Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer are teaming up to kick some butt together on TV.
The two actors have signed on to star in an action-adventure series based on an original idea by exec producer Tessa Coates (“Feel Good,” “Ladhood”) for Amazon’s Prime Video.
Skydance Television is behind the show, along with Andy and Barbara Muschietti’s Double Dream shingle and Spencer’s Orit Entertainment (which has a first-look deal with Skydance; this is the first project to come out of that pact).
The untitled series will produce eight episodes for Prime Video across the world. Given the star power attached, the project was the subject of a major bidding war — it’s believed that at least six streamers made offers, with four buying the show in the room, until it landed at Amazon.
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