Baby Reindeer series creator Richard Gadd moves to HBO – the new Lion series is about estranged brothers

Popular Baby Reindeer creator of the television series Richard Gadd is moving from Netflix to HBO, says, among other things Variety magazine.

HBO announced last Thursday that it will produce Gadd’s new one Lions-miniseries together with the BBC.

The British broadcasting company BBC had ordered Lions– series from the British production company Mam Tor Productions already last February. This happened before it became very popular Baby Reindeer – series had been shown on Netflix. Baby Reindeer began airing on the streaming service in April.

According to Variety, this may explain why Netflix is ​​not involved in producing Gadd’s new series Baby Reindeerin after a huge success. Unlike Netflix, HBO often collaborates with the BBC.

Scotland’s Richard Gadd said in a press release that working with HBO has been a dream since childhood.

”Sopranosin, Langalla series and A cold ring watching it from start to finish has been one of the happiest moments of my childhood,” Gadd said.

New series Lions is about two estranged brothers. Casting has not yet been done, but production is expected to begin soon. The series is supposed to be filmed in Glasgow, Scotland.

According to the plot summary, the story starts when Niall’s estranged brother unexpectedly shows up at his wedding. This results in a “violent eruption”. The series tells about the brothers’ lives from the 1980s to the present day and tries to answer the question “what does it mean to be a man”.

Gadd serves as the creator, writer and executive producer of the series. But unlike In Baby Reindeerhe doesn’t act in Lions.

Based on Gadd’s personal experiences In Baby Reindeer he played the second main character of the series, Donny Dunne, a bartender who dreams of a career as a comedian.

The series, which utilizes black comedy, an emotional growth story and elements of a thriller, tells about the strained relationship between Donny and a stalker named Martha.

Series after its release, fans threw themselves into detective work and tried to find out who the stalker named Martha really is. Here by Fiona Harvey the name came up on social media.

Harvey quickly went public himself. She said she was the model for the Martha character and sued Netflix from series to court.

In a lawsuit filed in a Californian court, Harvey demands 170 million dollars, or around 156 million euros, from Netflix in compensation for, among other things, defamation, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

In May, Harvey performed Piers Morganin Shown on Youtube in the talk showin which he told his own version of events.