Jungle, in collaboration with The Monkeys, has a
new comedy series in development with Subscription Video on Demand
(SVOD) service Stan called Merchants of Misery.
Says Jason Burrows,
managing director/EP television at Jungle on producing with The Monkeys:
"We've been looking for a television series to work on together for a
while now so it's brilliant to have something in development. Obviously
the guys have great ideas but they are also great collaborators so are a
total pleasure to work with."
Jungle's Trent O'Donnell who is the creator of No Activity and the
series director of New Girl for Fox in the USA, is a writer/ director on
the series. No Activity, also a Jungle production and Stan's first
original production, received three Logies nominations, the first
nominations for an SVOD service. Co-writing will be Bryce Corbett.
Justin Drape will be a contributing writer and an executive producer.
Says
Nick Forward, chief content officer, Stan: "The ambition for Stan
Originals was to make Australian content, but world-class Australian
content. Stan wants to have original productions that stand up to the
same quality of its other big content deals, including AMC's Better Call
Saul and the Showtime output deal."