Tony Shalhoub to play another socially awkward genius on TV

The 1950s-set drama was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, and will star House Of Cards’ Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a married woman who realizes her meticulous plans for life don’t much allow for living. She leaves her swanky Manhattan world (we don’t know if that includes her husband) for the bohemian environs of standup comedy in Village. And according to Deadline, Shalhoub will play her father Abe Weissman, “an academic and intellectual” who sounds just as rigid as the San Francisco detective he once played. Abe “believes in books and facts and speaking as little as possible,” the latter of which must feel like a real loss on a show from Sherman-Palladino, who wrote the pilot.

There’s currently no word on when The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will begin filming, but it’s bound to show up in one of Amazon’s future pilot seasons.