Sex ed might be disappearing from U.S. public schools but at least it’s alive and well on Netflix. According to Deadline, the streamer has ordered “Sex Education,” a dramedy series from Laurie Nunn and UK producer Eleven Film. The show will center on a high school student-run underground sex therapy clinic.
Created by Nunn, the series is a coming-of-age tale about virginal high schooler Otis Thompson, whose mother is a sex therapist. “He teams up with ‘whip-smart bad-girl’ Maeve to set up a clinic to deal with their fellow students’ weird and wonderful problems,” Deadline details.
Production is expected start in spring 2018 for a 2019 premiere.
“We couldn’t be more excited to partner with the Eleven team, creator Laurie Nunn, and executive producer and director Ben Taylor to bring ‘Sex Education’ — a distinctive, fresh, and witty examination of the universally awkward teenage experience — to our members around the world,” stated Cindy Holland, Netflix’s VP of Original Content.
Nunn has written several short films, TV projects, and the upcoming feature “The Summer House,” an ensemble drama about a dying playwright throwing one last party for his friends and family. She directed her first short, 2007’s “Gone to Earth,” and created the menopause-themed comedy series “Wearing Purple” with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.
