EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is just not continuing with Downforce, opting to not decide up the comedy pilot starring Eve Hewson and Murray Bartlett to collection, sources inform Deadline.
From writers Alec Berg and Adam Countee, Downforce follows Victoria (Hewson), the estranged daughter of a storied racing group’s proprietor, Sir Trevor (Bartlett), who’s thrust again into the household enterprise, leaving the pair to search out widespread floor or danger destroying the group’s legacy.
The solid additionally consists of Harry Delano (Freud’s Last Session), Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen), Amar Chadha-Patel (The Decameron) and Arturo Del Puerto (For All Mankind).
The challenge, a dream pairing of two in-demand actors in The Perfect Couple and Bad Sisters’ Hewson and The White Lotus and The Last Of Us‘ Bartlett to collection, originated on the now defunct ABC Signature the place Berg and Countee had been below general offers. The banner was folded into sibling twentieth Television in October.
Hulu’s different comedy pilot, Phony, starring Connie Britton, stays in competition. As Deadline reported earlier immediately, the Disney streamer is nearing a drama pilot order to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Berg directed the Downforce pilot, which he govt produced with Countee, Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey for Temple Hill, Daniel Ricciardo, Amy Solomon and Lionsgate.
Murray will nonetheless be on Hulu; he stars within the upcoming second season of the streamer’s anthology collection Nine Perfect Strangers reverse Nicole Kidman. He acquired an Emmy nomination for Hulu’s collection Welcome To Chippendales. (He additionally was nominated for The Last of Us and received an Emmy for The White Lotus.)