Indie streamer Nebula is expanding its scripted slate with a dark “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse”-esque comedy series from popular creator and YouTube star Maggie Mae Fish.
Per Nebula’s description for the “kids’ show for adults” series, “Welcome to ‘Amy’s Dead-End Dreamhouse,’ where a millennial navigating mental illness, job hunting, and impossible beauty standards gets life advice from her sentient household objects, unhinged guests, and surreal commercial breaks—turning adulthood into a fever-dream comedy.”
The six-episode series stars Maggie Mae Fish as the titular Amy, as well as Natalie Palamides, Bill Corbett, and Paul F. Tompkins. Special guests for “Amy’s Dead-End Dreamhouse” include Katya, Ify Nwadiwe, Jamie Loftus and Percy Rustomji. Musical guests include Tessa Violet and Sunder.
“Amy’s Dead-End Dreamhouse” is created by Fish and Will Reese, who together serve as showrunners. Fish writes the scripts alongside Bailey Norton. Executive producers include Nebula CEO Dave Wiskus and Trenton Waterson.
Reese directs the series and Valentina Vee acts as cinematographer. Claire Kaplan is casting director.
Production on the show began Monday in Los Angeles and will run through March 22. Nebula has slated “Amy’s Dead-End Dreamhouse” for a June release, with episodes dropping once every two weeks post-launch.
“Our showrunners Maggie & Will are LA locals, so it was important to us to make this an LA project, relying on the city’s incredible (and currently under-utilized) pool of filmmaking talent,” Wiskus said.
“Amy’s Dead-End Dreamhouse” marks the latest scripted project set up at Nebula, which over the past year has been announcing and releasing projects beyond the edutainment videos the subscription service has built its brand on, including the short films “Dracula’s Ex-Girlfriend” and “Identiteaze” (also featuring Fish) and the upcoming movie “The Dinner Plan” and scripted series “Sub/liminal.”