Robert and Michelle King’s crime thriller “Happy Face” has been canceled at Paramount+ after only one season, Selection has confirmed.
The information comes roughly two months after “Blissful Face” wrapped Season 1 on Could 1. The present tells the actual story of Melissa Moore, who in 1995, discovered that her father, Keith Hunter Jesperson, was the then-infamous Blissful Face Killer. The sequence relies on the “Blissful Face” podcast from iHeartPodcasts in addition to Moore’s autobiography “Shattered Silence,” which was co-written by M. Bridget Prepare dinner.
Within the eight-episode sequence, which premiered March 20, Melissa modifications her title and distances herself from her father as an grownup. Regardless of her greatest efforts, Keith, who’s serving life in jail, tries to weasel his approach again into her life. As she reconciles together with her previous, Melissa “discovers the affect her father had on his victims’ households and should face a reckoning of her personal identification,” based on an official logline.
Annaleigh Ashford and Dennis Quaid star as Melissa and her prison father Keith, respectively. Different forged members embody James Wolk, Tamera Tomakili, Khiyla Aynne, Benjamin Mackey, Connor Paton and David Harewood.
The true Jesperson is presently serving life in jail in an Oregon penitentiary. He murdered a minimum of eight girls, and earned his nickname from drawing smiley faces on his letters to the authorities and media.
CBS studios produced “Blissful Face” in affiliation with iHeartPodcasts, King Measurement Productions and Semi-Formal Productions. Jennifer Cacicio served as showrunner and government producer with Robert and Michelle King, Michael Showalter, Conal Byre, Melissa G. Moore, Will Pearson and Liz Glotzer. Jordana Mollick executive-produced the sequence and directed the primary episode. The sequence is distributed by Paramount World Content material Distribution.
