‘Tell Me Lies’ Creator Meaghan Oppenheimer Sets Drama Series at Hulu

Meaghan Oppenheimer is following up “Tell Me Lies” with a new drama series currently in the works at Hulu.

Variety has learned that Oppenheimer is developing the series “Bastards” at the streamer, on which she will serve as writer and executive producer. 20th Television, where Oppenheimer is under an overall deal, is the studio. According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Oppenheimer delivered the script for “Bastards” to an enthusiastic response just after “Tell Me Lies” wrapped, with Hulu and 20th TV now fast-tracking the project.

The logline for “Bastards” states, “After a world-famous artist is engulfed in a public scandal, her three adult children – each from a different father and each unraveling in their own way – are forced to move back into their childhood home to take care of the teenage sister they barely know. As old dynamics resurface and secrets come to light, the siblings must confront their inheritance of love, cruelty, and chaos.”

Oppenheimer is fresh off of the success of “Tell Me Lies,” which aired its third and final season at Hulu earlier this year. That show was based off the book of the same name by Carola Lovering. Starring Grace Van Patten and Jackson White, the show follows the relationship between two college students over the course of eight years. Per Disney, all three seasons of the show have been streamed for over 350 million hours across Hulu and Disney+ since it originally launched in 2022.

Aside from “Tell Me Lies,” Oppenheimer has written for shows like “Fear the Walking Dead” at AMC. As a creator, she was behind the Facebook Watch series “Queen America” starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Judith Light and wrote the ABC pilot “Broken” that starred Anna Paquin and Blair Underwood, with Bruna Papandrea and Reese Witherspoon executive producing. In film, she wrote the drama “We Are Your Friends” starring Zac Efron and Emily Ratajkowski.

Oppenheimer is repped CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Yorn Levine Barnes.