EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is not proceeding with Downforce, opting not to pick up the comedy pilot starring Eve Hewson and Murray Bartlett to series, sources tell Deadline.
From writers Alec Berg and Adam Countee, Downforce follows Victoria (Hewson), the estranged daughter of a storied racing team’s owner, Sir Trevor (Bartlett), who is thrust back into the family business, leaving the pair to find common ground or risk destroying the team’s legacy.
The cast also includes Harry Delano (Freud’s Last Session), Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen), Amar Chadha-Patel (The Decameron) and Arturo Del Puerto (For All Mankind).
The project, a dream pairing of two in-demand actors in The Perfect Couple and Bad Sisters’ Hewson and The White Lotus and The Last Of Us‘ Bartlett to series, originated at the now defunct ABC Signature where Berg and Countee had been under overall deals. The banner was folded into
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