Good evening. American Express.
Yes. Hi. Hello. Good evening.
This is Harry McDonald and
I just need some information
about my recent purchases.
Just a moment, Sir. This
is illegal. This is identity theft
for me to play by the rules.
You want me to find your husband?
Hello? What? Ohh my investigator Nadia,
her water broke. Get off the phone.
Ohh I I I no just whatever info you have,
e-mail it to my phone and I don't
have to say e-mail it to your phone.
If you get e-mail on your phone
it just goes to your phone.
That is a clip from the new
CBS dramedy so help me, Todd,
and I'm joined this morning
by the stars of the show,
Marcia Gay Harden and Skyler Astin.
Welcome to great day, Washington.
Good morning. Thanks
for having us.
Congratulations on the new show.
Just seeing the little bit that we've
seen so far. I love this Perry.
You two seem just to have so much fun
together with as a mom and as mom and son,
but what is it like with you 2 on set?
It's pretty much the same. Further.
And that happened very, very quickly.
Yeah, it was from the jump.
We were fast friends, but also lots
of mutual respect, lots of trust.
And it just kind of led to us
going right at it right away. Yes,
Skyler, you're working with Marcia
Gay Harden. I mean, it doesn't get
much better than that. Yeah, exactly.
I send her a text a week at least,
being like by the way I play
a cool, but I'm freaking out.
Well, for, you know,
it's just getting started this season.
What kind of hijinks are you
2 going to be getting into?
Anything you can share about how this
season's going to unfold a little bit?
Yeah, because we started the
beginning with the with the dissipated
relationship and their oil and vinegar.
They are polar opposites,
but they but they have to work together.
Margaret discovers that this her
down and out investigative son is
actually really good at what he does.
He comes to work for her firm and
there in begins the trouble because
he's cuckoo for cocoa puffs in so many
ways and like he's just outside the
box and unconventional and fantastic
and she's a little by the rules.
And so it's this wonderful conflict that.
Adds a lot of comedy. Yeah.
And at the end of the pilot,
you know, we actually see them.
OK, so they're gonna work together.
This is what the show is gonna be.
There's gonna be a case.
She's gonna do it her way.
I'm going to do it my way over,
going to be in the middle.
But there are a lot of,
like, physical thrills,
a lot of action,
kind of packed thrills.
So we we take a journey into some of the,
like, under seedlings of Portland,
and we we kind of uncover
a lot of what's happening.
Well, we see two kind of
the generational divide,
and we see Todd helping his
mom with the technology.
But I've also read that maybe that's
kind of the case in real life.
Like phones and.
Yeah, that's really rude.
And I'm done. I'm leaving.
I'm well, first of all, why are there
15 remotes for a television anymore?
Like, I just don't. I don't get it.
And I'm not the only one.
And why did we go from cut and
paste to command this command, like,
so in that way it would be real.
Like, I know what a computer
is and I know how to use one,
but I'm a little old school
and this one we should.
He's got the tick tock,
he's got the whatever it is.
He's got everything going
to do. Reels.
So you're all over the reels.
The Tick tock, Skyler.
I've been watching those.
You have fun with that for sure.
And I bet the two of you,
I mean both theater folks and
love the theater so much.
It has to be just an incredible bond.
Yeah, well, it did.
I mean, there's so much rhythm
in this writing, but you know,
it's not every day where you get
it gets to really translate onset.
Of course, it always comes
together in the edit,
but on set it feels the way it
does when when you watch it on TV.
Starting the theater and
we both because of that,
we just have an incredible love
for that audience relationship
and the and the connection and
the connection of banter on
stage and it's it's a pleasure
and I love your connection to our city
here in DC I mean both of you have
performed on the biggest stages here.
Well, he was on the biggest stage.
Kennedy Center. Yeah,
doesn't get much bigger than that.
I was the source only theater,
new playwrights horizons,
all of the new new playwrights theater,
New Horizons, new Playwrights Theater.
So I I got my start there.
OK, so then how much singing
actually happens on set?
And, Skylar, are we going to
see you singing in this show as
well? They're singing on set,
just not in between action.
Or Todd doesn't sing, but Skyler does.
So in my life, in my car,
in my shower, with my.
Parents, wherever I do always
have a melody in my head,
but Todd wouldn't have
the same voice as Skyler.
So I don't know if audiences would
actually want to hear Todd sick.
It would kind of be a waste of time.
Well, you can share the fun,
the fun songs that you guys sing
then on Instagram and Tick Tock
and all that social media stuff.
We'll appreciate that for sure.
Thank you both so much.
What a pleasure to meet
you and talk with you.
And we're just excited to go
on this fun little journey
with you guys this season.
Thank you too. Thanks for watching. Thank
you very much. So help me.
Todd airs Thursday nights at
9:00 PM right here on W USA 9.