Casting news has been dribbling out for over a year from director Lisa (The Kids are All Right) Cholodenko’s 4-part adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s best-seller Olive Kitteridge starring Frances McDormand and now we finally have a date and a time: The first two installments will play November 2 beginning at 9pm on HBO. That’s Sunday night of course, because that’s apparently now the only day you can show good things on TV these days. The other two parts will air the following night, also starting at 9pm.
Woven together from the thirteen connected but independent stories in Strout’s book, Olive Kitteridge presents a portrait of coastal Maine over the course of many years from the perspective of the title character, a prickly math teacher played by McDormand. Richard Jenkins plays her outgoing pharmacist husband. Bill Murray plays a stuffy college professor Olive dates at one point in the story.
McDormand talks about the adaptation in Variety’s coverage of the TCA’s here.
