The series was created by Plec and Chozick and is inspired by Chozick's experiences as a political reporter on the campaign bus with several presidential candidates. The story centers on Sadie McCarthy (Benoist), a journalist who romanticizes a bygone era of campaign reporting and upends her entire life for a chance to cover a presidential candidate for a newspaper.
Sadie boards the bus and ends up bonding with three female competitors, Grace (Carla Gugino, The Fall of the House of Usher), Lola (Natasha Behnam, Mayans MC (2018)) and Kimberlyn (Christina Elmore, The Last Ship). Despite their differences, the women become a found family with a front-row seat to the city's biggest soap opera - the battle for the White House.
Brandon Scott (Dead to Me) also stars, along with Griffin Dunne (This Is Us), Mark Consuelos (Riverdale) and Scott Foley (Scandal).
Chozick and Plec are executive producers alongside showrunner Rina Mimoun, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman and Marcos Siega. Jesse Peretz (City on Fire, GLOW) produced and directed the pilot and Benoist is a producer. The series comes from Berlanti Productions in collaboration with Warner Bros. Television.
You can check out the first-look photos for The Girls on the Bus below.
