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EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is not proceeding with Downforce, opting not to pick up the comedy pilot starring Eve Hewson and Murray Bartlett to series, sources tell Deadline.
From writers Alec Berg and Adam Countee, Downforce follows Victoria (Hewson), the estranged daughter of a storied racing team’s owner, Sir Trevor (Bartlett), who is thrust back into the family business, leaving the pair to find common ground or risk destroying the team’s legacy.
The cast also includes Harry Delano (Freud’s Last Session), Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen), Amar Chadha-Patel (The Decameron) and Arturo Del Puerto (For All Mankind).
The project, a dream pairing of two in-demand actors in The Perfect Couple and Bad Sisters’ Hewson and The White Lotus and The Last Of Us‘ Bartlett to series, originated at the now defunct ABC Signature where Berg and Countee had been under overall deals. The banner was folded into sibling 20th Television in October.
Hulu’s other comedy pilot, Phony, starring Connie Britton, remains in contention. As Deadline reported earlier today, the Disney streamer is nearing a drama pilot order to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Berg directed the Downforce pilot, which he executive produced with Countee, Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey for Temple Hill, Daniel Ricciardo, Amy Solomon and Lionsgate.
Murray will still be on Hulu; he stars in the upcoming second season of the streamer’s anthology series Nine Perfect Strangers opposite Nicole Kidman. He received an Emmy nomination for Hulu’s series Welcome To Chippendales. (He also was nominated for The Last of Us and won an Emmy for The White Lotus.)
