The press for “The girls on the Bus” began, Melissa and Natasha during an interview with Acine Magazine.

 The press for “The girls on the Bus” began, Melissa and Natasha during an interview with Acine Magazine.

Stream the debuts of HBO Original limited series TheRegime, Max Original series TheGirlsontheBus, HBO Original Comedy special Ramy Youssef: More Feelings, WonkaMovie, A24’s DreamScenario & more this March on Max:Max Original drama series THE GIRLS ON THE BUS (3/14) invites viewers to hit the campaign trail alongside four female journalists, each of them different in their reporting styles and personalities. The story centers on Sadie McCarthy (Melissa Benoist), a journalist who romanticizes a bygone era of campaign reporting and scraps her whole life for a shot at covering a presidential candidate for a paper of record. Sadie joins the bus and eventually bonds with three female competitors, Grace (Carla Gugino), Lola (Natasha Behnam), and Kimberlyn (Christina Elmore). Despite their differences, the women become a found family with a front-row seat to the greatest soap opera in town – the battle for the White

 Stream the debuts of HBO Original limited series TheRegime, Max Original series TheGirlsontheBus, HBO Original Comedy special Ramy Youssef: More Feelings, WonkaMovie, A24’s DreamScenario & more this March on Max:Max Original drama series THE GIRLS ON THE BUS (3/14) invites viewers to hit the campaign trail alongside four female journalists, each of them different in their reporting styles and personalities. The story centers on Sadie McCarthy (Melissa Benoist), a journalist who romanticizes a bygone era of campaign reporting and scraps her whole life for a shot at covering a presidential candidate for a paper of record. Sadie joins the bus and eventually bonds with three female competitors, Grace (Carla Gugino), Lola (Natasha Behnam), and Kimberlyn (Christina Elmore). Despite their differences, the women become a found family with a front-row seat to the greatest soap opera in town – the battle for the White

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 When life gives you have a day where you can't center clay  fot the life of you...

You make a pitcher for lemonade

🚌 Work. Life. Unbalanced. Trailer for #thegirlsonthebus is out and I cannot wait for people to see this showwwww March 14 on @streamonmax

 

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 The Girls on the Bus Trailer: Melissa Benoist Is ‘a Killer’ Learning the Ropes of Political Journalism — 

The Girls on the Bus finally have a departure time… and a brand-new trailer, too!

The long-gestating series will premiere Thursday, March 14, on Max with its first two episodes, followed by one new installment weekly through May 9.

The comedic drama is inspired by a chapter in Amy Chozick’s 2018 novel Chasing Hillary, which was based on the author’s time covering Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign as a political reporter.

In The Girls on the Bus, Supergirl vet Benoist plays Sadie McCarthy, “a journalist who romanticizes the original ‘Boys on the Bus’ and who scrapped her whole life for her own shot at covering a presidential campaign for the paper of record. Sadie hits the trail and eventually bonds with three female competitors,” per the official logline. “Despite their differences, these women become a found family with a front-row seat to the greatest soap opera in town: the battle for the White House.”

Joining Benoist on the Max series are Carla Gugino (The Fall of the House of Usher), Natasha Behnam (Mayans M.C.) and Christina Elmore (Insecure). The series-regular cast also includes Brandon Scott (13 Reasons Why, Dead to Me).

Additionally, Scott Foley (Scandal), Tala Ashe (Legends of Tomorrow) and Griffin Dunne (This Is Us) will all recur. Foley plays a little-known mayor from Kansas who has joined the presidential race, while Ashe portrays an offbeat-yet-accessible progressive who is one of the reporters’ clear favorites on the campaign trail.

The series was developed by Chozick and Julie Plec, both of whom will executive-produce alongside showrunner Rina Mimoun, as well as Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter for Berlanti Productions.

The Girls on the Bus has taken a rather meandering route to the screen: It was first ordered by Netflix in 2019, before being picked up by The CW after it failed to move forward at the streamer. The show then landed at another streamer when Max (then known as HBO Max)  in February 2022, five months after the project moved from Netflix to The CW.

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 - Felt like I was literally glued to my prop phone, laptop, chargers, press pass and glass of faux Yellowtail the whole time we shot this show but man I gained a newfound respect for campaign reporters, I don’t know how y’all do it 🧡

Making its next stop: check out these brand-new pics of the new Max Original Series #TheGirlsOntheBus, from executive producers of The Flight Attendant. Arriving March 14 exclusively on @streamonmax

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 Exclusive: Inside the show inspired by Amy Chozick's "Chasing Hillary"

Erica Pandey, author of Axios Finish Line


A new series inspired by "Chasing Hillary" — the bestselling book by journalist Amy Chozick that details her experience covering Hillary Clinton across two campaigns — is debuting on Max next month.


Why it matters: The show, called "The Girls On The Bus," attempts to paint an authentic portrait of life as a political journalist at a time when trust in media is cratering.

   - "While we were working on the show, we were kind of watching in real time both the business problems that the [media] industry was facing and also this lack of trust," Chozick told Axios.


The big picture: The show — premiering on March 14 — is set in a fictional world during a modern election year and follows four women journalists on the campaign trail.

   - "With these girls, it's a celebration of journalism, but it also makes the job look really hard. It's prestigious, but it's not glamorous," Chozick said.

   - "You'll see them handed turkey sandwiches, you'll see them get stuck on a bus that breaks down somewhere, they're sleeping in a different hotel every night … and, ultimately, they really just want to get it right."


The characters represent four different types of journalists: two of them work for legacy print media companies, one is a broadcast reporter for a conservative network and one is a TikToker, who has perhaps the largest following of all.

   - But they become unlikely friends on the campaign trail. "The bus forces you to become a found family," says Chozick, one of the executive producers of the show.

   - Chozick covered Clinton in 2008 for The Wall Street Journal and in 2016 for The New York Times.


Between the lines: The show explores many of the trends affecting media companies and journalists today.

    - In the first episode, for example, a reporter and her editor grapple with objectivity versus authenticity. They discuss whether journalists might gain readers' trust by being honest about the fact that they, like all people, have perspectives based on their life experiences.

     - The show also examines how reporting has changed with technology, depicting journalists who are working on social media and constantly chasing scoops to meet the 24/7 demands of the web.


Zoom in: To capture what life on the trail is really like, prop designers on the show tried to nail the tiny details, Chozick says.

    - The prop press pass to the DNC is nearly indistinguishable from her real one.

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