Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon- Your Fav New TV Stars: Pair Teaming Up With 'Ally McBeal' Creator David E Kelley For 'Big Little Lies'

The next True Detective? Superstar actors Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon have signaled their intention to deliver a series that will rival HBO's mega hit, and are joining up with TV legend David E. Kelley to do so. 

The pair of Oscar winners - Kidman won for The Hours, while it was Walk The Line that got Witherspoon in the winners circle - will be tackling Big Little Lies, a 2014 book by Australian author Liane Moriarty, and Variety report that "Kidman and Witherspoon jointly optioned the book" after its release earlier this year, and that the two film stars "plan to star and produce the adaptation penned by Kelley, who is famous for his work on The Practice, Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal and more.

According to deadline Big Little Lies will be "a subversive comedy which tells the tale of three mothers of kindergartners whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder". 

E! Online offer a little more info on the series' premise, adding "a murder-mystery that happens during a parents' night at the elementary school fundraiser". 

Sounds awesome! Kidman and Witherspoon are also both mothers, which will no doubt help! 

There's no word on whether the series will be based in Australia, but as the Washington Post pointed out in their review of the book, the story the book tells is universal, saying "the women residing on the Pirriwee Peninsula near Sydney could just as easily live in Anywhere, U.S.A."  

Kidman was yesterday spied with her American Idol judge and country music superstar husband Keith Urban at the UK premiere of Paddington, in which she plays a villainous bear hunter, according to Huffington Post. She's also been working Colin Firth and Jude Law on Genius.

Witherspoon, meanwhile, has the already-critically acclaimed Wild coming out on Dec. 5.

It also marks another high profile move from film to TV, which has lost its stigma in recent times thanks to the quality and budgets of small screen productions, with Kidman and Witherspoon two of the biggest names, following not just the lead of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in True Detective''s first season, as well Vince Vaughan, Colin Farrell and Rachel McAdams for season two, but also with Halle Berry in Extant, Jessica Lange in American Horror Story, Robin Williams (before his sad death) with The Crazy Ones (which was also helmed by David E Kelley), Don Cheadle's House of Lies, Kevin Spacey with House Of Cards and more.