Netflix Orders Claire Danes Drama 'Lovesick'
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- Netflix gave a straight‑to‑series order for Lovesick, a romantic drama starring and executive produced by Claire Danes.
- Lovesick adapts the 2024 Israeli series The Best Worst Thing (Choley Ahava), created by Rona Tamir, Tal Granit, and Sharon Maymon for Keshet 12.
- Universal Television and Keshet Studios are co‑producing the series, with Sarah Treem serving as showrunner and executive producer.
- Annika, the breast‑cancer surgeon played by Claire Danes, is diagnosed with cancer and becomes entangled with her patient Nate, a promising politician, exploring love, illness, and life.
- Netflix has recently added multiple straight‑to‑series orders to its pipeline, including Rabbit, Rabbit, The Corrections, So Far Gone, Pagans, Black Hole, and Trigger Point.
- The Beast In Me earned Claire Danes a seventh Golden Globe nomination and an eleventh Actor nomination.
- Sarah Treem previously created and showran The Affair and wrote for Netflix’s House Of Cards and HBO’s In Treatment.
Why it matters: Netflix's straight‑to‑series order for Lovesick, starring Claire Danes and adapted from an Israeli hit, expands its original drama slate and underscores its aggressive push to secure high‑profile, internationally sourced content, strengthening its competitive edge in the streaming market and offering viewers a fresh, star‑driven narrative that tackles love, illness, and mortality.
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