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Netflix partners with Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers' new production company

Stranger Things monster Vecna (credit: Netflix)

The company have signed an overall deal with Netflix to develop a series of film and television projects, including two set within the world of Stranger Things.

Both a live-action Stranger Things spin-off and a new stage play have been announced by Netflix via their Twitter account. While details remain sparse, the spin-off has been described as ‘a live action series […] based on an original idea by The Duffer Brothers.’

Trailer released for fourth series of Stranger Things

Eduardo Franco, Charlie Heaton, Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard (credit: Netflix)

Split into two parts, the penultimate series looks set to be its wildest one yet, with the Hawkins gang heading to all-out war against the creatures of the Upside Down.

The teenage gang of Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Calen McLaughlin) and Max (Sadie Sink) are entering high school, while Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Will (Noah Schnapp) have been relocated with the rest of the Byers family to California. The crew must uncover the mysteries of a haunted house in Hawkins which threatens to unleash more terror on the cursed town.

Netflix renews Emily in Paris for series three and four

The light-hearted comedy drama follows twenty-something bubbly American Emily (Lily Collins) as she moves from Chicago to the bright lights of Paris to provide luxury French marketing firm Savoir from an American perspective. 

As she tries to adjust to the French way of living, cultures clash as she finds herself juggling a new career, friendships and love life.

Netflix announces Selling Sunset spin-off Selling Tampa

The series is set in Tampa, Florida, and will focus on an all-black and all-female real estate agency owned by military veteran Sharelle Rosado.

The rest of the cast includes Alexis Williams, Anne-Sophie Petit, Colony Reeves, Juawana Williams, Karla Giorgio, Rena Frazier and Tennille Moore. 

The women pride themselves on being as fun as they are deeply ambitious and they all want to be at the top of the competitive world of luxury waterfront real estate and won’t let anything get in their way. 

First look images released for Stephen Moffat’s thriller Inside Man

David Tennant (credit: BBC)

The four-part miniseries will follow the unexpectedly intersecting paths of a prisoner on death row in the US, a Vicar in a quiet English town, and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar.

Leading the star-studded cast will be David Tennant (Des), Dolly Wells (The Pursuit of Love) and Lydia West (It’s A Sin) alongside Stanley Tucci (Feud) in the titular role of the Inside Man.

Production’s Coming Home? | RTS Cambridge Convention 2021

A panel of leaders from the UK production sector and Netflix consider the rapid changes in the market and explore their possible longer term impacts on audiences, broadcasters and producers.

Chair

Lorraine Heggessey, Chair, Grierson Trust and Advisor, Channel 4 Growth Fund

Speakers

Ralph Lee, Chief Executive, Production, BBC Studios

Brandon Riegg, VP, Unscripted and Documentary Series, Netflix

Sanjay Singhal, Chief Executive, Voltage TV

Jane Turton, CEO, All3Media