Netflix bolstered its lineup of original streaming shows Thursday, announcing a new comedy from the Mr. Show sketch comedy team of David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, as well as a supernatural drama.
Cross and Odenkirk will star in four half-hour episodes of With Bob and David, as well as an hourlong making of episode. The title appears to be a play on their cult-favorite HBO comedy from the mid- 90s, Mr. Show With Bob and David.
They ll play dishonorably discharged Navy SEALS in the sketch series, which Netflix promises will feature all new characters, all new scenes, and most importantly, all new wigs. No release date was announced.
Odenkirk currently stars in Better Call Saul, AMC s spinoff of the critically acclaimed Breaking Bad. Cross starred in the Fox sitcom Arrested Development, the final season of which was produced by Netflix in 2013.
The Los Gatos-based company also announced Montauk, a throwback mystery series set in 1980, which will be written and directed by brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, the creative team behind Fox s upcoming creepy drama Wayward Pines. The 8-episode series will run in 2016.
The show, described as a love letter to the 80s, involves the search for a missing boy in Montauk, New York, that somehow involves government conspiracies and supernatural forces.
Matt and Ross are emerging filmmakers with an unmistakable passion for genre and suspense. Their unique voice infuses this coming of age drama with supernatural thrills that will captivate our global audience, Cindy Holland, vice president of original content for Netflix, said in a statement.
It s shaping up to be a big year for Netflix s original content. 2015 has already seen the return of the smash hit House of Cards, and the debuts of the Tina Fey-produced comedy The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and the all-star-cast drama Bloodline. Yet to come are the highly anticipated superhero series Daredevil and AKA Jessica Jones ; comedian Bill Burr s F Is for Family, ; Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin s Grace and Frankie ; the Wachowski siblings sci-fi Sense8 ³; as well as the return of Emmy-nominated Orange Is the New Black.
At top: Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, in their Mr. Show days. (HBO photo)
