{"id":667267,"date":"2026-10-27T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667267\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:26:09","slug":"the-birds-limited-series-starring-sarah-snook-flying-into-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667267\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birds limited series starring Sarah Snook flying into HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"

One major criticism still thrown at Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s 1963 classic, The Birds, is simple. It\u2019s too short! Two hours of a San Francisco socialite being mysteriously pursued and clawed by winged beasts wasn\u2019t enough. Not even the 1994 made-for-TV sequel The Birds II: Land\u2019s End could quell viewers\u2019 avian flu. Finally, the fine folks at the Home Box Office have heard your squawks, and they\u2019ve got a whole limited series starring Sarah Snook<\/a> to satisfy the flightless masses. Deadline reports<\/a> that HBO is developing a Birds TV show from the guys who brought you Watchman and the upcoming Harry Potter series that its cast keeps apologizing for.<\/p>\n

Leftovers executive producer Tom Spezialy and Harry Potter EP David Heyman are adding some new elements to their modern-day adaptation of Daphne du Maurier\u2019s novella. The pilot episode, written by Spezialy, apparently throws a murder mystery and some new characters, particularly a new protagonist, Myra Massey (Snook), into the feeder. According to Deadline, Spezialy\u2019s pilot script follows Myra after a bitter custody battle. Returning home with her daughter, she begins secretly investigating a childhood friend\u2019s disappearance, and that\u2019s when the birds start pecking around. Responding to more criticisms no one has ever had about The Birds, the show will fill several episodes with an additional killer subplot and, oh, yeah, mysterious bird attacks that are \u201clinked to the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from the aforementioned sequel, Birds remakes have been a non-starter for Hollywood and abroad. Director Martin Campbell almost made it his Casino Royale follow-up with Naomi Watts, but the film never materialized. There was also an attempt to remake it as a BBC series in 2017, but it never got off the ground. Maybe they should\u2019ve included a decades-old mystery for someone to solve amid being pecked to death.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One major criticism still thrown at Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s 1963 classic, The Birds, is simple. It\u2019s too short! Two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-667267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}