‘Strife’: Writers’ Room Opens For Season Two Of Aussie Streamer Binge’s Newly-Crowned Biggest Ever Original
12.01.2024 - 15:15
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The team behind Binge‘s newly-crowned biggest original, Strife, are headed back to the writers’ room.
The drama series — from Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and Anatomy of a Scandal producer Made Up Stories in partnership with Fifth Season — has quickly usurped Colin From Accounts as Binge’s best-performing original for its first day and first week, according to the Foxtel-owned Australian streamer. The writing team, led by Sarah Scheller (The Letdown), are now reteaming to pen scripts for a second season.
The show stars Asher Keddie (Nine Perfect Strangers, Offspring) as imperfect, modern woman and magazine publisher Evelyn Jones, following her journey from lounge room blogger to becoming a force in women’s media. It launched on Binge on December 6.
In an interview with Deadline last year, Hurbert-Burns described the series as “the story of a woman in 2012 who gets spat out of the tightrope of running magazines… has a bit of a breakdown and goes and starts her own web publishing business.”
It’s loosely based on former Cosmopolitan Australia and Cleo Australia editor Mia Freedman’s memoir ‘Work, Strife, Balance,’ and the story partly mirrors her work in Australian publishing. Freedman, who launched the influential site Mamamia, is a consultant.
In a statement to Deadline this afternoon, Hurbert-Burns, Executive Director for Binge and Foxtel Group Content and Commissioning, said: “Strife has connected with our audiences, with Evelyn’s journey hitting a chord with viewers across the country.
“Ithas seen audience growth faster than any other Binge original, breaking records to become our biggest series launch for both first day and first week viewing and I am excited to see the writers, led by