Created by: Simon Rich
Directed by: Maurice Marable, Jorma Taccone, Ryan Case, Dan Schimpf
Written by: Simon Rich
Produced by: Lorne Michaels
Other cast: Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni , Jon Bass
Release date: January 28, 2020
Premiere date: February 12, 2019
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Running time: 30 mins
Scheduled to launch in 2019 with seven episodes, the first season of Miracle Workers will be a heaven-set workplace comedy based on Rich’s book What in God’s Name. Radcliffe will play Craig, a low-level angel responsible for handling all of humanity’s prayers, and Wilson will play Craig’s boss, God, who has pretty much checked out to focus on his favorite hobbies. To prevent Earth’s destruction, Craig must achieve his most impossible miracle to date.
About the Book
Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky—where God, the founder and CEO, is either golfing or reading what humans have been blogging about him. When God decides to retire, he also decides it’s time to destroy Earth. Most of his employees take the news in stride—except for Craig and Eliza, two underpaid angels in the Department of Miracles.
Unlike their boss, Craig and Eliza love their jobs making “miracles” happen down on Earth. The angels manage to strike a deal with God. He’ll call off his Armageddon if they can solve their toughest miracle yet: getting the two most socially awkward humans to fall in love. With Doomsday fast approaching, and the humans ignoring every chance for happiness thrown their way, Craig and Eliza must move heaven and earth to rescue them—and the rest of us, too.