EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is heading to the trendy enclave of Calabasas in California for its next reality series.
The streamer is launching Calabasas Confidential, following a group of lifelong friends, foes, and exes in the Los Angeles County city, made famous by the Kardashians.
It will premiere the series, which comes from Wheelhouse’s Spoke Studios, on May 29.
The cast includes Alexie Olivo, Ben Favaedi, Dylan Wolf, Emilie Nelson, Emma Medrano, Hercy Miller, Jemma Durrant, Jodie Woods, Kimora Lewis, Nicole Sahebi, Preston Pippen, Raine Michaels, Sterling Retzlaff and Suede Brooks.
After graduating college, the group return to Calabasas for “a summer they’ll never forget”. Back home and living in their parents’ hillside mansions, they’ll be faced with the daunting reality of confronting unresolved drama while trying to define what’s next for their lives and relationships. Four years may have put distance between them, but new flames, old feuds, and unexpected secrets don’t stay hidden forever behind the gates of LA’s most envied zip code, per the logline.
The move is part of a strategy to bring more classic reality series in the vein of Laguna Beach and The Hills to the platform.
Jeff Gaspin, who heads unscripted at Netflix, told Deadline that he wanted to bring “some of that magic back”.
“When someone in their 20s comes to visit Los Angeles, there’s two places they want to go, and it’s not Disneyland or Universal: It’s Calabasas and Erewhon. It kind of blows my mind,” Gaspin told Deadline last year. “I’m not a Calabasas native, but I moved here when I moved to L.A. in 2001. It used to be a pumpkin town and everyone would say, ‘Why are you moving all the way out there?’ But then, of course, a certain family moved in [to Hidden Hills] and put Calabasas on the map.”
Exec producers include Brent Montgomery, Courtney White, Gardner Reed, Will Nothacker, Ally Gasparian, Alex Rosenberg and Bill Dixon.
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