty Party) and John Harlan Kim (9-1- 1) also play a leading role in the series.
Based on the novel by Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me follows a woman trying to build a better relationship with her stepdaughter after her husband disappears.
Produced by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine and 20th Television, the series will premiere worldwide on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on Friday, April 14, 2023, followed by new episodes every Friday through May 19.
The series follows Hannah (Garner), a woman who must form a relationship with her sixteen-year-old stepdaughter Bailey (played by Rice) in order to find the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared.
The Last Thing He Told Me was created and edited by Laura Dave, alongside Academy Award-winning co-creator Josh Singer. It is the first collaboration between the married Dave and Singer, who both serve as executive producers, alongside Garner and Hello Sunshine's Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter. The series is produced for Apple by Hello Sunshine, who optioned the book by author Laura Dave and co-produced the project with 20th Television.
Olivia Newman (Chicago Fire) directs the first episode and the female directors for the series are Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Perry Mason (2020)), Daisy Von Scherler Mayer (Yellowjackets) and Lila Neugebauer (The Sex Lives of College Girls).
Published by Simon & Schuster on May 4, 2021, the novel The Last Thing He Told Me instantly became a #1 New York Times Best Seller and remained on the list for over a year. It was the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Thriller/Suspense of 2021, an Amazon Best Book of the Year in 2021, an Apple Best Book of the Year in 2021, and in 2022, The Last Thing He Told Me was one of the most popular books loaned from libraries across America and the most popular e-book.
To date, the book has sold over two million copies in the United States alone and has been embraced in 38 countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, where it was a choice for the Richard and Judy book club. The paperback edition of The Last Thing He Told Me will first be available on March 21, 2023 and is available for pre-order now.
The Last Thing He Told Me is the latest high-profile collaboration between Apple and Hello Sunshine, joining a series of projects Hello Sunshine has produced for Apple TV+, including the soon-to-be-premiered My Kind of Country, a groundbreaking global quest for the unconventional and extraordinary country music talent and the first competition series for the platform.
Also available is the newly revamped psychological thriller Surface starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the Emmy, SAG, and Critics Choice Award-winning series The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and the NAACP Image Award-winning drama series Truth. Be Told (2019) starring Octavia Spencer.