Another heated bidding war has been won by Netflix with a straight-to-series order. The streamer’s latest high-profile buy is Lovesick, a romantic drama starring and executive produced by Emmy winner Claire Danes (The Beast In Me, Homeland).
Written and executive produced by Sarah Treem (The Affair, House of Cards), who will serve as showrunner, Lovesick is based on the 2024 Israeli series of the same name, aka The Best Worst Thing (Choley Ahava), created by Rona Tamir, Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon for Israeli TV channel Keshet 12. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Keshet Studios, the U.S. production arm of format owner Keshet International, are producing.
Lovesick is described as a sweeping, modern romantic epic that follows the intense affair between two people whose lives unexpectedly intertwine. Annika (Danes), a renowned breast cancer surgeon, has just received her own cancer diagnosis. Her new
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