According to Deadline, Transformers alum Josh Duhamel has officially signed on to star opposite Oscar winner Renée Zellweger in Blumhouse Television and NBC’s upcoming true-crime limited series The Thing About Pam, centering around the suspicious murder of Betsy Faria. Duhamel is set to portray the role of Joel Schwartz, the defense attorney to Betsy’s husband Russ Faria.
This marks the latest collaboration between the 48-year-old actor and NBC, following the dramedy series Las Vegas, which ran on-air for five seasons, and NBCU’s limited series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. Duhamel was most recently seen in Netflix’s superhero drama Jupiter Legacy, which was canceled a month after its debut.
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Based on the Dateline episode and 2019 podcast, The Thing About Pam will delve into the murder of Betsy Faria in 2011, a case in which her husband was originally convicted for the crime, despite his plead of innocence. However, his sentenced was later overturned, with emergence of another suspect in the form of Pam Hupp (Zellweger), who was convicted in 2019 and believed to have orchestrated her death to pin it on Betsy’s husband.
The six-episode series is being written and executive produced by Jessika Borsiczky (UnReal, House of Lies), who will also serve as the showrunner. Executive producers are Zellweger, Carmella Casinelli, Liz Cole, Jason Blum, Noah Oppenheim, Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold.
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Zellweger is best known for her acclaimed performances in drama films such Cold Mountain and Judy, which both earned her two Oscar Awards. Even though she starred in select TV dramas, her first acting project was actually a 1992 TV film titled A Taste for Killing.
