{"id":730279,"date":"2026-06-11T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730279\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:33:10","slug":"amazon-mgm-studios-developing-the-girlfriend-sequel-the-boyfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730279\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios Developing ‘The Girlfriend’ Sequel ‘The Boyfriend’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios<\/a> is developing a sequel series to its psychological drama miniseries The Girlfriend<\/a>, Deadline understands.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Boyfriend<\/a> will be an entirely standalone story, with new characters based around themes of masculinity, sources told us. Talks are continuing with writers, though no scribe is yet attached, we understand. Amazon MGM Studios declined to comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Girlfriend launched in September 2025, and was a major hit for Prime Video<\/a>, amassing more than 25 million views<\/a> and becoming the top new series on the streamer in the UK. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe show was based on Michelle Frances\u2019 novel of the same name and stars\u00a0Olivia Cooke, Robin Wright\u00a0and Laurie Davidson, the latter two of whom recently dropped by the Deadline Studio<\/a> to talk all things Girlfriend. Imaginarium Productions and Amazon MGM Studios were the producers, with Naomi Sheldon and Gabbie Asher adapting the book for TV.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe six-part followed as Wright\u2019s Laura, a well-to-do London art dealer, who loses her grip on reality when her precious son Daniel (Davidson) brings home new girlfriend Cherry (Cooke). No word on how that might influence The Boyfriend at this stage, but a source said the sequel would be a \u201cbold psychological thriller.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news comes weeks after Amazon hired<\/a> Apple exec Oliver Jones as Senior Commissioner for the UK. He is relocating from L.A. to London and will work closely with Nicole Clemens, VP of UK and International Originals, on British originals.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat preceded the news that The Devil\u2019s Hour and The Rig exec Jonathan Lewsley was exiting his post as Head of UK Scripted Originals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is developing a sequel series to its psychological drama miniseries The Girlfriend, Deadline understands.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[30862,64,63,134,15230,353462,79274,427],"class_list":["post-730279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-prime-video","tag-the-boyfriend","tag-the-girlfriend","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}