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Another heated bidding warfare has been won by Netflix pinch a straight-to-series order. The streamer’s latest high-profile bargain is Lovesick, a romanticist play starring and executive produced by Emmy victor Claire Danes (The Beast In Me, Homeland).
Written and executive produced by Sarah Treem (The Affair, House of Cards), who will service arsenic showrunner, Lovesick is based connected nan 2024 Israeli bid of nan aforesaid name, aka The Best Worst Thing (Choley Ahava), created by Rona Tamir, Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon for Israeli TV transmission Keshet 12. Universal Television, a section of Universal Studio Group, and Keshet Studios, nan U.S. accumulation limb of format proprietor Keshet International, are producing.
Lovesick is described arsenic a sweeping, modern romanticist epic that follows nan aggravated matter betwixt 2 group whose lives unexpectedly intertwine. Annika (Danes), a renowned bosom crab surgeon, has conscionable received her ain crab diagnosis. Her caller patient, Nate, is simply a promising politician. The bid explores their interwoven lives, delving into themes of love, sex, illness, death, family, children, health, medicine, and nan meaning of life — each while Annika is simultaneously undergoing bosom crab treatment.
Treem and Danes executive nutrient alongside Keshet’s Avi Nir (Homeland, Our Boys) and Keren Shahar (Unconditional, Total Control) arsenic good arsenic erstwhile Keshet Studios President Peter Traugott (Echo 3, La Brea). The task stems from Keshet Studios’ decade-long tenure astatine Universal Television nether a drawstring of first-look deals; nan institution is now processing projects for Sony Pictures Television nether nan first-look pact genitor Keshet International recently signed there.
“I’m thrilled to get to show this communicative pinch nan genius, Claire Danes. We’ve been looking for thing to do together for a very agelong clip and this character, Annika, is possibly a operation of some of our wildest dreams,” Treem said. “To get to show a communicative astir each nan things keeping maine up astatine nighttime anyhow — life, death, children, love, middle-age, courage, subject and religion — is an bonzer opportunity I don’t return lightly successful these turbulent times. We’re very grateful to Netflix for this important committedness and we cannot hold to get going.”
This is nan latest competitory TV task to spell to Netflix complete nan past respective months arsenic nan streamer has been aggressively filling its pipeline. A number of them Netflix won pinch straight-to-series orders, including Rabbit, Rabbit starring Adam Driver; The Corrections pinch Meryl Streep; So Far Gone, from writer Mark Bomback; Joshua Zetumer’s spec Pagans; Black Hole, based connected Charles Burns’ schematic novels; and Trigger Point, starring Joel Edgerton.
At Netflix, Universal Television besides has drama bid A Man On nan Inside and Four Seasons.
Danes is coming disconnected her starring domiciled other Mathew Rhys successful nan Netflix constricted bid The Beast In Me, which earned her a seventh Golden Globe information and an 11th Actor nomination. She has won 3 Emmys and 3 Golden Globes, for nan HBO movie Temple Grandin and 2 for nan Showtime bid Homeland, as good arsenic different Golden Globe for her breakthrough capacity successful My So-Called Life. Danes, who antecedently worked pinch Keshet connected Homeland, besides based connected an Israeli format, is repped by Michael Aglion astatine Signpost Management, WME and Ziffren Brittenham.
Treem is creator, executive shaper and showrunner connected nan upcoming FX constricted bid Cry Wolf, inspired by nan Danish format Ulven Kommer, which stars Olivia Colman and Brie Larson. Treem co-created and showran nan Showtime series The Affair, which ran for 5 seasons and won a Golden Globe for Best Drama series. Her resume includes writer-producer stints connected Netflix’s House Of Cards and HBO’s original loop of In Treatment. Treem is repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
