EXCLUSIVE: HBO may have found their next murder mystery limited series obsession. In a competitive situation, the premium network, partnered with Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Endeavor Content, have landed the rights to Australian comedian and author Benjamin Stevenson’s new novel, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone.
It will be developed as a limited series.Over the past few years, HBO has found commercial and critical success with unconventional murder mystery limited series, starting with Big Little Lies (which originated as a limited series), followed by The Undoing, Mare Of Easttown and The White Lotus.
Papandrea was an executive producer on both Big Little Lies, which won eight Emmy Awards, and The Undoing, HBO’s most watched series of 2020.In Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, three years ago, when teacher Ernie Cunningham witnessed his brother Michael kill someone, he immediately turned him in to the police.
Shunned by his well-known criminal family for this betrayal, they have now invited him to a reunion at a snowbound mountain retreat.
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