Hits Save Ryan Murphy at Netflix

[Mark Jeffries]

When Murphy was cranking out one bomb after another at the Service, conventional wisdom was that his $300M deal was numbered and that he'd be only at Disney's 20th and FX soon enough--well, hits change everything and Netflix has handed out a two-season renewal to his true crime anthology "Monster" (the first season of which was devoted to Jeffrey Dahmer) and a one-season renewal to the hit star-studded thriller "The Watcher":

https://www.thewrap.com/monster-dahmer-renewed-the-watcher-season-2-netflix-ryan-murphy/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_7168607

"Monster"'s Dahmer season was second only to the fourth season of "Stranger Things" amongst Netflix scripted series this year.

[Bob Jersey]

The love affair is over... cutbacks notwithstanding, he returns to die Maus, tho what new it will yield won't be known till the strike ends...

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/ryan-murphy-netflix-disney-dana-walden-deal-1235649919/ (link)

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Mark Jeffries, Nov 8th 2022:

[Kevin M.]

Yeah, this is an odd time to be making development deals. Locking someone to a contract where they might not be able to act upon it for months to a year. 

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[Adam Bowie]

The odd thing about Ryan Murphy's deals is that he's managed to have a hand in both Disney and Netflix camps all the way through. Anything he'd already got going seemed to be fair game for extension. So more seasons of "American Horror Story", "American Crime Story" and indeed "American [INSERT NEW CATEGORY HERE] Story...". That's aside from having Feud as well!

Meantime, "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" has been a hit for Netflix and as well as the already ordered second season, you would anticipate that they'll have "Monster: The [INSERT SERIAL KILLER NAME HERE] Story" for as long as they want to keep having them.

So I'm not really sure what kind of exclusivity these development deals really get anyone.

Adam

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