Maggie Kiley is hooked up to direct and govt produce the NBC drama pilot “Grosse Pointe Backyard Society,” Selection has discovered completely.

The pilot was ordered at NBC in February. It hails from writers and govt producers Jenna Bans and Invoice Krebs.

Kiley has beforehand directed episodes of NBCUniversal exhibits like “Dr. Dying” for Peacock and “Soiled John: The Betty Broderick Story” for USA Community. Her different TV directing credit embody exhibits like “American Horror Story,” “Fairly Little Liars: Unique Sin,” “Riverdale,” “Hold Respiratory,” and the upcoming sequence “American Sports activities Story.”

She made her function directorial debut with “Brightest Star” starring Chris Lowell and Allison Janney. She additionally directed the award-winning brief movie “Some Boys Don’t Go away” starring Jesse Eisenberg. She is at the moment hooked up to direct Kat Wooden’s upcoming movie “Enigma.”

Kiley is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

“Grosse Pointe Backyard Society” was initially put into growth at NBC again in 2022, whereas the community opened a writers’ room for the sequence in 2023. The official logline reads, “4 members of a suburban backyard membership, all from totally different walks of life, get caught up in homicide and mischief as they battle to make their standard lives bloom.”

Bans and Krebs function writers and govt producers on the pilot. Bans will govt produce below her Minnesota Logging Firm banner together with Casey Kyber and Kiley. Common Tv, the place each Bans and Krebs are below general offers, will produce.

Bans is finest identified for creating the NBC sequence “Good Ladies,” starring Christina Hendricks, Retta, and Mae Whitman. Krebs first collaborated with Bans on the ABC sequence “The Household” earlier than additionally becoming a member of her on “Good Ladies.”