‘Dead Hot’: Amazon Prime Video Greenlights UK Comedy-Thriller From ‘It’s A Sin’ EP Nicola Shindler & ‘Stay Close’ Scribe Charlotte Coben
deadline.comAmazon Prime Video has greenlit a UK comedy-thriller from It’s A Sin EP Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street and Stay Close scribe Charlotte Coben.
Dead Hot will star recent breakouts Bilal Hasna (Extraordinary) and Vivan Oparah (Rye Lane) as protagonists Elliot and Jess, while Penelope Wilton and Peter Serafinowicz have also boarded.
It will launch next year on Prime Video in the UK and Ireland and be sold internationally by ITV Studios. Show is set in present-day Liverpool, where twentysomethings Elliot and Jess are best friends united by a bond of grief at losing Peter—the first and only love of Elliot and Jess’ twin brother.
When Elliot meets Will, he starts to think he can put the past behind him, but when Elliot learns Will has his own dark secrets, just as Jess is contacted by somebody claiming to be her brother, it sets into motion a determination for the pair to find out if Elliot’s romantically cursed—or being targeted.
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