The forecast never looked so dramatic before. Per Deadline’s scoop nearly a year ago, Netflix has confirmed limited series Weather Girl is in development at A24.
Netflix won the rights after what’s been described as a “highly competitive pursuit,” with Amanda Burrell’s new production house Ginger and Team Downey also attached.
The series is based on Brian McDermott’s one-actor play of the same name that sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with the show’s star, Julia McDermott reprising the lead role she performed on stage and also producing.
Set in a wildfire-ravaged California, the show will follow career-driven television weather girl Stacey, whose polished on-air persona masks her deep anguish over the destruction consuming her hometown. After reporting from a burning home with a family of five inside, she begins to spiral. The plot intertwines fears of the climate crisis and a strange reunion with her mother, who abandoned her long ago.
Thanks to its roots as a hot-ticket Edinburgh show, the series has long been likened to Baby Reindeer, the Netflix limited series starring Richard Gadd that spent eight weeks in Netflix’s global top 10 English-language chart and became one of the streamer’s biggest original series hits. Further linking the project is the fact Francesca Moody Productions staged both.
Watkins will be showrunner, writer and exec producer, and will direct the first episode. Also exec producing are Ginger’s Burrell and Team Downey’s Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey, who previously worked with A24 on HBO series The Sympathizer. Burrell, exec producer on The Sympathizer, was President of Team Downey and has now set up Ginger, which has an overall deal at HBO.
Last year, we reported A24, which was in town for Edinburgh in 2024, was interested in staging a U.S. version of the play at the Off Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre it bought in 2023 for $10M.
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