EXCLUSIVE: Emilia Clarke and Josh Brolin are joining Jason Momoa, Shailene Woodley, Elijah Wood and Alec Baldwin in docuseries A Roadmap To Happiness, which we first announced during this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

The show will see author, podcaster and presenter Darin Olien (Down to Earth with Zac Efron) travel with actors to different corners of the world in search of the happiest people on Earth. The series will explore what constitutes happiness in different cultures and show the travelers — and viewers — different approaches to contentment.

Clarke (Game of Thrones) will join the series in Portugal, a country recorded as having some of the happiest children in the world, while Brolin (Avengers) will appear in Finland – a country consistently ranked among the happiest in the world – for the series finale.

Directed by Cary Floyd and produced by Cary Floyd, Darin Olien, Heather White Rezner, and DP Nick Higgins, the series is lining up a limited VOD release date for 3/20/2027, which is World Happiness Day. Conversations with platforms and broadcasters about other releases continue.

Of joining the series finale in Finland, Brolin commented: “We spend so much of life chasing success, answers, or the next thing but happiness is often quieter than that. Being part of this journey in Finland reminded me that connection, simplicity, and presence may be the most powerful things we have. I’m proud to be part of a project asking questions that matter.”

“After decades of traveling the world searching for answers to health, sustainability, and the challenges we face as humans, I realized something profound, happiness may be the missing piece connecting it all,” said co-host and executive producer Olien. “This series is about the people, rituals, and perspectives that remind us how to reconnect to ourselves, each other, and what truly matters.”

“People and the planet are at the heart of everything I do,” added Momoa of his work on the series. “Getting to go on this journey with Darin, a friend and warrior for the Earth, makes it even more special. We’re exploring what connects us, what sustains us, and why protecting it matters.”

“I know a lot of lives and hearts will be touched by this project, simply by how much mine was and it was laughter that renewed my faith in humanity,” noted Woodley.

EXCLUSIVE: David Krumholtz fans, rejoice: After indicating that he was weighing an “indefinite break” from acting back in August, he’s returning to work, having joined the cast of The Trial of Louise Woodward at HBO.

The Supergirl actor had already clarified his initial comments after sharing that he was “frustrated, fed up, fried” with the business, noting that he never said he was quitting or retiring from acting, but rather pressing pause. In response to online commotion surrounding his initial comments, he said that he was taking some time to prioritize his mental well-being and family.

Other new additions to The Trial of Louise Woodward today include Samantha Mathis, Stephen Kunken and Warren Brown. Krumholtz will play criminal defense attorney Harvey Silverglate, with Mathis as Wilma Spellman, the maternal grandmother of the show’s central murder victim, Matthew Eappen; Kunken as criminal defense attorney Andrew Good; and Brown as the title character’s father, Gary Woodward.

A true-crime limited series from creator Matthew Barry, The Trial of Louise Woodward tells the shocking true story of how, in 1997, an 18-year-old British au pair was accused of shaking to death a baby left in her care by her American host family, setting off an international media firestorm as the trial unfolds in full view of both the British and American public.

Catriona Chandler plays the title role, with Joanne Froggatt as Louise’s mother, Susan; Meghann Fahy and Sagar Radia as the victim’s parents, Deborah and Sunil Eappen; Chloë Sevigny as defense attorney Elaine Whitfield Sharp; Hugh Laurie as Judge Hiller B. Zobel, who presided over the trial; Jack Reynor as lead prosecutor Gerry Leone; John Magaro as lead defense counsel Barry Scheck; and Natalia Dyer as Middlesex County assistant district attorney Lynn Rooney.

Barry wrote The Trial, serves as showrunner and is exec producing alongside Susanne Bier, who directs all episodes, as well as Frank Spotnitz, Emily Feller, Tobi de Graaff, and Antoine Douaihy. Big Light Productions and Anton TV are the production companies.

Prior to the remarks surrounding an acting hiatus, Krumholtz was most recently seen playing Zor-El, the biological father of Supergirl, in DC Studios’ film of the same name. Next up, he’ll be seen in Paramount’s football underdog story Mr. Irrelevant, out Christmas Day. He is repped by Paradigm, Untitled, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

Known for roles on shows like Billions, The Strain and Under the Dome, plus films like American Psycho, Mathis is repped by Innovative and Mgmt Entertainment.

Kunken has also been seen on Billions, plus A Spy Among Friends, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Affair and other series. On the film side, his most recent major credits include Hillbilly Elegy and Jason Bourne. He is repped by Innovative and Liebman Entertainment.

Seen on shows like MobLand, A Taste for Murder and Strike Back, Brown is repped by Independent Talent Group.