Tell me a story

Television series
German title	Tell me a story
Original title	Tell me a story
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2018-2019
length	42-57 minutes
Episodes	20 in 2 seasons ( list )
genre	Thriller , drama , anthology series
idea	Kevin Williamson
production	Colin Walsh ; Hollie Overton
music	John Frizzell
Initial release	October 31, 2018 on CBS All Access
; First publication in German	May 1, 2020 on TVNOW
occupation
synchronization

Tell Me a Story (English for Tell me a story ) is an American psychological thriller - anthology series by Kevin Williamson , which is based on the Spanish series Cuéntame un Cuento and how these fairy tales are adapted into modern times. The first season premiered on CBS All Access on October 31, 2018, and the second on December 5, 2019. In Germany , the first season was released on TVNOW on May 1, 2020 , the second on September 1 of the same year.

action

While the five-part Spanish television series Cuéntame un Cuento presented a different fairy tale in each episode, Tell Me a Story adapts three thematically related fairy tales per season (mainly by the Brothers Grimm ) into stories that run parallel throughout the season.

season 1

The first season adapts the fairy tales The Three Little Pigs , Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood in Tales of Crime, relocated to New York City :

The three little pigs : while Jordan Evans and his newly fiancé Beth are choosing rings, three robbers in pig masks storm the jeweler , with Beth being fatally shot. Because, in his opinion, the police are doing too little to arrest the perpetrator he has identified, Jordan decides to seek revenge himself.

Hansel and Gretel : When the drug-addicted go-go dancer Gabe and his colleague meet a man in a hotel room, he is accidentally killed. Gabe calls his sister Hannah for help and together the siblings have to flee.

Little Red Riding Hood : After her mother died, 17-year-old Kayla and her father Tim moved from Los Angeles to live with their grandmother, Colleen. When Kayla sneaked out with her new school friend and went to party in a nightclub , she met Nick Sullivan and had sex with him. The next day at school, he turns out to be her new substitute teacher.

season 2

In the second season, which takes place in Nashville , the three princess fairy tales Beauty and the Beast , Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are adapted. It revolves around the family of Rebecca Pruitt, mother of a son and two daughters who correspond to the princes of fairy tales.

Beauty and the Beast : Country singer Ashley Rose Pruitt survived an attack by a car bomb at the release party for her album, but is disfigured by burn scars. The police officer Beau (French for "the beautiful") is placed at her side as a bodyguard.

Cinderella : The often drunk guitarist Jackson Pruitt falls in love with Simone Garland, who has to assert herself against her stepfamily after the death of her father.

Sleeping Beauty : Maddie Pruitt's fiancé, author Tucker Reed, addresses his sleep problems by capturing and drugging a young woman who he lies in bed next to. After she escapes, she turns the situation around.

Episode list

season 1

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First published in the USA	German language first publication (D)	Director	script
1	1	Chapter 1	Chapter 1: Hope	October 31, 2018	1st May 2020	Liz Friedlander	Kevin Williamson
Two brothers and a cop who need money for various reasons plan a robbery. Jordan Evans urges his partner Beth Miller, as originally planned, to want to get married and have children, while she does not want to bring a child to Donald Trump's America. On the sidelines of a demonstration in which participants wear pig masks, Beth leads Jordan to a jeweler and says yes to his proposal. When they want to choose rings inside, the shop is stormed and ambushed by the three robbers wearing pig masks. Beth is fatally shot in a fight with the store security guard. Roommates and go-go dancers Gabe Perez and Billy meet a man named Dan Simmons in his hotel room. When Gabe fends off his touches, Simmons hits the edge of the table fatally, causing Billy to run away. Gabe, however, calls his sister Hannah over, who helps him cover up the tracks, and takes the dead man's cell phone. 17-year-old Kayla and her father moved to live with their grandmother Colleen after their mother died. On the first day of school, Kayla sneaks out with her new friend and goes to party in a nightclub from the age of 21 with a fake identity card. There she meets Nick Sullivan and goes to his house, where she has sex with him. The next day at school, Nick turns out to be her new substitute teacher.
2	2	Chapter 2	Chapter 2: Loss	7th November 2018	1st May 2020	Liz Friedlander	Eduardo Javier Canto & Ryan Maldonado
Jordan is questioned by the police about clues about the perpetrators. Detective Garcia is able to identify Eddie Longo from the surveillance cameras and Jordan recognizes him as one of the perpetrators during a confrontation, but Garcia has to let him go because his girlfriend gives him an alibi. Jordan visits Eddie at his work and watches him at home. Hannah threatens Billy to testify in a possible police questioning that Simmons was still alive when he and Gabe left. Gabe takes an overdose of Hannah's medicine, but she comes in time to save him. They later hear on the news that Simmons' body was found in the Hudson River . Nick worries that he might be fired because Kayla is still a minor. She skips school with her friends Laney and Ethan and spends the day with Ethan, where the three kiss in the hot tub. After an argument with her father, she seeks comfort at Nick's home.
3	3	Chapter 3	Chapter 3: Greed	November 14, 2018	1st May 2020	Mark Tonderai	Hollie Overton
Jordan is deeply saddened after Beth's funeral and has the feeling that the police are not doing enough to find and punish the perpetrators. Mitch and Eddie go to Sam to claim their share of the money, but are threatened by him. Jordan sneaks into Eddie's house and points his gun at him while he sleeps, but fails to pull the trigger. Hannah calls the last contact on Simmons' cell phone and reaches Sam. She throws away the cell phone, but uses Simmons key card to a warehouse, where she finds a bag with $ 2 million. She wants to run away with the money together with Gabe. He finds Billy murdered at home and alerts Hannah, who in turn is threatened by a man who demands the money and kills him. Kayla has to work for her grandmother, a former dancer, in a costume shop, where Ethan visits her, who through Laney knows about her relationship with Nick. When the three students argue in the school hallway, Kayla and Nick's secret almost comes to light. Because he's really worried, Kayla visits Nick at home, where they eventually have sex again.
4th	4th	Chapter 4	Chapter 4: Rage	November 21, 2018	1st May 2020	Mark Tonderai	Kim Clements
Jordan brings Detective Garcia Eddie's pig mask, but she rebukes him for jeopardizing the investigation by interfering. He looks for Eddie's girlfriend in the nightclub, who should tell him who killed Beth. In the alley behind the club, Eddie beats Jordan and leaves him bleeding on the floor, whereupon he sees a vision of Beth. When Hannah and Gabe plan to leave , she refuses to go to Virginia to see her stepfather. They drive off to North Carolina in the car , but while Hannah is sleeping, Gabe secretly drove to Virginia to the house of her mother and stepfather. Ethan takes Kayla to a rage room, where Nick surprises her and tells her about Ethan's criminal record. When Ethan brings Kayla home that evening, he comes in and sexually harasses her, whereupon her grandmother throws him out. He then sends Nick a message with a photo of a kiss between Kayla and Nick.
5	5	Chapter 5	Chapter 5: Madness	November 28, 2018	1st May 2020	Sulvan Naim	Heather Zuhlke
Jordan has visions of Beth telling him revenge isn't the way to honor her, but he doesn't listen to her. From Eddie's trailer, he follows Mitch home and shows himself in front of the window. When Mitch drives back to Eddie and tells him about it, Jordan throws a pig's head through the cell phone. A cell phone is stuck in the muzzle and he asks for the name of the third man. Richard, her mother's new husband, has arranged for Gabe and Hannah to fly to Puerto Rico . Hannah can't forgive her mother for leaving her father and ruins a cocktail party. Nick ties Ethan up in his house, deletes the photo on his devices, and then kills him. Kayla believes her father and Katrina, the hotel's manager, are a couple and accuses him of cheating on her mother, which led to the accident that killed her. She shows up at Nick's house while he is hiding Ethan's things and has to shower the blood off his body.
6th	6th	Chapter 6	Chapter 6: Guilt	5th December 2018	1st May 2020	Jeff T. Thomas	Nary Leah Sutton
Mitch gives Eddie $ 4,000 so that he and Carla can leave town and alerts Sam about Jordan. This appears in front of Mitch's house in a wolf mask and scares his wife Shelley. In front of Eddie's house he scares him so much with a phone call that he shoots when someone is at the door, but he fatally hit Carla. When Jordan shows up and the two men face each other with pistols, Eddie shoots himself instead. When the police show up at Madeline's and ask for Gabe about Billy, she hands her children over to the police. While driving the car, Hannah and Gabe realize that they are not real police officers, but that they are after Simmons' money. Hannah attacks the driver, whereupon the car overturns. One day in the park, Nick tells Kayla that he loves her, and she escapes the situation. After talking to her grandmother, she breaks up with Nick. He reacts by hurting himself. Then he visits Kayla's father at work at the restaurant bar.
7th	7th	Chapter 7	Chapter 7: Betrayal	December 12, 2018	1st May 2020	Millicent Shelton	Andrea Thornton Bolden
Jordan starts seeing Eddie telling him he doesn't have what it takes to kill, so he wants to tackle Mitch next. He kidnaps his wife Shelley and demands the name of the third man in exchange. When all four arrive at the meeting point, Jordan puts a gun to Shelley's head and Sam demands that he pull the trigger. When Jordan doesn't, Sam shoots Shelley and then Mitch while Jordan escapes. Hannah and Gabe flee from one of the policemen in the forest with the money, but lose sight of each other. Gabe arrives at a rest stop, where an apparently helpful woman drugged and kidnapped him. When Hannah arrives there, she is attacked in the toilet by the policeman and kills him. After Kayla reprimands Nick for meeting her father, she and Laney decide to investigate him, and they find out that his brother's name is actually Joshua. Kayla's father Tim and Katrina kiss. While Laney is shadowing him, Kayla breaks into Joshua's apartment and finds a picture her mother painted in his apartment.
8th	8th	Chapter 8	Chapter 8: Truth	19th December 2018	1st May 2020	John Stuart Scott	Steve Stringer
Garcia questions Jordan about Eddie and Mitch when Detective Sam Reynolds walks into the room and lets him go. Sam later shows up at Jordan's apartment and suggests a truce; he couldn't kill Jordan because he has no one to pin the crime on. Gabe is held in a cellar and tortured with a hot iron. Hannah, who has returned to Terry, agrees to hand over the money for her brother. When Gabe is able to escape from the cellar, he comes out of the hotel kitchen and runs into Katrina, but has to discover that she is one of the kidnappers. When Kayla asks about the picture, Joshua confesses on the phone that he loved her mother. At the restaurant, she learns from her father that it was her mother who had the affair. Katrina intervenes when Joshua holds Kayla. At night he is in her room and sneaks out when her father comes home. Flashbacks show her mother trying to break up with Joshua, which he did not accept. She escaped in her car and was followed by him, causing her to have an accident. Instead of helping her, Joshua killed her.
9	9	Chapter 9	Chapter 9: Deception	December 26, 2018	1st May 2020	Adam Davidson	Heather Zuhlke
Jordan wants to be "Mr. Wolf “kidnap Sam's son, but realizes he's going too far and lets him go. At home he talks to Tim about his mistake. He reports everything to Garcia, who has already suspected Sam has become corrupt, and promises to take action against him the next day. She is killed that evening by a colleague who is involved with Sam. Jordan takes a room in the hotel. Katrina and Esther plan the handover, after which Hannah and Gabe are to die, while Hannah and Terry prepare with weapons. Only Katrina henchmen appear at the handover meeting point. Hannah and Terry kill all but one of them, whom Hannah chases to the hotel. There she calls Katrina and threatens her. Joshua writes Laney on Ethan's cell phone, luring her over to call Kayla. When Kayla arrives, he locks the building. She attacks him and is able to flee from him, finding Laney's body in the building. She calls the police and tells Sam all about Joshua. He gets a face disguise in the costume shop and knocks Kayla's grandmother down, which he puts in a suitcase. With this he checks in at the hotel.
10	10	Chapter 10	Chapter 10: Deception	2nd January 2019	1st May 2020	Craig Zisk	Kevin Williamson & Mary Leah Sutton
After Jordan learns about Garcia's murder on television, he breaks into Sam's house and steals the diamonds from his wife. At the hotel he tells Olsen that Sam killed Garcia and that he has the diamonds. Olsen calls Sam, who comes in when Jordan wants to show Olsen the diamonds. Jordan gets Sam to shoot Olsen and escapes the room with the diamonds, but is followed by Sam. When Jordan points his gun at Sam, he is stopped by Beth, so Sam can shoot him instead. Sam picks up the diamonds and runs out onto the street where he is hit by a car. Jordan and Beth are reunited as dead. Esther is supposed to meet Sam about the money, but does not show up because Hannah is holding her. At the hotel, she demands a gift from Katrina, but she stuns her and puts her in the cellar with him. There she can overpower Katrina's henchman, who is killed by Gabe. In the kitchen, they fight and kill Katrina. Hannah and Gabe dig up the money again and enjoy their new wealth. While Kayla and her father are worried about their grandmother, Joshua contacts Kayla and orders her to the hotel, where he is holding Colleen. Kayla wants to trade in for her and promises to go with him. After they tie Colleen to the bed, Joshua sets the room on fire. Kayla's father finds her in time and can save her. At home, Kayla is surprised by Joshua that night and pushes him down the stairs, causing him to die.

season 2

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First published in the USA	German language first publication (D)	Director	script
11	1	-	The Curse	5th December 2019	September 1, 2020	Jeff T. Thomas	Kevin Williamson & Mary Leah Sutton
Attorney Maddie pays bail on her brother Jackson so the family can get together for the release party of Ashley's first album. Before the performance, her mother, Rebecca Jackson, fires. The party is a success, but when Ashley tries to get out of her car, it starts to burn. It can be pulled out just before a bomb goes off. She is released from the hospital three months later. She is disfigured with burn scars, but wears a mask on her face and other parts of her body. The former police officer Beau is assigned to her as a bodyguard. When he watches her practicing a song and trying out her voice, she throws him out. Ashley's fan Kyle burns himself with candles to be like her as he sings her song. Jackson runs into Simone Garland in the bar where he is performing after being fired and shows interest in her, but he's too drunk that she takes him home and leaves, leaving her bracelet. Maddie was happy with her fiancé, Tucker Reed, but now feels an estrangement on his part. The writer has trouble sleeping and writing. He becomes obsessed with Olivia Moon, who breaks in and lies down in her bed.
12	2	-	Writer's block	December 12, 2019	September 1, 2020	Solvan Naim	Steve Stringer
Ashley's new single is an instant hit once it's released, but feels reluctant to do promotional TV appearances and is mad at her mom and manager as a result. After walking with Beau, she decides to give a radio interview over the phone. A personal question overwhelms her emotionally so that she cannot finish the interview. Kyle approaches her assistant Susie with romantic advances. After ten years Simone returns home to her father's funeral. Her stepmother Veronica accuses her of only coming back for the money. Simone's godmother Cora expresses the suspicion that Veronica killed her father. Jackson seeks out Simone to bring the bracelet back to her and they have sex. Maddie doubts if she still wants to marry Tucker. He's spying on Olivia and wants her as inspiration for a book. He kidnaps her cat as an excuse to be able to approach her and drugged Olivia, whom he locked in a soundproof dungeon in his basement.
13	3	-	Family business	19th December 2019	September 1, 2020	Anne Hamilton	Sylvia L. Jones
Ashley anonymously receives a package with a message from Kyle and learns that threatening letters have been sent to her. Kyle spies on her and Beau and goes on a date with Susie, where she tells him she works for Ashley. Ashley drives off with Beau to the man who saved her and publicly thanks him. When Simone learns while the will is being read out that her father has left nothing for her, she accuses Veronica of having killed him and wants to contest the will. Veronica's sons try to cash out Simone, but she refuses and visits Jackson. After Olivia wakes up and yells for help, Tucker explains that he made sure nobody will miss her. He says she is safe as long as she follows the one rule of not trying to escape. While Tucker accompanies Maddie to a business party where they have sex, Olivia tries to escape anyway, but Tucker comes back in time. He pulls her outside to his rose gardens, under which he has already buried two young women, and threatens her with the fact that she could end up like that too.
14th	4th	-	Number One fan	December 26, 2019	September 1, 2020	David Grossman	Hollie Overton
Beau's father disapproves of the rapes between his son and Ashley. Kyle steals Susie's car and takes it to Ashley's house. He ties Susie and surprises Ashley, but asserts that he will not harm her. She struggles and runs away from him until Beau arrives and shoots him. Beau and Ashley kiss. Simone plans to find an original copy of her father's will and breaks into his office with Jackson, and they are caught. Veronica tells Jackson that Simone was in jail for fraud. On their father's laptop, Simone and Jackson find photos of Veronica with another man. Tucker explains to Olivia that he needs her to write, and she would need him too. He gets her to tell about her late ex-boyfriend Luke. Over dinner with Tucker's parents, they drop the name Maddie hadn't heard of Anna. Tucker drugged Olivia to sleep next to her. When Maddie comes home, he explains to her that Anna was his sister, who died as a child in an accident at the lake in front of the house.
15th	5	-	New Pages	January 2, 2020	September 1, 2020	Jeff T. Thomas	Treena Hancock & Melissa R. Byer
Ashley believes Kyle wasn't responsible for the car bomb, and Beau is supposed to find the real culprit for her, but Ken and Rebecca fire him for unprofessional behavior. He finds the real bomber on video of Kyle: Dillon Young. When he goes to see him with his father, Ken is shot. Simone and Jackson appear elegantly dressed at Veronica's fundraising gala to uncover their affair. After confronting Veronica, one of her stepbrothers attacks Simone, whereupon Jackson fights him. Shortly afterwards Simone disappeared and Jackson only finds her shoe on the stairs. Maddie finds a reference to Olivia, whom Tucker claims is a job placement assistant, but tells Brendan that Tucker is having an affair. Tucker names Olivia Anna, who then believes she should replace his sister. During a meeting between Tucker and Brendan, at which the latter expresses suspicion of the affair, Tucker sees on a live video recording how Olivia appears to be hanged. On the way back he is followed by Brendan. With his help, Olivia escapes when she attacks Tucker, but he takes Brendan prisoner in return.
16	6th	-	Lost and Found	January 9, 2020	September 1, 2020	Millicent Shelton	Mark Hudis
Beau is pulled off the case by Detective Roberts. While tracking down Dillan Young privately, he learns from him that he was hired by someone to plant the bomb in Ashley's car, but without giving the client's name, Young is shot by Roberts before he would have shot Beau . Jackson looks for Simone with Veronica's family and receives help from her stepbrother Derek, who is threatened by his brother Ron for this. He locked Simone in a family business warehouse to hand over to someone from North Carolina to whom she owes money. When this man comes and threatens her, Jackson shows up and saves her. Simone finds Cora murdered at home. Tucker chases after Olivia in the forest, who is injured in the process, and returns when he cannot find her. In the dungeon he kills Brendan. Olivia later reappears there and hits him in the head with an object. Flashbacks show that she also killed her friend Luke when he got violent. She chains Tucker like he did to her.
17th	7th	-	Thorns and All	January 16, 2020	September 1, 2020	Jeff T. Thomas	Mary Leah Sutton
A photo of Ashley and Beau spreads across the internet. Ashley learns from her doctor that the healing is going well and that she will soon be able to sing again. Insulting comments make her unsure whether a career is still possible where she is no longer beautiful, but her mother encourages her that talent and her music matter. That night she drives home to Beau Desperate for Cora's death, Simone leaves Jackson, who then starts drinking again. Simone is questioned by Detective Roberts until Maddie appears, who was hired by Veronica to replace Simone. She offers Simone to live with her and her sons and to form a family. Jackson shows up at Ashley and Rebecca's home drunk at night. When he is about to leave again, his mother stands in the way to prevent him from driving drunk, because that's how his father died. Tucker has visions of Anna and wakes up from his stupor. Olivia warns him not to flee. After injuring him, Tucker calls her crazy and realizes that she killed Luke, but tells her she wasn't a murderer because it was self defense. At home she tells her father over the phone that she has met someone. When Maddie tries to stop by Tucker's, Olivia forces him to break up with her by saying she was right about the affair. Tucker says Olivia is doing all of this because she is sick, while the same thing was a coping mechanism for him after his sister's death, whereupon she tells him that she killed others. She later watches and follows Maddie.
18th	8th	-	sweet Dreams	January 23, 2020	September 1, 2020	Kevin Tanchareon	Brian Millikin
Inspired by a fan story, Ashley wants to perform again, but her mother doesn't think she's ready and Beau doesn't think it's safe. Although she receives a threatening message in a package with two dead love birds , she plans her comeback with Damien. Detective Roberts warns Beau that the message means he, too, is in danger. Beau is hit by a car; the driver is obsessed with the Pruitts and has researched all of the members. After Rebecca worries about Jackson, Maddie finds him drunk in his apartment and talks to him about Simone. He later goes to his first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting . Veronica receives a visit from Clay Callaway, Simone's father's lawyer, with whom she is said to have had the affair. Simone arranges a meeting with him and confronts him with her suspicions in his office. As she leaves the building, Callaway falls off the roof. Olivia threatens Tucker Maddie to cooperate and drugged him. In his nightmares he relives the time after Anna's death. Olivia goes to her office by the name Rachel Maddie and goes to dinner with her, where she gets her to talk about Tucker. Maddie is alerted by Brendan's wife of his disappearance and made aware that he was last in contact with Tucker. In his house she meets "Rachel", who reveals to her that she is Olivia. She'll tell Maddie where Tucker is, but first she needs to know who he is.
19th	9	-	Favorite Son	January 30, 2020	September 1, 2020	Jeff T. Thomas	Treena Hancock & Melissa R. Byer
Ashley gives an interview to reporters to promote her gig and a new song. Taylor, who knocked Beau over, slips the car and evidence onto a friend of Dillan Young's, so that when Beau and Ashley are found and arrested, Beau and Ashley believe the danger is over. Jackson befriends Donna, an acquaintance of his father's, at Alcoholics Anonymous. Roberts questions Veronica about Callaway, who is accusing Simone. Because Derek suspects Ron of murdering Cora, Simone searches for evidence in his room. During an argument between the brothers, Derek reveals that he killed Simone's father and shoots Ron. After Olivia tells Maddie what Tucker did, she pushes her down the stairs and chains her too. She holds a therapy session with the two of them in which Tucker has to tell what happened to Brendan. Maddie realizes that his problems and actions stem from his sister's death and learns that he has already done the same to two other women. By breaking Tucker's thumb, he can strip off his ankle and break hers.
20th	10	-	Ever after	February 6, 2020	September 1, 2020	Jeff T. Thomas	Mark Hudis & Michael Peterson
When Donna, Taylor's mother, tries to stop them, the argument leads to Tyler accidentally killing Donna. Tyler goes into the audience for Ashley's appearance and after it is over tries to kidnap Ashley and Rebecca at gunpoint, revealing that she is a half-sister of the Pruitts from an affair of their father. Beau can get there in time and shoot Taylor, but is also hit himself. Through a mistake by Derek, Simone realizes that he wanted to accuse Ron of his actions. After going to Jackson and sharing her suspicions, Derek kidnaps him. Simone also lets Veronica in, who at first doesn't believe the revelations about her son. Nevertheless, she follows Simone to the meeting point, where she finally calls the police and delivers her son. As a reconciliation, she announces Simone to leave the business to her. While Olivia spills gasoline and sets the basement on fire, Maddie is able to remove the grille from the window and climb outside, where Olivia intercepts her. In a fight by the lake, both women fall into it. Maddie can appear again, but Olivia also pulls Tucker in, who apparently drowns her underwater and is brought back up by Maddie. He survives in the hospital but does not wake up due to brain damage and is trapped in a repetitive dream about his dead sister. Maddie finds roses that Olivia brought in in the hospital room.

Cast and dubbing

As an anthology series , Tell Me a Story has a changing cast every season. Only Danielle Campbell and Paul Wesley returned in other roles in the second season.

season 1

role	description	Fairy tale equivalent		actor	Voice actor
Jordan Evans	vengeful widower	wolf	The three Little Pigs	James Wolk	Florian Hoffmann
Sam Reynolds	criminal policeman	Pigs		Dorian Missick	Johann Fohl
Mitch Longo	Eddie's older brother			Michael Raymond-James	Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Eddie Longo	indebted bartender			Paul Wesley	Tommy Morgenstern
Beth Miller	Jordan's dead fiancée			Spencer Grammer	Ilona Brokowski
Carla	Eddie's girlfriend			Justine Cotsonas	Patrizia Carlucci
Shelley	Mitch's wife			Tonya Shine	Sandrine Mittelstädt
Marianna Reynolds	Sam's wife			Simone Missick	Tina Haseney
Renee Garcia	policewoman			Zabryna Guevara	Daniela Thuar
Gabe Perez	drug addicted go-go dancer	Hansel	Hansel and Gretel	Davi Santos	Karim El Kammouchi
Hannah Perez	Veteran	Gretel		Dania Ramirez	Carolina Vera
Madeline Winston	Gabes and Hannah's mother	parents		Polly Draper	Juana-Maria von Jascheroff
Richard Winston	Madeline's husband	parents		David Andrews	Frank Röth
Katrina Thorne	Hotel manager	witch		Becki Newton	Laura Preiss
Billy	Gabe's friend			Luke Guldan	Jeremias Koschorz
Terry Mitchell	Hannah's friend			Kurt Yaeger	Robert Glatzeder
Esther Thorne	Katrina's mother			Debra Monk	Karin David
Nick / Joshua Sullivan	substitute teacher	wolf	Little Red Riding Hood	Billy Magnussen	Amadeus Strobl
Kayla Powell	Nick's affair	Little Red Riding Hood		Danielle Campbell	Friedel Morgenstern
Tim Powell	Kayla's father	Mother / hunter		Sam Jaeger	Peter Lontzek
Colleen Powell	Kayla's grandmother	grandmother		Kim Cattrall	Katarina Tomaschewsky
Laney Reed	Kayla's girlfriend			Paulina Singer	Lea Kalbhenn
Ethan Davies	Laney's friend			Rarmian Newton	Sebastian Kluckert

season 2

role	description	Fairy tale equivalent		actor	synchronization
Rebecca Pruitt	Matriarch of the family	king		Carrie-Anne Moss	Martina Treger
Ashley Rose Pruitt	disfigured country singer	beast	Beauty and the Beast	Natalie Alyn Lind	Laura Elßel
Beau Morris	Ashley's bodyguards	the beautiful		Eka Darville	Tobias Schmidt
Ken Morris	Beau's father	Merchant		Evan Parke	Oliver Siebeck
Susie	Ashley's assistant			Kathryn Prescott	Josefin Hagen
Damien Hewett	Ashley's manager			Phillip Rhys	Matthias Deutelmoser
Kyle Verafield	obsessive fan			Casey Thomas Brown	Tim Schwarzmaier
Taylor Conroy	Half sister of the Pruitts			Audrey Corsa	Maximiliane Häcke
Gwen Roberts	policewoman			Felisha Terrell	Tanya Kahana
Jackson Pruitt	black sheep of the family	prince	Cinderella	Matt Lauria	Ozan Unal
Simone Garland	Jackson's new girlfriend	Cinderella		Ashley Madekwe	Ann have a lot
Veronica Garland	Simone's stepmother	Stepmother		Garcelle Beauvais	Marion Musiol
Ron Garland	Veronica's sons	Stepsisters		Caleb Castille	Leonard Hohm
Derek Garland	Veronica's sons	Stepsisters		Christopher Meyer	Bastian Sierich
Cora	Simone's godmother	good fairy		Julia Campbell	Susanne von Medvey
Donna Kading	Jackson's acquaintance at AA			Karina Logue	Alexandra Wilcke
Maddie Pruitt	Lawyer	prince	sleeping Beauty	Odette Annable	Sarah Riedel
Tucker Reed	Author, Maddie's fiance	evil fairy / sleeping beauty		Paul Wesley	Tommy Morgenstern
Olivia Moon	Tucker's prisoners	Sleeping Beauty / Evil Fairy		Danielle Campbell	Friedel Morgenstern
Brendan	Maddie's colleague			Harry Shum Jr.	Michael Ernst

music

In the second season, Natalie Alyn Lind sings as Ashley Rose excerpts from three songs that were written for the series. On February 6, 2020, the soundtrack of the season with full versions of the three songs, sung by Lind, was digitally released via the Kapital Entertainment label.

Tell Me a Story (Season 2) (Original Series Soundtrack)
No.	title	Songwriter	Excerpt can be heard in	length
1.	Wash you away	Micah Kuiper, Cindy Morgan and Raquel Warchol	Episode 2.01	2:52
2.	Nobody Knows	Roger Campbell, Kirsten Arian Curry and Angela Lauer	Episode 2.01	2:59
3.	I'm Not the Same as I Used to Be	Alexa Lusader	Episode 2.10	3:00
Overall length:				09:00

Promotion and publication

On November 30, 2017 it was announced that CBS All Access had secured the rights to Kevin Williamson's project in the race with other streaming platforms and had ordered a series based on the Spanish television series Cuéntame un cuento . Back then it was still called, the first season will next Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood still Jack and the Beanstalk will implement. The series, written by Williamson, was produced by Aaron Kaplan's company, Kapital Entertainment. In May 2018, when Billy Magnussen was announced as the main actor and Liz Friedlander as the director of the first episodes, it became known for the first time that the third adapted fairy tale was Hansel and Gretel . A first "sneak peek" of material was shown at the San Diego Comic-Con International on July 19, when Williamson and lead actors Paul Wesley and James Wolk appeared. On August 6, the Television Critics Association's press tour announced Halloween as the launch date with a new trailer . Another trailer was shown at New York Comic Con on October 5th. The series premiered on October 23 at the Metrograph Theater in New York City . The season was released on CBS All Access starting October 31, 2018.

On December 17, 2018, the series was extended for a second season. On June 12, 2019, in addition to the return of Paul Wesley, it was announced which fairy tales will be covered in the second season. A trailer was released on October 3, the season from December 5, 2019.

Williamson planned, if the series was extended for another season, next to implement the fairy tales Snow White , Hans and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel . In May 2020 it was announced that the streaming service CBS All Access would not continue the series beyond the two seasons; but also that the TV station The CW bought the two seasons. The first season has been broadcast there since July 28th.

On April 1st, 2020 it was announced that the first season would be released on May 1st on TVNOW . The second season followed on September 1, 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Tell Me a Story Season 2 Soundtrack . Retrieved April 8, 2020.
↑ Nellie Andreeva: CBS All Access Orders 'Tell Me A Story' Dark Fairytale Thriller Series From Kevin Williamson & Kapital Entertainment . In: Deadline . November 30, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
↑ Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski: 'Tell Me A Story': Billy Magnussen To Star In CBS All Access Thriller Series; Liz Friedlander To Direct . In: Deadline . May 9, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
↑ Comic-Con 2018 TV Schedule: When Are Your Favorite Shows Taking Over San Diego? . In: Variety . June 25, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
↑ First trailer for 'Tell Me a Story' sexes up your favorite fairy tales . In: Collider . Dave Trumbore. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
↑ Michael Ausiello: Tell Me a Story Trailer: Fairy Tales Come to Life in CBS All Access' Creepy Thriller . In: TV Line . October 5, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
↑ 'Tell Me A Story' Red Carpet Premiere Recap . In: CBS Local . October 24, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
↑ Rick Porter: 'Tell Me a Story' Renewed for Season 2 on CBS All Access . In: Hollywood Reporter . December 17, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
^ Lesley Goldberg: Paul Wesley to Lead Season 2 of 'Tell Me a Story' for CBS All Access . In: Hollywood Reporter . June 12, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
↑ Michael Ausellio: Tell Me a Story Season 2 Trailer Offers First Look at Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty . In: TV Line . October 3, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
↑ Meredith Jacobs: 'Tell Me a Story' Boss Breaks Down the Season 2 Finale: Who Got a Happily Ever After? . In: TV Insider . February 6, 2020. Accessed April 7, 2020.
↑ Bernd Krannich: Upfronts 2020: The CW is preparing to wait and see with purchases . In: Fernsehserien.de . May 12, 2020. Accessed May 13, 2020.
^ Paul Dailly: The CW Moves Up Tell Me a Story, Coroner Premieres to Summer . In: TVFanatic . June 17, 2020. Accessed July 15, 2020.
↑ Reference error : Invalid <ref>tag; no text given for itemization with the name TVNOW .

↑ Glenn Riedmeier: TVNOW: Second "Tell Me A Story" season and "Miss Scarlet and the Duke" . In: fernsehserien.de . August 6, 2020. Retrieved August 6, 2020.

[1] Tell Me a Story Season 2 Soundtrack . Retrieved April 8, 2020.

[2] Nellie Andreeva: CBS All Access Orders 'Tell Me A Story' Dark Fairytale Thriller Series From Kevin Williamson & Kapital Entertainment . In: Deadline . November 30, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2020.

[3] Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski: 'Tell Me A Story': Billy Magnussen To Star In CBS All Access Thriller Series; Liz Friedlander To Direct . In: Deadline . May 9, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2020.

[4] Comic-Con 2018 TV Schedule: When Are Your Favorite Shows Taking Over San Diego? . In: Variety . June 25, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2020.

[5] First trailer for 'Tell Me a Story' sexes up your favorite fairy tales . In: Collider . Dave Trumbore. Retrieved August 6, 2018.

[6] Michael Ausiello: Tell Me a Story Trailer: Fairy Tales Come to Life in CBS All Access' Creepy Thriller . In: TV Line . October 5, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2020.

[7] 'Tell Me A Story' Red Carpet Premiere Recap . In: CBS Local . October 24, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2020.

[8] Rick Porter: 'Tell Me a Story' Renewed for Season 2 on CBS All Access . In: Hollywood Reporter . December 17, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2020.

[9] Lesley Goldberg: Paul Wesley to Lead Season 2 of 'Tell Me a Story' for CBS All Access . In: Hollywood Reporter . June 12, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2020.

[10] Michael Ausellio: Tell Me a Story Season 2 Trailer Offers First Look at Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty . In: TV Line . October 3, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2020.

[11] Meredith Jacobs: 'Tell Me a Story' Boss Breaks Down the Season 2 Finale: Who Got a Happily Ever After? . In: TV Insider . February 6, 2020. Accessed April 7, 2020.

[12] Bernd Krannich: Upfronts 2020: The CW is preparing to wait and see with purchases . In: Fernsehserien.de . May 12, 2020. Accessed May 13, 2020.

[13] Paul Dailly: The CW Moves Up Tell Me a Story, Coroner Premieres to Summer . In: TVFanatic . June 17, 2020. Accessed July 15, 2020.

[TVNOW-14] Reference error : Invalid <ref>tag; no text given for itemization with the name TVNOW .

[15] Glenn Riedmeier: TVNOW: Second "Tell Me A Story" season and "Miss Scarlet and the Duke" . In: fernsehserien.de . August 6, 2020. Retrieved August 6, 2020.