Netflix Lands Lena Dunham Spy Drama ‘Covers’ From Creative Engine & Fifth Season
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Another high-profile post-strike TV package has found a buyer. In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, Netflix has nabbed Covers, a drama from Girls creator Lena Dunham, who is set to write, direct and executive produce under her Good Thing Going banner; Drew Comins’ Creative Engine Entertainment (Yellowjackets); and Fifth Season, sources tell Deadline.
No one is commenting but I hear the premium development commitment involves a 20-week writers room to pen an entire season worth of scripts.
Staffing is currently underway with an eye toward opening the room in the spring, sources said. Inspired by real events, Covers poses the question, what if university life – the hard-partying, test-cramming, hookup-regretting reality of a college student – was actually a ruse for a more complex identity, one that no one would suspect – as intelligence officers working covertly for MI6?
Or, to put it bluntly, spies. The heroes of Covers are clandestine officials relying on their day jobs as the 21-year-old elites of Oxford University.
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