Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge (pictured above)—who recently renewed a sizable deal with Amazon—has a new series in the works, according to Variety. She’s executive producing an adaptation of Claudia Lux’s novel Sign Here, a story about a guy who works in Hell. Literally.
Also, the guy’s name is Peyote Trip. I feel like this detail is important.
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Lux is adapting her own book for the series; Waller-Bridge and Jenny Robins are executive producers. Here’s the book’s synopsis:
Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of order for a century, and the only drink on offer is Jägermeister, but Pey has a plan—and all he needs is one last member of the Harrison family to sell their soul.
When the Harrisons retreat to the family lake house for the summer, with their daughter Mickey’s precocious new friend, Ruth, in tow, the opportunity Pey has waited a millennium for might finally be in his grasp. And with the help of his charismatic coworker Calamity, he sets a plan in motion.
But things aren’t always as they seem, on Earth or in Hell. And as old secrets and new dangers scrape away at the Harrisons’ shiny surface, revealing the darkness beneath, everyone must face the consequences of their choices.
We’ve had a curious boom of demons, devils, and underworld workplaces in the last few years, from Good Omens‘ Crowley to Sabrina’s daddy to Lucifer herself on Sandman—or Lucifer himself on, uh, Lucifer. And let us not forget the denizens of the Bad Place, or the underworld library on The Magicians.
No details on casting or production timeline have been given for Sign Here.
