EXCLUSIVE: Another high-profile post-strike TV package deal 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 about to put in writing, direct and government produce underneath 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 entails a 20-week writers room to pen a complete season price of scripts. Staffing is presently underway with an eye fixed towards opening the room within the spring, sources stated.
Inspired by actual occasions, Covers poses the query, what if college life – the hard-partying, test-cramming, hookup-regretting actuality of a faculty scholar – was truly a ruse for a extra complicated 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 shortly as an outfit change from class to membership.
If Covers goes to sequence, it will be filmed in London the place Dunham is presently prepping her upcoming Netflix rom-com sequence Too Much starring Megan Stalter & Will Sharpe.
Comins additionally has an present enterprise at Netflix, a TV sequence within the works primarily based 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 famous person Bad Bunny government producing.
The streamer has been open for enterprise following the double Hollywood strike, actively taking in pitches and making provides. It simply landed The Four Seasons, a comedy co-created, government produced by and starring Tina Fey.
Dunham and Michael Cohen are anticipated to government 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, government produced and starred in, and Showtime’s drama Yellowjackets, which Comins government 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 just lately took out The Holdovers, starring and government produced by Amy Adams, which garnered a number of provides.
On the characteristic aspect, Dunham most just lately co-wrote and directed Catherine Called Birdy. She is repped by CAA, ID Public Relations, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.