Lena Dunham and Netflix Make It Official

Lena Dunham and Netflix Make It Official
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Netflix is getting Too Much—and plenty more—from Lena Dunham. The Girls creator has signed an exclusive first-look deal with the streamer to develop new projects through her production company, Good Thing Going. The announcement comes ahead of Dunham’s first Netflix series, Too Much, set to premiere later this year.

Created by Dunham and her husband, musician Luis Felber, Too Much draws from Dunham’s own experience moving to the U.K. The 10-episode romantic comedy stars Hacks scene-stealer Megan Stalter as Jessica, a workaholic 30-something New Yorker who moves to London after a bad breakup. There, she meets Felix (The White Lotus’ Will Sharpe), described as “less Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and more Hugh Grant’s drunken roommate.” Picture Adam in season 1 of Girls, but with even more red flags.  

The show’s supporting cast is absolutely stacked, and includes Rita Wilson, Stephen Fry, Emily Ratajkowski, Richard E. Grant, Michael Zegan, Janicza Bravo, Leo Reich, Daisy Bevan, Adele Exarchopoulos, Dean-Charles Chapman, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Andrew Rannells, Rhea Perlman, Kaori Momoi and Adwoa Aboah. Dunham and Felber serve as executive producers, alongside Michael P. Cohen, Surian Fletcher-Jones and Girls alum Bruce Eric Kaplan. Rom-com legends Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, whose credits include Bridget Jones’s Diary, French Kiss and Love Actually, are also involved. Camilla Bray is producing, with Felber providing original music.

We’re about to see a lot more from Dunham with this deal. Welcome back, Hannah Horvath!

 
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