Netflix is capping off a week of spotlighting its young adult programming by adding to the slate.
The streamer on Friday announced a straight-to-series order for Sid & Zoey, a supernatural mystery/romance from creator Jon Kasdan (Disney+’s Willow, The First Time) and co-showrunner John Shiban (Ozark, Breaking Bad). J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Blumhouse Atomic Monster are also involved.
The pickup for Sid & Zoey comes on the heels of Netflix announcing a premiere date and details for its fall teen drama The Body, a trailer for the YA sports romance Crew Girl, and a live episode of Evan Ross Katz’s Shut Up Evan: The Group Chat podcast featuring several Netflix YA stars.
Netflix describes Sid & Zoey this way: “Sid, a seductive, sophisticated, and amoral teenager from New York, is sent to live with a police chief and his family in the idyllic Mississippi town where his mother grew up. The family includes the chief’s sharp-witted, punk-rock daughter, Zoey. Resisting their mutual attraction, Sid and Zoey find themselves drawn into a dark, hidden world beneath the town’s picture-postcard facade — and a supernatural mystery that may well get them killed if they don’t kill each other first.”
Kasdan and Shiban both have some experience on YA shows and/or those dealing with otherworldly elements. Kasdan was a writer on Freaks and Geeks and Dawson’s Creek early in his career and wrote and directed the 2012 feature The First Time, a rom-com about two high schoolers who fall for each other over a weekend. Shiban’s credits include The X-Files and Supernatural.
Blumhouse Atomic Monster is producing Sid & Zoey. Kasdan and Shiban are co-showrunners and executive produce with J.J. Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich for Bad Robot and Jason Blum, James Wan and Rob Hackett for Blumhouse Atomic Monster.
