By Fred Topel/July 29, 2018 10:00 am EST
The Future of Transparent
“We’re going to give the Transparent fans the closure they and we long for and do what’s right by those fans,” Salke said. “We would only want to behave that way so we’re excited what [Transparent creator Jill Soloway]’s come up with creatively. I was going to try to accelerate some sort of news about this but we couldn’t get it done in time. I really want Jill to be able to own that space.”
“We are planning a season five of the show,” Salke said. “What form it takes we haven’t quite announced yet. We know exactly what it is creatively. We were with Jill this week. Jill came in with what [they’re] excited about beyond Transparent. In the next week or two you’ll hear more about what that is, all good.”
Lena Waithe’s Horror Anthology Series
The first season even has a subtitle, Them: Covenant. In the first season, an African-American family named the Emorys move into a neighborhood “where malevolent forces supernatural and humor threaten to destroy them.”
After her success on Netflix’s Master of None, Waithe created Showtime’s series The Chi, which is also returning for a second season. She also wrote the landmark Master of None episode “Thanksgiving.”
The Romanoffs, Upload, The Expatriates, and More
For those who are quickly bored by a scrolling list of names, the cast includes Kerry Bishe, Cara Buono, Clea Duvall, Griffin Dunne, Jay R. Ferguson, Kathryn Hahn, Ron Livingston, Ben Miles, Radha Mitchell, Michael O’Neil, Mary Kay Place, Jon Tenney, Noah Wyle, Aaron Eckhart, JJ Field, Christina Hendricks, Isabelle Huppert, Jack Huston, Marthe Keller, Diane Lane, Janet Montgomery, Amanda Peet, Andrew Rannells, Paul Reiser, John Slattery, and Cory Stoll.
Daniels and Klein worked together on The Office and Parks and Recreation. Upload joins The Office alum Mike Schur’s The Good Place in the afterlife comedy arena.
In addition, Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films has also sold the project The Expatriates, based on the novel by Janice Y.K. Lee.
“We’re giving a series order to The Expatriates,” Salke said. “[It is] equal parts humor and drama as we explore an ensemble of complex women living in an expat community in Hong Kong.”
Alice Bell is writing the Expatriates adaptation. The book was a New York Times bestseller and here’s the official synopsis:
Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she believes could save her foundering marriage. Meanwhile, Margaret, once a happily married mother of three, questions her maternal identity in the wake of a shattering loss. As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all.
We’ll just have to wait to find out what that project actually is, just as we’re all waiting to see Avengers 4.
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