‘Newlyweds’: Real-Life Spouses Téa Leoni & Tim Daly on Working Together for NBC’s New Comedy

It’s not every day that spouses go to work together, but this isn’t Téa Leoni and Tim Daly‘s first rodeo in that regard as they gear up for NBC‘s new comedy Newlyweds.

After previously collaborating on CBS‘s former drama Madam Secretary, the performers and real-life loves are reuniting to play Jeanie and James, a free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up professor who embark on a whirlwind romance and marriage. But were they cast together to begin with? That was a question posed to the stars during NBC’s backlot presentation for the series on Monday (August 10).

“We were kind of sniffing around to play together again,” Leoni admitted. The star added, “We had a lot of fun on Madam Secretary, and I don’t know. The world got darker, and we wanted to get lighter. We sort of thought we’ve done this, this particular medium, and loved it, and we wanted to spend our days together.”