Shonda Rhimes is making a brand new White Home drama. Shondaland’s latest sequence, The Residence, is formally in improvement at Netflix, the streaming service introduced March 7.
The Residence is a homicide thriller from government producer/showrunner Paul William Davies (For the Individuals) and government producers Rhimes and Betsy Beers. Each Rhimes and Davies have total offers with Netflix.
The sequence is predicated on Kate Andersen Brower’s guide The Residence: Contained in the Non-public World of the White Home. Netflix and Shondaland acquired the rights to Brower’s guide in 2018. The sequence will include eight episodes, and primarily based on Netflix’s sequence description, it appears like a mixture of Downton Abbey and Clue.
It stated: “132 rooms. 157 suspects. One useless 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.”
Davies, Rhimes, and Beers beforehand labored collectively on Scandal. Davies was a author for the Kerry Washington-led drama. He went on to create For the Individuals for ABC starring Bridgerton‘s Regé-Jean Web page, which Shondaland produced.
The Residence is the most recent of Rhimes’ many Netflix titles. The Gray’s Anatomy creator’s most up-to-date launch was Inventing Anna — a restricted sequence primarily based on Jessica Pressler’s viral New York journal article “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Celebration Individuals.”
Future Shondaland titles embody a Bridgerton spinoff restricted sequence a few younger Queen Charlotte. Bridgerton smashed Netflix data when Season 1 was launched. Its second season comes out March 25, and it’s already been renewed for Seasons 3 and 4.
Rhimes signed her Netflix total deal in 2017 and renewed it in 2021. The renewal deal will develop her Netflix content material into function movies, video video games, and digital actuality.
