EXCLUSIVE: Another high-profile post-strike TV bundle has discovered a purchaser. In a aggressive state of affairs with a number of bidders, Netflix has nabbed Covers, a drama from Girls creator Lena Dunham, who is ready to jot down, direct and govt produce beneath her Good Thing Going banner; Drew Comins’ Creative Engine Entertainment (Yellowjackets); and Fifth Season, sources inform Deadline.
No one is commenting however I hear the premium improvement dedication includes a 20-week writers room to pen a whole season value of scripts. Staffing is at present underway with an eye fixed towards opening the room within the spring, sources mentioned.
Inspired by actual occasions, Covers poses the query, what if college life – the hard-partying, test-cramming, hookup-regretting actuality of a school scholar – was truly a ruse for a extra advanced identification, one which nobody would suspect – as intelligence officers working covertly for MI6? Or, to place it bluntly, spies.
The heroes of Covers are clandestine officers counting on their day jobs because the 21-year-old elites of Oxford University. Taking us into the toughest to infiltrate boardrooms and bedrooms, our spies will search not just for solutions, however for identification and affirmation in a job the place identification switches as rapidly as an outfit change from class to membership.
If Covers goes to sequence, it will be filmed in London the place Dunham is at present prepping her upcoming Netflix rom-com sequence Too Much starring Megan Stalter & Will Sharpe.
Comins additionally has an current enterprise at Netflix, a TV sequence within the works based mostly on Adam Silvera’s No. 1 NY Times bestselling YA novel They Both Die At the End, from Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen, with music celebrity Bad Bunny govt producing.
The streamer has been open for enterprise following the double Hollywood strike, actively taking in pitches and making gives. It simply landed The Four Seasons, a comedy co-created, govt produced by and starring Tina Fey.
Dunham and Michael Cohen are anticipated to govt produce for Good Thing Going, Comins is exec producing for his Creative Engine Entertainment. Fifth Season is the studio.
This marks the primary collaboration for Dunham and Comins who’ve related sensibilities having each shepherd a provocative younger feminine ensemble sequence with Dunham’s HBO comedy Girls, which she created, govt produced and starred in, and Showtime’s drama Yellowjackets, which Comins govt produces. The latter’s most up-to-date second season was nominated for 3 Emmys, together with Outstanding Drama Series, with Season 3 anticipated to start out manufacturing quickly.
Creative Engine and Fifth Season additionally lately took out The Holdovers, starring and govt produced by Amy Adams, which garnered a number of gives.
On the function facet, Dunham most lately co-wrote and directed Catherine Called Birdy. She is repped by CAA, ID Public Relations, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
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