Oprah Winfrey’s new TV series Love Is is now in production in Atlanta, Georgia. According to reports, Love Is will film in Georgia starting this December 2017.
Deadline reports the show will star Michele Weaver and Will Catlett in a series from The Game creator Mara Brock Akil and her husband, writer-director Salim Akil. The hourlong dramedy is set to debut in 2018.
The series centers around the love story between a modern-day power couple. In the world of Black Hollywood, they navigate a complex set of social codes, and this series will explore it all, from the good to the bad and to the ‘90s when the love story began.
Weaver will play Nuri, a bubbly personality with big dreams who is struggling to make a name for herself as a sitcom staff writer while struggling an assortment of romances that only leave her party fulfilled. After she meets Yasir, himself unemployed and barely holding onto his dreams, Nuri changes all her opinions about what she expects from a man because she’s just found the one who is perfect for her.
Yasir is an aspiring writer-director who is down to his last two unemployment checks and lives (unhappily) with his on-again/off-again ex. But after meeting the stunning Nuri, Yasir finds a reason to alter his life and the drive to access his potential.