Lena Dunham embarks on creative partnership with Netflix

Lena Dunham’s next show may be Too Much, but she has even more coming. The Hollywood Reporter confirms this morning that the Girls creator has teamed with Netflix “to develop and create serialized first-look projects.” The news comes after Dunham told The New Yorker last year that she had “a few TV projects going that are more commercial.” 

The first of those is the previously announced Too Much, which will star Will Sharpe and Meg Stalter as a Brit and an American expat who fall in love and navigate various cultural differences. Dunham, who moved to the U.K. a few years ago, confirmed that the series was partially based on her own experiences, telling the crowd at a Netflix event, “I co-created the show with my husband, Louis Felber, who’s a large part of why I stayed in this country—besides, also crumpets and rain.” The supporting cast also includes Stephen Fry, Adele Exarchopolous, Emily Ratajkowski, Rhea Perlman, Janicza Bravo, and Girls alums Andrew Rannells and Rita Wilson.  

Dunham didn’t spill too much else at the event about what other TV shows she had on the docket, but we do know one of them is about a group of college-aged spies. “What happens when a group of college kids, who have all the issues, pains, and fears of college kids, are tasked with an agenda of national protection?” Dunham told The New Yorker in July. “My New Year’s resolution this year was, like, ‘I’m going to try to think more commercially thirty-seven per cent of the time, just because it’s an interesting challenge.’” Clearly, it was interesting to Netflix too. Today, Dunham says, “My producing partner Michael P. Cohen and I are deeply excited to begin the next phase of Good Thing Going with Netflix as our home, one that supports artists and makes so many of the shows that we love as viewers. From the first chat with our Netflix team, we have been aligned in the vision to lean into classic genres and serve them up with a twist, always informed by surprising points of view.” Maybe one of those projects is Dunham’s twisted take on a beloved children’s toy.