EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Horgan‘s followup to Dangerous Sisters shall be for HBO. The WBD community has signed a two-year first-look TV take care of the BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated actor, author and producer and her manufacturing firm Merman. Below the pact, which started this month, HBO has given a straight-to-series order for a brand new authentic comedy collection, with Horgan serving as author, star, and govt producer.
The yet-untitled half-hour, produced by Merman, follows a 50-year-old divorcee’s (Horgan) seek for intercourse and love while juggling caring for her ailing dad and mom and parenting her should-be grown up son.
This marks a return to HBO for Horgan who created and govt produced the community’s 2016 comedy collection Divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, which ran for 3 seasons.
“We’re thrilled to be reunited with Sharon,” Amy Gravitt, EVP, HBO & Max Comedy Programming, mentioned. “Her willingness to supply up her personal experiences by way of the characters she creates makes us all really feel rather less lonely, that’s what units her comedy aside so brilliantly. She additionally has such a pointy eye for materials and a powerful want to shepherd different folks’s tales, we’re trying ahead to the brand new expertise she’s going to carry into the fold.”
Horgan is shifting to HBO from Apple the place she had a first-look deal. Her collection there, the Peabody and BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated Dangerous Sisters, which she co-developed, govt produces, showruns and stars in, wrapped its second season run in December. Its future is unclear, with renewal discussions underway.
HBO additionally has arising Richard Gadd’s subsequent collection after his Emmy-winning Netflix collection Child Reindeer, Half Man, and Tim Robinson’s followup to his Emmy-winning Netflix present I Assume You Ought to Depart with Tim Robinson, The Chair Firm.
Like Robinson’s The Chair Firm and the upcoming Rachel Sennott half-hour, the Sharon Horgan collection is a starring automobile for its creator. HBO, which has been replenishing its comedy roster, has constructed a slate of high-profile new collection that additionally features a Invoice Lawrence comedy starring Steve Carell and a challenge from the Hacks creators headlined by Kaley Cuoco.
Horgan has moved between comedy and drama all through her profession thus far, which additionally contains creating and starring in such collection as Pulling, Disaster, Motherland and spinoff Amandaland.. She has obtained Emmy nominations for Excellent Writing for a Comedy Sequence for Disaster in addition to Lead Actress in a Drama Sequence, and Excellent Writing for a Drama Sequence for Dangerous Sisters.
“I’m so comfortable to as soon as once more be working with Casey, Amy, Francesca and the crew at HBO, and actually excited that Merman get to proceed to inform tales for a corporation that’s been residence to a number of the most iconic tv exhibits ever created,” Horgan mentioned, acknowledging HBO and Max Content material CEO Casey Bloys in addition to HBO’s head of drama Francesca Orsi.
Horgan is repped by United Brokers within the UK and WME within the U.S., and Nelson Davis.
