YouTube Red has inked a deal with a creative team best known for their work on another SVOD service. It has given a pilot order to Widow, a dark comedy whose writer and executive producers previously joined forces for the Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet.
Widow will tell the story of a woman whose husband “dies while they’re in the middle of a rough patch,” according to Deadline. Its scribe, Leila Cohan-Miccio (pictured above) was also the writer for Santa Clarita Diet. Widow executive producers Tracy Katsky and Aaron Kaplan previously produced the Netflix dark comedy, where premiered earlier this year to generally positive reviews
.Though YouTube Red’s first slate of original programs all had ties to the YouTube community, some recent projects released through the subscription platform have more closely resembled the typical Hollywood model. As YouTube Red shifts its strategy, it is giving plenty of opportunities to young female writers. In addition to Widow, its upcoming slate also includes Origin, from writer Mika Watkins.
A release date for the Widow pilot has not yet been announced.
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