Reprisal, The Great: Hulu Orders New Drama and Comedy Series

Hulu has ordered a pair of two original series — Reprisal and The Great. A drama, Reprisal will debut in 2019 and revolve around a relentless femme fatale (Abigail Spencer). Meanwhile, The Great will launch in 2020 and will offer a comic take on the world of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning).

For more details, here’s the press release from Hulu:

Hulu Confirms New Series Orders for Reprisal and The Great

Today Hulu expanded its growing originals slate with series orders for Reprisal and The Great. The series’ will go into production later this year with Reprisal premiering in 2019 and The Great in 2020.

Reprisal is a hyper-kinetic revenge tale following a relentless femme fatale (Abigail Spencer) who, after being left for dead, leads a vengeful campaign against a bombastic gang of gear heads.

The drama series stars Spencer, Rodrigo Santoro, Mena Massoud, Madison Davenport, Rhys Wakefield, David Dastmalchian, W. Earl Brown and Gilbert Owuor. Reprisal is created, written and executive produced by Josh Corbin. Warren Littlefield, Barry Jossen and Jonathan van Tulleken, who also directed the pilot, serve as executive producers. Ann Johnson and Graham Littlefield serve as co-executive producers. The series is produced by A+E Studios in association with The Littlefield Company.

The Great is a genre bending, anti-historical ride through 18th Century Russia following the wildly comic rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great.

The series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Adam Godley, Gwilym Lee, Charity Wakefield, Douglas Hodge and Sacha Dhawan.

The Great is created, written and executive produced by Tony McNamara (THE FAVOURITE) and executive produced by Marian Macgowan, Thruline’s Josh Kesselman and Ron West, Echo Lake’s Brittany Kahan Ward, Doug Mankoff and Andrew Spaulding, Elle Fanning and Matt Shakman, who also directed the pilot. The project is produced by MRC.

Reprisal and The Great will join Hulu’s upcoming slate of bold, relevant stories alongside Veronica Mars; Four Weddings and a Funeral from Mindy Kaling; Wu-Tang: An American Saga from Brian Grazer and The RZA; and Little Fires Everywhere from Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.

What do you think? Do you like the sound of either of these upcoming series? Will you be checking out either Reprisal or The Great TV shows?