Having explored the sexcapades of Regency England and the scams and lies of Anna Delvey, Shonda Rhimes is popping her consideration to foul play on the White Home. The girl behind “Bridgerton” and “Inventing Anna” has a brand new present within the works at Netflix. In response to The Hollywood Reporter, the streamer has ordered eight-episode homicide thriller “The Residence” to sequence. Rhimes and her producing companion Betsy Beers are govt producing.
The venture will use Kate Anderson Brower’s ebook “The Residence: Contained in the Non-public World of the White Home” as “a leaping off level.” Revealed in 2015, the non-fiction bestseller shares the tales of the White Home residence workers who labored in the course of the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama administrations.
“The Residence” is being produced by Netflix as a part of Rhimes’ general take care of the streamer. The official synopsis reads: “132 rooms. 157 suspects. One lifeless physique. One wildly eccentric detective. One disastrous State Dinner. ‘The Residence’ is a screwball whodunnit set within the upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs of the White Home, among the many eclectic workers of the world’s most well-known mansion.”
“Improvement of ‘The Residence’ was first introduced in July 2018 as Rhimes set her unique Netflix slate. Netflix and Shondaland acquired the rights to Brower’s nonfiction ebook,” the supply notes.
“Inventing Anna,” the primary present Rhimes created since “Scandal,” continues to be rating in Netflix’s prime 10 almost 4 weeks after its premiere. “Bridgerton,” the Regency-era romance she EPs, will return for its second season March 25 on Netflix. Rhimes can be engaged on a “Bridgerton” spinoff following Queen Charlotte and anthology “Notes on Love.”
Rhimes’ different credit as a author and producer embrace “Gray’s Anatomy,” “Station 19,” and “For the Folks.” The previous is the longest-running primetime medical drama in TV historical past.
Supply: Women And Hollywood