US VoD platform Hulu has snapped up digital rights to new period drama Manhattan.
The series, which airs on WGN America, is set in the 1940s in a town whose very existence is classified. Frank Winter (John Benjamin Hickey) and his team of brilliant but flawed scientists have been recruited to work on a project even they could know nothing about until their arrival.
Once inside The Hill, a middle-class bubble on a dusty foothill in the New Mexico desert, they begin to sense that this is no ordinary assignment. In fact, they are living in a town with the world’s highest concentration of geniuses, yet it can’t be found on any map — a place where men and women are torn between duty and their moral values, husbands and wives conceal the truth from each other and their families, the military keeps secrets from the scientists they chaperone, and the scientists keep secrets from each other.
Hulu Plus subscribers will have access to each of the 13 episodes the day after itsWGN debut, following a deal between Hulu and distributorLionsgate, which also produces the show withSkydance Television, and Tribune Studios.
Created and written by Sam Shaw, Manhattan is executive produced by Shaw, Thomas Schlamme, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, and Dustin Thomason.
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