Heathers moves to Stan
Controversial comedy, originally due on SBS VICELAND, moves to streaming platform.
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Originally due to be fast-tracked at SBS VICELAND, controversial new US black comedy Heathers will now screen on Stan.
It follows a delay in the US, originally attributed to a school shooting, before Paramount dropped the series entirely amid concerns over its content.
The show, based on the 1988 movie of the same name, is described a pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day.
It is yet to screen Stateside.
The ten-part series is set in the present day and follows Veronica Sawyer as she deals with a very different but equally vicious group of Heathers, led by the fashionable yet cutthroat Heather Chandler and her sidekicks Heather Duke and Heather McNamara. The much-anticipated reboot perfectly blends drama, love, rivalry and comedy into a modern-day masterpiece.
The series stars Melanie Field, Jasmine Mathews and Brendan Scannell as the new group of Heathers, Grace Victoria Cox as Veronica and James Scully as J.D. Shannen Doherty, who portrayed Heather Duke in the film, has a guest role in the series. Selma Blair, Kurt Fuller, Jamie Kaler, Wallace Langham, Drew Droege, Travis Schuldt and Deanna Cheng also star.
Jason Micallef (Butter), who wrote the pilot script, will serve as executive producer and showrunner, and Leslye Headland (Sleeping With Other People, Bachelorette) directed and was an executive producer on the pilot. Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi executive produce for Lakeshore Entertainment.
Friday September 28 on Stan.
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3 Responses
Would this be considered a World Premiere then? Because I thought I read somewhere that it was canned in the US from screening at all…
No.
Will Stan be the first to screen it? I thought Netflix were going to be but they turned it down.