The half-hour series will center on a young Jewish woman living in New York, balancing her family obligations with her life as a college student with the demands of being a sugar baby. Seligman is set to write and direct the pilot and will executive-produce alongside McKay and Betsy Koch through his Hyperobject Industries. The series will be co-executive-produced by “Shiva Baby” producers Lizzie Shapiro, Kieran Altman, and Katie Schiller.

As previously announced, Seligman’s next film “Bottoms” will pair her with “Shiva Baby” star and internet comedian turned actress Rachel Sennott. That movie will trace the lives of two unpopular queer girls who are also starting a fight club to have sex before their high school graduation. While there’s no word yet on when production will begin, “Bottoms” is being backed by MGM’s Orion Pictures and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions. Related Julio Torres Sets New HBO Comedy Series After ‘Los Espookys’ Cancellation Who Should Return to ‘The White Lotus’? Related Oscars 2023: Best Sound Predictions Growing Number of Contenders Makes 2023 Best International Feature Race Less Predictable
“Shiva Baby,” which is now playing in select theaters and available on video on demand, was a word-of-mouth hit at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and has earned great reviews since opening in the United States from Utopia. Centered on a single intense day in the life of a young woman who’s also attending a shiva, “Shiva Baby” is adapted from Seligman’s own SXSW short of the same name from 2018. IndieWire recently interviewed Seligman about the film, in which Danielle (Sennott) attends a shiva and happens to run into her former sugar daddy. The storylines comes from the filmmaker’s own experience. “What attracted me to it was the power element, which — for me — I figured out was not real,” Seligman said of her time in college cruising apps like Seeking Arrangements for sugar daddies. “At the time, I was realizing that the only power I had in my life that formed my self worth was sexual validation or my ‘sexual power.’ … That became the base of what the movie was about: a young woman realizing she had no power and letting the little girl that her parents see her as and the sexually independent version of herself she had presented to her sugar daddy clash.” Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.