If you happen to thought perfecting a croquembouche at residence was troublesome, simply think about the added stress that comes with being filmed by a digicam crew, making an attempt to outdo different bakers making magic within the kitchen, and being critiqued by culinary giants. “Loopy Ex-Girlfriend” co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna will mine the drama of all of it in “The Golden Spoon,” a darkish comedy set on the planet of TV baking competitions. Deadline experiences that Hulu is creating the undertaking.
Based mostly on the upcoming novel by Jessica Olien, the restricted collection is a homicide thriller that “tells the story behind the scenes of everybody’s favourite consolation present — a narrative of feuding hosts, sabotaged recipes, and the hapless contestants who should resolve the crime earlier than it’s too late,” per the supply.
Brosh McKenna serves as showrunner and is among the many undertaking’s exec producers. The “Satan Wears Prada” screenwriter is underneath an total cope with Hulu. She’s re-teaming along with her “Loopy Ex-Girlfriend” collaborator Rachel Bloom on “Badass (And Her Sister),” a comedy in growth on the streamer a couple of spy and her pushover sister. Brosh McKenna is about to make her characteristic directorial debut, Reese Witherspoon-starrer “Your Place or Mine,” for Netflix.
