Steve Coogan’s ‘Chivalry’ Heads To U.S. Via New Free Streamer The Network
19.03.2024 - 17:21
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EXCLUSIVE: The Network is the latest free streaming service to launch in the U.S. The ad-supported service, which was set up by Aram Rappaport, founder of the creative ad-agency The Boathouse, is launching April 30.
However, the service, which has backing from BH Media Holdings, part of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway empire, is not launching with a slew of library titles and movies. Instead, it will focus on two originals at a time.
It is launching with Chivalry, a comedy originally commissioned by the UK’s Channel 4 and starring Steve Coogan and Sarah Solemani, and The Green Veil starring John Leguizamo.
Chivalry was written by Coogan and Solemani and is set in Hollywood, exploring the nuances, advances, and limitations of the entertainment industry in a post #MeToo era. It follows a critically acclaimed female director, played by Solemani, who is brought on to right the ship of a wayward production run by a seasoned male producer, played by Coogan.
Wanda Sykes and Sienna Miller also appear in the six-part series, which comes from Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions and is exec produced by Sarah Monteith and Rupert Majendie. Its launch will be its U.S. debut after launching in the UK in 2022.
Meanwhile, The Green Veil was created, written and directed by The Network founder Rappaport, who exec produces alongside Leguizamo. The eight-part series follows a government agent in the 1950s tasked with an unraveling secret mission that threatens to expose deeper secrets.
Leguizamo stars as Gordon Rogers, an immigrant who came into the U.S. as a child and dedicated his life to achieving the American Dream. He experiences both an insidious obsession with that dream, and the societal limitations to it placed upon certain