
Lena Dunham to shoot a Netflix romcom in the UK
Too Much stars Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe
Girls creator Lena Dunham is to shoot a new romcom series in the UK, starring US comic Megan Stalter and White Lotus actor Will Sharpe.
Dunham created the new Netflix series Too Much with her English-Peruvian husband Luis Felber, who will also write original music for the show.
Stalter – a series regular in Hacks who performed a solo show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe - stars as Jessica, a New York workaholic in her mid-thirties, reeling from a broken relationship.
Her solution is to take a job in London where she plans to live a life of solitude but instead meets Felix, described as ‘less Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and more Hugh Grant's drunken roommate’.
The show – described as ‘an expat romcom for the disillusioned who wonder if true love is still possible, but sincerely hope that it is’ – is being made by the television arm of Working Title productions, whose romcom credits include Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones’s Diary.
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Dunham, above, said: ‘This is a show that is very close to my heart – created with my husband Luis, cast with my favourite actors – the geniuses that are Meg and Will, along with a bevy of friends – and partnering again with Working Title, who are behind the romantic comedies that formed me.
‘Netflix has been so deeply supportive of the vision, which is to create a romantic comedy that makes us root for love, brings joy but also has the jagged edges of life.’
Sharpe came to prominence for creating the Channel 4 comedy-drama Flowers and went on to star in the BBC Two comedy Defending the Guilty and thriller Giri/Haji.
Production will begin on Too Much next year
Published: 12 Dec 2023