Three-time Academy Award nominee, three-time Emmy winner, and SAG and Golden Globe Award winner Laura Linney comes to series television on SHOWTIME as star and executive producer of the provocative new half-hour original dark comedy series, THE BIG C.

Linney plays a reserved suburban wife and mother whose recent cancer diagnosis forces her to shake up her life and find hope, humor and the light side of a dark situation, while managing her immature but well-meaning husband, played by Oliver Platt.

THE BIG C will shoot 13 episodes later this spring for a summer debut.