Fleabag and Killing Eve's Phoebe Waller-Bridge is heading to HBO
Fresh off two of the most intriguing new TV shows of the last few years—“melancholy comedy” Fleabag and BBC America’s murderous new drama Killing Eve—Phoebe Waller-Bridge is making her way to HBO. Variety reports that Waller-Bridge has just sold a new pilot to the premium network, a “romantic-comedic-thriller” about a pair of former lovers attempting to live up to a long-ago pact to drop everything and disappear together if one of them ever sent a specific, one-word message: RUN.
Waller-Bridge is producing Run with Vicky Jones, who directed the play that Fleabag the TV series was originally based on. Jones is writing, while Waller-Bridge will appear in a recurring part. Admittedly, we don’t have a ton to go on, as far as figuring out what kind of show this series will actually be, but Waller-Bridge has an impressive track record at the moment; there’s no reason to expect that her third show won’t be as consistently compelling as the first two have proven themselves to be.