Shakespeare and Craig Pearce, creator of Will, which debuts on TNT July 10, go way back. Pearce wrote the screenplay for Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo + Juliet, and as a boy, helped his mother, an amateur actress, learn her lines when she played Juliet.

Will tells the story of Shakespeare arriving in London with hopes of being a playwright. There’s a punk-rock spirit to the series. Theater at the time, said Pearce, “was like rock ‘n’ roll, very passionate and very visceral.”

Pearce did a “huge” amount of research to craft his portrait of a twentysomething Shakespeare. While everyone knows the Bard’s name, and much of his work, Pearce said people know little about the man. He had “an incredible ability to see into the souls of human beings,” said Pearce.

One could also say that about Jill Kargman, creator of Odd Mom Out, which has season three starting up on Bravo July 12. Kargman expertly satirizes the Manhattan mom elite on the show, which borrows from real-life headlines, too. Season two closed with a Ponzi scheme rocking the Upper East Side, and the new season offers a close-up of its effects.

Kargman said Bernie Madoff lived a block away from her before he relocated to a Federal Correctional Institution in North Carolina. She’s friendly with some of his victims. “I was very much immersed in the fallout,” Kargman said.

Each new season of Odd Mom Out reveals a little bit more of its creator. Kargman said season three is “the balsamic reduction of me.” The new batch of episodes leans into her darker side a bit more. “It’s the purist version of me this year,” she added.

Asked how long she sees the series going, Kargman quipped that 30 seasons would be nice. “There’s so much material,” she said. “I’m living it — I get more and more ideas every day.”

And Adam Conover has plenty of ideas for the new season of his myth-busting series Adam Ruins Everything, which starts on truTV July 11. The premiere sees Adam ruin having a baby. “There’s a huge amount of misinformation about that life stage that people go through,” Conover said.

Conover said his inquisitive ways go back to childhood. “I was the kid in class questioning why we were being taught this way, and what the truth was. It got me into trouble.”

Conover consumed science shows insatiably as a boy on Long Island; he called the ’90s the “unappreciated golden age of science TV.” Those shows, such as Beakman’s World and Bill Nye the Science Guy, have left their mark on Adam Ruins Everything, such as when Conover tells the viewer why they should care about a given topic.

“I did not realize how much our show resembles those science shows,” he said.

Bravo has filled out cast assignments for its new 10-episode comedy series, Odd Mom Out.

Delving into the wealthy lives of fierce mothers around New York’s Upper East Side, the show is tied closely to Jill Kargman’s real life.

Created by Kargman, the half-hour show will also star Abby Elliot, Andy Buckley, Sean Kleier, KK Glick and Joanna Cassidy, in Bravo’s second original scripted series. The show centers on Kargman feeling left out in a city that has become so exclusive, stylish and current. Production starts later this month, with shooting around NYC.

Andy Buckley, most popular for The Office, will play Jill’s affluent husband, while Abby Elliot of Saturday Night Live is the sister-in-law and one of the Upper East Side’s hip mom’s. Seam Kleier will portray her successful brother-in-law and KK Glick plays an ER doctor and her best friend.  Joanna Cassidy of Six Feet Under is cast as the uppity mother-in-law.

Cast Bios:

Jill Kargman (Jill)

Jill’s character never turns down the chance to gossip about the Upper East Side lifestyle. As a New York Times best-selling author and talented tastemaker, she written more than 200 articles for a number of publications from Vogue to GQ, and also moonlights as a lyricist for Daryl Roth’s musical.

Abby Elliott (Brooke)

Abby Elliot was the first second-generation cast member on SNL, and is known for her four seasons on the show. She has also appeared in shows including, How I Met Your Mother, Happy Endings, Inside Amy Schumer, and 2 Broke Girls. Catch her in the films, Life Partners, Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or on television in Garfunkel and Oates.

Andy Buckley (Andy)

Andy Buckley most recently played Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ boyfriend on the HBO show, Veep, but is most known for his role on The Office as David Wallace. Other credits include, Bridesmaids, The Other Guys, Life As We Know It, and the new, Jurassic World.

Sean Kleier (Lex)

Kleier started off performing stand up and improv in New York and Boston, with content seen on Funny or Die, The Today Show, The Huffington Post and Fox and Friends. His work has also been featured in The Washington Post, Time, Al Jazeera, USA Today and more. Kleier writes and directs for Motiv Creative and will soon appear in Madam Secretary, The Affair and The Intern.

KK Glick (Vanessa)

KK Glick has been in many commercials and comic shorts, performing all over NYC in a number of improv groups as well. Glick is a correspondent on VH1’s Top 20 Countdown and has been recently seen as Katie in Bachelorette, a Leslye Headland production.

Joanna Cassidy (Candace)

Joanna Cassidy is known for her role as JoJo White in the 1983 NBC series, Buffalo Bill, where she won a Golden Globe. Her most memorable role was in Blade Runner, as Zhora, and she also played the iconic role of Dolores in the live action/animated movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. She has starred in Six Feet Under, Body of Proof, Too Late and Visions.

The new comedy show is produced by Left/Right with Ken Druckerman and Banks Tarver as Executive Producers, as well as Jill Kargman, Piro Vision’s Tim Piper and Daniel Rosenberg and Jax Media’s Tony Hernandez.