Selena Gomez will join comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short for Hulu’s new crime comedy Only Murders In The Building
Selena Gomez is set to join comedy veterans Steve Martin and Martin Short in the new Hulu comedy Only Murders In The Building.
The 28-year-old actress and singer stars as a young woman obsessed with true crime stories who runs into two older men who share her passion, according to Variety.
The streaming series marks the first time the Spring Breakers star has led a TV show since she starred in the Disney Channel’s Wizards Of Waverly Place from 2007 to 2012.
New series: Selena Gomez, 28, returns to scripted television with Only Murders In The Building, a crime comedy costarring Steve Martin, 74, and Martin Short, 70; shown in February
Steve Martin, 74, and Martin Short, 70, are likely to be attuned to each other’s comic instincts as they collaborated multiple times over the decades and appeared together in the modern comedy classic Three Amigos and the 1991 remake of Father Of The Bride.
Their true crime–obsessed characters will find themselves wrapped up in a murder of their own in the dark comedy.
Only Murders In The Building was previously announced in January at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.
The show has a straight-to-series order, and Gomez will also join the production as an executive producer, alongside Martin, Short, John Hoffman, This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman and Jess Rosenthal, CEO of Rhode Island Ave. Production.
Martin is credited with the series idea and will co-write it with Hoffman.
Old pals: Martin and Short are old friends and have collaborated numerous times, including in the modern comedy classics Three Amigos and the Father Of The Bride remake; shown in 2016
From his pen: Martin is credited with the series idea and will co-write it with EP John Hoffman. Gomez, Short, This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman and Jess Rosenthal will also executive produce; shown in 2017
‘I heard the pitch on Wednesday, and it was the best hour I had all week,’ Craig Erwich, Hulu’s head of original programming, told Deadline. ‘It’s really special, surprisingly emotional. It’s really modern and self-referential about podcasts and murders, it’s got some great surprises. When they pull this off, it’s going to be really special.’
Hulu recently had a major true crime success with The Act, starring Joey King and Patricia Arquette, though Only Murders In The Building will be fiction and played for laughs.
The genre has been in ascendance in recent years thanks to the success of podcasts like Serial and numerous streaming documentaries.
Back at it: This will be the first series for Selena since she starred on The Disney Channel’s Wizards Of Waverly Place, though she executive produces Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why; pictured in November 2019
Although Selena has focused on music more recently, she executive produced Netflix’s high school drama 13 Reasons Why and the streamer’s docuseries Living Undocumented.
She’ll be returning to screens soon with the HBO Max cooking series Selena + Chef, in which world-renowned chefs will teach the inexperience cook how to make their tasty creations.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the chef’s will be teaching her remotely, while her friends and grandparents will taste test the food at her home.
The socially distanced cooking series will premiere on HBO Max on August 13.
Staying busy: Selena will star in the socially distanced cooking series Selena + Chef for HBO Max starting August 13