Shields told she campaigned for the name of the her new series after the network wanted to call it “Allie and Andy.”

Why Brooke Shields fought to rename her new show You’re Killing Me

Shields told she campaigned for the name of the her new series after the network wanted to call it "Allie and Andy."

By Leigh Blickley

May 19, 2026 1:55 p.m. ET

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- Brooke Shields shares that she named her new show, *You're Killing Me*.

- She opens up about being the star and executive producer of the AcornTV series.

- Shields said the physical comedy on the show is a game-changer for her.

Brooke Shields is thrilled to be back on TV with a new show,* You're Killing Me*. But, initially, she wasn't too keen on starring in a series that featured a derivative title.

"Yeah, that didn't last long," Shields, 60, told **'s Gerrad Hall of the show's original title, *Allie and Andi*, during a live Q&A with AMC's AcornTV in New York City on Monday. "I was just like, 'No, we're not doing that.'"

She continued: "I was like, 'That could be any show.' We've all had those —*This and Andi,* and *This and Allie,* and *Kate and Allie,* and all this. And I was like, 'You have to have more of a double entendre as a title.' So that it has like, 'you're killing me,' because there's a dead body every week in this sweet little small Maine town, and like, 'Come on, you're killing me here,' a little New York."

Shields revealed that she came up with the new title, which earned an applause from the audience.

Brooke Shields and Gerrad Hall.

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*You're Killing Me* follows bestselling novelist Allison "Allie" Chandler (Shields) as she forms an unlikely partnership with aspiring young writer Andrea "Andi" Walker (Amalia Williamson) to solve murders in their small New England town — all to the chagrin of local police detective Jack Kerrigan (Tom Cavanagh).

Shields said she approached showrunner Robin Bernheim, whom she worked with on projects like *Mother of the Bride* and *When Calls the Heart*, and they decided to create something together.

"I love being on a series. I loved *Suddenly Susan*. I adored* Lipstick Jungle*. I love that kind of consistency. I'm happiest work-wise when I'm on a set," Shields told *EW*. "And so I went to [Bernheim] and I said, 'Why don't we create something that we can pitch?' And this genre of the mystery world is very popular at the moment so we kind of were jumping on that bandwagon a bit."

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Shields was interested in exploring the relationship between Allie and Andi, considering she experiences a similar age-gap with her real-life daughters — Rowan, 23, and Grier, 20.

"I was really interested in the dynamic between these two women being generationally very, very different, but then sort of learning from each other," she said. "I have two daughters that are not dissimilar to the Andi character where they're always making fun of me. So I thought it would be refreshing to see that on camera."

Although the series takes inspiration from classics like *Murder, She Wrote*, Shields said that as the star of the show, but also executive producer, she wanted to push the boundaries of the genre by adding a bit more physical comedy and being "culturally relevant" for these two generations of women.

Amalia Williamson and Shields attend Acorn TV's 'You're Killing Me' New York Premiere on May 7, 2026.

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"I was able to get away with saying some inappropriate things, which you just always worry they're going to get real safe on you and try to cut all this stuff out. I fought for all of it and it's been what people have been responding to," she said, noting that Williamson, 26, really plays off her energy. "I'm very clear about the comedy and to see people really react to it [is great]."

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Shields said having that extra leverage as a producer on this show really shaped the way everything came together, and she's eager to use her voice more in her career moving forward.

"I think that, especially within comedic situations, you can't worry about looking silly, you can't worry about being safe — something has to electrically happen and there's got to be an electricity to it. And that was really good for me too after years of people never being interested in my opinion: having an opinion," Shields told *EW*. "And doing this show as an executive producer, I'd never been this active as an exec before and everything from casting to editing to graphics to... I mean, it was exhausting, but at one point they said, 'You know what? You've been doing this a long time. We trust your instincts.' And that was just a revelation to me."

The premiere episode of *You're Killing Me* is now streaming on Acorn TV.

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