Netflix Developing Scripted Wrestling Drama Tuesday Night Titans

Netflix is developing a new wrestling drama titled Tuesday Night Titans. Deadline reports that Michael Notarile, who was formerly a writer on the WWE Raw creative team, is the creator and writer for the series. He will executive produce it along with Jon M. Chu (Wicked, Crazy Rich Asians) and Caitlin Foito via Chu’s Electric Somewhere production company.

While the show shares the name of WWE’s talk/variety show from the mid-1980s, the report notes that the new series has no connection to that project. The series is described by Deadline as follows:

“Set in the spectacle-driven world of professional wrestling, Tuesday Night Titans follows a tenacious writer who risks her career in the big leagues to recruit her estranged childhood best friend – a ‘jobber’ wrestler on the indies – to join the same behemoth company they idolized in their youth. Their destinies become entangled as they battle personal demons, ruthless colleagues, and their complicated history in an industry where “kayfabe” – wrestling’s staged reality – isn’t confined to the ring, but bleeds into every aspect of their lives.”

Netflix declined to comment on the news. In addition to writing for Raw from 2013 through 2015, Notarile has written for series like The Resident and The Cleaning Lady. The report makes it clear that the show is in early development at this point, and there is no mention of WWE, who air WWE Raw on the platform, having involvement in the new series.