Hulu has boarded Aisling Bea comedy This Way Up as The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi, The Crown's Tobias Menzies and Game of Thrones' Indira Varma join the Sharon Horgan-exec produced series. The U.S. digital service has partnered with Channel 4, which ordered the series, previously known as Happy AF, last year. The…

EXCLUSIVE: The Favourite producer Element Pictures has set its next movie to go into production: the intimate, female-fronted drama Herself, which is set against the housing crisis. Element will produce with Catastrophe star and co-writer Sharon Horgan’s Merman. Set in Dublin, Herself is the story of young mother…

Guesswork Television, the production company behind Hannah Gadsby's Nanette, is teaming with Sharon Horgan's Merman for a period comedy series for Sky and Australia's ABC. The British pay-TV broadcaster and Australian public broadcaster have commissioned Frayed, a six-part series fronted by comedian Sarah Kendall and T…

Catastrophe creator Sharon Horgan is to star in and produce a six-part drama for British broadcaster UKTV and Irish network RTÉ based on the best-selling book Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Lorna Martin. Horgan will appear alongside Better Call Saul and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri star…

British broadcaster Channel 4 is doubling down on comedy after handing the genre a £10M (US$13.4M) budget boost and scoring a number of projects involving Catastrophe creator Sharon Horgan. Horgan will star and exec produce Happy AF (w/t), a comedy about trying to find happiness. Created by Aisling Bea, who is set to…

Amazon Studios has signed an overall deal with a creative force behind another one of its popular comedy series, Catastrophe co-creator and star Sharon Horgan. In addition to the overall deal for Horgan, Amazon Studios has signed a first-look deal with Horgan and and Clelia Mountford's UK-based Merman. The pact gives…