‘Big Little Lies’ Season 3 taps 'Mr & Mrs. Smith' writer Francesca Sloane

‘Big Little Lies’ Season 3 moving forward with ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ writer

Updated: Sep 11, 2025 / 05:58 PM CDT

GOOD MORNING AMERICA – 5/29/19 – Deborah Roberts interviews the cast of “Big Little Lies” on “Good Morning America,” airing Thursday, May 30, 2019 on Walt Disney Television.
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NICOLE KIDMAN, MERYL STREEP, REESE WITHERSPOON, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN

(NewsNation) — The third season of “Big Little Lies” is moving forward, with the show hiring the co-creator of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.”

HBO tapped Francesca Sloane to pen the first episode of Season 3 of the show, according to Deadline.

Sloane will executive produce the new season of the show alongside series creator David. E. Kelley and stars Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman.

The show was based on Liane Moriarty’s 2014 “Big Little Lies,” which hit No. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list.

Francesca Sloane attends the “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” tastemaker event at Pendry West Hollywood on August 03, 2024 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)

The show premiered in 2017 won a slew of Emmys and stars Witherspoon, Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, Alexander Skarsgård and Meryl Streep.

The cast for the upcoming season hasn’t been confirmed, but it’s expected that Kidman and Witherspoon will return since they also serve as executive producers, according to The Guardian.

Sloane’s addition to “Big Little Lies” comes after signing a development deal with HBO after leaving her deal with Amazon MGM Studios.

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