Yahoo Lifestyle Lena Dunham Strikes Deal With Netflix
Lena Dunham is getting into business with Netflix.
The Girls auteur has struck a first-look deal with the streamer for TV series via her indie Good Thing Going (GTG). She previously had a similar arrangement in place with HBO.
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“Lena’s authenticity and singular voice have redefined storytelling for this generation,” said Netflix VP Drama Series Jinny Howe. “She’s a creative powerhouse, weaving together complex and nuanced narratives that are as thought-provoking as they are entertaining.”
Dunham is the creator of HBO smash Girls, for which she won two Golden Globes. Other credits include Tiny Furniture (2010), Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy, while she directed an episode of BBC-HBO hit Industry. She launched GTG in 2018 under the auspices of her HBO deal, and she runs GTG with producing partner Michael P. Cohen.
‘Too Much’
Dunham said she and Netflix have been “aligned on vision” since they first started chatting. She was on stage yesterday at the Next on Netflix event in London – where she lives with her husband Luis Felber – speaking about her new Netflix series Too Much, which pre-dates the first-look deal with the streamer.
Too Much, which Dunham has co-created with Felber, written, directed and EPd, follows Jessica (Megan Stalter), a New York workaholic in her mid-thirties, reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows. When every block in New York tells a story of her own bad behaviour, the only solution is to take a job in London. When she meets Felix (Will Sharpe) — a walking series of red flags — she finds that their unusual connection is impossible to ignore. Richard E. Grant, Adele Exarchopoulos, Andrew Scott and Stephen Fry also feature. Too Much is EPd by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Michael P. Cohen, Surian Fletcher-Jones and Bruce Eric Kaplan.
Dunham is a huge fan of the UK. She revealed last night she has just received her five-year Visa and joked about cultural differences.
“When I first showed up to my first UK job which was in Wales and greeted everyone with an enthusiastic hug, they looked at me like I was trying to pull one over on them, like I was potentially a spy who was trying to get them to trust me,” she joked. “It really took a second for them to understand that, I just like hugging.”
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